Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-14

Frertos and Tynedale Palmer against
the New York Daily News for $4,000
damages for libel, jury in the United
States court awarded the compliments
81 900.
George Sands, alias DR.. Clark, and
Mrs. May Knapp, who were recently
convicted of passing silver counterfeit
dollars il Hoboken, n. j., were SEN
fenced respectively to seven and four
years Imprisonment.
General Joe Lacret, the Cuban in
surgent leader, whom the Spaniards
reported dead, is alive, busily engaged
in organizing troops. He writes that
he has started two newspapers within
the insurgent lines.
The trial of James Cummings for the
murder of William Shaw at Canton,
Ind, on Christmas a year ago was be-
gun at Brazil The murder was the
result Of a street quarrel. Cummings
! was the town treasurer,
William Downing and Charles Will
liams were hanged On the same scat
fold at Norfolk, Va, the former for
! the murder Of Charles Bess, and the
latter for killing Emma Lane, colored,
with a bullet fred at a man.
Miss Hadley, daughter of an under
taker at Rochester, N. Y, committed
suicide in Cincinnati. She was known
as Belle Howard Morgan, and while
| obj
pany, as Belle Weber. She was ad-
dicted to morphine and took an over
dose
Colonel J. P. Candy, chief paymaster
of the department of Colorado, who
has reached the age of 81 years, has
retired from the service after an ex-
perience of nearly thirty-three years in
the United States army The colonel
is succeeded by Major G. c. Shiff1n, OF
New York
State Bank Commissioner John w.
Breadenthal predicts the number of
Kansas banking institutions will le-
crease materially within the next
two years, if not be cut in two. He
says there are too many banks in
Kansas now for the amount of business
transacted
At Lick Observatory, Cal, while
photographing the sun, Observer Col
ton found a large spot near the eastern
limb, which is easily visible without
the telescope aid. It is mostly pen
umbrial, however, the nucleus being
small. The extreme length of the spot
is about $4,000 miles.
In the forthcoming suit of Mrs.
Nettie Craven, the alleged contrac'
widow of James G. Fair, for slice OF
the estate, the attorneys to offset the
introduce testimony tending to prove
that the pencil will. deeds and mar
riage contracts are forgeries.
The condition of E. S. Dr. yer, the
head of the Chicago banking firm Of
e. S. Dreyer & Co., whose failure was
precipitated by the suspension of the
National Bank Of Illinois, who has
been ill for the past week, has changed
for the worse. He is nearly helples!
from old complications, which have
been greatly aggravated by worry
The important business in the con
vention of the league Of American
Showmen, at Cincinnati, was the adop
ton of a resolution that the 1S9 show
on the road should set apart the gros
receipts of one afternoon on an alp
, pointed day to create a fund to tes
the constitutionality of burdensomt
license exacted by certain states ant
municipalities.
An agricultural department repor
on the composition and cost Of baker
bread in New Jersey cities, based on
recent investigations indicates thu
necessity of the adoption of a brea
standard less variable than the loaf
r so that a definite number of ounce
creased cost of nutriment due to tn
} may be found in each loaf. The in
3, transformations taking place betwee
the producer and consumer is charge
able to the baker rather than to tn
miller, for the cost of the bread mad
l from a barrel of flour costing 81 t.
which add So cents of other ingred
tents was S1074 or a profit of 116 pc
cent for the bakers labor and the cos
l of distribution.