Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-06-01
CONDENSED NEWS.

West Virginia boasts of a tWO-headed
woman who has two distinctly different
yoices-bass and tenor.
The members of the Mimi. railway |
and warehouse commission are likely to
ignore the decision of Attorney General
Ghilds in the matter of the Duluth |
State Elevator. They will go to Duluth
AND probably proceed to select a site
and arrange to begin work.
Two men named Merk and Mccain
are under arrest at Clarion, Pa, charg-
ed with numbering William Crawford,
a telegraph operator at FoXburg.
There is some talk of lynching the pri-
sonerS.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railroads annual meeting was held at
st. Louis and the old board of directors
reelected. Henry G. Rouse, William
Dowd, James I'll. Bond, Simon Sterne
and Charles G. Hedge represented the
New York interests.
Mrs. Mae Durham, nee Murphy, a
daughter of DR.. J. Fl. Murphy, and
well known in st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis society and musical circles, died
In st. Paul.
At the Gilsey house, New York, it
was said that Vice-President McMullin
of the Chicago and Alton railroad had
so far improved in health that he eX-
poets to leave for his home in Chicago
at once.
Louis Johnson, a special policeman
at Vincennes, Ind, assaulted G. ].
Grow and William Shockley. They
have brought suit for $1,000 damages
against the city.
Licenses were granted to thirty-sN
Rockford H., saloons at a council
meeting. On tie vote Mayor Hutch
ms voted againts license. The question
was then reconsidered and license tar
ried.
Fred Todd Of Cheboygan, Mich. and
Robert Wolfkei1 of Denver, Colo,
went out in a sailboat Sunday at st.
Ignace, Mich. Their boat was after
ward discovered capsized. 1t is thought
that the men persisted.
The supreme court of Minnesota, in
a decision at st. Paul, held that a
railway company is liable to garnish-
ment on goods that it is holding as u
warehouSeman after the termination of
transportation.
The Uncle Toms Cabin" collection
In the library of the woman's building,
Chicago, has been opened. 1t consists
of sixty copies which have been trans.
lated into as many different languages.
The collection has been loaned by the
daughters of Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
Lazard Freres shipped $1,O0O,OOO gold
on the steamer Spree, sailing for Europe
Tuesday. OF this amount 100000 was
drawn out of the New York subtreasu-
ry and paid for with 100000 in green.
backs and 100000 in treasury notes.
The temperance people of Frankton,
Ind, Saturday night destroyed the sa-
looms that had sprung into existence in
the last few months. Three of the
leaders of the mob were arrested and
are awaiting trial.
A mandate from the United States
supreme court was filed in Springfield,
ILL.,, in the case of Belle n. Wade against
the Chicago and st. Louis railroad di-
recting the Circuit court issue a decree
in her behalf for $4,000.
Robert Mckay, superintendent of
schools of Burlington, la, preferred
charges against Dr. Pope, Il teacher in
the high school. At the conclusion of
the trial before the board of education
resolutions were adopted generating
Pope and discharging Mckay.
La France has advices from NADIA
gascar that England is supplying arms
and ammunition to the Hovas, and
that in expectation of hostilities levies
of men are being made throughout the
island.
The striking Hull lockers have caus.
ed disturbances throughout the city.
Two non-unionists were beaten until
unconscious by unionists. The police
were stoned when they interfered and
had hard struggle before they could
rescue the two men.
The demonstration of the Irish Ma
uonal League of Great Britain, Lon
uon,, III Hyde park yesterday was Il
most enthusiastic affair About two
hundred and fifty thousand people
were present. Resolutions were adopt
ed approving Gladstone's home-ruIe
plan.
The woman who was taken from the
Everett house, New York, last week
with Col. Houston, U. S. A, both of
whom were suffering from alcoholism
and died soon after, is said to have been
the wife of Charles IL. Porter of Chi
cago, and of excellent family. But no
person by that name appears in the
city directory.
The duke and duchess of Veragua
and the ducal party went to the worlds
fair Monday by water. Under the es-
cort of Collector John NJ Clark and
Director-General Davis the party en-
barked on the revenue cutter Andy
Johnson at Van Buren, street. Landing
was made at the Casino pier. There
the JohnsOn's cutter guard" was put
at the service of the party and visits
were made at various points of inter,
est handy to the lagoon landings.
A coatimondi, a species of ant-eater,
which is owned by Joseph Wallace, of
Brunswick, Ga, does not confine itself
TO destroying ants, but has committed
several robberies of jewelry, money and
other articles of value. All the articles,
however, have been recovered in out-of-
the-way places, where the animal had
hidden them
M IplEstS Ill,