Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-23
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>. A. castle " 20, importers Oh IdHcy
goods, New York, assigned.
The price of coal in London has risen
three shilllngs more per ton,
The Grand Duke Vladimir, brother
of the car, is visiting Berlin.
Baron IIonigswaeter. AN Austrian
millionaire, died from apopleXy.
Anarchrsm was warmly discussed
in the British house of commons.
The knights of Labor held their an
nual convention in Philadelphia.
President Cleveland went to New
York on political and private business
The United States Pacific coast
squadron is to be concentrated at Hon
oiulu.
Taylor 4 Co, hardware dealers,
Main street, Norwalk, Conn, have as
signed.
George w. Lyon, surveyor of Gus
toms at the port of New York, has
resigned
A fire at Fergus Falls, Mimi, caused
a loss of 100000, with insurance less
than half.
Emperor Francis Joseph, Of Austria,
is on a visit to the regent of Bavaria,
at Munich.
President CIeveland's Hawaiian policy
is said to be supported by every mem
Der OF his g..
1t is thought in Washington that
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without bloOdShed.
Unexpected legal complications have
arisen to prevent the union of Duluth
and w Duluth, MINI.
Indianas secretary of state has re-
fused incorI ration papers to the new
athletic club of Roby.
Employees of the exposition are be
ing steadily dropped. Scores Of heads
are cut off each day.
J.. Il. Letter notified trustees of the
Columbian project, Chicago, that he
would give 100000 in cash.
Emperor William has decided that
the next manoeuvers of the German
army shall be held in Silesia.
John Boyd Thatcher, has been over
ruled at nearly every point in his de
eisions governing the awards.
Efforts to re-establish the old repub-
lican union in France are being made
by several parlamentarianS.
Miss Miller, a school teacher, was
attacked by a tramp at Columbia City,
Ind. Lynching is threatened.
Spirit Lake, Iowa, high school pupils
rebel against an order prohibiting them
from attending evening parties.
j. Carl Aker, Il well-known baker at
Delaware City, Del, while suffering
from demcntia, killed himself.
Evidence has been found at Contra
ia, ILL.,, indicating that the McClellands,
father and son. were murdered.
acts of incendiarism at Milwaukee, is
to be examined as to his insanity.
Superior and Duluth mills ground
$500 barrels of flour last week, eX-
ceedng the record by 6,43O barrels.
General Rusk suffers intense pain
and in consequence is growing weaker.
He is at his Viroqua, Wis, home.
A federal grand jury is investigating
the chal Ees that Bank Wrecker Mosher
is allowed to leave the Omaha Jail.
Mormons of the United States are
arranging for the purchase of 100000
acres of land in Chichuahua, Mexico.
Of hn 70, he
Jays ar~l means committee favor an
income < and free coal and iron ore.
Rev. William BIackwood, for forty
years pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian
church, Philadelphia, died in Balti-
more. aged 90.
-Four new cases of yellow fever were
reported at Brunswick, Ga, all of
which are colored. Two white people
died.
Three prisoners, one under a life
sentence for murder, escaped from
Jail at Birmingham, Ala. Dogs are
on their trail.
j. w. Doane, of Chicago, and Frederic
A.. Coudert. of New York. were ap-
pointed additional receivers of the
Union Pacific railroad.
James Grassman wants $4,000 from
the city of Muncie. Ind, for the
treatment he received as q smallpox
suspect.
Clark county. Indiana, is infested
with thieves. Residents are aroused
and bloodhcunds have been put on the
trails.
Claire Robinson was sentenced to
three years at Laporte, Ind, for the at
tempt to rob the Valparaiso normal
school.
Five masked men robbed the house
of Farmer Tolackson near ViroQua,
Wis. securing $40 in money and valu-
able jewery.
Herman and Otto Habeck of Vein,
Wis, admit that they killed their
drunken father at the instance of their
mother.
Members of the Dalton gang are los
ing caste. They held up a man for
81 near Blackwell in the Cherokee
Strip.
Ten Russian conDvicts detained at
San Francisco issue an appeal to re-
main, preferring American jails to
Siberia.
Taking Miss FoX's testimony in pre-
ference to William S. ThroOp's, a De
triot jury awarded her $1,000 for
breach of promise
Silver has declined to 20 cents per