Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-29
CONDENSED NEWS.


&c.
B.. H. Ridgely, of Kentucky, has been
appointed consul at Geneva, Swltzer-
land.
Secretary Smith has discharged TWEEN
ty-eight special pension examiners, all
republicans.
The validity of the Illinois anti-pool
selling ordinance of 1889 was affirmed
by the supreme court.
The claim of the dowager duchess OF
Sutherland to possession Of Tittensor
Chase has been dismissed.
The validity of the anupool selling
ordinance Of 1889 was affirmed by the
supreme court of Illinois.
r. u w. Pauls malthouse and gran
airy at Ipswich, Eng, were destroyed
by fire, entailing loss Of 100000.
The steambarge S. q. Clark, formerly
the Nipigon, was burned i'll Lake huron.
Her crew escaped in the boats.
A part of the abbey building at New
EngleDurg, Mo, occupied by Benedlc-
tine monks was blown down.
c. Crane u Co., lumber dealers at
Cincinnati, have assigned. The assets
are $35OOOO and the liabilities $15O,OOO'
The convention of Canadian liberals
adjourned after passing resolutions Ill
favor OF tariff reform and reciprocity
HAIRY Morgan, Ii years old, quarrel
ed with his sweetheart at OtrumWa,
Ia, and committed suicide.
Charles L. Whalen was sentenced at
GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, TO twenty-five years
imprisonment Tor the murder Of Gerald
Spaulding.
Charles Hastings was fatally injured
by Big Four passenger tram at Ire
mont, LII. He was walking on the
track.
CornellS freshman crew defeated Co
lumbia ut New London. The tWo-mlle
course was covered III 1905.
Clifford captured the Latonia prize,
carrying 129 pounds and running the
mile and an eighth in LOB L..
The st. Louis brewing association
stakes were won by st. Joe, with Verge
dor second.
The cut i'll tranScontinental rates by
the Southern PacInc has been met by
the Canadian PACING with st1 further
reduction OF 10 per cent.
Rates OF sol nrSt class and $33 second
class, st. Paul to San francisco, Were
announced by the Great Northern.
ted to the Order of ElkS Ut the grand
lodge session in Detroit. The parade
was notable one.
Governor Peck welcomed the aSSOcia-
ton of railway telegraph superintend-
ents TO Milwaukee through the aid OF
d pEonograph.
A portrait of Ex-Governor S. j. Kirk
wood was unveiled in the governor 5
office ut Des MoineS, Iowa. Speeches
were made by many prominent men.
During tornado in Adair county, o..
child was carried twenty rods through
the air by the wind and escaped unhurt
Jerry kinney, Il detective OF Indian
apolis, is suspected OF having shot Mrs.
Mabel Vance, and his case will be i'll
yeStigated.
a machiue for breaking pig iron, COLI
sitting OF Il reciprocatlng hammer, carry
ing dies, arranged stepWise 50 aS To
strike the pigs III succession, and mec-
hanism for feeding the iron forward
The resignation of Henry Willard aS
president of the Northern Pacific board
of directors has been accepted and the
office abolished.
The car has officially thanked the
commissioners who negotiated the eX-
the United States.
Simon Wade, Joshua Calvin, Sam JET
ferson and Primus Brown have been
sentenced to be shot by the Chuctaw
court for murder.
Washington Bumaker, aged ~, was
instantly killed by lightning in Johnson
County, Ind. His brother lay near his
feet but was not hurt.
Rev. Rodney Edwards, formerly pas
Tor of Trinity Church in San Francisco,
was arrested charged with embezzling
$500 trust funds.
z During cyclone at Conception, Mo-,
the house of John Doyle was blown
down anu Doyle, his wife and an un-
known man We're killed.
1t is said Justice Fitzgerald, of the
California supreme court, will be nam
ed by Gov. Markham as United States
senator to succeed Mr.. Stanford.
Seward A. Simons, a lawyer of Buffa,
10, is on trial for violating the alien
labor law. He is accused Of sending
to Canada for a coachman and a gar
dener.
Mile. Landa1t, a dancer at Schnai-
der's garden in st. Louis, stepped on a
tack while performing a toe polka, and
will be incapacitated for the season.
Petitions have been addressed to Gov
Flower, of New York, declaring that
troops are not needed at TonaWanda
and asking their withdrawal.
A man giving the name of Page from
New York was arrested at Waterloo
Ia, charged with swindling a farmer
out of $4,000 on a patent-right scheme
The Ellsworth Packing and Provision
company assigned. The assets are
about $4,000, and liabilities one-Quar
ter of that amount.
Mrs C1avnIond and 20 nv P,,th bave