Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-15
CONDENSED NEWS.


was exported.
f H Weeks, the missing New York
capitalist, is in Cuba.
The Infanta Eulalia visited the New
York stock exchange.
A system of electric roads is projected
from the Indiana gas field.
The strike of coal miners in Kansas
may extend to other states.
Emperor William will attend the
wedding of the duke of York.
Clark, Thomas & Co., furniture deal
ers at Philadelphia, has failed
1t is said the recent cyclone in Kan
sas has left 5000 people in want.
Horatio Peters, one of the owners
of the New York Clipper, is dead
Miss Laura Dade, aged 20, committed
suicide at Fulton, ILL.,, by drowning.
Baron Fava, italian minister to the
United States, is to be made an ambas-
sador.
The management of the worlds fair
has decided to put 10000 seats in Jack
son park.
-Four men We're drowned at Pine
Tree Harbor, Ont, by the sinking OF
their boat.
DR.. John Curwen, Of Warren, Pa
was elected president of the Ameri
can Medico-Psychologi association.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Miss Minnie
Davis are visiting in Washington.
President Cleveland has returned tC
Washington from his fishing trip to
Hog island.
The assets of the National bank OF
Deposit are $1,1OC, 900 and $93S,OOO is
owing depositors.
Tony Mears fatally stabbed John
Pascala in drunken row at Duluth
Both are Indians.
Lieut-GOv. WOlcOtt will probably be
the republican nominee for governor OF
Massachusetts.
Joseph Pulitzer has given $1OOO0(
to the fund to erect new buildings fol
Columbia college.
A cyclone swept the northwestern
part of Wayne County, Ind, destroying
everything in it's path.
Gov. Altgeld offers a reward of $500
each for the arrest of the lynchers OF
Sam Bush at Decatur, Ill.
Secretary Carlisle is said to contem
plate the purchase of gold by a new
issue of legal tender notes.
John e. Risley, United States minis
ter to Denmark, is recovering from q
serious attack of the grippe
The establishment of a clearing house
has been agreed on by the presidents OF
the Chicago terminal lines.
Mrs. James G. Blaine has sailed fol
Europe, accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs
Damrosch and Miss Blaine.
A crank attempted to destroy the
$4,000 painting, The Fall of Babylon,
on exhibition at New York.
The Fuente coal mines, in Mexico
are III flames and it is feared the sixty
men at work have been suffocated.
twenty-five hundred employees of the
standard Oil company struck at Whit
ing, Ind, for a nine-hour work-day.
The Rev. l.. s. Deemer, pastor of the
Methodist church at Batesville, Ark,
was arrested on a charge of forgery.
William Shannon, aged As years,
serving time for forgery, escaped from
the Monroe county, n. Y, penitentiary
A panic was caused in a Leghorn
heater by the falling of boy from the
gallery, and many persons were injured.
Last Sunday was the first day since
the opening of the fair that no arrests
were made for drunkenness.
Minister RunyOn made an official
call on Emperor William.
A case of smallpox was found on
the steamer Umbria which arrived at
New York.
The offices of the Suez canal directory
will be transferred from Paris to Lon
don in 1894.
John Sim and wife were found guilty
of robbing the Northwestern depot at
Luverne, Ia.
Revival meetings are being held at
Leadville, COL in Loebs dance house
and gambling resort.
The president is gathering financial
data for use in his message to congress
In extraordinary session.
Retween May % and June 1 there
wtfe fourteen cases of cholera and
eleven deaths at Marseilles.
George Deputy who lost $4,000 in
land speculation in Minnesota, COM
mitted suicide at indianapolis.
Two persons were killed and thirteen
injured by the explosion of q cart load
of powder at kim, Rhenish Prussia
Wisconsin kept open house at the
worlds fair on Sunday. Several thou
sand people visited the building.
Sixty thousand people visited the
worlds fair grounds on the second
Sunday the grounds were open to the
public.
Eldorado, Tex IS is reported to have
been destroyed nv a cyclone and be-
tween fifteen al twenty-five persons
killed
The main pi Mt of the American
Straw Boaru association at Lima, o.,
was burned, causing Il loss of 100000.
Obituary: At Schoolcraft, Mich,
Stephen T. Brown, aged seventy-three.
AT Milwaukee, DR.. James E. Rior-
dan, aged twenty-five.
The worlds fair transportation prob
lem may be settled this week by the
installation of a lot of donkey carts
that shall run on regular routes through
the grounds, charging a small fee-prob-