Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-08-03
CONDENSED NEWS.

Eight hundred tents will be pitched
In River Front park, Denver, as a
place of refuge for the destitute.
At Clarence Creek, Ontario, lightning
struck the house Of J. B. Landey, kill
ing his two daughters, aged Is and lO
years.
Robert II. Foss, of Chicago, is report
ID to be dying at Dover, n. H., from
q paralytic stroke.
Nicaraguan insurgents have captured
the city of Managua and declared Gen
eral Seelaya dictator.
The Florida Central railway system
has been sold to the Plant Investment
company for S13,OOO,OOO.
Benjamin H. Ticknor, of Boston, do
ing business as Ticknor & Co., publish
ers, has made an assignment.
General George w. Morgan, of Mt.
Vernon, Ohio, the only surviving gen
eral of the Mexican war, has died at
Fortress Monroe.
The increase in national bank cir
culation during July so far has been
S5,S6S,75O.
Charles McGinnis, of Princeville, ILL.,,
gas killed by a freight train at Pc
oria
Alexander Blessing of Wesley City,
a., was killed by a runaway horse
at Peoria.
Canadian spectators have lost 80
100000 by the re t decline in the
values of stocks.
A dozen buildings in the vicinity
nf Concord, n. H, ere demolished by
4 wind storm.
John A. Porter, a sWitchman, fell
nd had his head cut off by an en-
gine at Terre Haute.
The Bates mills at Lewiston, Me-,
within be closed on August 5, and ], 800
zen will be made idle.
Bunco men secured $4,000 from Rob
ert Elliott, a rich farmer living near
Fayette City, Pa.
The First National bank and the
Spokane Savings bank at Spokane,
Wash, have suspended.
Robert Morrison, a StOckman, was
fatally injured at Charlottesville, Ind,
by his horse falling on him.
The Pittsburg wire works at Brad
dock, Pa, have been closed, and 500
men are out of employment
The 12-year-old daughter of James
4. Pennington, of HillsbOrO, ILL.,, was
atally burned while cooking dinner.
H b. Nemitz, who stole SD, 1000 from
;he Swiss commission at the world S
fair, was arrested in Toronto, Ont.
Twenty seven persons were poisoned
" impure milk at Louisville. Three
VI the sufferers are in serious con-
.ition.
-Four hundred houses were wrecked
md many persons killed and injured
10Y an explosion of powder magazine
at Canton, China.
The government surveying corps i'll
.ae Cherokee strip has located and
staked off nine sites tor county seats,
and also located two land Offices.
The Obermann Brewing company,
Milwaukee, involved in the suspension
of 'Mitchells bank" made an assign
ment TO protect creditors.
Four kinds OF ice-cream made in
one day by the Naber Brothers, con-
PETITIONERS of Brooklyn, n. Y, poisoned
between twenty and thirty people,
some OF them seriously.
a mob of unemployed workmen III
Denver took Dan Arata, the murderer
Of B. G. Ughtfoot, from Jail and
anged him to tree.
A Cheyenne, Wyoming, dispatch says
II is understood that Senator Beck
with has resigned and that A. l.. New,
recently appointed internal revenue
collector for Colorado and Wyoming,
will be his successor.
Howard Mutchler (dem) has been
elected to congress from the eighth
Pennsylvania district to ill the yacan-
cy caused by the death of his father.
DR.. K. l.. Watkins, of New York, has
aad himself inoculated with the baccil-
,us of consumption in order to test
mis- theory that consumption is not con-
tagious.
George n. CaIman, principal of the
St Paul high school, has been chosen
associate professor and dean of the
preparatory department Of the univer-
sity of Chicago.
Governor Altgeld has offered re-
ward of $500 each for the apprehension
and conviction of the members of the
mob that lynched Bradshaw at Kings
ton on July 10.
1t is reported that United States
Senator A. &. BeclkWith, of Wyoming,
is about TO resign in consequence Of a
quarrel with Governor Osborne regard
ne federal appointments.
So far this year 1,T49 retail liquor Ii
censes have been issued in the north
ern district of Iowa, an increase of
400 over 1892
a war in rates is in progress in In
dianapolis. Round trip worlds fair
tickets are offered at So, a reduction
OF $3.50.
Sheriff NJ. NJ. Smith, of Cleveland
county,, Ark, claims to have been
fobbed in Little Rock of 81 ,2SS of state
unds.
Frank Laughlin, who lives near Van
Vert, O., shot and killed his wife in
quarrel. He fed and has not been
found.
No clue has been obtained to the
murderer, Of Mrs. o..