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

The board Of education has decided
to employ gas for heating purposes in
sixteen o. the largest school buildings
in Chicago.
Colonel Thomas G. LaWler, of Rock
ford, ILL.,, was elected commander-in-
chieG of the G. \. Il. at the PittsOur.
encampment.
B. +. Felt, wealthy citizen Of
Galena, ILL.,, has founded a public IL
brary there and will maintain it for
two years.
Major n. S. Boynton, founder Of
the Maccabees, was elected great com
mander at the annual convention in
Lansing, Mich.
Because the Chicago and Alton rail
road will not give them Il new depot,
business men of Joliet have boycotted
the road.
Supervisors at Charleston, H., will
bring suit against the county officials
for ten years back to recover alleged
shortages.
Speaking before Michigan bankers
Comptroller Eckels said the recent
panic was the result of vicious legiS-
lation.
United States engineers are cOnSid-
ering the plan of connecting Lake Su-
perior with the Mississippi river by a
canal.
William Enochs, of MartinsyilIe, Ind.
has been driven from his home by
white caps for alleged cruelty to his
wife.
Grave robbers at indianapolis have
stolen the body Of John Cline from
the burying ground Of the insane hos
pital.
Unknown negroes at Akron, Ohio,
bound Mrs. Wahlhustur, put her in the
cellar and set fire to her house but she
was rescued.
1t was learned that the suicide Of
William T. Winsor in New York was
due to financial embarrassments re-
sulting from reckless extravaganza.
Rev. Father Hurst, of Austin, Texas,
will be raised to a bishop at the
Church of the Sacred Heart in South
Bend, Ind.
Baptists at Liberty Center, Ind,
have decided to eXpel Rev. j. w. POr
ter, who is involved in several scan
dalS.
The death of &. C. Romans was an
nounced on the New York stock eX-
change. Mr.. Romans was admitted to
membership IN May, 1869.
The Parkhill mills at Fitchburg,
employing 1000 hands, started up at a
reduction i'll wages of from 3 to I
per cent.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Judge Shiras
decided contracts eXempting railroad
corporations from liability Cor fires are
not against public policy.
The heavy rains of the past week
have benefited corn and vegetation
generally, according to United States
weather bureau reports.
In the Plankinton bank case at Mil
waukee evidence was given showing
tution'S condition.
Less than 10000 veterans We're in
the 6. A. 4. parade at Pittsburg. Illi-
nois had the post Of honor, while Penn
Sylyania had most men in line.
A bill making cents a mile the
maximum rate will be urged at the
coming session of the Indiana legis-
lature by Indianapolis merchants.
Mrs. Robert Kinzie, with one ex-
ception the oldest settler of Chicago,
died in Omaha, where she was visiting
a son.
Forty-six preliminary heats were run
in the Springfield, Mass, bicycle tour
ney. Tyler and G. Murphy failed to
qualify in the mile international.
3. 3. 2. won the Clark's Horse Re-
view stake, worth $21,575, at Terre
/ Haute. AGATE reduced his mark to
pos IA in the 2:1O trot.
! The governor general of Cuba has
been ordered to restore the import
, duties on American products by the
, Spanish authorities.
nee for congress from the fifth Hi
/ nOis district, was Endorsed by the peo-
pies party convention.
The Citizens bank at Rossville, Ill.
was robbed of $4,000 by two men
who secured an entrance during the
noon hour.
A report comes from Oak View, the
county seat of Live Oak county, Texas,
that half of the town has been wiped
out by fire.
William Lawrence won the golf
championship in the tourney at New
port, G. B. Mcdonald being beaten
by one point.
On the Terre Haute track Alix trot-
ted a mile in 2:O4, equaling the worlds
record of Nancy Hanks. Carbonate
lowered the 2-year-old record of 2:1O.
A manifesto was issued by the
Breckenridge executive committee in
which Owens is charged with duplicity
and the yote-challenging rule upheld.
| Senator Cullom opened the repub-
j lican campaign in Illinois by a speech
at Robinson, in which he attacked
] the new tariff bill
] Frank A. Kurtz, under sentence of
, death in Chicago for wife murder,
attempted to sever an artery and
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