Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-27
CONDENSED NEWS.

President Cleveland has returned to
Gray Gables from yacht cruise.
The army worm is playing havoc in
the northern part of Cass county, Ill.
The national federation of America
cabled $1,000 to the Irish national
party.
Bishop Racine of the Roman Catholic
church is dead at Sherbrooke, Que.
The CarroIlton wooden mill at Madi-
son, Ind, has assigned; liabilities $780,
900.
Harry Burton, %, was drowned at
Pittsfeld, Me-, while bathing.
President Cakes denies the rumor
that receiver is to be appointed for
the Northern Pacific.
Edwin G. Vaughn, of Bluffton, has
been appointed judge Of the twenty
eighth Judicial circuit Of Indiana.
sixty buildings, including every bust
ness house, were burned at SuSanville,
Cal The loss is $25O,OO0.
Will H. Morton, formerly manager
of the Columbia theater in Chicago, has
been sent to the Bloomingdale Insane
asylum.
United States Consul General Frye
Is dangerously i'll at Halifax from a
complication of ailments.
Rev Thomas e. Walsh, president of
the university of Notre Dame, died at
South Bend, Ind.
The steamer Ems, from Bremen,
which sailed from Southampton SUI
day for New J DIRK has on board 500,
600
The story that the Mohican was
fired on by poaching sealer is official
denied. .l: IL.
Mr.. Gladstone received a bad shak-
ing up by his cab colliding with another
cab.
The Mech Bros, Of the academy of
music, Buffalo, n. Y, made a general
assignment.
Congressman f. e. White, of Iowa,
declines to be the democratic candi-
date for governor.
Arthur Kenny, shoe manufacturer at
New York, has confessed judgments
aggregating $22,904.
Charles G. Jones, historian of Geor-
gia, is dead. He was born in Savannah
October 2S, 1881.
The Alton road has made a 50-cent
cut in the worlds fair excursion rate.
war may result.
John McCarty, farm hand of Tip
ton, Ind, 81 years of age, fell from a
fence and was killed.
Oil has been discovered at Water
vile, o., and hundreds Of spectators
are focking to that city.
John SWartout, of Morrison, H., in
diced Tor the murder of his father,
died in Jail of consumption.
A. j. DreXel was buried at Philadel-
phia. The funeral was marked by the
absence of amy display.
K. L. Cochran, q prominent demo-
cratic politician, committed suicide by
shooting, at Franklin, Pa.
By the explosion of a gasoline stove,
near Cincinnati, John Ulrich, wife and
child were badly burned.
Orders have been received from head
quarters to close down the Centennial
mine at Houghton, Mich
A small son OF Peter Christian was
burned to death at BucyruS, 0. He
was playing with matches.
Secretary of the navy Herbert Wis
TIED the naval station at New London,
-, =
Over 1000 Workmen are out of en-
ployment in Elwood, Ind, and many
are suffering.
Twenty children of Bethany church
Sunday-school, Buffalo, were injured in
an accident to their excursion train.
Miss Helen Lipman OF Milwaukee, 20
years Of age, was drowned in a swim
ming school, being seized with cramps.
From information received at Atlanta
there seems 10 have been a big deal
IN Wisconsin in bogus Georgia land IT,
les.
Charley Miller, a mail-carrier at Mat
ioon, ILL.,, shot and wounded the girl
who had rejected him and then drown
ed himself.
Congressman w. G. p. Breckenridge
ol kentucky was married at Louisville,
July Is, to his cousin, Mrs. Louise
scott W ing
Fletcher, democrat, was elected may
or Of Jacksonville, Fla.
Mrs William McMorris, of Hall, Ind,
accidentally scalded her 2-year-old son
to death, and is crazed by the accident
Homer Nelson, of Warsaw, Ind,
while stealing ride, leaped from the
train on a yiaduct and was dashed
to death.
Mrs. Conrad Veilham, of Tonawanda,
\. Y, has fallen heir to $4,O00,0OO
through the death of an uncle in India.
Alfred Boone, who pleaded guilty
to cutting wires in Iowa during the
tlegraphers strike, was sentenced to
eighteen months.
The Texas Central Railroad company
recorded a deed of trust at Waco to
secure an issue of 100000 of first
mortgage bonds.
The Illinois state veterinarian has
caused seyenty-nine head of cattle to
be quarantined at DuQuoin on account