Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-14

railroad agent at Kansas City.
Badgers by the thousands turned ont
in honor of Wisconsin day, Sept. 6.
Governor Peck held a reception in the
afternoon and in the evening there
was a hop.
A Greeting to Israel, poem by Cora
| Wilburn, of Marshfield. Mass. was
read at the congress of Jewish women
in Chicago.
Archbishop Corrigan and Rev. James
McGinnis, of Scotland, made brief adj
dresses at the general session Of the
Catholic congress in Chicago. Com
mittees on resolutions and ways and
means were announced.
Hayti is said to be on lna eve OF
another revolution. The fail in silver
has caused great business depression.
A resolution recommending the estab-
lishment Of a government department
of health was introduced IN the Pan
American medical congress.
Judges of ST. Clair county, Missouri,
are again behind the bars, the people
having rejected the offered compromise
on the bond question.
Frank Garrison, Is years old, son of
r. F. Clarkson Of the Des Moines Reg
lister, accidently shot himself in the
arm and amputation will be necessary,
Fred Johnson, a school teach II OF
Clinton, H., blew out his brains be-
cause of a misunderstanding with his
sweetheart.
Eirmann, the aeronaut who started
across Lake Michigan, from Milwau-
kee, in balloon Sunday afternoon, has
not been heard from and it is feared
he is drowned.
The plant Of the Mclean Coal com
pany, in Bloomington, ILL.,, was burned.
Loss, 100000. Vice-President Steven
son is president of the company.
Fines of $500 each against druggists
of Boone, Iowa, for the illicit sale of
liquor, must now be paid by decision
of the Supreme Court.
The Colorado republic state commit
tee has decided to act with the repub-
lican party organization in all matters
save the silver question.
1t was shown at the trial which in
VOlyed the affairs of the Mather bank,
at Berlin, Wis, that a box of poker
had been carried for months as $1,000
The hiding place Of the ingalls, out
laws in Oklahoma has not been found.
One outlaw, three deputy marshals and
four citizens are dead as a result of the
late encounter.
Scranton, Iowa, now has the summer
snake. The reptile is reported to be
40 feet long and 10 inches in diameter,
with head like a calf and whistle
which terrorizes every one who hears
it.
Edward Waite Of Boston, aged 10,
was drowned in the PreSumscot river
at Deering, Me-, and Mrs. Mary Cur
ran, who saw the accident, dropped
dead from excitement.
The legislature of British Guiana
offers a bounty of $25 a head for 5000
Cinnamon from the United States.
They are wanted to work under con
tract on sugar plantations and in gold
mines.
Miss Maud Neish died at OsceOla,
Iowa, of arsenical poison, having taken
an extra dose for the purpose Of heigh-
tening her beauty at her approaching
wedding. She had been accustomed to
use arsenic in small quantities for that
purpose.
Secretary Carlisle has requested the
resignation of John S. LOthrop, cOllec-
tor Of internal revenue for the third
district, Dubuque, Iowa. Mr.. LOthrOp
entered on his duties October 1, 1889.
w. II. II. Scott, the postmaster at
RoSeWater, Neb., hanged himself to one
of the rafters of his office Sunday.
Brooding over fancied troubles and
fear of an early dismissal from Office is
the supposed cause.
Germany's first ambassador to the
United States, Baron Won Saurma
Jeltsch, presented his credentials to the
president and the customary speeches
of mutual good will were exchanged.
News from ingalls,, O. T., is to the
effect that Deputy Marshall Huston is
dead, making three officers killed by
the outlaws in Fridays battle. ''Slaugh-
ter Kid" another of the outlaws, was
found dead in the woods.
: DOminick Bartholomew, of Meriden,
Conn, shot his wife in the right wrist,
the bullet penetrating her side, and
then shot and killed himself yesterday
afternoon. Jealousy was the cause of
the act. The wife will recover.
Three men held up a st. Louis and
San Francisco express near Pacific,
Mo-, and blew open the door Of the eX-
press car with dynamite. Unfortunately
for them, they met with such resis-
lance that two Of the desperadoes ran
away and the third was captured. He
gave his name as LenOX, the son Of a
farmer at Newburg.
! Congressman Breckenridge has filed a
a demurrer in the breach of promise
suit brought by Madeline V. Pollard
at Washington. He says that her
! declaration is defective in that it al
legeS three contracts to marry subsis-
+ ting at one and the same time and that
, it alleges matters and things which do
not constitute cause of action at law
John Hart, a demented youth, killed
| his elder sister Mary, and left Nellie,
the younger sister, for dead, when he
rode into Rockford, Ill, and gave the
alarm that both been murdered. He is
now in Jail. The father, also named
John Hart, committed suicide some