Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-20
CONDENSED NEWS.


crowned herself at Joliet.
Albuquerque, n. NJ, was recently
Ihaken by an earthquake.
Soly Smith won in his fight with
Johnnie Griffin.
Corbett and Peter Jackson will fight
In November.
President Cleveland becomes well
enough to go fishing.
The Viking ship arrived at the worlds
fair.
At the last minute Dixon refused tC
HCht the Omaha Kid.
Corbett has signed articles to fight
Mitchell before the COney Island club
A colored boy confessed to having
caused the Bradstreet-Thurber fire in
Minneapolis.
Joseph Deathrage was drowned neal
Decatur, Ill.
Three cases of typhus have appeared
In Philadelphia.
Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, n. Y.
celebrated his silver jubilee.
Austria prohibits the expectation OF
fodder owing to the shortage of crops
The Starr mills at Shelbyville, Ind.
failed for $4,000.
Harry Heron, aged II, suicided a
Golden, ILL.,, by shooting.
The Western Passenger association
has adopted One-fare excursion rates
to the worlds fair on certain dates.
South Dakota county commissioners
are accused of illegally loaning the per
manent school fund on farm lands.
Pensioners under the dependent pen
sion act of 1890 will be required t.
prove their disability or be dropped
from the rolls.
Noah Allen, the populist assistant at
torney general of Kansas, has been re
moved for official crookedness.
Ex-Mayor VALIDITY and wife OF Adrian
Mich, were badly injured i'll Il runa
way accident.
A young man named Butler received
q ducking at Knightstown, Ind, by
some residents who do not approve
of intoXicatiOn.
John Morrelrs packing house, at OF
tumwa, Iowa, was burned, causing ;
loss of 100000.
Bradford X. Durfee, of Decatur, ha
been appointed state superintendent o
insurance by Governor Altgeld.
Emily NaderS, the actress, who wa
for some years leading support TO
Edwin Booth, has become insane from
overstudy.
New York bankers unanimously agre,
that the financial situation is improved
and the outlook is bright.
Mgr. Satoli made a decision in
Colorado case which is considered a vic
tory for Archbishop Ireland.
Queen Regent Christine is sufferin:
danger.
Twelve buildings burned at Maxwell
Cal. Loss, 100000. The fire was in
cendiary.
Buffalo bankers met and adopte,
resolutions for the repeal OF the Sher
man law.
The bolt and nut trust decided t,
suspend production for time, owing t,
dullness of trade.
Mamie Clark, Chicago, was convicted
of forgery and sentenced to one yea
in the penitentiary.
The j. A. Hartlett & Co. Lumbe
Commission company failed at st
Louis, owing $5O,OOO.
The Misses Carrie and Pearl Plan
are walking from MuskegOn, Mich, Il
the worlds fair.
Chief of Police Mitchell, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn, died from the effects o
u dose of morphine.
The wooden mills of j. Schofield /
Son, ut Madison, Ind, were destroyes
by tire. Loss, $4,000.
Warrants have been sworn on
against titty-tive residents at La Harpe
Ill., for poker playing.
Mrs. David Birbeck, wife of farmer
at Red Oak, Ia, committed suicide by
leaping into the river.
In a quarrel over a game of cards a
Hammond, Ind, Rosario Greco stabbed
Joseph perre to death.
Two Cinnamon of Petoskey, Mich.
viii test the validity of the Geary law
in the United States court.
Liquor dealers at Charleston will ties,
the South Carolina state saloon law by
an appeal to the high courts.
An explosion of gasoline caused the
death OF Mrs. Q. Z. Nanarsdale ant
Mary Hogefelt, at Beatrice, Neb.
William Schroeder, of Kalamazoo
Mich, is dead as a result of being hit
In the stomach with whipple-tree
James Townsend of Indian Territory
was deSpolled of $1,000 by three men,
supposed to be the Rally brothers.
Kane c. Reiney, Il business man OF
st. GAINESVILLE, o., fell from a train near
Union Center, Ind, and was killed.
At St Louis Joseph Boitano, a saloon.
keeper, committed suicide by shooting
xhe result OF a quarrel with his wife
The village of Brixlegge, in the Aus.
tr1an Tyrol, has been partly destroyed
by flood. Ten persons Were drowned
Claiming the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad has Disseminated against
them, Cedar Rapids shippers have filed
. $295OO0 damage suit.
Augustus Hemenway has invited the