Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-12-20

Sioux reservation has been issued by
the president
The Edison Illuminating company,
of Boston, will vote December %
upon a proposition to increase its
capital to $3,425,OOO
DR.. Pickin and son, charged with
assaulting Miss Briggs, were arraign-
ed at Eau Claire and pleaded not
guilty.
Gen. Harrison says that under no
circumstances will he be a candidate
for president again.
An insane man in Missouri murder
ed his wife and two children, mortally
wounded his two step-children and
then suicided.
Plans for the immediate reorganiza-
tion Of the Chicago police department
on civil service basis were submit
ted to Mayor Hopkins.
University of Chicago football eleven
accepted the offer of the Leland Stan
ford, Jr., University for a Christmas
game and will leave for the coast in
a special car.
Robert Webster, an aged farmer liv-
ing near South Haven, Mich, set fire
to his barn and shot out the eyes Of a
neighbor, who liberated the animals
in it.
S. S. Harvey, accused Of sWindling
score or more of Chicago wholesale
business houses by buying goods on
credit and disposing Of them under
cover, has been captured.
Governor Waite and Rev. Myron W.
Reed addressed the federation of la
Dor convention at Denver. \ hot dis
cussion was INDUCED in over the po-
IiticaI program.
Rev. DR.. w. w. Boyd is reported to
have said at a Baptist ministers
meeting in st. Louis that the Uni
yersity Of Chicago was founded in
blood and must fall.
Carl Browne, of commonWeal fame
proposes to demonstrate the aDSurdity
of gold basis by having Workingmen
demand payment Of wages in thai
coin.
The National Civil Service Reform
league met i'll annual convention. Ii
his annual address President Schurz
commended the administration fOl
having advanced the cause.
A package containing 1000 is re
ported to have been lost in the New
York poStOttice. 1t is said that it has
been traced to either the registry OF
postal money order departments.
The Shenango glass works at New
castle, Pa, owned by KnOS Y Foltz
We're burned. The loss is 100000 anC
insurance $4,000. Three hundrcC
men are thrown out OF employment.
The annual report of Col. AinsWorth
chief Of the record and pension office
shows that the pension cases received
and disposed of i'll the past fiscal yeal
were 219,941, or $4,000 in excess OF
the cases received in the previous year
John Burrows and Miss Ina Camp
bell were fatally injured at Bing
hamtOn, n. Y, their carriage being
struck by Il passenger train on The
New York, Lake Erie and Western
railway. The horse was killed.
Charles Willoughby, y, Il resident Of
West Haven, Conn, dropped dead "a
his home in that place. lie was con
nected with the boston rubber com
pany for many years, and was wei
known throughout New England.
General Manager FELTON, of tile Penn
syIyania steel works of harrisburg
Pa, says the prospects for work are
decidedly better now than they were
at this time a year ago. lie says
there is always a lack of orders abou
the first of the year, but denies u re
port of an indefinite suspension.
The passenger and freight depot Of
the Chicago, Iowa and Dakota rail
way, at Hughes, Iowa, was set on fire
by masked men, and entirely con
Sumed. 1t is reported to have beel
done by citizens of Hughes WAC &c
sired that Il new station be erected.
A mass meeting of citizens was hello
in Chicago under the auspices of th(
local Armenian society, to protest
against the recent Armenian out
RACES. II. n. Higgenbotham, presi
dent of the worlds fair, presided, anC
number of addresses were made.