Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08

The Empress OF China brings news
of the robbery at Shanghai of the pay
master of United States cruiser Boston
Of 1000 by two able seamen named
Henricksen and Cooney, both from San
Francisco. The thieves escaped but were
captured.
The Standard Oil company is going
into the ice business in all the great
cities. 1t will make and sell the arti-
fetal article at lower price than
any other concern in the field. Tn
public may be supplied at so cents a
ton in 1897
Wheat has advanced s48,000,000 in
value to American producers and dis
tributors in the last three weeks. An
advance of 21a cents was made in it's
price in Chicago Wednesday This
Il arks a total of II cents in three
weeks.
The grand jury of New Orleans has
found seven indictments against w. P.
Nichols, president, and John B. De
Blanc, cashier of the Bank of Com
merce, for embellishments aggregating
$4,000 The parties gave bail each
for s24,500.
The postoffice department has award
ed a contract FOR carrying the mail
between Juneau and Circle City, Alas
ka The distance is 1913 miles and the
contractors are to make four trips be-
tween Nov. 1, 1896, and May 81, 1881.
They receive S1,700 for each trip.
Judge Allen, in the supreme court
at Boston, has appointed Ovington E.
Weller of Boston receiver for the Cit
liens Gas Light Company of Reading
and Stoneham. The liabilities amount
to about $4,000, of which $4,000 are
preferred and the balance unsecured.
John S. Johnson went a mile on his
bicycle at the L. A w. meet in Tren-
ton in LAT fiat, paced. The best prev
ious time was :48 ga, made by Tyler
"Jimmey'' Michael, paced, covered five
miles in 9:51 As against 1901 is, the
best previous time. Zeigler broke an
arm.
The Pacific mail steamship China
has arrived from Hong Kong, breaking
the record. The run to Honolulu from
Yokohoma was days 10 hours, two
hours under the record. From Honolulu
to Frisco the time was days hours
and 20 minutes, two hours under the
record.
Two warrants will be served on Con-
tractor Charles Corrigan of Newport
for violation of United States statutes.
He is charged with having his men
work nine hours on a contract at Fort
Adams. The statutes forbid a day of
more than eight hours ON government
contracts.
1t appears that on the occasion of the
recent visit of Joseph Chamberlain
this country, two detectives began duty
at the home of Mrs. Endicott, Secreta-
ry Chamberlain's mother-in-law, guard
ing the premises night and day an
accompanying Mr.. Chamberlain wher-
ever he went
The Army of the Cumberland elected
the following officers at Rockford, Ill, ::
President, W. S. Rosecrans; CORES
ponding secretary, II. V. Boynton; re
cording secretary, J. w. Stiel; treasur-
er, General Fullerton; historian, c.. G.
Mif1in; with one vice president from
each state.
Frederick P Forester has been ap-
pointed receiver of the assets of HUI
burt Brothers & Co., sporting goods
and bicycle dealers, in New York. in
proceedings for voluntary dissolution
of the corporation. Assets, S378,337;
direct liabilities, 1892 ,476; contingent
liabilities, $62,265.
Professor George F. H. Markoe,
chemist, one of the founders of the
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy,
and also one of a committee of four
appointed to revise the United States
Encyclopedia of Pharmacy, was found
dead in his laboratory at Boston. He
had been stricken with apoplexy.
Last week will go down in milling
history as the week in which Minneap-
oils mills ground by $4,000 barrels the
largest amount of flour ever produced
The Pillsbury mills of Minneapolis
six days last week turned out the i'm
mense quantity of 112, 693 barrels
flour, equal to $780, 300 bushels of wheat
The revenue returns for the United
Kingdom for the quarter ending Sept
80 shows decrease of $1,825, 645 COM
pared with the same period of 1895. The
decrease was chiefly in excise and
customs duties. The returns for the
quarter ending June 80 showed an in
crease of $S,140,250 compared with the
same period of 1895.
Fox river mill men have received
concession from the war department
TO draw the water in the lake and river
to point six inches below the crest
of the Menasha dam. Boatmen offered
no objection as local rains are expect
ed to counteract consumption. The or
der means a revival of the paper in
dustry along the Fox.
The democratic state committee
named Wilbur F. Porter of Jefferson
for governor of New York in place Of
John Boyd Thacher, declined, and put
former State Commissioner of Agri--
culture Frederick c. Schraub of Lewis.
for lieutenant governor in place of
Porter. Senator Hill did not attend
the committees meeting.
Depressed by his business troubles,
John M. Faulhaber, a Chicago wine
merchant, attempted to commit suicide
ty turning on the gas, and then firing
two bullets into his head. No hopes
are entertained of his recovery. His
lawyer filed a deed of ASSIGNMENT yes