Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-17

cents. The other coopers will prob
ably follow their example.
General Coxey and his lieutenants.
Browne and Jones. We're convicted OF
violating the law in carrying banners
and walking on the grass in the CAPT
toll grounds.
The department commander of the
Wisconsin 6. A. r. charges that
funds which have been annually sent
to be used in decorating the graves
of Union soldiers in Virginia have
been misappropriated-
Mrs. Emma L. Hart. q wealthy New
York widow, was robbed of $500
worth of diamonds, and the police are
looking for her butler, who disap-
peared at the same time.
Charles Graham Terry, Of New
York, who is not yet of age. declared
that two years ago Grace T. Negus,
then scarcely fifteen, coerced him into
marriage by threatening him with a
revolver. There is a suit to have the
marriage annulled.
The British bark Senegal. bound
from San Diego for Tacoma, is long
overdue, and grave fears are enter
tanned for her safety. She left San
Diego on March u and has not been
heard of since.
Near Sherwood, Iron county, Texas,
Charles Beauchamp, prominent sheep
man, during a quarrel over some prop
erty was shot and instantly killed by
F. o. and Jeff Woodward, father and
son.
Ernest Shira and Eugene Reed,
wealthy citizens, wanted in Alderman,
Choctaw county, Miss, for the killing
of a negro farmland on April IS, were
arrested at Fort Worth, Texas, while
in the act of boarding a train.
The torpedo boat Ericsson was
launched at Dubuque, Ia, Saturday.
The cigar-shaped vessel will be de-
livered at Pensacola harbOr, where she
will make her trial trip The speed
requirement is "a knots an hour, which
is exceeded by no torpedo boat afloat.
At the annual meeting of the Madi-
son Square On. " Garden stockholders
it was shown that the company has
lost $4,000 in the last year and that
the federal authorities are anxious to
secure the garden for post office.
Astronomer t. ii. Ling, of Chicago,
announces the discovery of new
comet about half degree below Zeba
Hydra. The latter is described by the
astronomer as a bright star south of
the quadrilateral figure marking the
serpents head.
Justice O'Brien has granted leave to
the attorney general of New York
state to bring suit for the dissolution
of the Central stamping company on
the ground that it is an illegal trust
or a monopoly. The proposed suit is
the outgrowth of internal dissensions.
The ordnance department OF the
army is now conducting at the Sandy
Hook proving grounds d competitive
trial of six-pound machine guns to as
certain which is best suited for army
uses. The guns submitted in conGpe-
tition are the Hotchkiss, briggs
Schroeder, Maxim-Nordenfeldt Sea
bury and SpOnsel gums.
A fire at Old Mystic, Conn, 6e-
stroyed the village store, with two
tenement houses and barn. less
at over $4,000. An engine
was sent from Mystic, but arrived too
late to be of much service. The store
belonged to John Taylor, who saved
part of his goods, as did RaWitzer
Bros, owners of the tenement houses
The Brooklyn police took possession
of Coney Island Sunday, closed all
dives and dancing halls, and COM
PEELED keepers of drinking resorts to-
close their front doors. Beer and
whiskey could be got on the quiet, but
all licenses expired at midnight. Thirty
thousand persons visited the island
and there were no. arrests.
The case against the S. c. AkelE
Lumber company, pending in ltasc2
county, Mimi, and the two cases
against the Itasca Lumber company,
pending in Ramsey county, were SET
tied. The Akely permit is Cancelled
and the Itasca company pays $2O.O9o
to the state in full for all lumber
taken.
Attorney General Maloney Of Illinois
has notified the representative of the
American sugar refining company NOT
to bring any more of its cOmpaGy's
goods into that state. He also says
that he will Immediately begin quo
warranto proceedings to prevent the
company doing business in Illinois.
The building at 300 Fifty-third
street, Brooklyn, n. Y, occupied by
Clarence G. Hopkins, a maker Of pho
tographic paper, and Knerr & Co,
manufacturers of cardboard, was de-
stroyed by fire. Hopl&ins's loss on
stock and the building will amount to
$4,000. Knerr & Co.'S loss on stock is
$4,000.
At Mr. Sargent's request, the exc
cutive board of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, now in session
at Terra Haute, Ind. will investigate
Sargent's record as grand chief Of the
order.
Alfred w Seymour, a book-keeper
employed by Osborne & Clarks, 1um-
Der dealers, left Minneapolis, Mimi,
April II, and it was discovered thai
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