Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-28

saulted by an unknown man, who
whipped him into insensibility and es
capped.
The Manhattan distillery at Peoria,
H., closed down for the summer. Elk
tensive repairs will be made. It is the
first distillery to close, and it is eZ-
pected others at Peoria will follow
soon
Twenty-Five tramps held carnival
with kegs Of beer outside Decatur, Ind.
The sheriff with fifty assistants en-
gagged them; 100 shots were fired ard
enc deputy shot. Ten tTamps were al
rested.
The Rocky Mountain News, Of Den
ger, suggests Senator Teller, of Cole
raGo, as a free-silver candidate 1or
president upon whom southern demo
Gratis and western republicans could
vnite
\ human skull with led incandesceIt
light bulbs in the eye sockets is TIE &c
yice with which Police Liau-e1ent
Rank, in Chicago, scares CulpriJs into
making confessions. He darkens the
room.
Policeman James Eunley, CT Via
cennes, Ind, who murderously as
sauIted and robbed George SchalIer, an
aged man, last November, has been
sentenced to seven years in the peDi.
tertiary.
Because of his lawyers illness the
trial Of James B. Gentry, the actor, for
tie murder of Margaret W. Drysdala,
better known as Madge Yorke, the act
ress, was postponed at Philadelphia
until June.
Ogden GoeIet, Of New York, has re-
chartered Mrs. Langtry's yacht, White
Ladye, for five months. Re starts for
Norway Immediately. His new yacht
is to be finished in December and will!
made a sensation.
At the drawing room" given ny the
Princess Of Wales Monday among
Americans presented were the duchess
Of Marlborough, formerly Miss Con
sueIo Vanderbilt. Mrs. Calvin Brice and
her two daughters.
The british steamship Horsa, the
vessel which has become notorious as
an alleged Cuban fllibuster, has been
on fire and is not much more than a
shell. Spanish gold is suspected as
the cause.
The preliminary hearing of the state
vs.. A. c. Putnam, president of Cbadron
Neb., bank, with receiving deposits
after the bank was known to be in
solvent, has been continued by consent
to the 10Th of June
Captain George z. Lemon, the mil
lionaire pension agent, patent attorney
and proprietor Of the National Tribune
is at the point Of death. He started
his paper as q free monthly to help his
pension business.
Notwithstanding reports from Cara
cas- to the contrary, the celebrated
Uruan incident has not yet been closed
and no indemnity has yet been paid by
Venezuela 10 Great Britain. Negotia-
lions are still proceeding.
The Pennsylvania Steel company
closed a contract with the Niagara
Falls Suspension and Niagara Falls
International Bridge companies for the
erection OF a steel arched bridge to
supplant the present structure.
Ties piled on the track of the chi
cagO. Milwaukee & St Paul railway
near Milwaukee, wrecked a freight
train killing Engineer John O'Conn3r
Brakeman Emil Caspair and John
Miller. Two others We're injured.
Richard Sanders, wanted by govern
ment officials for an alleged money or
der fraud at Vandalia, III, three weeks
ago, was captured at Pana, Ill, after
swimming river and being chased
twenty miles through the timber.
DR.. Nicholas Sem, of Chicago, took
the parb0iled hand of a man, devoid OF
Skin on it's back and inserted it in a
puncture made between the skin and
the flesh of the mans own stomach
three weeks ago. When removed it
One hundred delegates were in at
tendance at Memphis, Tenn, upon the
5hird biennial meeting Of the Roman
Catholic knights and Ladies OF Amer
lea. Secretary Heuley's report showed
a large increase in membership.
Two fremen were killed and four in
jlzred by falling walls at a fire il Wash
ington. The burned district comprised
the square bounded by B street, Louis
lana avenue, and Ninth and tenth
streets, and the loss was $250,000.
William Schofield- the hotelkeeper Of
Armcnk, n. Y, who was arrested Oh
suspicion of being implicated in tins
death of his wife, whose body was
found in a brook near Mosnolu, Park
way, was honorahly discharged.
Receivers CCwan and Murray of ihe
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company
Will soon make application for parmis-
sion to issue $4,000, 00D in certificates to
be used in WEping cut urgent indebted
ness aud for necessary Improvements.
Governor Rich and the full board Of
control attended the monthly meeting
OF the board Of correction at Ionia,
Mich, John O.. Greasy, of Grand
Rapids, was appointed a deputy wa
den to succeed W. E. Johnson, resigned.
IhU supreme court OF Iowa has de
ci0ed that a farmer is liable for the loss.
sustained by his neighbors when his.
hired man sets cut a prairie fire. \
Pcttawatamie county farmer has recov-
cred Se25 on the strength Of the dec!-
sion.
Charles Houchins, who escaped from
the Chester asylum last July, was cap
tured at Peoria, III. Houchins robbed