Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-13
CONDENSED NEWS.

TIE Swiss government has suspended
the coinage of IL. i and 2 franc silver
pieces.
Edward Siverly, aged 10, was drown
cd while bathing at Marshall, Ill.
Lee BRYAN was killed while trying to
get on a freight train near Jackson
vile, Ill.
The international conference OF the
Epworth League at Cleveland has al
journed
The Bimetallic league has decided to
call IFS convention to meet at ChlcaSo
July %.
The New York state monument on
rbe Gettysburg battlefield was dedicat-
ed.
General Manager Green, of the
Georgia railroad, has resigned.
z. S. Jamison has been elected pres
ident of the Houston, East and West
Texas.
The Big Four has decided to extend
it's Lawrenceburg division to LOUISVILLE.
Missionaries WicIzalm and Johann
sen were killed by a Chinese mob at
Macheng.
E. J. Bracken, of Columbus, is the
Ohio prohibition candidate for COVER
nor.
Clifford Calvery ran across Niagara
Falls on a wire, making the run III
2:35 %.
Tommy Maloney, II years old, was
drowned by companions at New York,
Just for fun"
The Russian cruiser Admiral Mach
imoff, at New York, fired fourth of
July salute of twenty guns.
The government of Costa RIGA has
made contracts for the construction OF
two new war ships in England.
Three men were killed and five in
jured by an explosion in the govern
ment gun cotton factory at Newport,
r. /.
The water works at Petrolia, Pa,
burned. Loss, 100000, a dozen bust
ness houses also being destroyed.
Central Ohio was visited by two ter
rife thunderstormS in the course Of
four hours, and great damage was done.
The Falcon, Lieutenant Peary's arctic
exploring steamer has sailed from
New York.
Miss Hester Rutledge, of Alta, Iewa,
died at Battle Greek, Mich, from the
effects of carbolic acid administered
by mistake.
Professor J. n. Swan, of Westminster
college, Pa, has accepted the chair Of
chemistry and physics in Monmouth
college.
Ralph Drake, who shot and killed
Ide Ward, will probably be taken
from the jail at Columbus, Ohio, and
sent to an insane asylum.
Henry Butler, 13 years old, was shot
and killed at Philadelphia by his 16-
year-old brother Willie. The lads were
playing with q pistol.
The continued rise in the price OF
silver has caused a better feeling
throughout Colorado.
For using language too strong against
Councillor Won Klug, the Munich Mach
tichten was fined 1000 marks.
Emperor William has congratulated
Chancellor Won Caprivi on his triumph
In the recent elections in Germany.
Rear Admiral Markham's report OF
the Victoria disaster has been delivered
in London and shows that Admiral
Tryon was to blame.
"Old Mother Hubbard" a thief for
fifty years, is in the hands of the De
troit police
Consul Leonard, of Shanghai, says
Chinese merchants will not boycott
American goods on account of the
Geary law.
Matthew Arnold declares his belief
Chat the demand for silver will be
diminished but not destroyed.
Michael 2. Kelley, general agent of
the Big -Four Railroad at ST. Louis, has
mysteriously disappeared and it is fear
ed that he has committed suicide.
The Philadelphia & Reading Railway
company defaulted principal and inter-
est on the Lancaster & Quarryville
roads.
The Winthrop Iron Company direct
ors at Cleveland, O., decided to close
down the mines at Ishpeming Mich.
Fred. Grant, of Des Moines, Ia, was
killed and his 6-year-old brother wound
cd by the accidental discharge of a gun.
A decision by United States Judge
Newman, of Georgia, knocks OUT the
long and short haul clause of the inter-
state commerce act.
Donald Kennedy chairman of the
National steamship company and
member of the Mersey dock board of
London, Eng, is dead.
The militia has been withdrawn from
Tonawanda, n. Y, deputy sheriffs tax
ing the place of the troops in guarding
lumbermen's property.
A large schooner has been run down
off Ship shoals, gulf of Mexico The
vessels name is unknown and the fate
of the crew is a mystery
The Stonington Line steamer New
Hampshire ran into and sank the
schooner Garland off Cornfield Light,
Conn. No lives We're lost.
The bronze statue of William Lloyd
Garrison was unveiled at Newburyport,
Mass, as a prominent feature of the OBJ
Seryence of indenendenca day