Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-31


castle, La, was totally destroyer by
fire. together with $500 BARI els OF
sugar. The sugar house cost Sl4o,O0o-
The insurance is $4,000.
Four thousand unemployed men
held a, massmeeting at Denver ana
passed resolutions demanding 1ndU
the city authorities set them at "oih
ON plblic improvements for when ap-
propriations had been made
The Columbus, Sandusky and HECK
ing railroad has leased the JOINT use
of the Wheeling and Lake Eile Ter
minals in Toledo ana OF tracks iloln
Relleyu thus giving it an emf ance
into Toledo. The lease runs n4he'S
years.
Gabriel Russ, John Antras, Chafles
Swanson. Charles Anderson ana
Lewis Jackson we're killed instantly
in the Virginus shaft at Cura , COL
They were placing timbers IN tne
shaft when the cage fell, carrying
them with it.
A Chicago man who fired two shots
Of his wife from whom he is sep
arated, was chased by an enIageu
crowd of men, women and chlldren'
and they would have wreaked ven
geance on him but for the timely d
rival of a. policeman.
Allen C. Ady, who failed for hall a
million dollars in real estate, mas Oeel
sentenced in Columbus, Ohio, to the
penitentiary for eighteen months Tor
borrowing money in a way WHICH
seemed to be secured by first mort
gage when it was not.
Charles NJ. Sprague of New YORK
has been appointed permanent re-
ceiver of the Recamier Manufacturing
company in proceedings brought by
it's directors for voluntary dlssolu-
ton of the company. Liabilities
S73 900; assets, $6,412.
The Boston schooner Max, capt
Gezeuuil, from Port au Prince, Hayu'
for Boston, with logwood, was totally
wrecked on Long Cay, Bahamas. line
crew was saved and all the cargo VIII
he saved. The Max was a tWo-masteo
schooner, registering 143 tons.
A sheriff of Crown Point, Ind, has
sold his two man-hunting blood
hounds to the state of M nnesota
That state will use the dogs to Watoh
the state prison and track crimina- s
who escape. Buck and Jim re-
ceived their training on Texas
criminal farm.
The governor of Texas, in compll-
ance with a call from Gov. Mitchell
of Florida, for a convention to meet
at Tampa, January 20, to discuss the
hest methods of harbor defense for
southern ports, in case of war, has ap-
pointed seven delegates to represent
Texas at the meeting.
EARLY in January there will be e5-
tablished in Tacoma, Wash, the hrst
wholesale clothing manufactory IN
the northwest. 1t will be managed by
the Tacoma wooden mills. A new
plant, costing $4,000, will be estab-
lished, having capacity of l5O su1ts
daily, and employing $50 persons.
Governor elect Pingree will attempt
to carry his reform administration
into the state university. His plans
are to obtain the professors advice
about legislation. He has offered a
prize of $25 to the law student point-
ing out the greatest number of in
operative laws in the Michigan statute
books.
New York aldermen have authorized
the building of the proposed public
library on the site of the Bryant park
reservoir. The plan is to consolidate
the Astor, Lenox and Tilden libraries.
The sum available from the three
sources is now about $S,000,G00 of
which one-half can be used as work
ing capital.
Train No. So, west-bound, on the
Southern railway, which left Biz
mingham, Ala, Thursday afternoon,
was stopped ON Friday night in Fay
cite county by two masked men, who
tagged the train on bridge. One of
the express safes was broken into.
The robbers got very little for their
trouble.
ceived a letter from Dunedid, New
Zealand. informing him that a sub
scription of $3.50 would be sent as a
Christmas present for George Lears
Clark, understood to be the George
Harris of Mrs. Stoves Uncle Tom S
Cabin. Clark has been on the verge
of starvation.
AT Guadalajara, Mex, Juan Nidro,
ranch owner, had trouble with his
employees, thirty of them attacked and
seriously wounded him. He took
refuge in his house and fired on the
assailants, killing two and wounding
several others. Twenty members of
the mob were arrested and will prob
ably be shot.
D. R. Hanna, son of M. A. Hanna
has been sued on an election bet.
Allen A. Armstrong that Mckinley
would carry Ohio by more than So
900. Armstrong makes the point that
Bryan should be credited with the
the peoples party vote as well as with
the democratic vote.
The most exciting part Of Mr. Nc
Kinley's last day in Chicago was when
a crowd of 1000 persons surrounded
his carriage in front of the wholesale
house of Marshall Field & Co., at
o'clock in the afteroon, and refused to
let the carriage move on until the