Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-26
NEWS.

Josiah Begale, died in Jackson, Miss,
aged eighty years.
Rev. J. A. Brouse, one of the earliest
Methodist divines in Illinois, died at
Rockford, aged 80 years.
A dispatch from Louisville says that
a further advance of five cents has
been established by the whisky trust.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, is lying
i'll at his residence III Washington from
the effects of a heavy cold.
lished in KokomO, Ind, in the interest
of the peoples party has made an as
Signment.
The proposed exhibition Of public
school methods at Brooklyn at the
worlds fair has been abandoned by the
board of education.
Ex-MayOr William H. Wickman died
at his residence in New York. He was
mayor Of New York city from 1874 to
1876
Abraham P. Bryant, a cousin TO Will
lam Cullen Bryant, the poet, is dead at
his sons home in Eau Claire, Wis. He
was 81 years old.
Henry S. Goldman, the active head of
the Landscape Department of the Co
lumbar exposition, died at st. Luke's
hospital, Chicago.
The Mexican authorities will deliver
Lewis, the absconding official Of the
Lombard Investment company, to the
Kansa City authorities.
Invitations were sent out through
Col. HC.Corbin, United States army,
to their staffs to participate in the Pres
idential Inauguration ceremonies.
The Census office committee yeSter-
day resumed the investigation it conduct
ed rather dsultorily last session into the
management of the Census office.
At Lincoln, Neb., Jacob NJ. Morris,
postmaster, has been deposed by In
Spector Laughlin. The latters investl-
cation shows Mr.. Morris to be behind in
his cash to the extent Of 81, 400.
1t is announced that Prof. Koch, the
German bacteriologist, is to have lab
ora tory dedicated in his name next sum
mer in the United States Army Hospi-
tails at the worlds fair.
At Denison, Texas, in q premature in
the yards of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad, two men, named George
Hampton and Jerry Mylie, were killed
and two other labOrerS seriously injured.
Abraham Gimble of Vincennes, Ind,
died at bis home of paralysis. He was
native of Bavaria, Germany, and
came to this country in 1854. His re-
mains will be inferred in Terre Haute.
All quiet at this end of the Rio
Grande valley is the first sub-head of
Il letter received at the department of
state from Mr.. Richardson, United
States consul at Matamoras, Mexico.
The building 1O2 and 104 Walnut ST.,
Kansas City, occupied by the Jaccard
Watch company and the Kansas City
Art School was burned. Loss 4O,OOO;
insurance, 100000
The deadlock in the Nebraska legiS-
lature was broken and the two houses
met in joint session to canyasSed votes.
Gov. BOyd'S farewell message was read
and Gov. Grouse duly installed.
The following appointments to the
military academy have been made:J.W.
Adams, Adamsdale, as alternately. w.
Campbell, Shenandoah, Pa, with RW.
Powers Jr., Philadelphia, and ]. G. Ray
mOnd as alternateS
Frank Cushman, one of the promi-
young men in Chattanooga, Tennessee,
and a brother-in-iaW of Senator Perkins
of Kansas, was arrested and sent to jail
by the postal authorities for robbing
the mail.
Mayor j. Taylor Ellison, of Richmond,
Va, president of the Jefferson Davis
monument association, says it is prOba-
bic that the remains Of Mr.. Davis will
be removed from New Orleans to Rich
mond for final interment in the early
spring.
The Minneapolis Trust company is Su-
ing the North Star Construction compa-
ny Of Minneapolis, to secure the pay
ment of the sum of S591, 492. The at
tachment bonds are the only papers yet
on file.
At Sioux City, Ia, DIV. Wood, law
yer, preacher and temperance agitator,
has been convicted of obtaining $1,000
under false pretenses. Wood was the
original prosecutor of saloons existing
contrary to law.
At Philadelphia James A.Merrill, for
merly clerk in the office of the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad at Baltimore,
has been arrested, charged with having
defrauded the railroad company. Mer-
rin is alleged to have filled out passes
and sold them
The creditors Of F.Witherow and
Company have arranged to start the
mill at Newcastle, Pa, about Feb. l.
Another meeting Of creditors will be
held again next week. Witherow SAYS
he is satisfied with the reorganization.
About S75, 900 has been raised as a work
ing capital.
Mr.. Won konsku, who has been for
years in charge of the weekly Volks-
freund of Cincinnati, is missing from
home and his employer finds that the
accounts are short. The sum may reach
$4,000 Won Konsku, who was known
as Count, has been living beyond his
salary.
At Detroit, Mich, the committee of
vessel owners appointed to meet with
the underwriters to fix upon a system of
inSnection classification and ral11at ton