Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-14

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three men and injuring three others,
one fatally. 4
Three partially consumed sticks of
dynamite We're found under a church
at Pleasant Dale, Ind, in which re-
vival meetings are being held.
Later Developments in the Hinshaw
murder case lead to the belief that
the minister killed his wife in a quar-
rel.
The democratic majority in the SEN
ate has been eliminated by the en-
trance of Clarence D. Clark, of Wyo-
ming.
The barge Van Zantford foundered
in Long island sound. The captain
and his brother were washed off and
drowned.
No trace of the supposed wreck of
the ChicOra was seen by the tug Nor
ford i'll an all-day cruise near South
Chicago.
The supreme court declined to in
terfere in the cases of Chapman and
Shriver, the r~ecalcitrant witnesses in
the sugar trust investigation.
He allowed the three officials-Mor-
gan, Rowland and Van Norden-S16,-
600 as compensation up to February 1,
of this year. After that date he fixes
the salaries at $500 q year.
The Ward line steamer CienfuegOs
was wrecked near Pierce Island, in
the Bahamas. The steamer will be a
total loss, but the passengers and
mails We're saved.
The United States Commissioner de
cided that he officials of the Brooklyn
Atlantic-ave. road had a right to place
the sign ~. s.. Mail' on their cars;
there was little violence in the city.
The bill TO take the health board
appO ntmentS out of Mayor Pingree's
hands was ordered to third reading in
the Michigan senate.
Suit has been begun at Pittsburg
for the recovery of property worth sew
eral millions and occupied by the
Pennsylvania and THE Fort Wayne
roads.
James Mutt, who killed W. w. Duke
for running his sister in Pennsylvania
shoots a oma and man in Kansas
and is fatally chopped by the wonnan
before she dies.
James NJ. Keene and his wife
Kate, of Liverpool, England, were ar
rested in New York, on a charge OF
! embezzling $4,000 from the British and
African Ocean Transportation and
African Steamship companies.
The commissioner of internal rev.
enue has secured an additional allow.
nee for collectors of internal revenue
(which will enable them to employ q
larger force in THE work of collecting
the Income tax.
The action taken by a trolley com
pany in Chicago in ordering severa.
postal cars will be followed in Other
cities as soon as the street "a com.
panies manifest a disposition to co
operate with the department..
r. G. Craig & Co. of Memphis, Tenn.
dealers in seeds and agricultural i'm
Elements made a partial assignment
their creditors being chiefly Northern
dealers. The assets are 800, 900; liza
bilities, $4,000.
The firm of d. E. Morgan, Son s
Allen, of Buffalo, n. Y, whose EN-
barrassment was announced last week
offered it's Creditors % cents on the
dollar to settle all accounts, which was
accepted. The assets amount to $40,
600.
Minister Romero, of Mexico, regards
the latest published reports on The
MeXican4G Jaltemala situation ais in
dicative of a pacific tendency of affairs
The minister has not as yet received
definite advices from his government
as to the course ito be pursued.
David Salver, a cabinet-maker. wht
had been drinking heavily, stabbed his
son, William, aged 81, in the breas
with a sword ane and then jumped
off the roof of his house, i'm New York
The father died instantly, and the sol
was taken to a hospital. The Salver:
had quarreled.
The Phoenix glass7works at Monaco
Pa, were burned. The town is With
out any fire department. or water
works. The loss is S15O,0OO, partly
covered by insurance. The works EN-
ployed 500 people, and their speciality
was lamps and gas and electric lighI
fixtures.
An examination of the books of THE
state auditor and treasurer at Cheyen
ne, Wy, showed a shortage of S56,45=
in the treasurer's office. This lis thu
amount lost by Treasurer Graanm
through the failure of the Kent bank
The report holds that Otto Gramn
and his bondsmen are liable for thu
amount.
A fire occurred in the Elliot block
corner of Center and Elmwood streets
Newton, Mass, causing a loss of abou-
$4,000. The owner of the building Il
Joseph n. Bacon and his loss will bt
about $4,000. The other principal los
erS are the Newton coal company, J
M. Mason, jeweler, and James SaNton
confectioner.
ABROAD.