Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-16

cents for transfers were conceded.
The Drummond Tobacco company, CT
ST. Louis plug tobacco will give away
81 GOO, 900 cigarettes in New York to
annoy the cigarette trust, which has
branched out into the plug business.
Cardinal Satolli was invested with
the berretta in the cathedral in Balti-
more in the presence of hundreds Of
ecclesiastical dignitaries and d-stin-
guished persons in all circles of life.
Anna McGraw, a waitress at the
Hotel Vendome at Sioux City, while
sleeping was bitten on the eyelid by
a rat. Blood-poisoning is feared, and
the prospects are that the girl will
lose her sight.
Charles w. Eaton, the young man
burned in the explosion at the McDer-
maid churn factory in Rockford, Ill,
died at the hospital. He was a brother
Of Hedley Eaton, part owner of the
Quincy Herald.
The Boston Journal rep.) calls on
Congressman Atwood to resign. He
was for many years city architect and
acknowledges he approved fraudulent
contracts. Suit will probably be brought
TO recover 100000 for the city.
District Judge Norris, of Dakota
county, Nebraska, has rendered a de-
cision invalidating $4,000 of bonds is
sued by the county for the erection of
a normal school at South Sioux City.
The school has been built and the
bonds sold.
In letter to a member of the Ma
! tional Association of Postoffice Clerks,
! Postmaster General Wilson states he is
not in the slightest degree opposed to
the organization, and that it has his
best wishes for the accomplishment of
all proper purposes.
Before senate investigating commit
tee in Philadelphia policemen and eX-
policemen testified to active participa-
ton in politics, to the orders of their
superiors as to how they should vote
and to the fact that certain policemen
conducted disorderly houses.
Secretary Olney has a copy of a
letter from Rev. G. G. Tracy, president
of MarsOvan college, Armenia, eXpl es2-
ing in warm terms the gratitude of the
American missionaries in Turkey for
Minister Terrell's eXertions in their be-
| half.
E. B. Gerald, father of the abscond-
ing BroOkfield treasurer is now on his
way home from Eastlake, Fla, ac-
Companied by his wife and daughter
The rumor that Hiram P Gerald had
fled to Florida to join his father would
thus seem to be exploded.
The parsonage of the Swedish Mis-
sion church at Rush City, Mimi, was
burned. The church caught fire, but
was saved Loss, 81 900 to $1,000, COW
cred by insurance of only $500 in the
Milwaukee Mechanics The fire was
caused by a flue in the kitchen.
John McGough, who is serving a
term in Dannemora Prison for wound
ing William Ross in an election riot
in Troy, has made a confession, saying
he killed Robert Ross also. Bat Shea,
who was 70 have been executed for the
latter crime, has been granted a res
pite.
The New York World pleads guilty
to violating the statute which forbids
correspondence with foreign govern
ments and adds: THE statute cited is
aged, obsolete, mouldy, moth-eaten,
dust-covered and was forgotten until
resuscitated by the zeal and watchful-
ness of Secretary Olney."
Patrick Calvin fatally shot Samuel
Paugh and Mrs Mollie Murphy at In
dianapolis Ind, and was in turn shot
dead with his own revolver by the
husband of the injured woman, w. B.
Murphy. Murphy gave himself up. 1t
is thought that Calvin was temporarily
insane.
The cruiser New York, probably two
other war ships, and possibly Admiral
Burces entire squadron, have been
ordered to be in readiness to make
demonstration against Turkey in case
she does not comply with the United
States demand for full reparation for
for damages suffered by Americans in
the Turkish Empire.
The city waterworks of lie Sueur
Mimi, $780, 900 20-year per cent. bonds
have been sold at a premium of $3.50
The artesian we'll is a great success.
With a depth of $50 feet there is a
flow of over 900 gallons a minute.
There is considerable talk of trying
turbine wheel on the electric plant as
the flow is increasing and there is
fall of over 35 feet.
Latest European papers report the
death at Parma of Baron Achille Pag
amin, only son of the famous violinlst.
| He was an amateur musician, but he
never adopted the art as a profession.
He was man of considerable wealth,
for, besides the property at the Villa
Gaiona, near Parma, he inherited from
his father a fortune of about 100000.
The administrators of the estates of
Ora E. Bell, Henry Boyer, William
Heard, the men who were killed in
the great natural gas explosion at
Alexandria, Ind, have brought suits Tor
$4,000 in each case against the Alex
andria Mining and Exploring Com
pany.
The full bench of the supreme judi
cial court at Boston overruied the ex-
ceptions of Patrick Sullivan, Patrick
J. Foley and Cornelius Nagle, con-
victed of the murder of Duroy S. Foster
at Billerica, September II, 1894. The
defendants were found guilty of murder
in the second degree. The killing took
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