Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-19

shrek '16 to l.
At Manchester, Conn, the big silk
mills of the Cheney Bros. began full
time schedule. The works have been
running at a reduced time for more
than three years. The change affects
2 800 employees.
By the explosion of a boiler at the
Centralia colliery, Centralia, Pa, on
John Rovitze and Andrew
Munock were killed, and Michael
Kulick, John Stenshak and Matthias
Lesher were fatally injured.
At Lyons, n. Y, the Manhattan sill
yer plate factory has commenced run
ming nights on account Of large orders.
The New Haven silver plate factory
and A. H. Town & Co. silver plate
factory have both started up on full
time.
AT Lebanon, Ky, William Bean, the
negro who assaulted Mrs. l.. c.. Clark,
was captured and carried before Mrs.
Clark, who identified him. She is ex-
pected to die, but pleaded with the
crowd to let the law take it's course.
He is in jail.
Important discoveries regarding the
planets Venus and Mercury are made
at the Lowell observatory in Arizona.
Kentucky republicans and gold
democrats in the legislature may unite
upon Secretary Carlisle for senator to
defeat Blackburn.
Governor Oates of Alabama in his
annual message asks that the carrying
of concealed weapons be made fell
ony; recites numerous cases of lynch
ing in this state in the last two years
and makes some timely suggestions to
the legislature.
Dr.. James Stinson Wintermute, who
moved to Tacoma ten years ago from
Chicago, was murdered by Samuel
Tucker, a hypochondriac. The latter
then committed suicide. DR.. Winter
mute had been treating Tucker fol-
melancholia.
Incendiaries fired James T. AbbOt's
house at Hamlin, Va. Cora, his daugh-
ter aged 90 was burned to death. She
was recently acquitted for alleged
blowing up of Squire Vance's house
with dynamite, killing one and injur-
ing another.
At Bristol, Conn, a business revival
is felt and the most notable instance
of it is found at the works of the Bris-
tol Brass and Clock Co. The factory
will now run overtime. This course
is necessary to ill orders which have
been received.
The winter residence and the valu-
able library of Miss Octava French, To-
Gated at Elmwood, Ark, were burned
Miss French is better known as Octave
Thanet, the novel and magazine
writer. The family narrowly escaped
The loss is $4,000.
Fire in the fiye-story building, 4;
and AZ Federal street, Boston, caused
a loss of about $4,000, chiefly to George
Coleman, book binder. Heyer Bros.
toys, ETC., and c.. F. West, printer
suffered considerable from smoke anC
water. COleman's insurance is $1,000
The United States battleship Texas
while lying at the cob deck, Brooklyn
navy yard, this morning, had a thir
teen-inch hole stove in her side
caused by the breaking of her sea
cock, and she now lies ON the bottom
of the dock with her engine room full
of water.
The Iowa Savings bank, at Sioux
City, closed its doors. The steady
withdrawal of deposits and inability tc
realize OH securities except at a great
sacrifice were the causes, of the failure
The bank statement of October IL
showed $470,000 assets and $3.50, 600
deposits.
The board of election commissioners
finished the recount of votes in the
fortieth councillor district, Boston, and
Isaac D. Allen, The colored republican
candidate, was declared elected over
John H. Sullivan, who now represents
the district and who was the demo
cratic candidate. Aliens majority was
only g. votes.
The Burchard CNeb.) bank was
robbed. The vault and the outer door
of the safe were blown open. The
time lock was not disturbed. The
door, was taken. 1t is believed the
burglars became scared before they
had time to get into the strong box
behind the time lock.
North Carolina populists will not
vote to return Senator Pritchard to
the senate because he favors the single
gold standard. The republicans lack
eighteen votes of majority on joint
ballot and cannot elect Pritchard I'M
less they can get populist help The
legislature will stand, IS republicans,
IS populists and 43 democrats.
The following officers were elected
by the National Grain Dealers asso-
citation: President, E. S. Greenleaf.
Jacksonville, H.; first vice president,
P. S. Heacock, Falls City, Neb. sec
ond vice president, E. A. Grubbs,
Greenvile, Ohio; treasurer, J. w.
Adams, Minneapolis; secretary, w.
H. Chambers, hepburn, Iowa.
William Valentine, the confessed
forger and swindler, on account of
whose crimes May Vintage tried to
kill herself in Brooklyn, was arraigned
on three indictments in the Brooklyn
court of sessions. 1t has been alleged
that Valentine Was a member of a
gang of swindlers, the sum of whose
frauds is said to exceed 100000.
EX-United States Senator Stephen
W. Dorsey has returned from London
to San Francisco. He is interested in
a large group of gold mines in south
ern California. He went over to Lon