Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-23

pected of having robbed the station at
that point, was hanged to a signal
light beam. After being suspended for
three minutes he was cut down by Of
fcials, and proved his innocence.
Works No. l, of the United States
Salt company, on the lake at the foot
of East Madison street, Cleveland,
Ohio, was completely destroyed by fire,
seven large wooden buildings being
also consumed. Loss, $15O,0O0; insur
ance $120,OO0.
The Rock Island and Lake Shore
Railroad company has turned the first
shoyCltul OF earth in the elevation of
their tracks at Chicago, u work that is
calculated to occupy four years, cost
S2,50O,OOU and save thousands of hui
man lives.
Attorney General Olney has ap-
pointed Moritz Rosenthal of Chicago
assistant district attorney for the
northern district OF Illinois. The rcsig
ratiOn of John E. Striker as assistant
United States district attorney for
Minnesota has been accepted.
Mrs Eugene Seeley has been ar
rested by a United States marshal at
Rockford, Ill, fer sending postal
card to her divorced husbands mother,
Mrs. W. I. Seeley, addressing her as
Mrs. A. 2. A. Seeley." This is con-
strued us Objectionable matter.
The steamer Puritan was proceeding
49, al,
when she crashed into the steam fer
ryboat Richmond, cutting her COM
pletely in two. The crew of the ferry
boat had narrow escape from drown
ing.
Superintendent Byrnes has fled
charges against Police Capt. Cross Of
the Fifth-street station in New York
city. His trial and that of Capt. Dew
|, cry have been set for tomorrow. The
trial of the five SergeantS will begin
this afternoon.
Mae Youkins, an oil driller, was lit
orally roasted at a we'll at Herman
Station, Penn. The crew was drilling
tubing when the well flowed. Ioukins
was saturated with oil, which ignited
hours.
The Wagner car shops at East Buff
falo, n. Y, have closed down owing
to the business depression and the alb
Sence of demand for cars. Over 1000
men will be thrown out of " DIRK. The
company hopes to be able to resume
in about a month.
Albert Lane, who left a wife and
child at Lebanon, Ind, three weeks ago
and eloped with a woman from In
dianapolis, was located at Green Bay.
Wis, where he had started a notion
store. He promised to return with his
wife.
A jailor named Jerry Murphy was
dismissed at LeavenWorth, Kan, on
account of drunkenness, and in re-
yenge he went and liberated all the
.. prisoners. Five were recaptured but
the rest escaped. Murphy was ar
, rested.
The general committee OF the Ger
man-American reform union Of New
York organized by electing Oswald OF
tendorfer president and appointed a
committee to confer with all other
anti-Tammany organizations on a I'M
ion ticket.
A letter has been received at Anna
polls, Md, from one of the crew Of
the United States steamship Ban
croft, now on a two months cruise,
stating that the cruise will expire On
| Aug. %, on which the Bancroft has
orders to prepare for an Immediate
/ cruise to Chinese waters.
A cave-in took place in the Mullan
tunnel, a big bore through the main
range of the Rocky mountains on the
main line of the Northern Pacific, west
of Helena, Mont. How serious it is,
is not known, but it entirely obstructs
the track and all trains have been or
dered to run around by way of Butte.
Henry Munson and AlonZo Gordon
: were shot and killed eight miles from
/ Sapulpa, Tex. by scouts under COM
mand of Jim Sapulpa. Munson and
Gordon belonged to the notorious Bill
Cook gang of outlaws, who lately
robbed the Chandler bank. This leaves
only two of the Cook gang yet at
large.
Forest fires checked by the rains two
weeks ago are again growing serious
, in the western part of the upper pen
insula of Michigan. The fires are caus-
ing great injury to standing TIMBER
logs, poles and ties and to settlers
The worst fires are in Gogebic and On
tonagon counties, covering a wide
district.
Recent congressional nominations
At Milwaukee, Wis, Theobold Often,
republican, fourth district; at Merrill,
Wis, Alexander Stewart, republican,
ninth district; at Richmond, Va,
James A. Walker, republican, ninth
district; at Pine Bluff, Ark, John s.
Little, democrat, second district; at
Litchfield, Ill, Frederick Remain, re-
publican, eighteenth district
Four hundred men, comprising two
equally divided opposing forces, are
camped on the 160-acre farm of G. G.
G. Harris near Hammondsburg Ohio.
Harris has a contract with the Ohio
Oil company by which his share of
the profits from oil wells on one-half
net him $4,000 annually. He insists
that oil wells be sunk on the other
half. This the company refuses to do,
nor permit him to do.