Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
TEIEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Eight persons drowned at a yacht
regatta at st. John, n B.
Seeding Polish Catholics met ii
Cleveland and organize and independ,
ent church.
The American waterwOrks aSsocia-
ton held its annual convention in Min
ueapolis.
Corbett and Jackson accept (the lat
ter conditionally) Sioux City's offer
for the fight
Three men were drowned in j mine
at Butte, Mont, as the result of Il
curious accident.
Charges of bribery have been pre-
ferred against Police Captain John
T. Stephenson in New York.
Alix trotted at Washington park in
2:O5 II, beating Nancy Hanks rec
ord of 2:0G IA.
The State national bank of Vernon,
Tex, was closed by the bank exam
lner.
illinois miners met at Springfield to
endeavOr to find remedy for the I'M
satisfactory conditions existing.
Chicago banks refused to advance
100000 to the whisky trust on the
security of the spirits stored in Peoria
President Cleveland returned to the
white house greatly improved in health
by his trip to Gray Gables.
The steamer America collided with
and sank the schooner Ahira Cobb
In st. Mary's river during a fog.
Two men were killed and another
fatally injured by a boiler explosion
IN n sawmill near EllwOod City. Pa.
Capt Alexander Griggs, founder of
Grand Forks, n. D., made an assign
ment
Chicago police discover Il chest of in
fernal machines used by incendiary
conspirators.
A lumberman who disappeared five
weeks ago near Brainerd is thought
to have been murdered by Indians.
John Arkirs, president of the Rocky
Mountain News, died at Denver OF
gasritis.
Two young men named WEIGH and
Phillips, of Youngstown, n. u, were
drowned at Niagara Falls by the cap
sizing of their boat.
Edward Priestly, formerly an en-
velope manufacturer, killed himself by
shooting in New York. Dependency
is believed to have been the cause.
The annual tournament of the Ma
tional Lawn Tennis aSSoCia ton began
at Newport; the championship i'll dou-
bleS was Won by Hobart and HOvey.
Il .gineer Tilbon and two trampS
were killed and fourteen others in
jured in wreck on the Wabash near
JCneSDurg, Mo.
Prohting by the bitter experience Of
the present year, many Nebraska
farmers are preparing to vote bonds
for the introduction Of irrigation.
From an area of 2.071, $40 acres Ill
inois has produced 4l,315,O99 bushels
of wheat, yield which has been bur
thrice exceeded.
Sons of Veterans met in thirteenth
annual encampment at Davenport,
Iowa. Many important questions were
considered.
northern Wisconsin. Thousands Of
tons of hay have been destroyed III the
vicinity of Grantsburg,
Secretary Gresham is anxious that
Il tal- or
ton looking to the settlement of the
Boring sea claims.
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio, in a
letter to Rockford, ILL.,, man, denies
he is or ever was a member of the
A. Z. A.
Managers of the congressional ma
tional campaign committees are pre-
pairing for the fall campaign with
great energy.
In a cricket match at Detroit the
Wanderers, of Chicago, were beaten
by the Athletic club players by six
runs.
4 row occurred between whites and
Indians near Park Rapids, Mimi, in
which al Indian was fatally injured
No serious trouble is likely to result.
Michael Philbin, superintendent OF
pipe extension in the Chicago water
department, is accused of stutting pay
rolls and has been dischars d.
Tie state board of agriculture de
cided to hold fat stock and horse
show in Chicago from Nov. % to
Dec. l.
Henry Budde, a veteran Of the Mex
lean war and rs years old, secured Il
license i'll Chicago to we'd Sophie Me-
scheller, who is "a.
All maritime powers have been asked
10 adhere to the agreement reached
by the United States and Great Britain
relative to the seal fisheries.
Members of the house who voted
against the discontinuance Of secterian
schools on Indian reservations have
been blacklisted by the A. P. A.
At a meeting of the democratic con-
gressional committee it was decided to
make the tariff the issue in the fall
campaign.
Carr Neels defeat of Cutting and
Parkers victory over Rowland were
features of the tennis tourney at
Newport.
John t. Callahan, a member of New
Orleans city council, was convicted of
receiving a bride and committed tO