Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28

1ANAoohs VI SOuNh soOi
has forbidden the importation of Texas
cattle because of the alleged presence
If pleuro-pneumonia.
Gen. John McNulta, John J. Mitchell
and Z. L. Lawrence, receivers of the
whisky trust, recently appointed by
Judge Grosscup, of the federal court,
have presented their designations to
that judge. Gen. McNulta was. reap
pointed.
The Excelsior Clothing and Shoe
company of Saginaw, Mich, has filed
chattel mortgages for over $4,000.
Christian science healers at Dayton,
Ohio, have been arrested charged with
having caused the death Of a child
by neglect.
Indictments have been returned
against ten crooked police officials of
New York and they have been put
under heavy bonds.
Receivers were appointed at st. Paul
for the Walter A. Wood Harvesting
company. No preference claims will
be recognized by the court.
President Cleveland and Secretary
Gresham celebrated their birthdays.
The President was So years old and
Mr.. Gresham 81.
Postal employees have formed a COM
bination to bring pressure to bear on
congress to o%verturn certain obnoxious
regulations.
Young orators are ready for the big
debate between the Northwestern Uni
versity and the University of Michigan
to be held April g..
Notwithstanding the reward of $1O,-
900 offered for the discovery Of Miss
Helen ST. Vincent, 40 trace of her has
been found.
The prohibition town of Portland,
Me, uses $4,000 worth of liquor every
year for 'medicinal and mechanical
purposes"
The celebrated Society for Employees
! of Commerce, of Hamburg, since it's
| foundation in 1858, has placed gratui-
tously 10000 applicants for work.
The first tin plate mill to be es-
tablished south of Maryland is being
completed at Richmond, Va. The ca
pacity will be 100 boxes Of tin a day.
Ex-Congressman Timothy Campbell,
of New York, will be prosecuted by
Judge McAdam for criminal contempt
Of court.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Long Island Traction company,
controlling street railway lines in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Droc;1nr+ T1nra1on1 mill ononrt on
invitation from any foreign nation for
this country to take part in a monetary
conference.
Mr.. Needles resolution providing for
the calling of a constitutional conven-
ton was overwhelmingly defeated in
the Illinois house.
General Adam Badeau, who was
military secretary to General Grant,
died of apoplexy at Ridgewood, n. j.,
aged "a.
General Philip st. George Cooke, who
saw forty-six years of continuous SER
vice. is dead at his home in Detroit,
Mich, aged IS.
At Petersburg, Tenn, a mob Of
whites hanged a colored woman who
was suspected of setting fire to a
dwelling.
Warren Sherman, a farm hand of
Michigan, has confessed to Lansing of
ficers that he burned his house thir-
teen years ago.
Irving Justice, a prominent merchant
of Cherokee nation, vas summoned to
his door and killed by two unknown
. ~assassins.
The case at O'Neil, Neb., against
men accused of numbering Barrett
Scott has been nOlled and warrants
sworn out at Butte for their arrest.
George Jacob Schweinfurth, the
bogus messiah, has denied that he is
in possession of Mrs. George W. Coud-
rey's property.
The Illinois senate passed the civil
service reform bill, and it was signed
by the government after an amend
atory measure had been promised.
A farmer discovered that a bridge or
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern road, near Burlington, Iowa,
had been burned and warned an ap.
preaching passenger train.
The marble monument of Heinrich
Heine, rejected in Germany, because
of his republican utterances, will be
erected in Central park, New York,
by German-Americans.
Mrs. NJ. e. Holton, living alone on
a ranch near Butte, Neb., was out
ragged and then lynched. Cattle set
tiers are suspected of committing the
crime.
The colony of 1000 negroes recently
established at Wapima, Mexico, is
breaking up, the negroes leaving for
their old homes in Georgia and Ala
bama.
President Brownson and Cashier
Morgan, of the wrecked savings bank
at Binghamton, n. Y, have been ar
rested on charges of burglary and lar
ceny.
Judge Severens has decided the cap
Sule trust, known as the United States
Capsule company, is illegal under
Michigan laws and the act of con-
greSs.
Commissioner Shields. of New York.
issued IN order of commitment for
Editor Dana, but paroled him pending
argument of a motion fol his removal
to Washington for trial on a charge
of libel.
4 bill was introduced in the Indiana