Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-11-22

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Joseph Conrad fatally wounded John
Martz at louisville. Ind, and narrowly
escaped lynching at the hands of Ell
ragged citizens.
Allen Prime, of Louisville. tried to
kill his wife and mother-in-law.
wounded his sister-in-law and then
shot himself.
Blake Robertson, son of an eX-con-
gresham, was shot and killed by a ne
gro during republican jollification at
ElizabethtOwn, Kentucky.
The schooner John Shaw foundered
in Lake Huron. Her crew, after sew
eral hours exposure, was picked up
by Il steamer.
William Dawson, a storekeeper of
Smiths Ferry, Ohio, was killed by a
shotgun he had set for burglars and
forgotten.
Judge Bardeen, Of Wausau, Wis, has
decided that f. A. Strupp, county su-
perintendent of schools, is guilty of in
competency and wilful neglect of duty,
and must yacate his office.
Lawrence Younger, a son of Bob
Younger. the outlaw, and Charles A.
Williams, were lynched at Floyd, La,
for the murder of Thomas A. Keys, a
wealthy merchant.
Pennsylvania supreme court sus-
tanned Judge Barker in refusing to is
sue an injunction against nuns dressed
in the garb of their order teaching in
the public schools.
Judge Brewer decided the Nebraska
maximum freight rate law was con-
stitutiOnal. but held the rates pre-
scribed to be too low and suspended
their operation.
Senator PETER says the populists
will not aid the republicans to organ
ize the senate, and prophesies the
reformation of parties on the line of
silver and anti-silver.
John karel, OF Chicago, consul at
Prague, has been made consul general
at st. Petersburg. Carl Jonas, of
Wisconsin. will succeed him at
Prague.
Football games resulted: Yale 4S,
Chicago Athletic Club 0; Lafayette IS,
Lehigh 0; Bowdoin %, Bates 0; Prince
ton freshmen Is, Brooklyn Poly
technic g.
The United States court at Milwau-
kee has been petitiOned to direct the
Northern Pacific receivers to pay $1O,-
III alleged to be due the worlds Col
umbian exposition.
A. l.. Burr, superintendent of the
gas works at st. Charles, Mo-, is a de-
faulter and fugitive. The amount of
his shortage is unknown. Gambling
in wheat is thought to have caused his
downfall.
The mail carriers and drivers in East
Tennessee, numbering 200, decided to
strike for better wages. They imagine
that the recent election entities them
to relief from the low wages they have
been receiving.
The st. Louis and San Francisco
west-bound train was held up five
miles west of Monet, Mo-, by two
masked men and the express car
looted. The amount secured by the
robbers was not over $500.
The sheriff has closed the place of
business of Hart, Lewis Il Co., manu-
facturers of furs, at 81 Broadway, New
York. The liabilities are estimated at
$4,000. The assets are from $4,000
to $4,000.
Judge Cole overruled the demurrer
of Broker L. X. Chapman to the indict-
ment found against him for refusing
to answer questions put to him by the
senate committee, which investigated
the sugar trust.
Fifty thousand persons witnessed
the launching of the st. Louis, the
largest vessel ever constructed IN
America, at Philadelphia. Mrs. Cleve-
land christened the steamship with
American champagne.
Kiku Oyama, a dissolute Japanese
girl, was choEed to death in her apart
mentS in Denver. She is the third TO
meet such a fate in two months, and
it is believed some man has declared
deadly war on that class Of women.
Three masked men tried to rob the
bank at Sylvan Grove, Kas., when one
of them was wounded by the cashier
Thereupon the other two riddled their
companion with bullets to prevent him
from identifying them, and fed.
Charges of fraud in the civil service
examination for appointment of the
New York police force have been made
against Roundsman Adolph w. Re-
station, and Roundsman John BOWL
ing, of The fremont station.
Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay, the famous
Kentuckian, has just married Dora
Richardson, his pretty 15-year-old
ward. He marries to prevent his first
wife's children, who have ignored him
for years, from getting his estate when
he dies.
Awakened by a burglar in his room
Rev. F. G. Seckerson, of Brooklyn,
sprang out of bed and grappled with
the robber, who, in the struggle,
stabbed the minister before the latter,
using his revolver, wounded the thief
twice. The marauder escaped.
J. B. Gaylord, formerly P f. Bar
NUNS foreign agent, says that Cinders,
an orang-outang, was brought from
San Francisco to New York disguised
as regular passenger and shipped
among the steerage passengers on the
Cunard line steamer Etruria.
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