Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-06

Express companies for unpaid state
taxes, and has asked for the appoint
ment of receivers for the companies.
John Erstwile, road foreman on the
Detroit and Milwaukee railroad, was
found dead on the track. 1t is sur
missed he was murdered and the body
placed on the rails to divert suspicion.
At Fairbaut, Mimi, the Schimmei-
Nelson piano factory has started up
again. with six months work aheaa,
under the management CT Receiver H.
c. Theopold who will close UP the bus
mess.
The Northwestern Railway company
has been incorporated. The road will
be built from Cleveland to Hudson, and
will give the Cleveland, Akron & Co
lumbus road an entrance into Cleve-
land.
Nicholas Thoesen and Stephen Cali
chuch, prominent farmers, got into an
alteration at Burdick, Ind, and the
latter stabbed Thoesen several times,
and he may die. Calichuch is still at
large.
There is a welI-defned rumor aioat
that Nebraska will present another
candidate for president. ]. Sterling
Morton, secretary of agriculture, is
mentioned for the gold democratic can
didate.
Frank Pierson, in fit of insanity ct
Iowa Falls, Ia, slashed the threats of
his aged father and mother and then
Opnned his own neck. The father was
not seriously hurt, but the mother and
son will die.
S. Worden, the railroad striker
charged with wrecking the railway
bridge near Sacramento two years ago
and thereby causing the deaths OF En-
gineer Clark and three United States
soldiers, must hang.
The speeding trucks adapted to the
regular locomotive trucks invented by
VIM. J. Holman of Minneapolis, were
tested on the tracks of the South Jersey
railroad and a speed of "a Hip miles
was attained in a run of II Is miles.
Wages for Dakota harvest hands are
$3.50 and 81 a day, but in many Sec
tions farmers are unable to get help. 1t
is reported that 100 men could find la
Dor at once along the line Of the
Northwestern railway in Sphinx county.
The saw mills of the Northwestern
Lumber company DIT Eau Claire and at
POrterville and Stanly have closed, oW-
ing to the duIlness of business. The
other mills are expected to follow suit.
The democrats of Grand Forks coun-
ty, n. D., nominated candidates for the
fusion ticket. The candidates are:
Sheriff, Hans Anderson; auditor, G. D.
Lashell; clerk of court, G. H. McManus;
superintendent of schools, Miss Anna
Kane.
At Hurley, Wis, fire originated in
rag warehouse, which was destroyed,
together with Uhlman's sale stable.
Keilty's saloon, Harrigan's dyehouse,
Days boarding stable, Browns ware
house and a number of other smaller
structures.
Myrtle Peterson committed suicide
at the Windsor hotel, Des Moines. She
was the daughter of Mrs. Annie E.
Scott, proprietor of the hotel. The act
was the result of a quarrel with her
husband, William Peterson. She took
strychnine.
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota
was a caller on Governor HOlcomb and
other populist leaders. He was warm
Iy received. While awaiting an audi
ence with Governor HolcOmb, Senator
Pettigrew said: Things are looking
bright for Mr.. Bryan
John Hallam, welI-known Arkansas
attorney and author of The Diary of an
Old Lawyer, shot and fatally wounded
Rev. w. A. Forbes, one of the most
prominent Baptist ministers in the
state, who is at present pastor Of a
church at New Lewisville, Ark.
Arlie Brown and Samuel Miller were
instantly killed in the Wood county,
Ohio oil field, and c. E. Clark fatally
injured by the explosion of a boiler
used in pumping a well. Clark was
the engineer and Brown and Miller
happened to be passing at the time.
BY the suspension of the First Ma
tional bank at Mintot, n. D., $4,000 of
deposits are tied up. Of this amount
$4,000 belongs to the city and county
1t is said the toal assets of tho banl
amount to about 100000, of which a
large portion is covered by gilt-edged
securities.
The Dakota prairie chicken crop is
said to be exceedingly good in this Sec
ton, and pot hunters have been doing
considerable shooting on the sly. The
Aberdeen Gun club has offered re-
ward of $25 for the conviction of any
person violating the game law in
Brown county.
At YanktOn, S. D., bimetallic union
has been organized with a membership
of 1888, making it the largest political
organization in the state. The officers
are: President, w S. Bowen; vice pres
ident, ]. T. Norris; secretary, J. c.
Palmer; treasurer, G. ]. B. Harris,
lecturer, G. w. Vanderhule.
\ boarding house occupied by coal
miners in the Painters Run district,
near Pittsburg, was carried away by
the flood and fifteen of the occupants
were drowned. This makes eighteen
deaths from the storm in and near
Pittsburg. Many persons were injured
by lightning and otherwise.
Obituary: At Shelbyville, Ind, Dr.. /
James w. Green, 71.-At Aurora, H., /
Captain Garrett L Collins, 76.-At
Rockford, ILL.,, Mrs. Mary A. Loomis.-.
At Constantine, Mich. William Sim
mons.-At Jacksonville, Ill, Horace
Bancroft, 79.-At Lena, ILL.,, William