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

Another cup defender, the Vigllant,
was launched at Bristol, r. |.
The Illinois courts decide that women
can practice law in that state.
A canal will be built connecting
Bruges, Belgium, with the sea.
Two Thousand pilgrims visited st.
Anthony's shrine at Butler, Pa.
E. E. Kipling, a New York diamond
importer. failed with $4,000 liabilities.
President Carnot, of France, is i'll
with liver complaint.
Frederick D. Grant, ex-American min
lister, has left Vienna for the United
States
The Iron Company bank, of Crystal
Falls, Mich, has resumed business.
The Nashville (Tenn. Savings COM
pany, with liabilities OF 5000, $40, has
assigned.
The duke of Veragua is no longer a
guest of the nation He will travel
incognito.
The paraffine works of Merriam d
Morgan at Cleveland, were destroyed
re Loss, 100000,
Holmes Conrad, of Virginia, has been
appointed to succeed John B. Cotton as
assistant encouragement.
The supreme lodge of the knights
of honor has created the office of SUI
preme medical examiner.
Two trunks from Toronto were seized
at Buffalo and were found to contain
200 pounds of Struggled opium.
Evans and SontaG, the wounded Cali
fornia desperadoes will probably re-
cover.
Baron Fava was presented to the
president under his new title of am
bassadOr
War has again broken out in Samoa
between the rival kings, Mataafa and
MaIetoa.
Two San Francisco banks lost $4,000
by raised" checks passed by an I'M
known man.
Russian immigration to Hamburg has
been prohibited as a preventive of q
cholera invasion.
Honcel Herinl&, a farmer, % years of
age, killed himself on his fathers farm,
near Beatrice, Neb.
Vice-President Stevenson has re-
ceived the degree Of Ii. D. from Cen
ter college, Danville, Ill.
One man was killed and several
wounded in battle at Lanston, Ok,
resulting from a race war.
Several persons We're killed or in
iured in Il wreck on the railroad be-
tween Thonon and Belle Garde, France.
Five men were injured in a freight
wreck on the Nickel Plate road at Ham
burg, n. Y. One, it is thought, will
die.
Auditor Ackerman's report shows
that the salary list of the worlds fair
for the month of May amounted to
$3.50, 600
The trial of Dr. Graves at Denver
charged with poisoning Mrs. Barnaby,
has been postponed till September.
Annie. Murphy, convicted of forgery
at st. Cloud, Mimi, has been sentenced
to four years in the penitentiary.
Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York,
accompanied by his family has left
London for Paris.
Every business house in Alba, Mich,
except the Exchange hotel and town
hall was burned.
The Pioneer Lithographing company
at Denver has made an assignment.
Liabilities, $134,3S6; assets, $53,7S6.
The French Catholic church of St.
Anne, ILL.,, whose shrine has gained
national reputation, was struck by
lightning Saturday night and destroyed
The steamer Winthrop, of the Mall
Tory steamship line, New York, valued
at $125,000, burned at PASSPORT, Me.
Harry E. Holmes, treasurer of the
T &c, holi 10
have committed suicide at Niagara
Falls.
The Viking ship arrived at New Lon
don, Conn. The little vessel expert
enced some severe gales, but behaved
admirably.
1t is announced that Canon PaOlO
Emilio Bergamaschi has been made sec
rotary of propaganda for the affairs
of Canada and the United States.
W. F. Furrow, living near Spring
field, H., was shot and fatally wounded
by a burglar ON the day before his we'd
ding.
The run on the savings banks in De
1roit, Mich, has spent its force. Near
ly all the banks posted ninety-day
notices
clIuOu hdIOuey, IL pdtleuI LII TIE SOl,l
ure institute at Niagara Falls, shot
nd killed his brother Cornelius, after
rinl1ing heavily.
The reorganized Capital bank of
indianapolis, Ind, announces that it
will resume business June 10 with $780,
0OC Ill cash in its vaults.
At radical meetings in England names
of royalty were Kissed and it was
voted to ignore the wedding of the
duke of York and Princess Mary.
The interstate convention of the
American Sabbath union met at Indian
apolis and formulated a protest against
Sunday opening of the worlds fair.
The British house of commons has
finally passed the third clause of sec
ton 1 of the home rule bill, which has
been under debate since May 80.
Local creditors have forced an as
signment of the Rockford Folding Bed
company. The company owes in the
neighborhood of $4,000, with assets
of half that amount.
The body found at Milwaukee and
supposed to be that of Herman Schaff-
ner has been identified as that of Her
man FlaSch.
Fire at Cleveland burned the plant
of the Merriam & Morgan Paraffine COM
pany and the Ironclad Paint company's
shops. The loss is S25O,0OO.