Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-09-28

uyudulJe, parity WfethlHS Il DuIlu1AS
and arousing the town. Three were
arrested on suspicion.
The Pennsylvania proposes to com
petitors a cent mile rate from points
within $50 miles of Chicago.
Southern Pacific and Southern Cali
fornia are boycOtting each others issue
of tickets, result of the transcOntinen-
tai war.
Friedrich Shelker, of Elgin, was found
dead in a hammock, having acct
dentally shot himself.
In a bulletin for the week the Illinois
weather service says corn IS now out Of
danger from frost.
Essaying to marry a negress, Louis
Simmons, a white man Of Lebanon, Ill,
was thrashed and chased out Of town.
Thomas Beard and Alloysius Geier
are under arrest at Belleville, H., for
inducing two girls to leave for st.
Louis.
Congress may consider the subject of
Il cable to Hawaii. a bill has been
introduced authorizing it.
Committees of both houses may re-
port a bill amending the stringency of
the act making coin cartoOning an of
Tense
Religious war is threatened in Kan
sas through refusal to grant the Ameri-
can Protective association charter.
Western lines are noticing a large in
crease in tonnage, particularly in grain.
Lake lines are also busy.
Six persons were drowned near Col
lingWood, Ontario, by the capsizing of
q Skiff in a SQuall.
A posse is searching for the inhuman
murderer of Il 9-year-old girl at Hum
melston, Pa.
DR.. FOgelsong's defense III the Hills
dale Mich, wife poisoning case is that
a physician recommended the use Of
strychnine.
Mrs. Cogewen, of Boston, Ind,
threw hot soup Oh William Perron for
attempting to kiss her He will lose
an eye.
Awakened by q big revival, Dyers
burg, Tenn, has begun a crusade
against the evil resorts within it's bord
ers.
Montpelier, Vt, is in a fever over a
desecration of graves by two students
OF Middlebuy college
Populists in Kansas are indignant at
those state officers who visited the
worlds fair and had IA good time.
At Snlpshewana, near Goshen, Ind,
Hud Harrison accidently shot and kill
ed Henry Nelson. They were cleaning
their guns after Il hunting trip, and
Harris didn't know his gun was loaded.
Miss Carrie 4Arpy Smith, daughter of
the late General Kirby Smith OF the
confederate army, has been nominated
for poStmistressS at SeWanee, Tenn.
A tramp, who was declared by his
partner to be the much-SOugnL-for TaS
colt, threw himself in front Of a train
at EastOn, Md, and was killed
Robert MilEgan, the abscOnding post
master of HARTFORD Ky, who skipped
his bonds some time ago, has been
located at Sandwich, Ill.
money on debentures. The amount of
these debentures issued will depend on
the sale Of India Council drafts.
Burglars blew open the safe Of
Wilbur u Co., wholesale grain dealers,
at Phillips, Me, Sunday night, and Sc
cured cash and papers aggregat Ig at
least $4,000.
The village Of Dalton, Ohio, and
neighboring towns are suffering from
the raids of a gang Of burglars. Hardly
a house in Dalton but has been robbed
by the thieves.
Secretary Carlisle has awarded a
gold life-Saving medal to Ingar Olesen,
of Milwaukee,, for rescuing from
drowning James Miller in what is
known as the crib disaster in Lake
Michigan on April 20.
A message dated Mempod, Colombia.
has been received at New York from Il
passenger on the steamer Alvo, which
has been missing since the great storm
last month. 1t is now believed that
the steamer and passengers are safe.
Mr.. Cleveland's message anent
Hawaii will recommend that this
country assist toward home rule Mr..
Blomts report shows American min
isterial zeal and naval laundering
Thomas Foley and Charles Matthews,
young men who are said to have been
doing wholesale business Of forging
checks throughout Illinois and Mis-
souri,, were arrested at Fort Wayne
The Lisbon health authorities have
raised the quarantine against vessels
arriving from the port of New York,
which had been established in conse-
quence of a report of the appearance
of cholera in Jersey City.
Attorney General NIoloney, in re-
Spouse to an inquiry by David Gore,
president of the Illinois state board Of
agriculture, has prepared an opinion in
which he hold that the board may
permently locate the state fair
The state of Kentucky has been
worsted in its litigation with prison
out in debt to the amount of S12324.
One other result of the contest is that
for several months 1,5OO convicts have
been idle.
1t appears in the case of the North
western Guaranty Loan company of
Minneapolis, insolvent, that one Joseph
Shantield, the office boy, was induced
to sign quantity of the commercial
paper which has since turned up, ST.