Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-06

Counsel for the National Shoe and
Lea Their bank OF New York searched
for property of Frederick Baker, so as
to attach it.
The Chicago and Alton railroad set
tied Il S5U,OOO damage suit for the
death of Fireman Charles, who was
killed near Girard, by paying $500.
Jesse McGregor was convicted at
New Lisbon, Ohio, Of murder in the
second degree for killing Lizzie Ewing
last June.
John D. Townsend has begun the
preparation of papers to serve on
Mayor Gilroy of New York in a suit
for libel.
Because of bad faith and u broken
contract, the Southern Associated press
cut loose from the Associated press, OF
Illinois, and joined the United press
Inc grand jury, by d vote OF IL To u,
refused To lndict John Il. Tanner for
criminal libel Oh Mayor hopkins COM
plant.
Commissioner OF Internal Revenue
Miller's annual report shows a falling
off in receipts during the year OF $l3,-
$780,
| In his annual report Secretary Nor.
ton suggests exporting dressed beef in
stead OF live cattle, in view OF the pro-
hibition of foreign governments.
Engineers are at work surveying for
the Atlantic and Pacific raIroad, which
i is to be an air line from New York to
Chicago.
Joaquin Garcia Icazbalcate, the Mex
lean photographer and man of letters,
died suddenly in the city of Mexico.
The Lozier bicycle factory at Toledo,
where $4,000 machines were being con-
structed, was destroyed. The loss will
reach 100000.
Illinois union of chiefs OF police will
ask the legislature to put control OF
the various forces in the hands of non
partisan commissions.
DR.. Pickin, OF Eau Claire, Wis, de-
MES that Miss Briggs was found in his
house. He says he is victim of pro
fessional jealousy.
The sugar trust has closed it's rein
cries in Boston, New York and Phila.
delphia, throwing $1,000 men out OF
employment.
Firms controlling one-ffth of the
product of the broom and brush indus
try of the country have formed a com
binatiOn.
Eastern college football games: Penn
sylvania Is, Harvard 4; Cornell 10, LIE
high =; University of Virginia "a
North Carolina 0.
Chicago Athletic association clever
defeated Dartmouth college football
team by a score of to D in a splendid
game.
William r. Harrington, widely
known in baseball and theatrical cir
cles, died at Milwaukee after long
= illness.
Russian papers are urging eastern
powers to demand an explanation from
Japan regarding its delay in securing
peace with China
Captain Kolb, the defeated pOpulis
candidate for governor OF Alabama
has started for Birmingham, where h'
says lie will take the oath OF Office.
Football players riding to a game
were struck by u train at South Bridge
Mass. Three were killed and thirteen
injured, three of them fatally.
Mrs. Walter, of Palarm, Ark, locked
her three children in the house and re
turned to hnd all OF them burned t
death.
A charge that the prosecution haC
tempered with witnesses and jurors
caused an exciting scene in the
Strange impeachment trial at Siou2
City.
Henry j. Eickotf, Of Detroit, presi
dent OF the metal polishers' nationa
organization, has engaged counsel an(
: will bring suit to test the prison con
tract labor law.
Rev. Father Peter Engel, of st
Cloud, was elected abbott of the Orde
of st. Benedictines by vote of thu
brotherhood in Minnesota and thu
Dakotas.
Improvement Commissioner William
H. Williams. OF Long Island, at
tempted to shoot ex-Mayor Gleason
but was disconnected by his enemy:
cool defiance.
1t has come to light that employees O.
the Hotel New Netherlands of New
York have looted it Of $4,000 worth o
furniture and other goods. Four per
sons have been arrested.
George Davis, third baseman, wa
chosen as captain and manager of tn,
: New York ball nine, to succeed JOhl
Montgomery Ward, who will practice
law.
Owing to the spread of diphtheris
throughout Detroit the board of healtl
has ordered the closing of every pub
lie school in the city until the epidemic
abates.
Horace PennOyer, son of the cover
nor of Oregon, and a freshman in Will
Jams college, died of pneumonia con
. tracted at the Williams Cornell football
game.
What was believed to have been evi
, dences Of an eruption on Mount Ia
coma now appears to have been simply
a cloud of vapor. There are no sign:
of an prllDtiOn having taken Mace