Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-22
CONDENSED NEWS.

Mexican troops and Garza's men.
In fight between sports at Hamilton,
Ohio, Grant Fox was shot and killed.
So far the work of preparing for the
worlds fair has cost over $12,00O,OO0.
Fire at Sumter, s. c., destroyed the
opera house and eight business houses.
In the coolest part of Siberia the
ground is frozen to a depth of 620 feet.
Mexican Indians have banded togeth-
er and are making war with the whites.
George W. Vanderbilt has arrived at
stay in Japan.
At New York, Charles REIN, the old
est bandmaster in the United States,
died on the 10th.
A trust has been formed in Illinois to
control the entire subscription book
business of the country.
The trouble between the Big Four and
It's telegraph operators is still unsettled
and strike may result.
The Kansas populists have held con-
ference and agree not to attempt to or
ganiZe the legislature by force.
Tommy Warren, the feather-weight
champion pugilist, has been sent to
prison for six years for murder.
In a difficulty in West Virginia, two
men were murdered, one lynched and
an officer MORALLY shot on the 18th.
Chief Arthur, of the brotherhood OF
locomotive engineers, ridiculeS the idea
of a strike on the New York Central.
At Uniontown, Pa, Jack Ramsey, a
member of the Colley gang, has been
convicted of robbing a farmer and as
saultinG his daughter.
The celebration, in st. Paul, of the
completion of the Great Northern rail
way to the Pacific coast has been post
poned until May or June.
Cigarette manufacturers will appear
before the Alabama legislature to fight
the bill prohibiting the smoking of Gig
arettes in public.
E. Prentiss Bailey, the editor of the
Utica Observer, on Monday the 10Th
last, began his fortieth consecutive year
of work on that journal.
Parson G. Ogden, one Of the wealth,
lest men in Cincinnati, died at his home
from heart disease. He was a brother
of Mrs. 2. d. Arthur on the 18th.
The reported wreck on the Rock Is
land road, supposed to have occurred
near Horton, Kas., Friday night proved
to have had no foundation in fact.
The tornado which passed over the
ChOctaw Nation blew down house oc,
cupied by u woman and child named
Wallace, and both were cremated.
Members of the whiskey trust deny
that the combine has been in the market
buying whiskey. The recent advance
is claimed to be due to the demand.
At New York u certificate of consolida.
ton of the BaVarian and the Star
Brewing companies has been filed. The
Rev. Nathan c. Chaplin, SO years old
and for many years a leading COngre-
gatiOnal minister of the northwest, died
suddenly in his study on the 18th at Min
neapolis.
Two tramps broke into the Panhandle
station at Crown Point, Ind, and. after
destroying all the furniture and taking
everything OF value, fired the building
and departed.
AT Milwaukee, Henneke Il Cos art
store, on East Water street, burned
Saturday. The building, Il threestory
brick. was Quilted and the stock destroy
ed. Loss, $4,000 to 100000
The Kansas supreme court has de
cided that county attorney does not
necessarily gave TO be a lawyer lis lon
rs he is recognized Us county attorney
by the judge Of the district court
At Boston, Judge Hammond has
directed the receiver of the National
Congress of Friends To bring suit against
the officers of the order for SIT 900, the
amount OF Il shortage in the treasury.
1aqui Indians to the number Of 2,UUC
are said to have banded with several
hundred Mayo Indians and are CONNECT
ting many outrages on the Spanish and
American settlers in the YaQui and
Mayo valleys in Mexico.
At Cramps shipya-d keel blocks have
been laid Tor two Of the five new Ameri-
can registry, which the Inman company
has engaged to build for the purpose
of carrying transatlantic mails under
the postal subsidy act
The contest among the Michigan re-
pubhcanS for the United States senator
ship is becoming lively. Stockbridge,
the present senator, and eX-Goy. Luce
are the principal contestants. 1ndica-
tons favor Stockbridge.
Albert de Leur, Milwaukee con-
tractor went to New York November 80
supposedly on business is missing. On
December 4 he left the Fifth Avenue
hotel i'll the metropolis, and since then
nothing has been seen or heard from
him.
While Mrs. 0. r. Albertson, of York,
n. D., was absent from her home for a
short time, some paper caught fire from
re stovepipe and the room was filed
With smoke, which suffocated her two
children. The mother has become in
sane.
Gov. CulcOrd, of Nevada, confirms the
statement that the silver mines in that
state are being closed owing to the low
price of silver. He says there is not Il
dividend paying silver mine in Nevada.
. still hopes the Brussels conference
lay be something.