Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
IEIEGRAMS IN BRIEF,
DOMESTIC.
ey iectured in Duluth.


defeated by the Britannia.
The cash balance and gold reserve
Of tie United States treasury increase.
Forest fires are raging in the vicini-
ty of West Superior.
a policeman at Hastings, Mimi, was
fatally shot by a burglar.
Theodore Bruener was nominated
register of the land office at st. Cloud.
Norfolk, Neb., will secure a $4,000
public building.
Heat has done great damage to Da-
aota crops
The Loyal Temperance Legion met
IN Racine with $50 delegates.
Grain growers of Minnesota met at
Minneapolis to organize to further
their interests.
Justice Bailey refused a writ of
error in the Prendergast case and the
assassin was hanged Friday.
Western lines have issued instruc-
lions to agents and connections to
again receive all classes of freight.
One man was killed and two others
fatally injured by the collapse of an
overloaded wharf il Boston.
W. j. f. Leonard, New Yorker, has
Invented a bullet-proof coat, which he
claims is superior to Herr Doves
The cOnfereeS on the tariff bill
worked six hours and do not agree
upon a single item.
The attempt to get all the trades
unions of Chicago out on q strike
called.
Congressman Loren Fletcher was re-
dominated by the republicans of the
minneapolis district.
The entire business portion of st.
Cairsyille, O., was burned loss $780,
900.
Bartholomew Shea, Robert Ross
slayer in the Troy election riots, is
sentenced to die.
The department of agriculture re-
ports an Improvement in the condition
of winter wheat.
Electric car men of Indianapolis are
rejoicing in an advance of l cent an
hour, justified by bigger receipts.
Strikers are rapidly resuming work
in all parts of the country, and the
train service on nearly all the roads
is nearly normal.
The steam shovel engineers and
helpers at Virginia Mimi, and at
Mountain Iron have struck for in
creased wages; mines closed
Gen. Dan Macauley, of Indian
apolis, is dead. lie was three times
mayor, ana colonel of the eleventh
Indiana, organized by Lew Wallace.
John Drake, of Anderson, Ind, shot
and killed his wife, from whom he
had separated; then suicided. Jealousy
was the cause.
The Minnesota republican state con
Venti,s~ met at st. Paul. Gov. Mel
son was renominated without opposi-
ton.
Many severe shocks of earthquake
were felt in ConstaninOple and ada
cent territory. Many lives were lost
and enormous damage done property
The Yale athletes who went abroad
have been arrested for setting off fire
works in OXfo"d on July 18th. They
were released on payment of costs
The pottery workers strike in New
Jersey is over. This means work for
1000 men. Ohio's 5000 men may also
resume work.
The supreme court of New York has
granted a certificate of reasonable
doubt in the case of EraStus Wiman,
which acts as stay on the sentence.
Minnesota populists placed a fun
ticket in the field, headed by S. NJ
Owen for governor. Debs' arrest was
characterized as unjust and unwise.
The rational convention of retail
clerks met at st. Paul, Mimi, with
light attendance, many delegates
haying been delayed.
Only one bid for the entire $1,000
600 per cent. Chicago drainage bonds
was received and they will be read
vertised.
L. 9. Hanford, vice president of the
National Linseed Oil company, shot
himself in Chicago hotel because of
financial troubles.
Judge Tuley will issue a decree en-
Joining Cook county from proceeding
with its suit in ejectment against the
city.
Publishers of the Chicago city direct
DRY for 1894, which is being distrib-
uted, estimate Ch.cago's population at
1885, 900 persons.
Memorials asking for the impeach-
ment of Attorney General Olney and
President Cleveland will be circulated
Cor signatures and sent to congress.
Firemen on the nine divisions of
the Big Four have been ordered out
because the company refused to re-
store he 1898 wage scale.
Strikers ave gained ground at To
aedo. Organizer Spence in an address
TO 1000 workmen said civil war was
threatened.
The river and harbor bill was re-
ported to the senate 1t shows an in
crease of $3.OS7, 400 over the amount
appropriated by the house.
Democratic members of the tariff
conference committee are still far
apart on the more III portant schedules
tnf the bill.
United States troops charged a mob
at Whiting, Ind, which had seized a
Lake Shore brakeman and was en-