Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-10-06
CONDENSED NEWS,

91O,UOO JOp.
A saloon fight in Litchfeld, Mimi,
resulted in murder.
Bank attaches are arrested at Kan
sas City for enlightenment.
p. S. Gilmore, the famous band lead
er, died in st. Louis Saturday.
The Col0red Mems National ProteC-
tive association indorsts free trade.
The American Type Founders COM
pany, a trust, has S9.0OO.00O capital
Cholera disappears completely in
New York, but is worse than ever II
Berlin.
Three horses were killed and their
Jockeys were injured at the Grave
send races.
A st. Paul peddIer committed suicide
and carries a terrible secret with him
to the grave.
A new and very destructive wheat
pest called the frit fly is discovered
in Northern Minnesota.
Chicago and Minnesota cricketerS
play a game in st. Paul, the Chicago
men winning by one run.
Populists of Connecticut held q COZ
vention at New Haven Saturday, and
nominated a full state ticket.
Gen. John Pope, one of the Union
commanders in the war of the rebel
lion, died at Sandusky, Ohio.
The seaport town of Buctouche, \.
B., was destroyed by fire Thursday
The loss will exceed $4,000.
Mrs Margaret Dickens, of Kansas,
was elected president of the WOman'S
Relief corps in Washington Friday.
The Imperial mill and elevator at
Duluth has contracted for an addition
to it's buildings that will cost $350,000.
The wrecked whaleback steamer
Wetmora, is going to pieces on the
Oregon coast with several men on
board.
The duke of Sutherland is dead. He
was best known on account of his i'm
moralities which he took no pains to
conceal.
Extra sanitary precautions are being
taken on the Elbe in order to prevent
cholera becoming epidemic outside Of
Hamburg.
The destruction by fire of the Union
School Manufacturing compaDy's works
at Battle Greek, Mich, caused a loss
of $250,OOO.
Col Streator and other military Of
ficers are indicted in Pittsburgh for
assault and battery in the case of
Private Iams.
Gen. A G.. Weissert of Milwaukee,
is elected commander-in-chiefa and Col.
r. II. Warlield senior commander of
the G. A. r.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanton has just died
in Center county, Pa, at the age Of
III. She was born in Lancaster cOun-
ty, Pa, in 1915.
Judge William Sherwood Of the com
mon pleas court at Cleveland, died
Friday morning from the effects Of a
surgical operation.
The American Land and Irrigating
Canal company is incorporated in Den
yer. 1t will operate in Montana and
other far Western states.
An agreement has been reached be-
tween the granite cutters and their
employers in Vermont after d strike
that has lasted five months.
Ed Emmerson, aged II, stabbed and
killed Charles HOgenthaIl at Fulton,
Kan, Friday. The murder was the
sequel to a fight about a girl.
G. II. Hogue, an American merchant
of Monterey, Mex, has been expelled
from the republic for criticising the
administration of President Diaz.
Officials sent by the Russian govern
mcnt to investigate a cholera outbreak
in a Polish province are attacked by
the deluded people. causing a riot.
The balance wheel of a corn shelter
he was feeding burst and a piece of
the metal struck and killed a son of
Antonio Baumgartner, of FreepOrt, Ill.
Owing to radical discomfort and the
hostile attitude of Scotch liberals, Glad
stones government is reported likely
to fall at the opening of parliament.
The United States circuit court of
appeals in st. Paul decides a case in
volving $2O,6OO,OOO concerning the
Omaha and Denver water works sys-
TENS.
Woman -suffragists nominate Mrs.
Victoria Woodruff Martin for president
= 4ln TDi4 70 NT,,r
L. Stow Of California, for vice-presi-
dent.
1t is reported that two members of
the Bismarck family have resigned
their army posts because of the En-
peror's language toward the eX-chan-
CellOr.
Berlin people are taking special
pains to purify the water Of the Spree
before using it, as the spread of cholera
is attributed to the fIthy condition of
the river.
Harold Beckwith, son Of a million
aire of Cass City, Mich, committed
suicide by drowning himself in a bath
tub owing to dependency brought on
by drink.
Emperor Williams new army bill is
meeting with vigorous opposition in
preliminary conferences with the Ger
man states, especially as to the finan-
cial scheme.
The last weekly statement of the
New York banks shows a reserve in
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