Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-02-23
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nome rule Dill.
Nearly $4,000 has been subscribed
to Bishop Phillips Brooks memorial
fund.
Fred A. Hardlett q Co., an iron and
steel firm Of Boston, have failed for
$15O,0OO.
Mr. Cleveland has officially announced
five members of his cabinet.
The Winnipeg bonspiel opens, and st.
Paul curriers' win a victory.
William Lindsay is elected United
Staes senator in Kentucky, to succeed
Mr.. Carlisle.
It is claimed that the fire insurance
companies doing business in New York
have formed a trust.
At Green River, Wyoming, Jailer Hins
was assaulted by three desperate pris-
oners, who made their escape.
An attempt to arrest the clerk Of the
Populist house in Kansas results in a
fight in which several coCntenanceS are
damaged.
Mr.. A. Gates has devised an electric
motor which, it is claimed, will revolu-
tonne methods of transit.
Brue Carr, ex-State Auditor Of Indi-
that state, is dead.
Near Boston on the 18th three I'M
known persons were drowned while
skating on Mystic river.
Chilli has declined to make an exhi-
bit at the Worlds Fair, it is said, be-
cause OF the Itata and Baltimore af-
fairs.
Charles Roddin$ ana Il man named
Garfield, supposed cattle thieves, were
killed on the 18th by catlemen near
Eel Paso, Tex.
If the expeditions of Cleveland, o.,
inventor are realized the mode Of ira
yelling and the means of going from
plce to place may be changed i'll the
near future.
Commander-in-Chief Weissart, OF the
ton at the convention to be held at In
dianapolis next summer.
At Brazil, Ind, two dynamite car
tridges have been found under the de-
pot of the Chicago and Indiana rail-
road. There is no clew to the person
who placed the dynamite.
Standing timber in Texas to the val
lie Of $75O,OOO has been purchased by
the Texas Pine Timber Company, n
New England syndicate.
r,bn TTnitaI Stn tac shin CopStnIIa tiop
arrived at Hampton Roads on the 18th
after voyage to France and Italy i'll
the interests OF the Columbian EXPOSE
ton.
The demands Of the employees Of the
N. Y. p. and O. railroad have been for
warded to President King in New York
city for his decision in the matter, which
will be final so far as the system is con-
cerned at this time.
j. V. l.. Findlay of Maryland, it is
reported, has ben appointed United
States representative on the Gillian ar
bitratiOn matter.
At Beaver Falls, Pa, the run on the
Economy Bank continued without abate-
ment on the 18th and at times the
crowd was 50 great that it was almost
impossible to get inside the bank. All
demands were met promptly.
Boardman Hal, Cornelrs new law
building has been dedicated. 1t is Il
memorial of Judge Douglass Boardman.
the first dean Of the miversitys law
department.
The steamer Bostonian, which ar
rived at Boston on the 14th from Liver
pool. experienced a very tenlpestuous
voyage. Tie deck was swept by heavy
seas which smashed every thing to kind
ling wood and crushed in the dec it
self.
Mrs. Wenuau Fairchild of Adar Falls,
Iowa, received fatal injuries by being
struck by an Illinois Central train near
Waterloo, on the 10Th. Mr.. Fairchjld
was severely hurt.
Frederick Barber, Il negro, will be
hanged in the District of Columbia Jail
on the oath unless the president inter
venes in his behalf. The last hanging at
the District Jail was on May 20, 1890.
Sleet has so injured wheat in eastern
crop is loked for in that section, some
farmers predicting that not a bushel
will be raised in some sections.
The state department telegraphs min
lister Stevens approval of his action in
declaring d protectOrate over Hawaii.
An annexation treaty will probably
be laid over before the senate this
week.
Plans have been matured for one of
the greatest irrigation schemes over
undertaken in tie United States, the
result of which will be the reclamation
of Il large portion of the AIojave Desert,
California.
The senate committee on finance will
probably take up Senator Sherman's
resolution to authorize the Treasury,
in case of necessity for the maintenance
of specie resumption, to issue three
per cent. tivc-year bonds.
Mr. Ruskin's latest delusion Is that
some one Is constantly menacing him
with danger, but as a matter of fact it
is no new thing for him to suffer
from hallucinations. For several years
past his condition has been a source
of grave, but intermittent, anxiety 10
his friends.
At New York prominet safe manu-
facturerS composing the Diebold-MoS-
ler-DamOn company are in session.
They have aUrppd npop n line of pOlI