Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-04

\ Y, after a long Illness, aged 81
Fire at West Superior, Wis, de-
troyed J. P.Nelson's property. His
wife and three children were badly
burned. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
Pictures valued at $4,000 and
placed on exhibition by F. Hopkinson
Smith were destroyed in the Milwau-
&c fire.
Robbers. by means Of dynamite,
.pened a safe in the Auburn State
bank at Auburn, H., and got away
with $1,000.
Miss Amy Thrill, an actress, was
murdered b. John Bigelow, an actor,
who then ended his own life, at her
rooms, in New York.
The mayor aud board of trustees of
Madison, H., have been found guilty
of malfeasance in office. for permitting
a gambling-house to run.
Burglars, in an effort to find hidden
money, cruelty tortured Mrs. Mary
Berger, aged IS years, of Springfield,
III.
Officers of the Queen and Crescent
railroad intercepted train robbers at
Greenwood. KY, and killed two of
them.
Judge Sanborn has issued an order
for the eviction Of white settlers from
the WinnebagO reservation, holding
their leases were never approved.
Mr.. Cleveland told Mr.. Hesing, in a
oonyapSa+ ino faoo nd n ~ tho nnvt RS M
paign, that money would be the great
issue. F"
The state department has received
no information regarding the imprison-
ment of eX-Consul Waller in Madagas-
car.
The body of Mrs. John w. Bent,
the wife of a wealthy ChicagOan, was
exhumed because it was suspected
that she died of arsenical poisoning.
The commission sitting in the claims
of American citizens against the Vene-
zuelan government has decided in the
formers favor.
The revisors of elections in st. Louis
have completed their work by elimin,
ating 1878 names from the poll
books.
Cincinnati aspires to be a market
for blooded horses, and mammoth sale
stables will be erected near the Oakley
track.
Joseph Boyer, a miserly farmer, VIII,
lived near Sedalia, Mo, died without
revealing the hiding place of his
, wealth.
Archbishop Hennessy has ordered
that a Catholic church in Sioux City
Iowa, be closed. The members viii
appeal to Mgr. Satolli.
A quarrel in a school in Tower
Mimi, started by a few unruly boys
has involved nearly the whole town
and the result may be serious.
Government detectives are trying tt
discover parties guilty of producing
dangerous counterfeit bills that have
appeared at Omaha.
AT a delegate meeting of miners O.
the Springfield Qll.) district it was de
termined to resist any Infringement OF
the scale.
Solomon II. Mann and DR.. Henry D
Petlngin, who were alleged to have
caused the death of Miss Loretta Han
nigan, were both held in $4,000 bal
in New York.
The Waller house, a small hotel a
Central Lake, Mich, burned. James
Miller, the porter, was burned tt
death and several other inmates mar
rOWly escaped with their lives.
Judge Seaman, Of Milwaukee, re
fuses to permit recovery on the for
fixture of a bond in q case where
nOlle was entered after the bond was
forfeited.
At an anniversary of Coxey follow
ers Carl Browne told of a plan thar
existed to lynch newspaper CORES
pondents who followed the army tt
Washington.
Severe wind storms swept over II
linois, Ohio and other states. At Del
aware, Ohio, great damage was done
and at Creston one mar was killed
Dust storms prevailed in Iowa an(
Illinois.
The Evening Record, the new demo
cratic daily at B%iddleford. Me-. began
publication. It's editors and proprietors
are John w. Robinson, recently of the
Worcester Telegram, and George L
Sands, late city editor Of the Biddle
ford Journal.
John Crozier has been arrested a.
New York on the charge of robbins
McKesson & Robbins, Wholesale drug
gists. Crozier had charge of the firms
printing department. Superintendent
Kirkland thinks his stealings will fg
ure up $4,000.
Work was resumed at the Putney
glass works, at BeIlaire, Ohio, and the
men were paid for their past services
without reductions for alleged dam.
aged goods. The strike was ~inaugur.
ated because of deductions for goods
rejected by jObbers at full rates.
Tbs Newport pa deposit bank. as
was expected, failed to open it's door
Approximately the assets are 1902
4O6 and the liabilities S16O, 29S. Assig,
nees were appointed yesterday and
the affairs of the bank ~liquidated. The
stockholders are individually liable for
deposits.
OTHERS DOINGS.
The mar0ui of OuppnSberry has