Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-21

covered from his recent illness that he
is able to consider routine work and
see visitors.
At era wfordsville, Ind, a little girl
swallowed a screw and died. Hasten
ing to her assistance, a man fell from
a pump tower and was fatally injured.
Miners on the Gogebic range have
demanded an increase in ray and may
strike Three thousand men are af-
fected.
Owing TO errors in their trial, the
Coffin brothers, convicted of wrecking
the indianapolis bank, were admitted
to bail
+ " Holmes, iumberman who
operates mills at Ogemaw, Mich,
made an assignment to Henry Fink
before Court Commissioner Ij2lper.
Mr. Fink's bond was fixed at 500. Geo.
Count De Mitk:ewiez, the Chinese
Concessions promoter and adventurer
par. excellence, has married third
time, a farmers daughter of Mary
land.
Senator Gallery told the sugar trust
investigators his meeting with Mr..
Havemeyer was to secure information
as to the comparative merits of ad
valOrem and specific rates.
While crazed with liquor at Chicago
Jones CanSO cut five men with an ak,
including a policeman who attempted
to arrest him. Two of the injured
men may die.
Mrs. L. c. Cisco, Of New York city,
a patient in an eye infirmary at Glens
Falls, \. Y, fell down a flight Of
eighteen steps and died in two hours.
She was eighty years old.
4 fire IN the Haverhill hat cOmpany's
, factory on Fleet street, New York,
caused a loss of $4,000. About 5000
dozen soft hats, ready for finishing,
were burned or badly damaged by
water The loss is fully covered by
insurance.
H. C. Grant & Co.'S wool factory at
CaIias Me-, was burned. A small part
of the stock yard was saved IN a dam
aged condition. The origin of the fire
is unknown. The loss is estimated at
So. 1000 to $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The company will probably rebuild.
The whaleback passenger steamer
Christopher Columbus left West SUI
perior, Wis, for Chicago to commence
trips between this city and A1ilwau-
kee. On an excursion a few days ago
$500 people were carried.
Professor Hugo of Fort Worth, Tex,
has signed a contract to walk 1000
miles on street rails of the railroads,
to average not less than twenty miles
per day, for $1,000. He has started
on the trip.
Mrs. Henry L. SW eet and her 3-year-
old son were found dead on the shore
Of Lake Superior at Duluth. They had
been out for a walk and it is supposed
the boy went into the water beyond
his depth, the mother attempting TO
save him, and both were drowned.
The Iowa crop bulletin reports prom
Use of early breaking UP of the drOuth.
All crops except corn suffered materi-
ally. Oats cannot exceed two thirds
crop. Late potatoes fairly promising.
Corn never given better promise.
Scotland Yard detectives have fur
nished the New York police with in
formation to the effect that William
Mowbray, the dangerous English an
archist, is in New York. The Gotham
officers are hunting for him.
1t looks as if Bill Dalton is dead for
good. His body has been identified at
Ardmore, l. T, by his brother, and
there is now q fight on between his
brothers and his wife over the place
of burial
State Fish Warden Charles II. Blowe
of Chicago has arrested fourteen prom
inent citizens of Princeton, Ill, for fish
ing in the Illinois river contrary to
law. Warrants have been issued for
the arrest of thirty-twO others.
Frank Carter of Murphy, n. c., took
his 6-yearOld boy to a still-hOuse and
got the little fellow drunk. While in
toXicated the boy fell into a vat Of
DollluS uqulu anu WAS SCdlueu W
death. Carter has disappeared.
Fathers and sons of the Beaver and
Pittman families at Alexandria, La,
three on each side, engaged in a fierce
struggle on their way home from
church. One Beaver and three Pitt
mans received bad wounds, the elder
Pittman's condition being serious.