Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-12-28
IN GENERAL.

Chicago NOrWegianS are subscribing
money to purchase the viking ship,
which is now at Baton Rouge La.
The Buffalo real estate exchange ap-
pointed committee of five to urge the
legislature to enlarge the Erie canal.
Hog cholera is epidemic near Webster
City, Iowa, and hundreds of animals
are dying. The loss so far reaches
$40 900.
A New York relative of Montana
Millionaire Davis thinks there is a
plan to defraud her and wants the
case reOpened.
Judge Sawyer, Of Milwaukee, refused
to release Mrs. Marion Y. Dudley from,
guardianship until she appeared be-
fore him.
Newton Hanks hanged himself to a
rafter at Pittsburg, Kan. He was at
tired in feminine clothes Of the finest
quality.
Omaha's board of fire and police
commissioners have been petitioned by
business men to dismiss Fire Chief
GaIIigan.
Commodore IHigginson's boat Ice
King won the first Of the season
races ON the Hudson.
AS the result of the withdra wal of
an Oshkosh concern the trunk trust
has collapsed.
John B. Koetting, Milwaukee alleged
bank wrecker, thinks if he is acquit-
ted he will be assassinated.
Practical jckers put gunpOwder in
the tobacco of Benjamin Davis at Yap-
hank, L. l., and he was blinded by the
explosion.
Louisiana's supreme court has up
held the New Orleans police commits
sioners in their conflict of authority
with the mayor.
Out of work and Respondent, Henry
Weber, a New York tailor, hanged
himself il sight of three mOtherleSS
children.
Earnest study of the scriptures is
enjoined by Pope Leo in his latest en-
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bOns
A novel experiment in the way of
photographing the earth from the
/ clouds was tried by the weather bu-
reau officials at st. Louis.
! Senator Wolcott of Colorado, now
under treatment at Paris, will, it is
said, be restored to health after a few
weeks of rest.
| Haughey's bank failure at Indiana
polls has caused Il dissolution of the
street railway brotherhood, the strong
est union organization in that city.
Chief Justice Fuller has announced
to the bar that at the close of Fridays
session the supreme court of the
| United States would adjourn until
! Wednesday, January 3.
Harry L. Spring, who tried to Dor
row $500 from Marshall Field and sue.
ceeded in securing 80 cents from
| Moses P. Handy, has been arrested al
New York.
Miss Mercedes Flows, 10, whose fam
lily live in Chicago, committed suicide
at the L0rett0 convent at Ha1nllCOn
Ont, Friday night by taking NOR
phine.
Counsel has been retained at Ioungs
town, Ohio, by employees who were
poisoned at Homestead during the
labor troubles to commence suit foi
damages aggregating 81 100000 against
the Carnegie company.
Gen Alfred Z. Parkinson Of WiScon
sin has been appointed reading clerk
of the senate at Washington, to sue
coed e. w. Forth, who has been ap
pointed postmaster at Milwaukee.
During the lake season just CLOSED
100000 barrels of flour were received
and handled at the port of Buffalo
making that city the greatest fioul
depot in the world. The value of the
ficerS, but in all these cases the offic.
must have been created and the power
of appointment invested in him by con
greSS.
Third. he may, to aid himself in tn,
performance and exercise Of his execu
tive powers, if convenient, appoint /;