Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-20
TELEGRAMS in BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

All Il DItteE struggle 10 De CHOSEN per-
manent capital of Montana.
Little Estelle Wingate Roots hair
was cut off by New York thief, who
choked her into silence in the base
ment of her home
Charles B. Chauyin, a wealthy miser
living near Detroit, Mich, was MUIR
dered for his money.
Jackson refuses to follow Corbett's
City.
Congressman Baldwin was renomi-
mated by the sixth district democratic
convention at st. Cloud, Mimi
The sultan of Turkey donated 300
Turkish pounds to the Minnesota and
Wisconsin fire sufferers.
Two men were killed and three in
jured by a wreck of freight trains
IN the HOosac tunnel
j. A. McClary, of Newark, n. J.,
saved the lives of two bathers at AS
bury Park.
The American bark Alice, from Ha-
three cases OF yellow fever on board.
Harry Highly, of st. Louis, was
killed in a quarrel over cards by Con-
stable Streeper, at Upper Alton, Ill.
Miss Mamie Dentson was married
to Frederick E. Keller, at Mason City,
Iowa.
Richard Lawrence died at Charles
ton, ILL.,, from the effects of a dose
of morphine.
Mrs. Andrew Dodds, aged 70 years,
one of the founders of the Presby-
terrain church at Galena, ILL.,, is dead.
At Gravesend Dutch Skater won the
Fulton handicap and the Youthful
stakes were captured by Harry Reed.
-Four architects and builders have
been arrested in Milwaukee, charged
with an attempt to defraud the county.
Kansas farmers are selling their
hogs for transportation charges to
market, having nothing to feed them.
In a suit at Bloomington, Ill, Judge
Tipton ruled that druggists were not
compelled to sell to colored people.
The New York constitutional conven-
ton rejected all the canal amend
mentS.
The biennial convention of the
brotherhood of locomotive fremen
was held at Harrisburg, Pa.
I The town of Dalton, Ohio, was
burned by an incendiary, the loss be-
ing $250,000.
Monroe Salisbury was expelled from
the tracks of the trotting associa ton
which controls Fleetwood park.
Another gas explosion occurred at
Alexandria, Ind, wrecking business
block and injuring two women.
Baltimore celebrated the anniversary
of the defeat of the British at Fort
MoHenry and North Point in 1914.
Judge James r. Doolittle was nomi-
mated for congress by the democrats
of the lirst Wisconsin district.
Secretary Carlisle will decline to pay
sugar bountieS earned but unpaid
when the tariff law went into effect.
Hessie, the fayorite, won the Coving-
ton selling stakes for 2-year-olds, the
feature of the card at Latonia.
Don Pic Pico, the last Mexican gov
ernor OF California, died at Los An
geles. He was Oh years old.
The Winsted silk company at Win
sted, Conn, has started work on full
time.
fire consumed $4,000 worth of prop
perty at Rushyille, Neb. The insur-
ance is about $2700.
Bernard Toker, a Connelsville Pa.)
coke-worker, was shot and killed and
his wife Mary was fatally wounded
by Frank Norris, an 1S-year-old boy.
Louis, Kansas City, and Colorado
railroad, a line running from St Louis
TO Union, distance of about sixty
miles.
Adiel Sherwood, son of Judge Sher-
wood, formerly assistant attorney of
the st. Louis and San Francisco rail
road, was appointed receiver of st.
The North Anderson Window Glass
company put twenty pots of their forty
pot plant in operation, giving employ
menC TO 800 skilled workmen.
Sarah Mitchell instituted divorce pro-
ceedings against her husband, Bloom
Mitchell, at MartinsvilIe, Ind, alleging
that he is a bigamist.
The 5-year-old daughter of jeremiah
Donovan. of Bloomington, ILL.,, choked
to death by getting coffee bean fast
In her Windpipe.
Newell Gastineau, of Ladoga, Ind,
was sentenced by Judge Harvey to
three years in the penitentary for
horse stealing.
Secretary Carlisle has approved the
sale of the government building on the
worlds fair grounds to a wreckine
company.
In the free-for-all pacing race al
Point Breeze Mascot covered the mile
IN 2:0S, defeating Saladin, his only
opponent.
At 1erre Haute Fantasy lowered the
record for 4-year-old mares, trotting
the mile in 2:06, beating her own time
record one second.
Jockey Berger was ruled off the turf
by Judge Clark at Harlem for crooked
riding and vile language toward
Judges.
In a speech at Fort Springs Colone