Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-25
CONDENSED NEWS.

Maj. lie Caron, the British govern
ncnt spy, is dying in London.
John G. Barber, a pioneer of Plano,
I'LL, committed suicide by hanging.
1t cost John L. Sullivan just 81 200
10 settle for his assault on lawyer Liz
cite
Mr. Gladstone was Kissed by ultra
tories at the Prince Of Wales reception
mt London.
Ex-Secretary John w. Noble will take
up his residence in Oklahoma
The Archbishop of Rennes, France
Msr. Gonnindard, dropped dead.
The assignment is announced of the
Bank of Necedah, Wis, Dwiggins in
stitution.
An epidemic of cerebro spinal menin-
gifts is reported to be raging in New
York City.
Willoughby, O., was swept away by a
flood
Germany will increase the liquor tax
to meet the demands of the proposed
new army bill.
Il. M. Carrier, a Quebec commission
merchant, is missing. He is short
$1,000 n his accounts.
Fire in Utica, n. Y, destroyed build
ings and cntents valued at $42,OOO Par
tally insured.
Henry Hitchcock, of st. Louis has
been appointed lecturer on municipal
law in the Yale law school.
The condition of Mr.. McMullin, Of the
Alton, who is i'll at New York, is report
ed to be unchanged
Execution has te.l issued at Phila-
delphia upon a il. ement for $39, $50
against Edwin J. IL wlet & Son, paper
bag manufacturers.
Gen. Nathan Jimba1l, well known
in Washington and now postmaster at
Ogden, Utah, is confined to his bed by
Illness
Albert w. Nickerson, the millionaire
raidroad operator, died at his residence
near Boston last evening.
1t is Officially proposed to have another
worlds fair in 1896, the 1,OOOth anniver-
sary of the Hungarian monarchy.
Obituary: At Valparaiso, Ind, Judge
John Dunning, aged ninety-fOur.-At
Luisyille, KY, A. V. Dupont.-At Port
land, Oregon, William c.. Lanford, aged
fifty eight.
The Lewis Porter Cabinet company at
Indianapolis was burned out last hight,
causing a loss of $4,000.
An execution for $4O,113 against the
Goufrey " Clarke Paper company has
been issued at Pittsburg.
Colonel William 2. Carlin has been
appointed brigadier general to fill the
vacancy caused by the retirement of
General Carr.
Judge Allen Il. Morse Of Ionia, Mich,
the new consul to Glasgow, has left for
his Official post. He was the recipient
of various dinners, banquets and re-
cepuons all last week.
The Schenck farm, LIS acres, ON Jam
alc;l bay, Long Island, which has been
in the Schenck family nearly three
hundred years, has been sold at auction
Tor $277,9S6.
Wolves driven to the high lands by
the overflow OF the SangamOn and ILL
nois rivers are killing many sheep near
Virginia, Ill. The farmers are organiz-
ing a wolf-hmt party.
President Mosher of the wrecked
Capital National bank of Lincoln, Neb,
embezzling $4,000 and other irregular-
ties charged in thirty indictments.
Herr PaSch, the German anti-Semetic
agitator, has been sent to prison for
fifteen months for ibeling Chancellor
von Caprivi.
Hot Springs, in the Black hills of
South Dakota, is making an effort to
secure the SanitaII~m for the use of the
regular army, for tle erection Of which
congress appropriated 100000.
The water which has been flowing
around the head of the levee system
above Osceola, Ark, has inundated the
st. Francis Basin, the farmers being
compelled to abandon all hope of rails
I-s a cotton crop.
Mrs. Emma Jones, of Donnelson, Ill,
while out in the woods was suddenly
attacked by large gray squirrel, and is
now suffering from a number of severe
and painful wounds about the face, neck
and hands.
The grand jury of Dubuque, Ia, has
returned indictments for murder in the
first degree against Pafford, Haley and
Kent, charged with killing Officers Firth
and Talcott, Of the Chicago, Milwaukee
Il st. Paul force.
Joseph Grismer and Phoebe Davis,
who have made such a success in the
East with The New South are yet in
New York, but will soon visit their
home in San Francisco, where they will
summer. Next season they will come
eastward, and again make a tour with
this excellent play.
There are at present on Ellis island
awaiting the decision of Commissioners
Senner n their cases, ten Italians who
arrived in the steerage of the vessels
Bolivia and India and who were dis
covered to be eX-convicts.
In a quarrel over timberland near
Prairie du Chen John Quilligan Drained
Robert Mcclure with an ak The
wounded man is still alive but must die
QuilHgan has not been apprehended.
The corner stone of the Hospital OF
the Silver Cross, to be built by the
Kings Daughters was laid at Joliet
yesterday. Harlow n. Higinbotham, OF
Chicago, made an address and presented