Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29
CONDENSED NEWS
Cholera abates in Hamburg.

the 500 gains its point
Two children were killed by d
panther at Warsaw, MINI.
Senator Hill addressed Il large meet
ing Of democrats in Brooklyn.
The annual encamDment of Odd Eel
lows was held at Portland, Ore.
a fire at Rockaway Beach, L. l., de
stroyed property valued at 100000.
Two men were fatally injured by Il
bridge falling with them near Quin'y.
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The president has appointed Gustave
A. Schaltz postmaster at Two Harbors
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A movement is on foot to combine all
the larger safe companies Of the com-
Try in trust
Sales of butter on the Elgin board of
trade amounted to 5000 pounds at %
cents q pound.
Lord Hagin, an Irish peer, was sent
to the Winnipeg Jail for two months
for yagrancy. Drink.
C. F. Campbell, of Canada, is elected
grand sire of the sovereign grand
lodge of Odd Fellows.
An Indiana court declares that the
geTymander of 1886 and 1891 in that
state unconstitutional.
Alexander Berkman was sentenced
at Pittsburg to twenty years in prison
for attempting to kill II. G. Prick.
An uprising Of negroes occurred in
Arkansas. A fight followed, in which
several men were killed or wounded
The st. Paul republicans had a bis
demonstration and were addressed by
Knute Nelson and W. C. Plummer.
The pope has approved Cardinal Glib
bins plan for an exhibition of catholic
schools at the Chicago worlds fair.
A Missouri burglar committed suicide
after being shot and wounded by Il
man whose house he was plundering
Five policemen were badly burned in
Washington by flying powder from Il
cannon used in firing a salute in Grand
Army place.
The event of Tuesday at Washington
was the parade of the Grand Army
one of the most successful exhibitions
of the kind ever given.
John Shea, of Lima, O., a feeble man
rs years old, swallowed an ounce Of
sulphate of zinc in mistake for EPSON
salts and died in agony.
Tho O1,iSioro 1O++o,.,- ,c,,,,,o,,- =, -,
ported at work in North Dakota again,
attempting to defeat the anti-lottery
constitutional amendment.
Mayor Washburn, of Chicago. has
sworn out a warrant for the arrest or
NJ. G. Mcdonald for attempting to bride
Justice Woodman a city official.
Mrs. Harrison arrived in Washington
Wednesday morning and was removed
at once to the white house. She suffer
ed no i'll effects from her journey.
The grand army encampment held it's
first business meeting Wednesday. The
address of the cOmmander-in-chief AID
various annual reports were read.
Natural gas has been struck by
parties boring a well six miles south of
Glidden, Iowa. 1t gushes to a height
of thirty-fiye feet and makes a brilliant
spectacle.
The German-Catholic convention at
Dubuque criticises Senator Davis fol-
his anti-cahensly speech in the senate,
and threatens to work to prevent his
reelection.
Pursuant to orders from the Tele-
graphers' union all the operators on
the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North
ern went out on a strike at noon
Wednesday.
Fire destroyed 100 houses in OIkusl.
near Crackow, Austrian Poland. -Four
teen persons were burned to death
and eight others probably will die of
their injuries.
a singular disease is prevailing
among horses in the southern part of
10 Davies cuOnty, Ill. 1t resembles
distemper, but is more fatal, and causes
more sudden death.
Carpenter Beck, a Iong-term prisoner
in the Central prison of Berlin, Ger
many, stripped himself and squeezed
through a window about eight inches
He has not been caught
Dennis Sullivan, superintendent of an
electric street railroad in Brooklyn was
shot by Frank Gately, discharged Elm
ploye of the company. The physicians
say Sullivan can not live
d. A. Mckinley, brother of Gov. Nc
Kinley, of Ohio, and Hawaiian consul
at San Francisco, died Monday of par
alysis. He was sixty-three years old
and went to California in 1852.
1t is reported that Judge Short,
leader of the notorious band of cattle
thieves, with headquarters in the Bad
Land, has been captured and lynchcd
by ranchmen, and several of his band
killed.
Levi Noble, 10 years old, employed
in the electric light power house at Des
Moines, Ia, was killed by belt tina,
run the large dynamo. His arm was
nearly torn from his body, and his side
was crushed.
E. A. Bridger, pastor of the Congre-
gational church at Jennings, La, was
chastised in his pulpit by D. e. N.
Burch, because the pastor had made re
marks rejecting on the ssop-women of
the town.
Hon. Thomas W. Halliday, lata
mayor of Cairo, Ill, was buried at
Beech Grove Tuesday. The funera,
was attended by 5000 people. Bust