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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04

mule they were driving running away.
Oliver Curtis Perry, sentenced to
prison for the robbery Of d New York
Central train in 1892, has been adjudg-
ed insane
Ex-President Harrison is said to have
been offered Il heavy retainer to defend
the Indianapolis bank wreckers.
The Louisiana Lottery Company has
bought an island at Honduras and win
operate a second Monte Carlo.
Cheers greeted the verdict OF the
Jury at indianapolis which found Anna
Wagner not guilty Of poisoning the
BOOSTERS.
Miss Helen Warren. daughter Of
Bishop Warren of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, was married at Denver
to Dr. John r. Van Pelt.
Louis James said in Detroit that he
will forsake tragedy and devote HIM
self exclusively to comedy.
Rev O. E. Murray, pastor of the
Morgan Park Methodist church. was
hanged in effigy and the suburbanites
are indignant
John Bradbury, employe of the De
PAW Plate Glass company at Alex
andria, Ind, crippled for life last sum
mer, has filed a damage suit asking
$4,000.
Rev. L. G. Barrett Of the Baptist
church of Milford, Mass, has received
call to Il pastorate in Pella, Ia, with
a professorship in the Central univer-
| sity in that city.
| The Fiska Gold Mining and Milling
company's property at Black Hawk
Colo, principally owned by parties in
| Havervill. Mass, has been sold to an
English syndicate for half Il million
dollars.
! A girl giving the name of Maude Pat
! tersOn W;fs~taken from a Northwestern
| train at Oshkosh, Wis, in dying con
dition. She is supposed to have takeI
poison.
Pearl Morgan and Mania, aged l.
years Old, are missing from Greens
burg, Ind They were traced as far as
indianapolis and there lost.
John w. Straight, of Logansport
Ind, injured in the Pennsylvania wrecl
last February, has compromised witt
the company for 81, 623.5O.
At the farmers alliance meeting a
Denver Il resolution was adopted ask
ing congress to appropriate 100000,
900 for the construction of reservoir!
and other internal improvements.
Acknowledgement MOlOney decided a
Springfield, ILL.,, that a building ant
loan association should apportion pro
fits to all shares of stock in force with
out reference to whether they are loan
ed upon or not.
The report that William f. Harrity
chairman of the Democratic Nationa
committee, is seriously i'll is an eXag
geration. Yesterday afternoon he lef
Philadelphia for Harrisburg.
Rev. J. c. Stewart, Monmouth, Ill
is ready to abandon faith cure view
and return to the Presbyterian fold.
Henry NJ Henderson asks that tn
partnership of Phillips & Henderson
boot and shoe dealers at Bloomington
Ill, be dissolved. He alleges tina
Phillips, his partner, has taken owe
81, 200 more Of the firms cash than h
was entitled to.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
LATEST NEWS ITEMS.
THE WORLDS NEWS.
HARD TIMES.

HARD HINES.
Directors of the indianapolis Street
Railway company decided TO cut
wages.
E. l.. Hadley will continue receiver
of the Northern Pacific until February.
Chicago banks declared their usual
dividends, despite the fact that the
last year has been a rather hard one.
Sam Hall, a society man, started a
fashionable restaurant at Atlanta, Ga.
Fashion failed to pay the bills and the
restaurant closed.
The Ashland, Wis, blast furnace will
close down Jan. +, throwing $50 men
out Of employment.
President Coffin declares the rumor
that the General Electric is to go into
a receivers hands without foundation.
The receivership for the Santa Fe
will not effect the building of the fine
railway hospital at Topeka.
Employees of the Northern Pacific
are consulting attorneys with a view
to preventing the proposed reduction
in salaries.
Fate of the New England road has
been decided at the meeting of the dl'
rectors in New York. A receiver is III
possession
Northern Pacific employees were Ell
Joined from interfering with the prop
erty by United States Judge Caldwell
at St Paul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
CASUALTIES.

