Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-02-11
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
AT HOME .

Paterson in 1895, was hanged at Ore
gOn, Mo,
The high-school building in Kala-
mazoo, Mich, was burned; loss, $4,000
insurance, $4,000
Judge Freeman, at Chicago, has APP
pointed Ralph Metcalf receiver for the
Dime Savings Bank.
John Addison Porter, editor of a
Hartford paper, will be President Nc
Kinley'6 private secretary.
Representative Of an English sundi-
cate have secured options on sixteen
Ohio brewevies for 100000
The Cubans are reported to have
nearly annihiliated a Spanish river ex-
petition in Santa Clara Province.
The Henry Sears company, wholesale
hardware dealers, of Chicago, assigned.
Assets $4,000; liabilities $4,000.
The director of the Northern Bank
ing Company, of Portland, Maine, have
voter to place the company in liquida-
ton.
An attempt was made to blow up a
bank at Hollidaysburg, Pa, by dyna-
mite. The damage was comparatively
small
Mr.. Charles D. Dawes Of Chicago has
been selected as comptroller of the
treasury under the incoming admins
tratiOn.
The joint resolution extending the
tine for the report of the Greater New
York Commission until Feb. 20 was
passed.
Edward Ivory will be met by friends
down the bay on his arrival from Eng
land, and is to lecture through the
country.
Attorney General Harmon orders
proceedings against the filibustering
steamer Three Friends, the charge be-
ing piracy.
At midnight Sunday the thermome-
ter registered zero at Knoxville, Tenn,
the lowest temperature in that city for
many years.
Henry Snyder a conductor, and G.
Craston, a brakeman, were killed in a
wreck near Leroy, N. Y. Four others
were injured.
Mr.. A. S. Trude has withdrawn as
democratic candidate for mayor of
Chicago and has Endorsed Judge Bar
ton Payne.
Mrs Maria G. Paret, wife of Rt. Rev.
William A Paret, Bishop of the Pro-
testant Episcopal dioCt Sc Of Maryland
died in Baltimore
Bradley's bank, at EIdon, Iowa, was
robbed by burglars, who blew open the
safe with nitro-glyceline. The amount
secured is not known.
William Albert Cunning, who muir
dered Mrs. Many Derning at her home
in Chicago and then turned his re
volver upon himself, died.
Francis Wolf, who was suspected of
the murder of Mrs. Spinzmik in San
Francisco, killed himself by shooting
in that city.
AT Taunton, Mass, Herbert A.
Willis, aged 10 years, confessed to the
murder Of Fred. N. Strange and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
James w. Oakley, of the Walker
Oakley Company tanners, died at his
home in Chicago Of paralysis, aged ga.
He had been an invalid for some years
Thomas H. Stout who was accused
four years ago by the Holland Trust
company of swindling it out of about
$4,000, was arrested in Cincinnati. |
According to a Key West dispatch
fifteen Spanish grBboats have been
sunk b Cuban insurgents One hun
dred men are reported killed or miss |
ing
Gen. A. ]. Smith died in st. Louis
II a % -,
civil wars, receiving the breyet of |
major general of volunteers in the lat
ter for meritorious service
Three Cheyenne Indians were frozen |
to death during the recent cold weather |
In South Dakota. Several others were |
SO badly frostbitten that they may die. |
Many cattle persisted in South Dakota. |
President Cleveland says he will veto
the new immigration bill because il is
un-American and because it contains a
clause aimed against Canada, which |
Will cause that country to retaliate.
AT Chicago burglars entered the shop |
OF the A. H. Reeves Gold Leaf Manu-
Featuring company, 15S Fifth avenue,
blew open the safe and secured s.. 900
in gold in various stages of manufac-
ture
At Denver, Gel, Fred c. Reibe, aged
40 years. a fugitive from justice. shot
and mortally wounded his wife, aged
81 years, at their hrme, and then killed
himself
-Four Harvard students were fined at
Cambridge for violating the town ordi-
nance by firing pistols en- the occasion
of the celebrating of the closing of the
college half year. Other arrests may
follow.
A defalcation of $43 900 has been dis
covered in the Second National bank of
Parkersburg, Ohio. 1t was found in
the accounts of Lee Mcfarland. an old
and trusted clerk, in charge of indivi-
duals deposits.
Andrew Fearir has teen convicted
at Birmingham, Ala, of removing a
rail on the McCombs trtstle December
y, causing the WEEK OF a BIRMINGHAM
train at CaEaba river bridge.
in which 90 were lest.
General Russell A. AIger of MICHIGAN
has purchased of ex-United States
Senator Warner Miller and others the
controlling interest in the Lauremtide
Of Gaudn er, Quebec. The
plan includes number of big pulp
mills and thousands of acres Of timber
lands. t
OBITUARY; At Topeka, Kan. Samuel
w. Stone, author of ''Vait fo7, t1,o W.,