Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-06


ton authorizing civil suits against
themselves by the city to recover the
salary alleged to have been voted in
violation of law.
While hunting with two companions,
Robert Adair, 10 years old, of Mon
mouth, ILL.,, was fatally shot, his gun
being accidentally discharged when he
thrust it stock foremost into a brush
pile to scare a rabbit.
James Morgan & Co., of Milwaukee,
have assigned to James McEachron,
whose bond is for $3.50, 900. 1t failed
during the recent panic, but effected
a settlement with it's creditors and re-
sumed business about j year ago.
Secretary John Kenyon, of the New
York republican, state committee, has
! issued call for meeting of the COM
mittee at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, on Feb. s, to select a meeting
place for the state convention.
AS a result of a flour war now in
progress Des Moines is getting -four
for about 60 per cent. of the usual re-
tail prices. The trouble started when
a new firm, Dwelle & Co., opened
/ grocery and began to cut prices.
At Wellfeet, Neb., Mrs. Houston,
wife of a banker, had $4,000 worth of
/ diamonds and jewelry stolen while at
a dance. At a social, she said she had
discarded the jewelry and a thief who
| heard her Immediately went after it.
A report from Muskogee says that
eX-Congressman Springer has grown
/ tired of his duties as judge of the In
dian Territory court and that he is an
| applicant for the position of general
solicitor for the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.
The unexpected recall of Commander
Darlington Booth to England from
America has occasioned much dis
| quietude and murmuring among the
rank and file of the salvation army.
The general is in Australia and will
be here in April.
The $4,000 breach Of promise suit Of
Miss Belle Avery, of Fond du Lac,
Wis, against D. J. Evans, of MARSHALL
town, Iowa, was settled before it came
to trial. 1t is understood that Miss
Avery received quite a large amount
of money to dismiss the suit
The women of the confederate me-
mortal society, at a meeting at Rich
mond, Va, Saturday, determined to
open formally the Davis mansion as a
museum on February %, the anniver-
sary of the Inauguration of Jefferson
Davis as president of the confederate
states.
Modjeska's company has disbanded
and returned to New York. Modjeska
herself is at the Burnet house, Cincin-
natl, suffering from Thrombosis" that
is CLOTHING of blood in the jugular vein.
Her physicians decided that she must
remain there four weeks longer at
least.
The ice gorge in the Maumee river.
about eight miles above Toledo, O.,
broke and in running out carried
away two spans of the new bridge in
course of construction. The bridge
was supported by a trestle work Oh the
ice and the loss is estimated at $780,
600.
J. G. Adams, a Stockbridge Indian
chief, who was we'll known in Wiscon-
sin and Washington, died at Amigo at
the age of As years. He was a gradu-
ate of Lawrence university and for 20
years worked ir Washington on behalf
of his people and secured for them
$4,000 He was at one time quite
well-to-do.
Sheriff E. A. Baxter, CT Springfield,
H., went to Sedalia, Mo-, with requi-
sition for Fred Brown, charged with
forgery by the Farmers National
bank of Springfield. Baxter was pre-
vented from taking his man to Illinois
by a wit of habeas corpus, made re-
turnable today.
Governor Rich pardoned Bartholo-
new Sands one of the oldest convicts
in the prison at Jackson, Mich. He
was convicted in the circuit cOurL from
Oakland county of criminal assault
and sentenced Sept 20, 1862 to life i'm
prisonment. He has always main
tanned he was innocent of the charge.
The trial of Allen Thompson,
charged with attempting to kill DR..
John Sweetland at Mottville, Mich, by
throwing a dynamite bomb into his
Office two months ago, has been post
poned until Feb. 10. Detectives claim
to have unearthed some startling evil
dence tending to exonerate Thompson.
William E. Burr Jr., who, as cashier
of the st. Louis National bank, en-
bezzled $4,000 of the funds of that
concern, has been sentenced by Judge
Adams, in the United States court to
five years in the state penitentiary, al
though the amount of the shortage
was made good.
City Solicitor Macomber, son-in-law
of John B. Locke, who has begun suit
against the Chicago Chronicle for Ii
bel, said the paper had agreed to set
tie the matter out of court. The
Chronicle accused Locke, one of the
oldest citizens of Des Moines, of being
; implicated in grave robbing.
w. S. Myer, of the postal depart
ment, is investigating a serious charge
made by w. H. Barclay, president of
the Barclay Milling company, of SUI
perior The allegation is that John
Diffor, while acting as receiver of the
: company, opened private letters ad-
dressed to Barclay.
Immigrant Inspector Stokes has left
: Superior for nat Portage in charge of
three half-breed women who were ar
rested six weeks ago for violation of
the Immigration law The charp1