Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-17
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
AT HOME.


Colonel Fred Grant, in New York.
An Illinois Central passenger train
was ditched at Buckley, III. Engineer
Edgerly was killed.
On the American yachts seized while
fishing in Canadian waters were forty
eight guests Of the Dayton Pelee club.
Seven thousand men in the PennSyl-
yania railroads shops at Altoona are
working only thirty-siX hours a week.
Edward Lane was unanimously re-
nominated for congress by the demo
Gratis of the eighteenth Illinois district.
The New York constitutional con-
vention met on Tuesday in Albany.
Joseph H. Cheate was elected presi-
dent
Jake Brown was hanged at Jefferson
City, Mo-, for the murder of Frank
Macklin, a foreman in the peniten-
t"ry.
"Gen." Coxey Is in danger of being
arrested at the instance Of his di-
vorced wife on the charge of abduc-
ton.
At Pittsburg, Pa, Albert Woodley
killed Mrs. Jennie Buchanan and him
self They were engaged to be
married.
Mobile and Ohio railroad locomotive
engineers have accepted until Deem
Der next, a cut of eight per cent. in
wages.
Kelly's army left Des Moines, Iowa,
on f1atboats. EncOuntering head
winds only about 100 members were
able to reach Runnells.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers met in biennial session at st.
Paul. 1t is rumored Grand Chief
Arthur will resign.
Senior Thomas de Sollza Rosa, Portu-
gueSe minister to the United States,
is about to be transferred to Paris as
minister to France.
One side of the village square of
Pawnee, ILL.,, walls destroyed. Nine
business houses were burned and a
loss of $4,000 inflicted.
Jesse p. Farley, three times mayor
of Dubuque, Iowa, and pioneer rail
road builder, is dead. He settled in
Dubuque in 1888.
Attorney General Moloney of Illinois
denies emphatically that he intends
to begin proceedings against the
whisky tvust.
The Cleveland (O.) gas fixture COM
pany capitalized at $15O,000, assigned.
Assets are placed at 100000, and liza
bilities at $4,000.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Phoenix died at
Delayan, Wis, aged 80 years. She
was the widow of the man who, in
1886, founded the town.
Mrs. Frederick Magnusson-J ewett,
who for a quarter of century has
been an instructor of vocal music in
Chicago, died from apoplexy.
Senator Lodge gave notice of an
amendment to the sundry civil bill APP
propriating $4,000 for lighthouse at
Butler flats, New Bedford, Mass.
Miss Harriet |. Bruckhart, for many
years principal of the Presbyterian
women's college at YokohOma, Japan,
died in Lancaster county, Pa, aged ~.
Marie Dressler. of Lillian Russelrs
opera company, was married to
George f. Hopper, treasurer of the
company. A woman claiming to be
julius Schawabacher, son of a
wealth Peoria Qll) distiller, was cap
tured while burglariZing a residence
temporarily unoccupied.
While stopping a runaway team at
the depot in La Sale, Ill, Alderman
NJ. CorcOran was thrown under the
wheels of a passenger train and killed.
Hugh Bullock and Harold B. Lewis,
cadets at Riverside military acad-
envy. Poughkeepsie, shot and badly
wounded burglar as he was escaping
from the building.
Miss Mary Hampton refused to
marry a young Briton, who is said to
be the marquis of Waterford. The
proposal was made in hotel break
fast room, New York.
A dispatch from West Superior, Wis,
SAYS: A big forest fire is raging two
miles this side of Fond du Lac on the
ST Louis river, and is making rapid
progress before strong wind.
General Mathew NJ. Trumbull died
at his residence in Chicago. He did
brilliant service in the civil war and
had written eXhaustingly ON the tariff
and labor questions.
Commissioners of the District OF
Columbia have declared the common
veal camp a nuisance and have Or
dered its abatement within forty-eight
hours.
Postmaster General Bissell has re-
ceived an invitation, handsomely en-
graved on a silver plate, to attend the
exercises of the letter-carriers of San
Francisco at the midwinter fair, May
%. The postmaster general will be
unable to accept.
Three convicts in the state prison at
Jackson, Mich. overpowered a guard
and tried to blow down the wall with
dynamite. A catastrophe was mar
rowly averted
The house and farm buildings be-
longing to Bert I,eavttt, at Man
chester. n. H.. We're burned. Loss
$4,000 The fire was of incendiary
origin.
The Bridgeport (Conn0 health au-
thorities discovered another case OF
smallpox. The victim is the infant OF
Owen Gill, of East Washington
avenue. More cases are feared.