Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-15
CONDENSED NEWS.

The national prison congress DeSnS
!ts annual meeting at baltimore.
Senator Washburn is still hopeful of
the passage of his anti-optiOn bill.
Talent is mans mastery of mind;
genius is minds mastery Of man.
The first whaleback passenger excur-
sion steamer was launched at West
Superior.
Once more is it reported that Arch
bishop Ireland is about to be made a
cardinal.
T. II. Boyd, editor of an Olympia
ONash) newspaper, was murdered by
bis wife.
Mrs Mary Frame of Richmond, Ind,
announces the end of the world as com
ing in 1896.
The Standard Oil company is about
to spend $5,OOo,OO0 for carshops at
Whiting, Ind.
Alta mass-meeting in Detroit, resolu-
tons were passed favoring the restric-
ton of immigration.
New York branks now hold $5,493,-
$50 in excess Of the requirements Of
the % per cent rule.
Assemblyman Days charges against
Mr. Mason, chief of St. Paul detectives,
are not substantiated.
Suits affecting all the electric street
railways in the United States are
brought at Toledo, Ohio.
C,,, 5i,,, i,,,,,,icry,+ flor, .,cra0+e bovo in
duced 500 Michigan families to move
into the Northwest Territory.
Estimated gross earnings of the Rock
Island system for November are ST.
5S3, 995, an increase of $24,361.
Josephine Hardgroye, aged u, a Red
Bank, n. j., colored domestic, was ar
rested on the 3rd for infanticide.
James Cleary, crook, was fatally
shot by man whom he attempted to
hold up in the streets of st. Louis.
Leonard Redmaster, single, aged 30,
was killed at Washington, Ind, on the
Ord. by a falling of slate in a mine
Jay Gould is to be buried on Tues
day. The funeral services viii be held
ut his late home on Monday afternoon.
Charles Anderson, aged TO- killed his
younger sister on the 3rd. at Wichita,
Kan, with a shotgun which he thought
empty.
Our sympathy goes out by the barrel
to the fellows who will wear their
straw hats till Christmas because they
will have to buy some other fellow
silk Bloomington Eye.
BY the recent earthquake i'll San
Salvador about 200 houses were wreck
ed and the same number of people in
jured.
BY a deal with the B. & O. Railroad,
the Wabash and Reading Railroads
have secured terminal facilities at
Pittsburg.
Linen manufacturers in various parts
of the country are to combine and use
the Minneapolis exposition building as
u factory
In Washington along the line of the
Great Northern. toughs are terrOrizing
the people. Several murders have been
committed.
The officials of the Vanderbilt lines
have refused to grant the changes de
manded by the employees, but no strike
Is expected.
Porter Martin 4 Co, merchants at
Jacksonville, Ala, assigned on the LIST
Liabilities $4,000 Short crops pre-
vented collections.
+. K. Warner has been arrested i'll
California for Wrecking Il train. War
ner had been put off and caused the
wreck through revenge.
The delegates to the American Public
Health Association have been shown
many courtesies in the City of Mexico.
They have left for home.
James T. Wilbur, 30 years old, COM
mitted suicide in Henshaw's hotel
Denver, Colo, by first taking morphine
and then hanging himself.
The Chinese Equal Rights League Of
New York has issued an appeal to the
people against the exclusion law. The
law is denounced as barbarous.
Superintendent FenSler of the county
intirmary at Lima, Ohio, has resigned
He was charged with Acknowledgement
and bad treatment of inmates.
H. Ii. OdeIl, at one time champion
sprinter of America, committed suicide
on the night of the 2nd ut Spokane, by
taking an overdose of morphine.
Governor Fifer has pardoned Chester
Smith out of the reform school. He
Is only about II years old and is
thought to be in Il dying condition.
The, London Standards Madrid cor
respondent says that Ser9r Dandilla
has been appointed Minister of the In
terror in succession to Senior Silvela.
Mrs. Marguerite Rodgers. of New
Hartford, ILL.,, who was charged with
poisoning her husband, was on the 3rd
found not guilty by Il jury at Pittsfeld.
A three-story brick building in La
fayette, Ind, collapsed on the 3rd.
The front wall fell TO the sidewalk and
crushed Carrie Dougherty, IL years old.
The whaling bark Artrucller is en-
route home after being for two years
locked in the ice in the Arctic regions.
Not a member of the crew has been
lost