Twelve Lake Erie and Western
freight cars were wrecked at Lima.
Charles Leeds and John Tooley, rail
road men, were run over and killed ut
New Orleans.
Ed Noe, IS years old, was killed by
the accidental discharge Of his gun
while hunting near Hibernia, Ind.
During Il roadhouse fire near Lake
wood, n. j., a child of the manager
was thrown from an upper window.
u. Savage, Angus Faulkner, William
Turpie and another miner were
drowned by a rush of water into Il
shaft near Halifax, n. S.
Roy Shubert, Il Beloit, La, boy
was blown to pieces by the explosion
of box of dynamite
-Four dwellings were destroyed by
fire in McKees Rocks, a Pittsburg sub
urb. Loss, $4,000; insurance, small
The river steamer John Graves
heavily laden with sugar and Other
merchandise sank twenty-five miles
south Of Camden, Ark. The cargo is
well insured.
Fires; Lawrenceville, Ill; loss, $50,
600 Ladoga, Ind, Dougherty Touring
mills; loss, $500. HillsbOro, Texas
loss, $275,OO0 Fergus Falls MINI.
Park Hotel; loss, $4,000.
A small wreck occurred on the SOutl
Shore road near West Superior, Wis
Freight train No. s ran into the real
of another freight. Several cars an(
the caboOSe were badly damaged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD IN A
RECEIVERS HANDS.

Albany, Dec. 27.-NIr. Boardman, of
! the firm of Tracy, Boardman & Platt,
of New York city, appeared today be-
fore Judge Wallace Of the United States
court and asked that Il temporary re-
ceiver be appointed for the New York
4 New England railroad.
Judge Wallace appointed T. G. Platt
who is one of the directors of the com
pany, temporary receiver.
In referring to the appointment Of Il
temporary receiver, Judge Wallace
said: The order appointing a tenn
pOrary receiver was granted pending
the application for a permanent re-
ceiver and to save the property and to
prevent disintegration as a result of
attachments upon the rolling stock and
other property Of the road. Ny order
is returnable before me in New York
city On Jan. 10, when the question of
, the appointment of a permanent re
ceiver will be argued"
The appointment of the receiver caus-
ed no surprise as it was well known
that definite steps looking to such a
result were taken at a conference last
night. One of the capitalists who at
tended the conference said the confer
ence was really d little meeting of
committee appointed to raise money
required by the company to pay the
interest due January 1. Two hundred
thousand dollars is required for that
purpose and the COMMITTEES was unable
to secure it, therefor it was necessary
that an application for a receiver
should be made.
The voting on the question Of leasing
the New York, New England & North
ern win be continued tomorrow, when
| it is expected that sufficient votes will
be received to ratify. The New York &
New England railroad company owns
$50 miles of road and leases 165 miles.
The Indebtedness amounts to $16,737
| 1880, including bonds, mortgages,
notes and contract liabilities. There is
also a floating debt of $S50,000 There
/ is about $4,000, 900 common stock.
The New England has some valuable
property especially in the way of ter
minals. Through its lease Of the Nor
wich & Worcester railroad it controls
| the Norwich & New York TranspOrta-
| ton company's line of steamboats,.
President Mcleod argued at the
meeting of the New York & New Eng
f! land Railroad company il favor of
leasing the New York, New England s.
Northern road so as to get the New
York & New England into New York
! city and make it a paying corporation.
He denounced the application for a
receivership for the New York & New
| England, saying it was not necessary
to appoint a receiver; that the company
needed but 100000. and lie could have
raised it. He pulled the company
through once and he could again.
"Other people have had their say"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
WIDE-AWAKE PARSONS.

Wade's Fiber and Fabric:-There is
the story of the gentleman who mad
vertently slipped a blue poker chip
into the church collection plate, and
then called upon his pastor with an
apology for his carelessness and sill
yer dollar instead of the chip.
"Oh. no." said the man of God,
knowingly. that's not enough. A blue
chip is worth 50 in your game
An oklahoma divine was the
Shrewder.
The collection will now be taken, .
he said, and I wish to remark further
that poker chips don't go any more.
Get 'em cashed before you come and
bring the money. l am forced to this
decision by the fact that some of the
brethren have been showing off chips
of their own making on us and letting
the laugh be on us when we went to
get them cashed at the DeWdrOp
Fortune parIOrS."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04

