Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-03-16

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of the men had on a pair OF the shoes
when arrested.
The quarterly conference of the lower
division Of the Women'S Auxiliary of
the diocese Of New Jersey is being held
at the Ascension Episcopal Church,
Atlantic City.
The Michigan House in committee of
the whole, on the 9th, agreed to a
joint resolution submitting the consitu-
tional amendment granting municipal
suffrage to women.
Reports from the district devastated
by the cyclone that swept through
Mississippi place the number OF desu-
tute families at 800, for whom the
Mayor at Meridian has asked aid.
Colonel John P. Weber, United States
Commissioner of immigration at New
York. has sent q letter to Secretary
Carlisle, resigning his position. He de
sires to be relieved of his duties March
10.
Police Captain John A. Mccullough
died at the Thirty-tifth street police sta
ton. New York ON the Sth. His deatn
was caused by hemmOrages. Captain
Mccullough, who was tifty-three years
of age. was connected with the New
York police department since lS64.
Rev. s. H. Buchanan, who for SIX
wears was treasurer of the board OF
trustees Of the insane asylum ut Little
Rock, Ark, was suspended Indefinitely
from the ministry on the Sth by the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.
John Spear and other sharp farmers
of Orleans, Ind, have bitten at the
green-goOdS-man's bait, and Spear vas
taken in to the extent Of $4,000 Tor
which he got twenty pieces of blank
paper.
The legislative assembly Of the IS
land Of Jersey has declared by vote
that quarantine is not preventive OF
cholera and has therefore refused to
establish a quarantine against vessels
from ports alleged to be cholera in
fected.
The treasury department has made
it necessary for any Chinese entering
the United States by Canada or Mexico
to prove their right, no passports or
other paeprs being accepted as prima
facie evidence of such right.
A freight train on the Sth on the
Chicago and Erie railway went through
the bridge over the Ottawa river at
Lima. Ohio, and took with it nineteen
cars, piIing them up in the river. The
engine and a few cars escaped. Three
tramps are supposed to be dead i'll the
ruins.
BY mistake of the engrossing clerk
the law just passed by congress grant
ing a large appropriation for the world s
fair will have to be dispensed by the
board of lady managers. The inser-
ton of one word brought about the
complication.
The national convention of the Irish
national federation was held in Dublin
on the Sth, Thomas Sexton presiding.
Mr. Sexton said if Ireland would hearth
ly help Mr.. Gladstone he would beat
down all opposition.
The bill consolidating all the Grand
Trunk railroad branch lines into one
system under the name Of the Grand
Trunk railroad company of Canada
has been passed by the railroad COM
mittee of the House of Commons.
! Suit has been commenced against the
Chicago and Northwestern road for
for $4,000 by the relatives of Michael
Gatfney of EIgin who was killed at
Elboln, Kane county, Il few days ago.
The company's of $1,000 was refused.
| The Naronlc which left Mersey Feb
ruaTy IL for New York, has not been
spoken for twenty-seven days, not since
she left Mersey, and none Of the hun
dreds Of vessels making the tlanS-At-
lantlc trip has sighted or obtained news
of her.
created i sensation on the night of
the Sth by passing resolutions scoring
several ministers whose harsh criticism
had been so pointed that they were
characterized in the resolutions as ''br1-
tai and vulgar"
Attorney General Stockton of New
jersey has officially announced the
parOchial school bill unconstitutional
on the ground that it provides for the
appropriation Of public money to pri-
vate corporations This opinion will
probably kill the bill
A bad rear end collision occurred at
Bellingham, Mimi. A mixed train was
standing at the station when a freight
train crashed into it. The mail and
passenger coaches were telescoped. Fire
started Immediately and the cars We're
soon destroyed. Mrs. Fernand of Bell,
ingham, was crushed to death.
Ephraim Young, a director Of the de,
funct Spring Garden National bank OF
Philadelphia, has been found guilty in
the United States district court of con
spiracy with President Kennedy and
the cashier, and with embezzling the
funds of the corporation.
The McMurray-Judge Iron company
of st. Louis made an assignment on the
night Of the Sth to the Mississippi Val
ley Trust company. Assets, $4,000
liabilities $4,000. 1t is expected the
company will have no trouble in resum
ing in a day or two.