Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-21

The senate committee on the judi
ciary will report adversely the nomi-
! nation of W. II. Campbell, to be mar
shall of Minnesota.
Republicans of the tenth Illinois dis
trict vii hold a convention at Galva
Feb. &c to nominate a candidate for
congress.
Charles Gayarre, historian and litter
ateur, who introduced the culture of
indigo and sugar corn into Louisiana,
died at New Orleans, aged 80 years.
Montgomery Gorse, who was Il briga-
der general in the confederate army,
died at Alexandria,, Va. He was -
years old.
Judge Charles l. Walker. Il Of De-
troit's most learned and distinguished
men. died at Flint. He was in his S1st
year.
Among tie passengers on board the
steamer Ia NorTandie, from Havre.
was the Duke d'Arcos, SPANISH ambas-
sador of Mexico.
The Age-HeraId, the only morning
newspaper in birmingham, Ala, was
sold at receivers sale TO Frank Z.
O'Brien for 100000.
The board of Indian commissioners
reports a deplorable state of affairs in
the territory and suggests that con-
gress take control of affairs.
John Rowlands & Sons, manufacture
ers of hats at Elm street and Palisade
avenue, Yonkers, and IA Waverly
Place, New York, have assigned with
preferences for $13,9S5.
Buildings occupied by the Campbell
Company and Reeves & Co., ait Kan
sas City, We're burned, causing a loss
of from $15O,OOO to 100000.
Bondsmen Of the late State Treasurer
Ramsey, of Illinois, have filed a claim
against his estate for $363,539, the
amount of the shortage which they
made good.
Removal of props in the coal mines
in the suburbs of Springfield, Ill, have
caused huge assures to open and
rendered a number of houses unten-
antable.
Mrs. Eliza e. Voorhees,, a Jackson
vile widow, deserted by the son, a
Baptist minister, was married to her
brother-in-law, whom she had loved
in her girlhood.
In a letter to an Omaha paper ex-
Governor Boyd charges that for ten
years Secretary of Agriculture Morton
publicly and privately abused Presi-
dent Cleveland.
Two men were rescued from the rig
ging of the schooner Lewis V. Place,
beached near Lone Hill, L. 1. Six
men, including the captain, had died
from exposure.
Fire destroyed the dry goods stock
of Frank Burnham at Rockford, III,
damage $4,000. Ulyrici's factory was
also burned, entailing a loss of $50
600.
The American savings bank of De-
troit, Mich, has decided to liquidate
its affairs and retire from the field.
The bank has a capital of 100000, and
was organized in 1887.
The Umbria, of the Cunard line, ar
rived in New York after a stormy
passage, and with the crew of a
waterlogged French bark on board.
Several of the Elbe survivors were
passengers.
Joseph Courier, SO, of &c Congress
street, Newark, N. j., shot his wife,
Sadie, as she lay in her bed and
gashed his throat with a bread knife.
Both will probably die. jealousy
was the cause.
Banks at Baltimore are in opposi-
tion to the advance of rates on money
packages by express companies. Some
banks have advanced their rates to
meet the increased charges off the eX-
press companies.
John Saques, aged a years, of Red
Bank, N. J. for several years "a member
of the local board of health of that
place, died ait his home, of pneumonia.
He was widely known through the
state.
The jury in the case against Michael
Corey, at Oneida, n. Y.,charged with
the killing of James George, brought
in a verdict of murder in the first de-
gree. Corey will be electrocuted dur
ing the week of March Is.
A letter vas received by the Denver
authorities stating that a man named
Bowers, answering the description Of
doc" Bowers, murdered there a few
days ago, deserted a wife and several
children at Washington, Del, in 1870.
Eugene L. Maxwell, of the firm of
Manning, Maxwell & Moore, dealers
in railway and machinists' supplies,
died of apoplexy at Brooklyn, aged
A. Mr.. Maxwell was president Of the
Ashcroft manufacturing company of
Bridgeport, CT.
La Harpe, Nelson and Herlitz, who
were alleged to have burned a build
ing to get the insurance, have been
pardoned by Governor Altgeld at the
request of Judge Brentano, who be-
lieves the men were convicted on per-
jured testimony.
ABROAD.