Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-25
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Larry returns indicate that the col |
lections under the income tax law VIII
be far below the estimates.
New proofs were discovered against
Durant, who is charged with the muir
der of two girls in San Francisco.
Fifty thousand visitors in Los An
geIes. Cal, are celebrating the feast
of the angels.
Chickasaws rebeled against Gov.
MoseIey of the nation and bloody
battle occurred.
New York capitalists agree to finance
the Minnesota canal company for ST.
100000
Four men were slain in a riot III
a railroad camp near Sloan Springs,
Ark.
Maurice Green, widely known as a
worker for the promotion Of the
Gaelic language, died in Chicago.
The American Line steamship st.
->aul was successfully launched at
Philadelphia.
Our government calls upon Guate-
mala for explanations regarding the
abuse of Americans.
Major Calhoun, the author of March
ing Through Georgia, is now the editor
Of the Boston Standard.
Elevators with q capacity Of 8,O00,-
900 bushels are to be built on AllJuez
bay, Superior.
Thieves at Elizabeth, n. J., COM
pletely dismantled the Strauss shear
works
Theodore Durrant was arraigned for
the murder of Marian Williams, in a
San Francisco, Cal, church.
Marshal Martinez Campos arrived in
Santiago to assume command Of the
Spanish forces operating in Cuba.
Tammany elected it's council of
sachems for the coming year and
dropped all of the Gilroy faction rep
resentatives.
Counsel in the income tax cases
asked the supreme court to grant a
rehearing upon the constitutionality of
the law.
Perry, the train-robber, who escaped
from the Matteawan asylum New
York, a few days ago, was captured
in Weehawken.
1t was learned that Robert A HOlla-
day, town treasurer of South Orange,
n. j., had disappeared and that his
accounts were short.
Heavy floods, greatly impeding rail
read traffic, were reported in the New
England states, especially New Hamp-
shire and Vermont.
The National Association of Sheet
Iron and Cornice Workers, which has
been in session in Indianapolis, Ind,
since April 3, adjourned.
Fire at PlattSburg Mo-, burned the
court house and ten business houses.
The estimated loss is about $500, 900,
nearly covered by insurance.
If the income tax decision holds, the
government has under previous laws
collected money that should he re-
funded.
The federal court in Chicago says
that no state or city has the power TO
prevent the construction of telegraph
lines.
Ex-President Greenhut, of the
whisky trust will sue members of the
reorganization committee and Re
ceiver McNulta for libel
William Byran, a New York muiatto
seventeen years Old, was declared to
be n leper, and will be permanently
quarantined.
Stein Brothers. the proprietors Of the
Monarch Distilling company, of Chi
cago and Owensboro, Ky. are making
arrangements to put in a milHon-dOlla
plant in Los Angeles Cal.
The much dreaded army worm has
made its appearance in Kentucky.
They have devastated fields of Young
corn and hundreds of plant beds have
been literally eaten up.
Frank Gump, William Lawrence and
John YoSt We're arrested in Wheeling,
W. Va, charged with robbing Balti-
more & Ohio cars of goods valued at
SOC, 200.
y grand interstate compe titive mill
tary drill will be held in st. Louis the
first week in July, under the auspices
Of the st. Louis Fair association. The
prizes aggregate $4,000 in value.
The st. Louis press brick works at
Glencarbon. H., were almost totally
destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at nearly $25O,OOO and is fully
covered by insurance.
Or. Walter s. Wells, of New York
city, has made some surprisingly sue
Cessful experiments in the treatment
of cancer by hypodermic injections of
protonuclein prepared from animal eX-
tracts.
Secretary Gresham is said TO have
Informed England that the lombard
ment of Greytown or the landing of
troops on NicaIaguan soil will be con-
sidered unfriendly to the interests of
this country.
4 meeting of the directors of the
General Electric company was held in !
New York TO approve the annual re-
port which is to be submitted to the |
stockholders at the annual meeting in !
May.
William Mason, Of New York, who !
shot Patrick McCabe on January l |
last, was ordered sent to the asylum |
for insane at Matteawan. Walsh is j
suffering from insanity in which he .
thinks he is being DerSncl1fed nv tho