G. Quinn Bass and James North, muir
derers, broke jail at Arcadia, Fla.
In fight over Il woman at Pine HILL
Ky, four men were shot, one fatally.
Jake Holman has been sent to Jail
at Winnipeg Man, for ballot box stuff
ting.
Peter \. Boiling, the victim of the
cutting affray Saturday night at Sey-
mour, Ind, is dead.
NJ B. Young, who went from Chica-
go to Burlington has been arrested in
St Louis for embezzlement.
William Beyers shot his mother at
Bonneville, Ind, because she asked
him to stop drinking liquor. She can
not recover.
Frank Cole, of Centerville, Mich,
was sentenced to twenty-five years i'm.
prisonment for assaulting Il little girl.
During a street fight in BrOcton, H.,
the town marshal, James King, was
fatally stabbed by Deng Roberts.
Officers Moran and Healy are under
arrest for killing Charles Nelson, who
kept a cigar store at 32O5 Archer
avenue, Chicago.
While attempting to stop drunken
row at Sorrento, ILL.,, the city marshal
killed George Dairs, Il miner,
in a quarrel at Pueblo, Colo, Mrs.
". 4. Wahous shot her sister, Mrs.
J. w, Reed,
-Four prisoners awaiting trial on the
charge OF robbing the Wisconsin Cen
trail depot at Park Falls escaped from
the Price county, Wis, Jail They have
not been recaptured.
The jury returned a verdict of mot
guilty at Taylorville, ILL.,, in the trial
of Dennis Kennedy for the murder OF
Matthew Leonard Dee. %, 1892.
In a riot at dance at Sherwood
O., G. S. TraXer was fatally beaten
James Holzer Lad an arm broken, and
Frank Miller had an eye gouged out.
John Puening, treasurer of Elmwood
a suburb of Cincinnati, has fed will
the entire funds of the town, $4,000
He was a saloon keeper.
carr bSIt6" SlSippSb al lhNll @AOSAlI
ger. at Milwaukee, for interfering il
his quarrel with Engel Bishop.
William McCleIland, of Asheryille
Ind. was fatally hurt in a free fgh
in which a number were badly bruised
-Four men We're probably fatally
hurt at Derringer, Pa, in a fight be
tween Austrian and Poles.
At Joliet, H., Judge Dibell refused
a new trial to Ernest LacOre and sen
fenced him to hang.
Kate Johnson, charged with counter
feiting and wife of a noted criminal
viciously attacked her accuser in a,
Indianapolis courtroom.
With a corn knife for weapon, Mrs
Ellen Kelly, 70 years old, living nea
Shawneetown, Mo-, beat off a maslle
rObber.
-. Resisting a search for whisky, negr
Henry Palmer shot Constable Blanto
and was, in turn, killed by Constabl
jackson near Spartansburg, S. G.
Judge Bailey, of Canon City, Colo
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
FOREIGN.

Partisan police are taking eXtraOr-
binary precautions to prevent threats
of anarchists being put in execution.
In Il riot in Sicily growing out of the
anti-taX agitation four persons were
killed and many wounded.
Regulation for the yearly calling
under arms of men completing their
twentieth year are to be enforced in
Italy.
Strained relations between Norway
and Sweden continue Elections in the
former country are looked to with in
tereSt.
Numerous petitions, the result of
public meetings, have been sent to
the Greek king for the removal of
Premier Tricoupis.
1t is estimated that Morocco ought
to pay Spain 60,000,000 francs indemni-
ty for the difficulties at Melilla.
Cardinals Sarafino, Vannutelli, Par
acchi and Monaco Ia Valetta are spoken
of by those interested as the pope's
successor.
Albanians dre preparing to attack
Montenegro. The latter has gwen
notice to Turkey to control it's sub
jects.
Sidi Maimon Mohatar and Hudch
Hach, Riffian chiefs, have been turned
over to General de Campos at Melilla.
Trial of the Frenchmen who engag.
ed in the attack on Italians at Argues
Mortes Aug. 16 has begun at AngOu-
Ieme.
Count Bismarck, youngest son Of the
prince, has received a letter threaten
ing to blow up his house with dyna-
mite.
The splendid vintage in France has
made wine a drug in the market at
one penny Il quart.
| Sicilian unrest is spreading to the
mainland of Italy and Naples Is
/ threatened with street riots.
The offerings of Peters pence since
| the beginning of the pope's jubilee
amount to t9S0,0O0.
! The newspaper Don Chisciotte Della
! Mancia of Rome confirms the report
! that Prime Minister Crispi is arrang-
| ing in Germany to float loan of f24,
O0O,000 sterling.
The Berlin Koelnische Zeitung reaf-
firms that Archduke Franz Ferdinand,
heir to the Austrian throne, and the
Archduchess Stephanie, widow of the
Archduke Rudolph, are to be be-
trothed soon.
! British Postmaster General Arnold
Morley has written to John Mains, NJ.
2. for West Donegal, saying when eX-
listing transatlantic mail contracts
expire all routes, including via No
vile. win be considered.
A congress will be held in Regens-
burg Jan % to found a Bavarian
farmers union. 1t is being organized
by the high protectionists, and its
members probably will make a violent
attack on the imperial governments
commercial policy.
Herr Leiden, formerly attache Of
the German legation at Washington
will be appointed minister to Rou-
; mania to succeed Herr Won Bulow
who has been transferred to Rome az
ambassador to Italy in place of Count
Solms. who resigned.
Princes Leopold and Arnulf Of Ba
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
HOW HE COLLECTED IT.

