Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-12


eight for acquittaI and four for CON
victiOn.
Lawlessness reigns supreme among
the railroad strikers in Chicago. They
defy both federal and state author
tiles. United States troops are ordered
out, and bloodshed is expected.
The Hotel Recherche at III to 123
West Thirty-second street, New York
city. famous because of its former his
tory as the house Of all nations"
kept by Nine Charles, was damaged
by fire to the extent of $4,000.
The jury returned a verdict Of not
guilty in the trial of Michael Don
nelly, who was accused of shooting
at Patrick J. McArdle in New York.
EX-Assemblyman Myer J. Stein. a wit
mes, was arrested for alleged perjury.
Indictments were returned by the
Washington grand jury against Ed
wards and Schriver, the newspaper
correspondents who refused to answer
questions in the sugar trust investi-
CATION.
The town Of Mogollon, in the Mogol-
lon mining camp, so miles northwest
of Silver City, Col, was almost de-
strOyed by fire. Only two business
houses are left, and the loss is est,
mated at $4,000.
Henry Vogler shot and killed Will
lam Stutz at Syracuse, n. Y. Vogler
then fired a bullet into his own brain
lot &c, hn
lieved that Vogler thought that Stutz
was intimate with his wife.
Rev. Joseph E. Carpenter of Man
chester college, Oxford, England, a
prominent Unitarian divine, has been
! appointed a university preacher at
Harvard college for the term of one
year, beginning September 1.
1t is expected that Debs and all the
other officers of the A. r. q. will be
indicted in Chicago Tuesday for
criminal conspiracy. A special grand
| jury of the United States court will
consider the case that day.
X. B. Ovaum, a Norwegian farmer
of Butler, S. D., became so worried
thrOats of his two children, threw
them in a we'll, cut his own throat,
and jumped in after therl.
Frank S. Allen has brought suit at
Joliet, against Mayor Stassen for dam
| ages to amount of $1,000 The case
is the result of Mayor Stassen's having
Allen removed by force from Alder
| man Patterson's seat in the council.
The Camp Release monument near
Montevideo, Mimi, was dedicated in
cOmmemOratiOn of one of the closing
scenes Of the Indian war of 1862. Ex-
Governors Ramsey and Austin, Gen.
@. G.. Andrews and Attorney General
| ChildS made the principal speeches.
James H. Mills of North Manchester,
| Ind, formerly employed in the Amer
| lean Trust and Saving bank Of Chi
| cago, has been adjudged of unsound
mind and ordered confined in an asy-
lum. His dementia was caused by the
excessive use of cigarettes.
George MCGEE, a Louisville convict
stabbed and instantly killed Charley
Thomas, another convict, at the pen
itentiary at Frankfort, Ky. The men
had quarreled, and while Thomas was
eating breakfast MCGEE walked up be-
hind him and plunged a long knife
into his heart. Both were negroes.
Judges Woods and Grosscup issued
a sweeping injunction ordering all per-
sons not to Interfere in any way with
trains on railroads subject to the In
terstate commerce law. The admins
tratiOn decided to use federal troops
whenever necessary to enforce the or
ders of the courts
Assistant District Attorney Wellman
was selected by Corpora ton Counsel
Clark as counsel for the New York
city police commissioners to aid Super
| intendent Byrnes in formulating
charges against policemen who were
accused of wrOng-dOing before the
LeXow committee.
The scientific expedition headed by
Messrs. Taber and Lloyd and other
Americans left st. John, n. F., by
the steamer Swallow for Labrador,
where they propose spending the sum-
mer exploring and examining valuable
mineral deposits. They will make
their headquarters in the neighborho) ID
of Main. The party consists of 10 per-
sons.
The suit of the widow of the late
Paul Bauer to recover possession Of
about 100000 worth of property from
John Y. McKane, the former chief of
GraveSend, which she claims he lille
gally holds, was called in Brooklyn
in the supreme court before Judge
Bartlett and after a short argument of
counsel they finally agreed that the
matter should be referred to a referee.
Almost the entire business part of
Bayou Sara, La, was destroyed by
fire. The Meyer Central hotel and
general store, Freyhous' opera house,
express office and numerous stores and
residences were dstroyed. Sparks car
ried by the wind set fire to and
caused the destruction of Col. Thomas
Twins residence and the old railroad
depot on the river front.
A hurricane from the northwest. !
with a velocity of So miles an hour, |
passed over Memphis, Tenn, and be-
tween Memphis and Little Rock de- |
mOIiShin@ wires fences and light buiid- !