Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-25
garine is demanded by the newly
formed National Dairy union.

! formed National Dairy union.
120,59G,27O passengers paid fare on
the Chicago City Railway company's
| lines during 1893. The revenue
amounted to S6.029S13.51. and the net
earnings were S3.422. O4O62
S. G.. Davis caused Il scene in a
| Terre Haute court room by drawing a
revolver in a controversy with two
other attorneys.
Trustees of the Lewis estate have
| abandoned the site selected for poly
technic institute. Chicago, and are look
| ing for another.
Business reyerses drove w T. Beau
mont, of. Chicago, to suicide. His body
was found in the lake at. the foot of
FOrty-second street.
The business of the defunct Anderson
Piano company, of Rockford, ILL.,, was
purchased by the Century Piano com
pany. of Minneapolis, who will EN-
| ploy fifty men at once.
More than two hundred. delegates are
attending. the fifth annual meeting of
the Western Retail Implement and
al
sas City, No.
| Electricians of the northwest met
| in convention at Milwaukee and listen
ed to the reading of papers on techni-
cal subjects.
| Exports during December exceeded
imports by S43, 800 ,O61, according to
the corrected figures of the bureau of
statistics.
| The orders first given for the United
States steamship Lancaster to return
home from China around the cape of
! Good Hope have been changed so as
to allow her to come through the SueZ
canal
The Merchants bank Of Ellis, Kan,
closed its doors and went into .volun-
tary liquidation. The assets are am
| pie to cover the liabilities of $4,000.
The plant Of the Columbus, Ind.
Republican has been sold by Isaac T.
Brown who founded it twenty-one
years ago. to Sidney Haigh and Nose
Cochran, of Madison, for $4,000.
Henry Bowen, an Adrian, Mich. ice
dealer, BACKED seventy-six pairs of
boots on a challenge and gave the re
ceiptS TO charity.
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Jones, widow of
George Jones, one of the founders of
the New York Times, died in New
York city, aged So.
Frank Ives has posted $500 forfeit
to play any man in the world a five
or six night match at 14-inch balk-line
billiards for any part Of $4,000, an
Choir barred. the match to take place
in New York city within 30 days.
Judge Dugro of the supreme court
at New York granted an order dis
solving the George r. Bidwen cycle
company of New York city and Hart
ford, Conn, and making the tempo
rary receiver, Theron G. Strong, Ter.
manent receiver.
In the United States circuit court at
New York Judge bacombe gave a de-
cision in the case of the Farmers loan
and trust company against the HOff-
man house, remanding the case back
to the supreme court Of the state of
New York.
The board Of trustees of the Brook
Iyn homeopathic hospital and training
school for nurses at Brooklyn, n. Y,
elected an entire new hospital staff of
eight members, dismissing every one
of the IA members of the old staff.
About a year ago there was trouble in
the hospital. The nurses talked a good
deal. One of the nurses who had been
discharged and didn't get her diploma,
brought suit. Then scandal came
out This has finally resulted in the
change:
Obituary: At Lansing, Mich, Colo
mel George P. Sanford, aged fifty-nine.
AT Burlington, Iowa, John Franz,
aged seventy.-At Elkhart, Ind, Will
lam D. Middleton.-At Austin, Texas,
Judge H. Burts.-At Mexico, Mo-,
Bethnel Eubanks, aged ninety nine
At San Francisco, Lyman w. Ransom,
pioneer Journal ;t.-A5 Davenport,
Iowa, James Renwick, aged eighty
At Evansville, Ind, Amos Traut, of
Noblesvil1e,' aged fifty-two.-At Des
Moines, Iowa, Rev. Father Burke,
pastor of the Newton Mission.-At New
York. Colonel Frank A. Burr, for
many years connected with the Phil
adelphia Press, aged fifty.-At Pitts
burg. Pa, Major William B. Negley.-
At Lafayette, Ind, Banker Alexander
Wilson. aged seventy ive.-At South
Norwalk, Ohio General Nelson Taylor,
aged seventy-three.