Chicago Iribune:-'If you think
you've got sHch a dead sure thing on
that claim against me, why don't you
sue me for it?' asked the man with
the double chin
Il could sue you and collect it easily
enough, and you know it," replied the
man with the bushy eyebrows, and
would have done it long ago, but for
the reason that [ would have brought
your other creditors down on you like
Il thousand of bricks | don't want to
break you"
I'LL pay it this afternoon, every
cent said the other, rubbing his jaw
the next man that tries 10 work it on
thoughtfully, 'but that won't 90 with
me, by Georgep'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04

sentenced William e. Roberts. banker,
charged with receiving deposits when
be knew the institution was ins0lyent.
TO three years in the penitentiary.
At Resale, Tex, Ben Hamilton got
drunk and meeting Thomas Bush shot
him through the breast AS Bush was
falling he sent bullet through Hamil-
toms head. Both died on the spot.
At Paris. Texas, Manning Davis, Il
white man, Ed Gonzales, a Mexican,
and Jim Upkins, Il negro, were sentenc-
ed to be hanged on March 80. Davis
der and Upkins of assault.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04

varia viii not attend Emperor Will
Jams New Years reception in Berlin.
They are said to be in bad humor be-
cause the emperor conferred the decor
alton of the Black Eagle upon his
cousin, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand.
The tinplaters employed in the
Clyne works in the Meath district of
Wales agreed three days ago TO a 10
per cent reduction of wages. Today
they We're Informed that the South
Wales union would support them, and
they resolved TO insists upon the scale
of 1871
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
FOUR MINERS DROWNED.
Accidentally Tapped an Unused Gal
Iery Filled With Water.

Halifax, n. S., Dec 2S.-An accident
occurred in the Symond Kaye mine at
Montague, ten mile from Halifax, this
morning, by which four lives We're
lost. The victims were:
L. SAVAGE.
ANGUS FAULKNER.
WILLIAM TURPLE.
UNKNOWN MAN.
The men were working next to some
unused workings filed with water
when one of these was accidentally
tapped and the water rushing in, over
whelmed the men before they could
escape. The mine is owned by an
English company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04

Mr.. Mcleod said. land l shall have
mine later. The end is not reached by
any means" He concluded by saying
that he would vote over zoe. 900 shares
in favor of leasing the New York, New
England & Northern. as the receiver
ship could have no effect Or the lease.
Thomas c. Platt was seen at his
office. He said that the road was in
such Il condition that the protection of
the courts had TO be invoked.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
AGREED TO SUICIDE.
Members Of Two Families Killing
Themselves Off.

West Superior, Wis, Dec. Is
Strange rumors are being circulated
in regard to the Nunncmacher and
O'Rourke families, because of the sui
eide of Mrs. Ed NuDnemacher Of this
city and Miss Ella OIsOurke OF st.
Paul, her sister. 1t is said that the
suicides are the fulfillment of an agree
ment between the families and that
the other members will soon keep their
part by committing suicide.
Ed Nupnemacher was at one time
successful, but is Low short of ready
money. Jenny O'ROurke, who was Wis
iting in this city when the first sui
eide occurred, is & sister Edward
O'Rourke, who played with the Chicago
Baseball club last season. is a brother
Of the family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
PRENDERGAST TO HANG.
Carter HarriSOn's Assassin Sentenced
TO Death by the Jury.

Chicago. Dec. 29.-Attorney Trude, in
the Prendergast case, resumed the clos
ing arguments for the prosecution this
morning. In the course of his remarks
he had occasion to refer to Henry
George, the great single-tax advocate,
whom he characterized as a migratory
and pestilential paranOiac."
At / o'clock this afternoon Judge
Brentano commenced his charge to the
jury, and at the conclusion the jury re
tired. At $50 the jury returned a yer
dict Of guilty, with sentence of death
Prendergast tottered as he was led
from the room, and was sane enough
to fully realize his fearful fate
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
FAILURE AT FORT ATKINSON

Fort Atkinson, Wis, Dec 27-W
j. Kyle d Co., consisting of w J. Kyle
and L. III. Kyle. dealers in dry goods
and groceries, were closed UP last
night on a mortgage held by William
Alexander of Lima, Wis. The firm has
made an assignment to Alexander.
The liabilities are estimated at about
$2,400 and it is thought that the as
sets will exceed this sum. The firm is
composed Of young men who opened
the business here about two years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
A NEW ROW IN CAMP
KANSAS POPULISTS ARE WILDLY
EXCITED
MRS MARY Z. LEASE REMOVED
FROM OFFICE.
Governor Lewelling Removes Her
rom the State Board of Charities
lin the Interest of Harmony and
Good Government '-Mrs. Lease EN-
plains Why He Did 1t.

