Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-22
CONDENSED NEWS.

The steamer Mary Morton, OF Lae
Diamond 10 ME, is sunA III the MIss,9-
sippi.
German and Italian immigrants IL
Canada are prevented from enteTt,lg
the United States.
The Hamburg-American Guion CO IL
panies entirely suspend their steerae- e
passenger business.
Six business houses at Bloomington,
Ill, We're hred in one day by defective
electric light wires.
Three lives were lost by tire III The
Chambery hotel, Montreal, at an early
hour Monday morning.
Montgomery II. TDroop, formerly law
partner of Roscoe ConkIing, died at
! Albany, \. u, aged 80.
Alonzo Roley died at indianapolis OF
| hyarOpnObia. He was twice bitten by
a pup on December 20.
An instruction has broken out in
| Mexico which seriously threatens Lhe
position Of President Diaz.
Carl Johnson, cashier of the Adams
| Express company in st. Paul, is arrest
| ed, charged with enbezzlement.
SWindlers have flooded the southern
| part OF Georgia and Florida with silver
| plated 1-cent pieces, passing them Tor
dimes.
Nine deaths resulted from a Satur
days railroad accident in MassacLu-
etts and the injured number thirty
| seven.
Rowland Hewitt, a postal employe
and well known b-cyclist, has been az
rested at Atlantic City, n. j., on Il
charge of robbing the mails.
, Senator Girard, who has represented
Manitoba in the dominion senate since
1880, died at his residence in Winnie
peg, Monday morning, aged 70.
There was such a rush to see Cham
pion CorDett at Atlanta, Ga, that he
was knocked down and narroT WY
! escaped being crushed to death.
The National Association of postal
clerks opened d session at St Louis
Monday. The address Of welcome was
delivered by Postmaster Harlow
Scott Parsons and Dan White, well
known politicians of Admission, .Ais..,
during Il political dispute, exchanged
shots. Neither is expected to recover.
British Home Secretary Asquith has
replied 10 the petition III behalf OF Mrs
AIaybrick, decling to advise the quee1
to interfere with the prisoners seLt-
ence.
George Howard, u youth of 10, IS
under arrest at Duluth, Mimi, Tor horse
stealing. He sold an animal for $500
and had the money all spent when al
rested.
The Chinese Six Companies If San
Francisco issue an address advising
Cinnamon not to comply with the II
suicuon law, which is to be tested in
the courts.
Many men employed on the govern
ment fortiticaionS at Sandy Hook,
have given up work and returned home
on account OF the proximity OF lne
cholera To their barracks.
Green McCmtain, treasurer Of tue
CnOcUaW natiOn, is the latest victim
OF Tie political riots among the IN
dams. lie was taken from home
Tuesday night and killed.
The brotherhood of Locomotive fii'e-
men began their biennial session ut
Cincinnati, o., Monday, with 5000 dele
gates present. Grand Master Sargent
IIASiIiDO TNbn SASSinnS .tra SncVaf
James Vice was killed Saturday by
Mrs. Abram Dalton while he was NY
ing TO effect an entrance into her house.
He was shot in the lett eye, and died
instantly. Mrs. Dalton is now in JAIL
A court decision in Kansas is to the
eject that marriage licenses issued DY
county clerks are invalid, that they
should be signed by the probate judge.
This Will invaidate many marriages.
David Mclaughlin, son of a PITTS
burg banker, was thrown from his
horse While riding in the park Sunday
The horse fell on him and he received
injuries from which he died shortly
after.
The sealing schooner w. p. Hayward
has been arrested at Victoria, B. c.,
from Boring sea and reports that the
Russian cutters have seized three
schOoners hunting boats containing
ninety men.
A prize fight between Arthur David
son, of Virden, and Billy Harris, of
Litchield, for $500, took place at Nc
Donald's NINE, ILL.,, and resulted IN
Harris being knocked out N The
! seventh round.
William Paragon, making his first
run as a breakman on the Chicago and
! Southwestern railway, fell from his
train Saturday and was fatally injured.
He was p years old and the only sup
| port of his widowed mother.
| Mrs. McCourt, daughter of John De
| laney, one of the wealthiest farmers
near Atchison, Kansas, was struck and
killed by lightning while on the front
! porch of her residence. When lisc "
! cred her clothing was on fire.
Chief Justice Sir William Rithie, of
| the supreme court of Canada, is lying
at the point of death at his home ii
! Ottawa. The chief justice is nearly 81
! years old and for some time has con
! templated retiring to private life.
Fire at Albany, n. Y, destroyed tie
printing establishment Of James B.
! Lyon, who has the state printing con-
tract, and several stores. A number