Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-21
CONDENSED NEWS.

The British mouse OF loFUS IcJecteu
the Irish home rule bill by vote OF
40 to Al.
John q. Smedley, teamster, was az
rested at Media, Pa, charged with in
eendiarism.
During a drunken quarrel among
some printers at Pittsburg, William
Cunningham, 40 years old was fatally
kicked.
George Knapp, cigar maker, commit
ted suicide at Jacksonville, Ill, and
Jerry Trap at Ashland.
Judge Collins OF Chicago has ap-
pointed Richard D. Walsh receiver of
the Total Abstinence Association OF
America.
The Brazilian rebels were repulsed
in a second attempt to capture RIO
JaneriO.
Seven out Of fifteen prisoners in the
Allegheny county Jail at Angelica, \.
Y, tunneled their way out some time
Sunday.
Solomon Williams, farmer Of Hazel
wood Ind, was crushed to death by a
horse in a stall.
Forest fires are causing great dam
are in the ivicinity Of DeadWOOd, \. D.,
and Marshfield Wis.
The Z. S. Davidson Lumber COM
pany, of La Crosse, Wis, has assigned.
The assignees bond is $4,000.
Nancy Hanks trotted an exhibition
mile at Washington Park in FOG. Fly
ing Jib won the free-for-all pace.
In the international cricket match at
Toronto, Ont, the American team won,
with four wickets to spare.
Secretary Carlisle is soon to undergo
an operation for the removal of an
enlargement of the right arm above the
elbow.
The largest gas well in the world has
just been opened near Findlay, Ohio.
Its daily output is over 100000 cubic
feet.
An earthquake in Servia destroyed
many houses and killed number of
persons at Tiehuprija.
The state of Illinois has purchased
the harness-shop plant of Riser &, Co.,
ut the Joliet prison, and will operate
it with convicts.
President Cleveland has accepted the
resignation OF Josiah Quincy as sissist-
ant secretary Of state, to take effect
Oct. 1.
Rockford Jail is guarded by the mill
tia TO prevent the excited citizens from
lynching John Hart who murdered
his two sisters.
A report comes from Paris that work
is TO be resumed on the Panama canal
III November.
Fay Templeton and Howell Osborne,
in an interview at Boston, admit that
they are married.
Congressman Oates has introduced Il
bill i'll the house OF representatives TO
annex Utah to the state OF Nevada.
Fire at Spencer, -nass., destroyed
nearly every business house in the
town and caused a loss Of $3OU,vvJ.
The tank steamer Astral, Win her
captain and crew OF twenty-five men,
from Shields, England, is overdue at
New York.
Fred j. Shaler, of Chicago, has been
elected supreme commander of the
Uniformed American Mechanics of the
United States.
The rebel fleet at Rio Janeiro has
began to lombard the city. The
garrison of the largest fort has de-
clared for the rebels.
Bell, Cartwright Il Co.. lumber deal
ers at Cleveland, have suspended.
Judgments have been entered against
the firm for over 100000.
David j. Mackey has been e1ected
president of the Evansville and Terre
Haute railroad, succeeding George j.
Grammer, resigned.
Albert Mason, of Columbus, Ohio,
city meat Inspector, was thrown from
his buggy by runaway and killed.
Supervisors Of Warren county, uli-
aois, in session at Monmouth, have
voted to erect courthouse at cost
of $4,000.
AS a result of an old feud at Benton,
Ala, James Miller shot and killed f. Z.
Curtis. Both We're prominent mer-
chants.
Lightning struck the residence of A.
G. Collins, at Five Points, Ill.,, COM
pletely destroying it and instantly kill
ing Mrs. Collins.
In a manifesto of the national liberal
federation the lords are threatened
with political annl----ation if they con- !
true to oppose the popular will.
As a result of the Czech agitation in
Bohemia, certain of the constitutional
rights of Prague have been abridged. !
At the meeting of the northwest
Swedish Methodist conference it was
decided to divide into three smaller !
bodies.
On lits New York coach excursion run /
in five sections, the Erie carried 1,S43 |
passengers, a new record
The steamer Byron Trerice was burn |
ed at her dock in bennington, Ont. |
Three of the crew persisted.
The assassination of President Cleve- !;
land and Secretary Smith was urged |
on old soldiers by Pittsburg pension
attorney.
Trustees of the University of Illi- |
nois sustained the executive committee
in Summarily 'dismissing Professor J. !
d. Crawford.