Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-25
CONDENSED NEWS.

Four thousand deaths from cholera
are reported daily in Russia.
An international congress Of firemen
opened at Havre, France, Monday.
A Tacoma man murders a young wo-
man whom he called his daughter and
commits suicide.
Several persons lose their lives at a
celebration in Italy, fire rockets being
the deadly agents.
Judge Klotz, radical member of the
reichstag, died in Berlin recently, aged
70 years.
The Ancient Arabic Order of the My
site Shrine held an imperial council in
Omaha.
f. E. Chapman, wanted in st. Paul
on the charge of embeZZelment, was ar
rested in Illinois.
An express agent secures evidence
that the Sontags committed the Kasota
robbery.
J. f. Kimbley has been nominated
for congressman by the republicans OF
the Second Kentucky district.
All the persons binding Irvine product
at the Saltwater penitentiary ha been
sold to Minnesota farmers.
Four thousand of the cab drivers Of
Paris went on strike Tuesday. No
disorders have been reported.
The date for holding the republican
national league convention at Buffalo
is changed from Sept. 1 to Sept 10.
Tennessee miners made an attack
on the convicts' stockade at Oliver
Springs Tuesday and were repulsed.
John C. Warwick, who defeated Maj.
Mckinley in the Sixteenth Ohio con-
gressional district in 1890, dies in
Washington.
The police of Rome seized Saturdays
edition of the newspaper ObservatOre
Romano on account of an article Of
fensiVe to the state.
The Canadian government has issued
an order prohibiting the importation
into Canada of rags from France on
account Of the cholera.
William Beithers' large curtain pole
factory at Travers City, Mich, employ
ing over 100 hands has been burned.
The loss is unknown.
The fifty Cinnamon arrested at Nos.
| 81, 319 and 321 Clark street Chicago,
for gambling were fined So each by
Justice Lyon.
| Johnnie, the II months old child of
III. Perdue, a baker of Lincoln, ILL.,, was
found dead in the horse trough, where
it had fallen while playing.
The Pope has decided to lodge at the
Vatican all pilgrims who go to Rome to
attend the episcopal jubilee. They will
| be lodged and fed at his expense.
At Tucson, Arizona, Lee Rock, a
Chinaman shot and killed a Mexican
who had objected to attentions being
paid his sister by the celestial
Archbishop Galimberti, the papal
nuncio at Vienna, who is to be made
cardinal in September, is more of a
diplomat and politician than priest.
M. Mayer, an accountant occupying an
important post, in France, has been
arrested for dealing in forged stamps
which were used on army material.
The United States grand jury has
found true bills against Potter, French
and Dana, directors of the Maverick
bank, and they will have to stand trial.
The prevalence of cholera in Tehran
has induced the Shah of Persia to re-
move his residence to a camp at Fl
Burr, twenty-four miles from the cap
ital.
General Lew Wallace is said to have
been the first man to conduct a court
ship by telegraph. This was in 1852,
and the messages were to his future
wife
Allen Milton Browning, of Hunting
don, w. Va, has been married six
times, has been the father of sixty
seven children and is now only 60 years
old.
Louis BOgran, eX-president Of Hon
duras, is in San Francisco on his way
to Europe. He denies that he is an eX-
lie, and says he is travelling to benefit
his health.
1t is said that the sultan Of Johore
who is to visit this country, observes
the tenets Of mohammedanism sc
strictly that his only beverage is pine
apple juice.
1t is claimed that the appointment OF
Senators Allison and Jones and Rep
resentative McCreary as members OF
the international monetary conference
was Illegal.
A fine model of the battleship Ore
gon has been prepared at the Washing
ton navy yard. This model will be
sent to the coming exposition in Port
land, Oregon.
Charlemange KOehler an actor OF
some note, left Cincinnati, Ohio, recent
ly, to enter the Dominican Order OF
Black Friars at Louisville, Ky. He
Is 30 years old.
Sam Baldwin, the aeronaut, and
Harry McNIein, editor Of the Quincy
QlI) Wing, made a balloon ascentior
at Quincy Sunday and have not beer
heard from since.
DR.. Peter Price superintendent OF
the state lunacy asylum at Tuscaloosa
Ala, and one of the most distinguished
medical authorities in the south, dice
of Bright's disease.
A British ship, the Thraciau, broke
away from tow boats during rough
weather off the Isle of Man and cap
sized. Her crew, consisting of seven
| teen mon was drowned