Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-09-12

apprentices not sons Of the Knights OF st.
Crispin.
The Louisa County National Bank, Of Col
umhus Junction, Iowa, and the Brighton
National Bank, OF Brighton, Iowa, each with
capital Of $50, 900, have been authorized By
the Comptroller Of the Currency to com
meuce business.
Some OF the benevolent citizens of Chicago
gave an excursion and picnic to the news
boys and bootblacks Of the city on the oath
1t was known as the Briggs House Picnic,
that hotel furnishing the refreshments 1t
proved a grand success, and over five hun
bred street Arabs" were in attendance
and enjoyed themselves as they never did be
fore.
! The Liberals and Democrats Of the new
( Twentieth Ohio District, met in Convention
| on the 24th, and nominated for Congress
Selah Chamberlain, Esq, Of Cleveland.
Thirty cases of sunstrokc were reported
| in st. Louis on the 10Th, over half Of which
were fatal
Mrs Frederick fisherman, wife Of a Ger
man laborer Of Cincinnati, set her clothes in
flames on the night of the 10Th, by kindling
a fire In a stove with coal oil. She was NOR
| tally burned.
The venerable Bishop Uphold died at In,
dianapolis on the 26th He had been the
! Bishop Of the Episcopal Diocese Of Indiana
! since ls49.
A Salt Lake dispatch OF the 26th says an
expedition fitted out in that city about four
weeks previous to search for precious gems
had been heard from. letter was received
dated Plano Blanco, New Mexico, August II,
with il consignment Of about quart OF
rubies, cmerads, garnets, opals, and varie-
| ty Of bright stones supposed to be diamonds
| The Democrats Of the Fourth Missouri
District have nominated X. A. Hatcher for
Congress.
A meeting Of straight" Democrats was
held at Topeka, Kansas, on the Tth, and
dc egates were chosen to the Louisville Con
yeution.
The Colorcd Liberal Executive Committee
Of Indiana have issued a call to all colored
men Of the country friendly to the Liberal
cause to meet in National Mass Convention
at Indianapolis, on the iith day Of septem
Der
The K .publicans of the Seventeenth Illinois
! District have nominated John b, Hay for re-
election TO Congress- J. f Dinsmore is the
Liberal and Democratic candidate in the
Fifth Illinois District; Chauncey Wisner
Liberal aud Democratic, in the Sixth Mtchi.
gan District; c, B. McAhcc, Liberal and
Democratic, in the Sixth Ni.5y1"i, and o. l..
Palmer, Liberal and Democratic, in the
Seventh low, District.
\ farmer died in the western part of Poo.
ria County, H., on the 2sth, Of hydrophobia.
| and II
was thought that the late hot weather
brought on the attack. His commissions
were terrible.
In Scott County, Iowa, on the morning Of
the 18th, a servant girl named Sophia Peters
poured Kerosene on the fire, when an eXplO-
sion followed and she was SO fearfully
burned that she died in the evening.
The following officers were elected by the
Iowa Grand Lodge Of Good Templers, in SEES
sion in Dcs Moincs on the 2Sth: g. W. G. T.,
5, w. Cole, Tama City &, a. C., NJ W. Pas
ter Davcuport; 6. W. v T., Mrs. Martha
Wright, Des Moines; NJ. s., Mrs, Laura b.
Berry, Nevada; G. T., Isaac Brandt Des
Molnes; Representatives to the &. K. W G..
h., Isaac Brandt, Amos Jones, and Mrs w
Porter; Proxy Representatives., VIM. II,
Fleming J. Norwood Clark, and Rev. l.. ?,
Bosch, Mt Pleasant was selected as the
n,yt ,,lo.. ~ ,,o,,i,r 1Y,c Grand Secretary
reports ll2 Lodges 10 Iowa, with member
.hi,, ofGo,s
h,,tery ot tom hoiIors cv,lodaa ,t
you,rsto,yn Ohio on tho ostb l,infng thr
fireman instant1v A piccc fran one Of the
hoilcrs was thrown a orartrr Of a mile fall.
inp throuph the roof nf house killing q
Mrs OuigIrv ard her chiIa in he'd and NOR.
| taliy ,yonndi,, Nor husband
! A stat Cnnvo,tiop., ~ us,r,i,h,n Dcmo-
Gratis was held 81 snrinrarld IN ON the
1otb A series NJ resolutions ,,as adonted
and de,egates werr. arnoirted f., the opis.
vim. Convention
-Four men, named Edison Tcnney, Colum.
bus O'DelI, Charles Wilson and Monroe Ten
ncy. were killed in Highland Mich. the
other afternoon, hy the explosion Of steam
| boiler used to run thrrsbinr machine.
Three other men were wounded
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j. ]. Munsou for Congress. In Michigan the
/ Democrats and Liberals made the following
| Congressional nomination, on the Goth.
| Third District. j. G Porkhurst, Fourth,
/ Allen Potter; Seventh, j. II. Richardson.
/ Ninth, James c. Craig
/ ON the g5rh NIT The hoayof Kane Higgins,
wealthy farmer living at Wiunetka, H.,
near Chicago, was found not far from his
residence. The indications were that he had
teen murdered. and Il man named William
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