Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-10-04
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
AT HOME.

encampment at Princeton Oct. II.
Bushnell, H., fair opened with I'M
usually large entries in all classes.
The schools ar Middleton, md. nave
been closed on account of diphtheria.
The Columbia was formally accepted
by Secretary Herbert.
FItzsimmons knocked Creedon out
in the second round.
Fire in st. Vincent, \. Y, de-
stroyed most of the business part Of
the town.
The battle ship Maine attained a
speed Of II II knots an hour on her
trial trip.
About 200 employees of the Germania
Silk Mills, at Holyoke; Mass, went
out on strike for higher wages.
A steamer and a schooner collided
on Lake Huron. Both vessels sank,
and five lives were lost.
The strike commission decided to
hear no more testimony, and will be
gin the preparation of a report.
Senator Hill was nominated for gov
ernOr against his wishes by New York
democrats.
Charles Black of st. Paul, sentenced
to be hanged Friday at MiSsOula
Mont, was respited until Oct. 20.
The Chicago Western is said to con.
template the laying of a second track
through most of Illinois
Andrew WEIGH and Abner and Ed
ward Nichols escaped from Jail a
kdel, Iowa.
Canton, Ohio, is to have the Eas
Ohio Met odist Episcopal conference
IN 1898
At Harrisburg, Pa, Judge McPhcr
son ruled that rafties were gambling
and illegal.
Albert Dedmon was crushed and
killed by threshing machinery neal
Warsaw, Ind.
George Doran was arrested at Barry
Ill, for criminally assaulting Clara
Bland, aged 10.
William Vandoren, a farmer liyins
near Adrian, Mich, was killed by {
abroad train.
Work has been begun on a new til
.nill at New Lisbon, Ohio, that will
employ 200 men.
The annual reunion Of the old set
tiers of Greene county, Illinois, wa
held at Carrollton.
John Arts. a colored carpenter o
Kokomo, Ind, fell from barn nea
Upton, Ind, and was killed.
r. Pine Coffin, its general manager
was appointed receiver of the Shelby
vile, H., Water and Light company
Judge B. w. Poor and wife, o
Dubuque, Iowa, celebrated their COLDER
wedding.
Secretary Carlisle has concluded hi
visit with President Cleveland at Buz
Yards Bay and gone to New York.
Herman Schuette, 10 years of age
was fatally injured by being run owe
by an electric car at Springfield, Ill
Taking effect at once, the time sys
EN- will replace piece work i'll tn,
pyernment printing office.
The strike commission closed its pub
c hearings and began consideration
its report in secret session.
At the opening of the branch COUNT
fair at Coldwater, Mich, $4,000 per
sons attended.
George Humphreys, a farmer nea
Gainesville, Texas, was shot ant
killed by John Magruder.
While trying to save her baby iron
a fire caused by the explosion of
gasoline stove Mrs. Charles Palmer, o
Akron, Ohio, was burned to death.
Erie canal boatmen formed a com
pany at Buffalo, n. Y, for the con
struction of an elevator, to cost abOu
$4,000.
The Cerro GordO county fair opened
!" Mason City, Iowa. The attendance
VAS fair and the exhibits in all de
partments large.
The case of Professor Swithen C
Shortidge, who murdered his wifi,
in sudden fit of insanity, came up TO
trial at Media, Pa.
George Jacobs, of Muncie, Ind, ha
sued Daniel II. Fox, of Albany, Ind.
for $4,000 for alternating the affections
of Mrs. Jacobs
Bert WATSON and Ben Minard son:
of prominent DeS MOineS county farm
ers are in jail at Burlington, Iowa
charged with robbery.
Emanuel Fox. aged a. was discov
cred lying at the bottom of the stair
way in his bachelor quarters at Yves
Lebanon, Ohio, with his neck broken
William Wilson, aged 40, is under ar
rest at Johannesburg, Mich, chargeI
with aSsauiting the 11-year-Old daugh
ter OF Eugene Smith, of that place.
The receiver of the Fort Madison
IOWA, packing house was granted per
Mission by the courts to lease TIL
lint to John Cudahy, of Chicago.
The annual convocation of the chap
r general of the Knights of st. Johl
ld Malta of American opened at Tor
,ato, Ont. this morning.
Rev. J. f. Dickie, pastor of tn,
General Presbyterian church Of De
troit, will accept a call to the Amer
lean church in Berlin, Germany
The conrpoSitors and pressmen of tt,
Bulletin. Of Anderson, Ind, struck be
cause nOn-union operators were en-
ployes on type-setting machines.
The trial of James Livingston tht