Topeka, kas, Dec. 2S.-The populist
camp was this afternoon thrown into
the widest excitement by an act of
Governor LeweIling, removing Mrs.
Mary T. Lease from tue state board
OF charities.
This was done after long confer
ence with his associate state officers
and no doubt in anticipation Of the
war which Mrs. Lease is preparing to
ton.
To a reporter Governor Lewellin2
said: Il removed Mrs. Lease in the
interest of harmony and good govern
ment. That's all l have TO say about
it."
Mrs. Lease was in the city today &c
confer with the populist leaders about
| the recent election of George E. Taubel
| to be steward of the deai and dumb
asylum by the votes of the republican
members of the board.
Either he goes or I CO. said Mrs
! Lease to Il reporter, and, as subsequent
developments show, she went. That
somebody had to go, has been known
! for some months, for with the existing
conditions the board could never wor!
tremendously, but it was not intended
! to let it be Mrs. Lease until this morn
i ing When intelligence was brought tC
! the governor that Mrs. Lease was get
ting ready to make another assault
through the newspapers upon the al
ministration.
Mrs. Lease took the removal like :
trained politician. She said to Il re
porter: Yes, | have been officially
Informed of my decapitation. l haC
been told it was coming, but Governor
| LeWelling ought to have told you tn,
real reason. 1t was because [ went tt
| him yesterday afternoon and made :
demand upon him, not Il request, tina
at the expiration of the term of Mr.
i Meier, a republican member, mex
! April. that j. r. Kennedy, populiSt cdi
tor of Wilson county, be appoint
| ed
Il know with Kennedy on the bOarC
we could run the institution in a bust
lresslike mann er and get rid of the 20
litical schemes to which the board re
sorts. But the governor seems to like
that way of administering our STATE
charitCs'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
WILL FIGHT THE CASE.

Kansas City, Dec. 2S.-R. NJ. Che
nault, one of the most prominent pOpu
lists in Kansas and attorney for Mrs
Lease arrived here from Topeka to-
night. He is very bitter against Gov
Lewelling for the removal of Mrs
Lease. Speaking about the matter tC
an Associated Press representative Mr.
Chenault said:
I am perfectly satisfied after consV
tation with the attorneys whom [ EN-
pOyed to assist me in fighting Governor
Lewelling, the governor cannot remove
Mrs. Lease legally without cause and
in his letter to her notifying her Of he1
dismissal the governor gives no lega-
cause. We propose to fight the case
to the bitter end
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04

The widow CT Gen. Sheridan and his
three children still live in the large
and handsome house in which the
general passed the last years of his
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
MRS. PHILIP II. SHERIDAN.

She Lives In Washington Surrounded
by Mementoes of the General.
Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1894-12-20

he gave the mans face long look and
jumped TO his feet with' John, back
from the dead"
Outside the wind whistled under the
caves and shrielSed like ten thousand
demons. Then IL would sob and moan
and slip off like a pack OF frightened
wolves. Those few moments seemed
hours TO Briefly, and he worked as he
never worked before.
Time and again he stopped over and
kissed the cold, wet lips, calling on
the silent form to speak to him. And
outside the wind went no Wing by.
Then John opened his eyes ard
smiled, and Briefly danced--yes, actu-
ally danced-with Joy.
The story Is very nearly told. Next
morning Dearborn got telegram,
which said:
My brother is here; come BRIEFLY"
Aud when he came John told them
how at the very moment he was going
TO end his miserable life he had been
| persuaded to ship as common sailor
on board the Mermaid. She had got.
ten off her course in the storm, and
here ho was.
1t was week refore he was able tc
| GO up to town. But when he did gc
he went to work on the Sun and /.
making success there under the
watchful eye of his brother
And the witty man says that: "Brierly
has gotten to be quite a decent sort OF
fellow now.'-George L. Sullivan, in
| Bost on Globe.