Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21

\ Brooklyn man hurt his right hand
on an elevated railroad car by the
brakeman closing the gate upon it.
He brought suit for damages. Meet
ing a friend, the latter noticed that
the injured mar extended his LETT
hand. and asked the reason. The an
sWer was. ooh. l can't shake hands
with my right until l win my suit"
George RainSford, Of Aurora, H.,
chained his S-year-old son in an I'M
heated room because he had run away
from school.
Liabilities of 6. A. Budd &. Co, of
Elyria, Ohio. are now estimated at
$500, 900. while available assets have
shrunk to less than $4,000.
Miners of the Pittsburg district We're
successful in their strike for ar ad-
! vance in the scale. All but 5000 have
resumed work.
The son Of ex-Mayor Gilroy of New
York challenges his brother-in-law &c
fight a duel, and the challenge was ac-
copied.
John O. Bache, the New York man
ager of the Union Central Life Insur-
ance company, of Cincinnati, is still
missing.
Governor Mckinley left Columbus,
Ohio, for Thomasville, Ga, for a two
weeks rest as the guest of Mark
Hanna, of Cleveland.
Young girls in the Illinois home for
juvenile offenders started a riot be-
cause, they said, they were starved
and beaten.
Senators Shoup and Dubois, OF
Idaho, are at odds over the alleged
promise Of Mr.. Shoup not to be a can
didate for reelection.
The largest steel mill of the Bethle
hem (Pa) iron company resumed oper:
atiOnS on a 2,0OO-tOn Orded for a Geor
gia railroad. Fifteen hundred idle
workmen are given employment.
The big L. Candee rubber company
at New Haven, which has been shur
down of over a month, has resumed
in all departments. This gives EN-
plGyment to about 1000 hands.
B. A. Colona, of Virginia, assistant
in charge of the coast and geOdetit
survey, has resigned. Mr.. Colona has
been connected with the survey dur
ing the last twenty-five years.
The tnishers employed at c.. j. Cof
fms hat factory at Newburyport
Mass, decided to quit work pending !
settlement of the scale Of wages which
We're reduced about One-third.
Indictments for embezzlement were
found against Henry Wells, n. E
Hill, J. G. Austin and E. L. Paul, of
ficers of the defunct Evanston Ma
tional Bank.
The Toledo (O.) high school building
a four-story brick building, was badly
damaged by fire. The loss is est
mated at $4,000, insurance $4,000
The fire was caused by an explosion o.
chemicals in the laboratory.
The factory of the Cortland cart ant
carriage company, the E"very-stable o
@. B. Peck, the blacksmith-shops o
John Hodgson and the carriage shol
of A. G.. DeuSenbury, at Cortland, y
Y, were burned. The loss is $63,0O
partly covered by insurance.
The Winchester repeating arms com
ItSiIlN, LI ANcN I'll, SlhlpSu -,pp''
600 cartridges to the Chinese govern
ment. Since hOStilitieS began witt
Japan this Oncer has sent China 20.
600 stand of small arms and har
another order for cartridges unde
way.
DR.. Robert Ogden Dubois died Il
New York. aged SO. The aus o
death was heart disease. He was ;
/ son of Rev. DR.. Henry Dubois, of New
Haven and was a maternal grandson
of the late Chief Justice John JAY
He was ~well-knOwm as Il specialist IL
. diseases of the throat.
John B. Manning, the malster o
Buffalo, \. Y, and eX-mayOr of tina
city. made an assignment. The assign
ment is ascribed to the failures Of thu
Standard Brewing company, of Balti
more. which company owed Mannin.
and Manning & Sons upward of 500.
600.
The smallpox situation at Eo
| Springs. Ark. shows a total Of 90 case.
in the hospital and 10 deaths. !
hOuSe-tO-houSe canvass of the entir,
city has been made by persons repre-
senting the state board of health, re
sulting in the vaccination of 80 pc
cent. of the citizens and visitors! Nal
vern has four ases
Secretary Smith yesterday said NJ
one from the interior department hat
telegraphed or written E. F. Kilnel
Offering him the position of governor
., of Arizona. Charges have been flee
against Governor Hughes, but as ye
the secretary has not had time to lool
into them, though he intended to very
soon.
James B. Gentry, the actor who sho
and killed Madge York, four weeks
ago and who has since been in the
hospital in Philadelphia, suffering from
injuries and exposure. has so far re
covered that he was removed to the
county prison. Gentry lis still so weak
that he could not walk alone to the
ambulance, but he IS out of danger
of dying from the illness that pros
of dying from the illness hat pros
trated him.
FOREIGN.