Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-18

capitalist, died there. He was pio-
neer in San Francisco, and in mining
DAYS was an intimate friend and asso-
ciate Of William O'Brien, the bonanza
king, ]. C. Flood and John Mackey.
Charles Roberts, president of the
South Chester Manufacturing COM
pany was instantly killed, and Chas.
Weed, president of the TidewateT
Steel works, fatally injured at Chester.
Pa, by being struck by an express
train.
Judge Grosscup decided at Chicago
that the Worlds Columbian EXPOSE
ton company is responsible to the
French government and other French
exhibitors for their losses by the fire
at the worlds fair grounds, January
s, 1894.
The North Dakota supreme court
granted a new trial to Coudot, con-
victed of the murder of the Spicer
family. It is believed Coudot and the
other four men suspected of the crime
will go scott free-until lynchers get
at them.
William caldwell, former editor of
the New York Mercury, and Thomas
Rogers, trustees, were sued to recover
$213, 900 said to be due the estate of
Jason Rogers, the inventor of the
Rogers locomotive. caldwell was
arrested.
Clarence New, a corporal, who tes-
titled at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, in
the trial of Private Hammond for in
subordination, has been reduced to
the ranks because, as alleged, his tes-
timony reflected upon Captain Lover
ing.
Conservative democratic leaders in
New York are opposed to the mem
bers of their party in the lower house
of the legislature entering into an
agreement with anti-Platt republicans
for organizing that branch of the gen
eral assembly.
Andrew Waugh, prominent farmer,
and his wife, of Pineville, KY, were
found by neighbors in their house in a
Waugh became mentally unbalanced
and while in that state shot his wife
and then himself.
Three thousand sheep belonging to
John Donaldson and twenty head of
| cattle were burned to death in Crosby
county, Texas, by prairie fire which
is sweeping over the ranges of the
Panhandle country The fall crops
are being badly damaged.
EDGAR w. Woods, one of the best
known real estate men in st. Louis,
Mo, has disappeared and it is said
that there are irregularities amounting
to $4,000 in his accounts with the
| Prosperity Building and Loan associ-
alton, of which he was secretary.
In San Francisco John L. Mooney,
Kate Mooney, his wife, and Michael
D. Rooney, Mrs. MONEYS brother,
asphyxiated by gas. They we're in
| comfortable financial circumstances
and it is believed to be an accident.
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
Plans have been perfected and the as
surance is given that everything will
be in readiness for fighting the sugar
! trust on Jan. l, when the five-year
| contract of the Hawaiian planters at.
the western sugar refinery will ex-
pire.
Charles Van Buskirk of Venice, Ill,
was robbed and mysteriously muir
dered in the Big Four railroad yards
at East st. Louis, Mo-, Wednesday,
His lifeless body was thrown across
the railroad tracks and mangled by
the trains. The police are looking for
his assailant.
A committee appointed several
months ago by the mayor of New
York has made a report to him urg-
ing the establishment of play grounds
in every park, and that all unused
plots of city ground, wherever found
be turned into children's play grounds
for the neighborhood's use.
William E. Ward, attorney for Mrs.
Sarah Ann Angel, in her suit to es-
tablish a claim to dover rights in the
estate of the late Jay Gould, asked the
court in New York to permit the dis
continuance of the suit, Mr.. Ward de-
claring he did not believe Mrs. Angel
had ever been married to Gould.
John Palmer, who carried on bust
ness in New York under name of J.
Palmer & Co., retail dealer in fancy
goods, novelties and glassware, as
signed with preferences aggregating
$16,625. The liabilities Of the firm are
estimated at $4,000, and the nominal
assets $4,000.
In San Francisco a contest has been
begun over the will Of Lydia A
Spaulding, a former manager of the
Bella Vista hotel The contestants
are eastern relatives, who claim that
undue influence by Mrs. Augusta f.
Tracy and Mrs. Mary P. Marshall was
used. The estate is valued at $4,000
John A Willard, we'll known as a
millionaire and banker of Mankato,
Mimi, has made an assignment. He
estimates his direct liabilities at about
S4S0,000, but his indirect liabilities are
perhaps double that amount. His as
sets are largely real estate, which was
worth few years ago considerably
over 100000.
The s25,000 900 fortune of the late
Imblay Clark, which Miss Grace M.
Elliot of San Francisco expected to