Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-29

democrats. Senator Brlce captured
the organiza ton Of the convention and
sound money was endorsed.
Reports Of damage caused by the
storm which swept over portion OF
Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pa, show
that the damage to property in the
two cities was about 100000.
Mayor Schieren has appointed Ben
ja min F. Blair, a republican, presl-
dent of the board Of election commits
sioners of Kings county, n. Y, to sue
coed William n. Williams, deceased.
Peter Howe, an engineer employed
at the Catholic Protectory in Van
Nest, was killed, and his fireman,
John Dermody, was fatally injured by
the explosion of a fire extingufsher.
Secretary Of State Olney, Minister
Depuy da LONE and Mr.. Mora have
signed a memorandum, and the Nora
claim will be paid. Force was to be
used, it is reported, had Spain refused
a settlement.
After two months Of married life
Mrs. Augusta Peet, who is but seven
teen years old, brought suit in New
York city for a divorce from her hus-
band, DR.. Alexander Peet, on the
ground Of desertion.
A man was killed by a train on the
Trenton cutoff branch of the Penn
sylvania railroad at Whitmarsh juno
ton, Pa. Papers found indicate that
he was a printer named Charles
Shippee, from Bristol, r. l.
The wife and little son of Arthur
Frances of Englewood, ILL.,, were
drowned at the Willows, on Spring
lake, near Grand Haven, Mich. The
child was in batting beyond his depth
and the mother went to his rescue.
The sloop yacht Sultana, owned by
Z. D. Potter, Jr., of Toledo, o., was
struck by a squall in Lake Erie off
West Sister island and sank in p
feet of water. The three men on
board at the time had a narrow es-
cape.
The steamer Ocean Wave, on hel
way from Astoria to Portland, Greg.
coliided with a sail boat containing
five persons near Stella, Wash. The
sail boat was upset and John Wealth
erwaX and w. Ed. Wagner were
drowned.
In a fit of temporary insanity Sam
uel S. Prescott, Worcester, Mass.
valentine maker, aged u, attempted t.
kill his wife by cutting her throa
with a knife and then shot himself
70 JpSs NJ
will recover.
Mabel Stanley, the SelfStyled music
hall artist, recently arrested in Liver
pool, on a charge of robbery in Lon
don, is believed to be Mile Miliet
who sued Actor Joseph NJ Weber OF
the ground of breach of promise o.
marriage.
Capt. McKowan Of the mackere
schooner Lucy W. Dyer, which ar
rived at Booth Bay, Me, reports see
/ ing off Scituate "Wednesday a white
humpback whale about 20 feet long
The animals are exceedingly scarce
I on this coast.
Theodore L. Matz. Il New York sa
loon keeper, was stabbed i'll the alb
dOmen in his saloon. His aSsailant
escaped. MATHS wound may prove
fatal. The man who did the Stabbin5
had ordered 4 glass of beer, for which
he refused to pay.
The delegates 20 the American Phar
maceutiCal association convention, al
Denver, elected the following officers
Chairman, William S. Thompson
Washington; vice chairman, W. c.
Alpers, Bayonne, n. j.; secretary, g
w. Kennedy, Pottsvllle, Pa.
The strike of 135 silk upholsterers
weavers, who left the mill of Hoyle
Harrison & Kaye at Philadelphia
rather than accept reduction Of 1C
per cent. in wages, was ended. The
weavers decided to return to work
under the reduced scale.
The Lawrenceburg and Aurora Big
-Four accommodation train was
wrecked at East Lawrenceburg. Ind.
The train left the track and rolled
down a 20-fOOt embankment Engi-
neer Harry Becker was killed. Sew
eral passengers were slightly bruised.
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white outlaws raided the store of
Samuel Norford near Arbeca. Olll.. in
the Seminole reservat ton, the other
day, securing several hundred dollars
in plumber. They then dragged off
and outraged five women of the neigh
borhOOd.
David Clements, farmer at Og-
densburg. n. Y. was dragged around
a nine-acre field, impaled on the
pointed guards Of a reaper cut bar.
The team attached to the reaper were
frightened and ran away Clements
was seriously injured, but it is thought
he will recover.
The Indianapolis city council passed
a sweeping ordinance repeating all
franchises to telegraph and telephone
lines within the business district of
the city, including territory a mile
square, and ordering that all overhead
telephone and telegraph wires be re-
moved within a reasonable time
William G. Garland, 80, while beat
ing carpets at 122 Albany avenue,
Hartford, Conn, got too near the
edge and fell three stories into the
area below. His skull was fractured,
all his ribs and one arm was broken.
He lived but a few minutes He
leaves a wife and one son.
w. McCreary, superintendent of
bridges for the Northern Pacific, re-
ports the death, near Couer d'Alene, of
-four carpenters while engaged in ex-
tinguiShing 4 fire ON q burning bridge.