Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-19
CONDENSED NEWS,

Inc New Jersey LeSlSldCuIc Las SOA
Yened at Trenton.
Fire on the main business street Of
Crested Butte, Col, on the 18th did
$4,000 damage.
A mild type of la grippe has broken
out in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Senator John 4. kenna of West Vir-
lgiria died Of heart disease.
The Indiana Shorthorn Breeders as
location is in session in Indianapolis
Twenty-Five bodies have been recoy-
cred from the ruins at Como, Colo.
Senator Hawley is renominated by a
caucus of Republican legislators in Con
necdcut.
The Chicago Presbytery faVOrs re-
vision Of the Presbyterian confession
of faith.
A Commercial Gable dispatch from
Paris tells the story of two old women
possessed of wealth dying in misery.
Lynchers and deputy sheriffs i'll West
Virginia engage in a bloody battle, in
which thirty-two men are said to have
been killed.
Charles Danley was instantly killed
at Macomb, Ill, by thirty tons of clay
dropping on him.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
see to be First Assistant Postmaster
General.
John Fleming, of CaseyVille, Ind,
was fatally injured while working in a
mine at Brazil on the 18th.
The Mexican National Railroad has
increased it's freight rates on corn 200
per cent.
The school at Prairie Mound, H., has
been closed on account of diphtheria.
Two deaths have occurred.
Republicans and POpulists in the Kan
sas house of representatives appoint
arbitration committees.
Seyenty-tiye union mOlders employed
IN the Sioux City, Iowa, stove works
re on strike because nOnuniOn mold
as are employed.
The union mOlders of Chattanooga
are about to strike on Il proposition TO
reduce their wages.
The Columbia Fire Insurance COM
pany, of Louisville, Ky, has beer
authorized to do business in this state
The Mississippi Logging company, OF
Eau Claire, will put in 65,OOO,OOO feet
OF logs In the vicinity of Mason this
winter.
Mrs. Frank Meyer, of Sturgeon Bay,
was committed to the northern hos
pital at Oshkosh.
The st. Josephs society, at Appleton,
has decided to build a new hall the
coming spring, to cost $4,000.
The marriage is announced of Miss
Cline, of Buchanan, to Wenzel Ian
genberg, of Appleton.
Miss Mary O'Gorman was married to
Thomas Devine. Both are residents OF
Racine.
Edwin Wheereatt, of Eau Claire
brother of George Wheereatt, of Supe
rior, has received $1,000 from an estate
In England, of which he is one of the
heirs, and it is said he will get Severa
thousand dollars more.
At the zinc works in Newark, n. j.
on the 18th, Il tramp who was sleep
ing near the furnace, was burned tC
death.
In attempting to shoot n mad dog
which had bitten his brother and faith
er, at Bridgeport, Conn, William Ly
ons, fifteen years old, blew off his left
hand.
Henry Wilson, who burglarized sew
eral stores ut Clay, City, ILL.,, Christ
mas night, has been captured at Green
castle, Ind.
The Alton street car system and its
electric franchises have been sold tC
an eastern syndicate which will us,
electricity as a motive power.
A plan for the settlement of the trans
continental rate trouble is said to have
been agreed upon.
The home of Thomas Purdy, wild
over hermit, near Holland, Mich, burn
ed on the night of the 10Th and will
it a collection of curiOS valued at $40,
600.
Ben Lafargue, son of the state super
intendent of education, has been lynch
ed in Avoyelles parish, La. He killed
a negro some weeks ago.
In the United States Court in vii
mington, Del, yesterday, sc indict
ments were found for election frauds
at the polls.
Ed. r. Gimberson, a livery man, OF
Omaha, Neb., shot his mistress, Mrs
Beach, fatally and committed suicide
on the 10th.
At Guthrie, O. T., the Legislature
convened at noon on the 10th. The
Republicans organized the upper house
and the Democrats and POpuliStS the
lower.
August Seimale, an inmate of the
New York State Soldiers and Sailors
Home at Bath fell from a ladder and
was instantly killed, his neck having
been broken by the fall.
\. O. Lenne, an employee of Boyer
Brothers, of West Superior, Wis, has
been arrested on the charge of forging
his employers names.
John w. Cree. an expressman OF
Elizabeth, n. J., has been arrested
charged with putting $500 of the funds
Of Court Columbus, Independent Order
of Foresters to his own uses.
Fully equipped proSpectors are flock
ing into San Juan, Henry Mountains
and Green and Colorado river placers
The gold excitement continues unabat.
ed.
Colonel Daniel S. Lamont authoritative
ly denied that Mr. Cleveland was die