Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-05-18
CONDENSED NEWS.

A new ST. Louis Minneapolis packet
line will be established.
Cardinal Ziglaria, candidate for the
papacy, died in Rome.
The miners strike has resulted in q
coal famine at Norwalk, 0.
Ernest Emmest, farmer living near
Dixon, ILL.,, was killed in a runaway.
Carl SchurZ dined with President
Cleveland ON the evening Of the 10th
Sir Charles Russell stated the case
OF England to the Behring Sea arbi-
traitors,
0. P. Mellor, postal clerk, was
sandbagged and robbed at ST Louis.
He will die.
Russell Sage sues Ives, Staynor &
Co., at New York, for 27,4453S, bor-
rowed money.
John Bum, Of Decatur, Ill, committed
suicide at Wichita, Kas., after several
days of dissipation.
William Budde, Of Quincy, ILL.,, was
so badly hurt in a runaway accident
tnat he WILL ole.
The 3-year-old daughter of Charles
MIGRANTS, of Goshen, Ind, was caught
under a wagon wheel and instantly
killed.
Mrs. Nancy Q. LarWill, Of Wooster,
Ohio, has celebrated her one hundredth
birthday. She is still in fairly good
health.
Mrs. Mary Quinn, of Winamac, Ind,
has been granted a divorce from her
husband, alimony of $1,000 and the
custody OF the child.
The British imperial institute was
opened with brilliant ceremony by
Queen Victoria.
A new counterfeit five dollar United
States silver certificate is discovered
10 be in circulation.
Colcumbets ribbon factory in st.
Etienne, France, was burned. Loss,
$1,0OO,OOO.
Deputy Warden Cellem Of the Mich
igan state prison at jackson has been
suspended for lax discipline
There are 1888 licensed drinking
places i'll New York city and the public
revenue therefrom is $1,569,525
Alexander Dana, stock dealer was
robbed and murdered at Bridgeport,
Ohio. His throat was cut.
Alexander Nicholas was arrested at
st. Louis, charged with burning four
DWELLINGS, owned nv him
Two Bohemian boys riding at full
speed near Traer, Ia, cOilided. Both
horses and one boy were killed.
The Southern club, of New York,
rendered Il reception to Secretary Her
0ert, of the navy department..
J.Waldo, first yice-president of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, will
retire from that road May II.
Bishop Won Scheele, the first Luth-
eran bishop to visit American, has ar
rived at New York from Sweden.
Arthur Davis jewelry store at Port
land, Ind, was entered by thieves and
fifty watches and 100 gold rings were
stolen.
DR.. IL. j. Marks, Il prominent st. Louis
physician, died Of blood-poisOning in
CURED i'll performing d surgical opera
zion.
The trial of Lizzie Borden, for the
murder OF her parents, has been set for
the first Monday in June, at New Bed
tord, Mass.
Mrs. Charles Johnson, OF Batesyille,
Ind, was killed by Il Big Four train
us sue attempted to cross the railway
track in front of it.
Heirs to lands at Homestead, Pa, on
which u part of the Carnegie works is
located, are suing for the property on
an old government deed.
Frank Hickey, charged with the muir
der of John NJ. Clayton in Kansas, will
be released. The authorities are con-
yinced that he is innocent.
club, which has extensive duck marshes
near Monroe, Mich, was so badly
beaten by pOachers May 1 that he died
Monday night.
Adolphe Goupil, the well-known deal
er in engravings, died at Paris, aged
81. He leaves two daughters, the ED
est being the wife of Gerome, the cele
DRAFTED painter,
The French chamber of deputies
passed the bill raising the legation at
Washington to the rank of an embassy,
Notwithstanding some objections were
raised on account of the expense.
Miss Katharine Moore, a daughter of
Gen. David Moore, secretly left her
home in st. Louis, and was married to
I. A. aut, of Washington, d. c., at the
residence of Rev. Father e. Fenelon.
l.. 0. Smith, of st. Paul, travelling
claim agent of the Great Northern
railway, is under arrest, charged with
swindling Mrs. Blackmore, of Kansas
City, Mo-, in real estate deal, out of
$1,000.
Suit has been begun at Galesburg,
H., against he Brotherhood Of Railway
Trainmen on a 81 900 insurance policy.
Two women, both claiming to be the
widow of the insured, II. Timlin, are
interested in the suit.
During the trial of a civil suit at New
York, it developed that Edward Stokes,
who killed Col. James Fisk, had been
granted a pardon by Grover Cleveland,
then governor, restoring the ex-convict
to full citizenship. The fact had been
kept secret.