Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-22

braska Wesleyan university, announced
at chapel his intention of handing in
his resignation.
Senators Washburn and PETER have
concluded their grain investigation at
Minneapolis, MINI. Senator PETER has
gone to Omaha, where he will make
further inquiries.
Six brothers We're in a shed at Adj
man, Mo-, when a bolt of lightning
shattered the structure. Joseph and
Daniel Wright We're killed and the
four others were Frustrated
A gold medal commemorative of the
4OOth anniversary Of the discovery of
America was presented to President
Cleveland by the Turkish minister in
behalf of his sovereign.
The coroner's jury at Decatur has
returned a verdict duplicating three
men in the lynching of the negro Bush.
They are Charles Britton, William Vest
and Thomas Atterbery.
At Moravia, Appanoose county, Iowa,
while Mrs Patterson's 16-year-old son
was cleaning his rife it was accidental
ly discharged, the bullet piercing his
mothers heart, causing instant death.
Mrs. Cal. Lyon got a verdict of $4,000
damages against the Chicago & Erie
railroad, at Huntington, Ind, for the
| death OF her husband, who was killed
in collision while a passenger engi-
neer.
! With siX-shOOter prominently dis
/ played daring robber went among the
! guests Of the Hotel Colorado, at Glen
/ wood Springs, Col, and collected money
and jewelry to the amount of some
| $4,000, with which he escaped
John Smith, is years old, attempted
, to shoot Emily Ebert, aged 10, at Phil
adelphia, and end his own life. He was
: disarmed after four shots were fired.
Neither of the young people was in
| jured.
!, Robert E. Burford, who murdered
, United States Deputy Marshal Lee
strange at Webster, Fla, in November,
1890, surrendered and is in jail. He
made a full confession
President Ezeta, of Salvador, has
been granted six months leave to visit
the Chicago exposition and make an
extended tour through the United
States. Congress voted him 100000
for expenses.
Thomas Sexton has reconsidered his
Intention to withdraw from the British
house of commons, the Irish members
having rescinded the resolutions retir-
ing him from the Freeman's Journal
board of control.
George w. Caruth, the newly ap-
pointed American minister to Portugal
Will start from London for Lisbon Sat
urday next. Gilbert A. Pierce, ex-min-
lister to Portugal, is now in London.
He will sail for New York in a few
days.
Albert Won Gelder who was employed
by Charles M. ROsentha1 in the latters
exhibit Of diamonds in the Austrian
section of the manufactures building at
the worlds fair has been arrested for
stealing precious stones from his en-
ployer. Jewels valued at $1,000 We're
recovered from pawn shops where Won
Gelder had sold them
Orders have been issued by Acting
Secretary of the Navy McAdoo for the
coast defense ship Monterey to proceed
from San Francisco to Portland to par
tlcipate in the celebra ton July of the
opening of the great Northen Pacific.
The department of state has not been
Informed of the reported purpose of
the Chinese government to retaliate
upon the United States as evidenced
by the alleged prohibition of the pur-
chase, use, or sale of American kero-
sene in the province of Annoy.
Owing to the illness of Mrs. W. D.
Campbell, Of Washington, D. c., and
the inability to be present of the wife
of Vice-President Stevenson the pro-
posed congress of the daughters of the
American Revolution at st. Paul, Mimi,
has been abandoned
Obituary: At st. Paul, Mrs. Caro-
line Warren Merritt, wife of General
Wesley Merritt.-At Cleveland Mrs.
Martha Haworth, mother of Joseph
Haworth the actor, aged seventy-two
At Havana, Senior Carlos Nayarreto
the Cuban poet.
Rockford college trustees have elect
ed these officers: President, Joseph
Emerson, D. D.; vice president, G. A
Sanford; secretary, w. A. Talcott:
treasurer, Miss Julia G. Lathrop; new
trustees to fill vacancies, James w
Scott and George W. Hale.
A deficiency of $4,000 has been dis,
covered in the funds of the Irving Say
ings Institution at New York Presi-
dent Clarence D. Heaton and Secretary
William III. Buxton had made over
drafts of $S45 and $50, 200 respectively
and after making the amounts good
were forced to resign. The paying tell
er, d. D. Tompkins, is said to have
stolen $4,000.
: More than 5000 coal and iron miners
t have now quit work near Kladno, Be-
hernia. The police and two companies
of military attempted to prevent the
, strikers from rioting and in the fight
, that followed thirty or forty rioters
, were wounded.
A desperate and bloody combat took
, place at st. Joseph, Mo-, between two
tailors, William Walsh and John Nc
Gee, the weapons used being shears
Both men were literally and frightfully
!, hacked and the recovery Of either is
considered improbable
Twenty-four years ago George Morris
was shot and killed at Wheelerville
Ala. by his friend and neighbor, Rob
ert Hudson. The slayer fed the coun
; try, but ventured to return last month
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