Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-18

and William L. Mannix, a Deputy Sheriff,
eloped Tuesday night and were married
at Detroit.
PRINCE WALDEArAR, of Denmark, has
not yet accepted the throne of Bulgaria,
to which he has been called, and it is
thought that he will decline it.
ALL the companies of the ID infantry
are being concentrated at Fort Omaha,
in pursuance of the policy of abandon
ing the small posts to public land entries.
ALEXANDER GoLDENsoN, an art student
in San Francisco, killed Mamie Kelly on
the street with a revolver. She was in
love with him, and his excuse is that he
had grown tired of her.
DURING the past year the number of
Chicago national banks has increased
from twelve to fifteen, their CAPT tai stock
has increased over S2,OOO,O0O, their loans
and discounts $9,OOO,OOO and their depos-
its S2,OGO,OOO.
AT Des Moines, Iowa, Miss Ida G. HUI
tin has been ordained and installed as
pastor of the Unity Unitarian church, of
that city, Rev. J. l.. Jones, of Chicago,
preaching the sermon.
GRIswoLD LoRILLARD has introduced IN
New York The fashion of wearing coats
without tails and scarlet vests. He so ap-
peared at the Tuxedo ball, and ere ated a
decided sensation.
son, aged 16 and II, are
in prison at Hartford, and are be-
Iieved to be the daring burglars who have
been robbing people in various parts of
Connecticut.
THE European diffusion process of
making sugar, which has been tested at
Ottawa, Kan, by employees of the Nation
al Department of Agriculture, under the
guidance of Professor Wiley, has proved
successful in the highest degree.
lHE remains Oh Il. LlCh1o, "OoiAUIiJ
marble manufacturer of Joliet, were taken
from his residence in an implanted pine
box, with castiron handles and lowered
into the grave without word, In accor
dance with his instructions. His will
gives the estate to the widow and daugh-
tiers.
with having secured the con troll Oe the
Georgia Central Railroad. was the daugh-
ter of an ex-New Bedford whaler, from
whom she inherited 100000. She al
SO inherited 100000 from an aunt, and
her fortune is now estimated at $30,OOO,-
600.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND having been ask
ed to pardon James d. Fish from Au-
burn prison, sent a physician from Brook
lvn to examine into the conyict's cOndi-
ton The doctor was soon convinced
that Fish is breaking down, physically
and mentally being almost blind and suf-
fering torture from rupture.
WINDOw-GLAss manufacturers of Pitts
burg and the west held a meeting the
other day in the Smoky City and formed
syndicate which will control produc-
ton and regulate prices. Thomas D
Catlin, of Ottawa, H., is chairman of the
committee which will draft the plan of
organizati IN.
ALL the knit-goods mills in the state of
ew York, which employed 10000 men,
women, and children have declared
aiust the knights of Labor. Two of
he mills have yielded, but the others are
being filed uith non-union men. The
strike was caused by the factory owners
at Amsterdam refusing to promise that
in case a cotton ''iack" was put in opera
ton it would be placed in charge of
member of the spinners' union.
BEFORE the Grand Jury at st. Louis,
which indicted Fotheringham for the
express robbery, James Heffernan, q
Wabash railway engineer, swore that on
the night of the robbery he saw strang-
er being helped on board the Frisco
train, which was then moving, and he
believes that Fotheringham aided him in
getting into the car.
A STATUE of the late aj.-Gen. W. b.
Halleck has been carved from Rhode
Island granite at the Granite Company's