Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20

tom of the shaft, and five killed out
right.
Senator Chandler, after a confereac
with President Mckinley, authorized
the statement that the president will
again send ENJOYS to Europe to con-
tinue negotiations for internatlU-.
bimetallIsm
In the Camden IN. j. criminal court
Mrs. McCusker, charged with killing
her husband, gave her story of the ira
gedy. The presiding judge announced
that the woman could not be convicted
of murder in the first degree.
DR.. E. n. Smith has rendered his
resignation to the trustees Of Mont
pelier (Vt) Seminary and announced
his acceptance Of the presidency Ct the
Illinois Wesleyan University at Boom
ington.
Grand jurors Of Kankakee county,
Illinois, have started a crusade against
gambling in Kankakee, numerous in
dictments having been presented for
gaming and kindred crimes.
The famous French murder case
from Ashland county, Wisconsin,
which has been before the courts for
the past five years, has been settled
by the supreme court affirming the de-
c1siOn of the lower court.
The cigar-makers Of Canton, H.,
who went out On a strike on account
of notice of a reduction of % per
cent in their wages, have returned to
OH Of =
and.
Senior F. A. Pellas, a wealthy Mica
raguan, arrived in New York to nego-
| tiate the sale of valuable concessions
in his country to the Atlas Steamship
company, a British corporation.
At Kansas City, Mo-, Bill Adler, a
| town tough, charged with the murder
| of William Johnson, colored, was con-
victed of murder in the second degree
| and sentenced to ten years. He is the
| first white man in Jackson county con-
Thirty-nine cadets were discharged
from West Point, having been found
deficient in their studies. Among
them were George H. Baird, Elmer L.
Ham, William F. Larkin and Omar F.
Telforth of Illinois.
The law prohibiting merchants from
making gifts as an inducement to
trade has received a knockout blow
by Judge Campbell of San Francisco,
who decided the law to be uncon-
stitutional, as an unwarranted inva-
sion of the liberties Of the citizens.
Through the action of Wisconsin
cold on brass bearings of the Yerkes
telescope the big instrument is tenn
porarily out of use. The builders
allowed for the contraction Of the
metal, but not enough, as it now APP
pears
w. F. Goerdes, a member of the
New York consolidated stock and
petroleum exchange, is in Jail charged
with having ATTEMPTED to swindle the
firm of William HaWley q Co., mem
bers of the Stock Exchange, out of
$4,000.
Henry Demas, appointed naval officer
at New Orleans, is said to hold writ
ten pledge from the presidents cousin,
William Mckinley Osborne, that he
should have the place. This pledge, it
! is asserted, was given to him previous
to the st. Louis convention to induce
him to turn from Reed to Mckinley.
Hon. Charles w. Russell of the de
partment of justice, who has spent
two weeks in Cuba investigating the
reconcentrados suffering and dying
from disease produced by lack of
nourishment, says that they must be
helped at once ON a large scale or they
will be exterminated
The safe in the railroad ticket Office
in the Palmer house, Chicago, was
robbed Of 500 while scores Of people
were passing within two feet of it.
In order to get at the safe the thief
| was compelled to put his back under a
counter and reach for the combination
with his hand.
| w. M. Hoyt, the wholesale grocer
| of Chicago, has transferred nearly all
his property to his wife and children.
| Quit claim deeds for real estate valued
at 1886, 468, and situated in Chicago
and Evanston, were filed for record.
Thirty-fiye men reached Seattle
from DAWSON. Iuey Drought 91Ou,UOo
in gold dust.
The first seizure under the new law
was made at Niagara Falls, when p
sealslIin sacQue valued at $500 was
taken from Miss B. Parkiston of Lon
don, England, passenger coming
from Canada. Miss Parkiston declared
that the sacque had been purchased in
London, England, in 1894.
Manager Jones of the Rockford
opera house claims that churches and
private halls which are not required
to pay an annual license, as the thea
ter is, have ruined the latter's business
by entertainments and concerts. The
! opera-house company asks that either
its license be rebated or the churches
charged 500 a year.
Port Chalmette below New Orleans,
with its hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars invested in cotton congresses,
Wharves, etc, has gone into the hands
Of a receiver on account Of its ina
bility to meet 100000 interest on
! bonds due July l, 1897, and Jan. l,
1898.
Mrs. Hannah Wollert killed her
step-daughter, Lizzie, at Algonquin,
ILL.,, Y sterday, because the little girl
refused to wash dishes before going to
school. The woman at first charged
that the crime was committed by a
trooon and a nOSSe of npighhOrS or