Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-11-08
TELFGKAMS In BRIEF.
AT HOME.

persons were killed.
For refusing to betray Outlaw Bill
Goode, Eddy Martin was hanged by a
mob in Crittenden county, Kentucky.
It is reported that English capitalists
are after the Chaplin mine at Iron
Mountain, Mich.
Work of surveying for ship canal
to connect Lake Erie and the Ohio
river is to be begun at once.
President Cleveland has issued u
proclamation setting apart Nov. % as
a day of thanksgiving and prayer.
Mrs Helen NJ. Cougar was for the
seventeenth time elected president of
the Indiana equal suffrage association.
Three masked men robbed a train
at New Albany, Miss, but aside from
little jewelry they secured no booty
Mistaking Conrad Heineman, of Sill
yer Cliff, Colo, for a ghost, Charles
Davis shot him dead.
More cotton was brought into sight
during October than during any month
in the markets history.
Gachrist Porter, ex-member of con
gress, died at his home in Hannibal
Mo, Of heart disease, aged II years.
Rev. Samuel Rodgers, a well-known
Methodist divine, died d, his home III
Baltimore, Md.
Monthly treasury statement shows
an increase in the public debt for Dc
tober of $13, 6S0,S54.
Government officials have little hope
that Germany will lift its embargo on
American cattle and beef.
Illinois supreme court declared I'M
constitutional the law eXempting build
ing and loan associations from taxa-
ton.
Millionaire Richard G.. Sibley is one
of the hackers of the White Spirit
company, the new rival of the whisky
trust.
COMMUNICATIVE Chief Lawler, of the
G.. \. H., has appointed committee
to investigate the charges against Phil
Kearney post of Richmond, Va.
Trouble has again broken out at
New Orleans between the white and
shed is feared.
An investigation has resulted in the
discovery of Il shortage of ST., 600 III
the accounts of Treasurer Barney, Of
Defiance, Ohio.
The Mark Hopkins estate, of Cali
fornia, has purchased the Renfost
apartment-house, Chicago as an invest
ment, paying $320,C0O.
Students of Northwestern University
adopted resolutions denouncirg crib
bing' requesting the faculty's aid in
its eradication.
Richard O'Brien, OF Lewiston, Me,
and Mysterious Billy" Smith, of
Hayerhill, Mass, fought ten-round
draw ut Buffalo.
Attorney General Olney holds that
whisky in government warehouses in
South Carolina cannot be confscated
under state law.
Supreme court of the United States
decided the state courts had jurisdic-
ton i'll the case of Banker Emo, con-
victed of forgery.
DR.. Eugene Crowell, the author Of
two works on Spiritualism, Of which
he was Il strong advocate, died at New
York
Illinois supreme court ordered the
release of Benjamin FiXmer because
he had been convicted as accessory to
Il crime instead of as principal.
a snow storm ragged throughout Min
nesota and South Dakota and q cold
wave is reported to be following i'll its
wake.
Mayor Hopkins secured the arrest of
Chairman Tanner of the Illinois re-
publican state central committee on Il
charge of malicious criminal libel.
William Henry Clark, for many
years editor of the Bankers Monthly,
died at his residence in Chicago from
heart disease.
honore MERCER, eX-premier of Que
Zee, and for years leader of the
French Canadian, died ut Montreal
after Il long illness.
III. G.. Waite, secretary of state of
California and Il candidate for re -elec,
ton, is dead. He was made i'll by
worry over political matters.
Rewards are offered by the postmas-
ter general for the arrest and convic-
ton of highway mail robbers and post.
office burglars.
James Z. Willett, lifelong resident
of the district, has been appointed
postmaster of Washington by the presi-
dent.
In his annual report Commissioner
Harris points out the great educational
influence of newspapers and maya
zines.
Gustav L. Berger, student in Il
Chicago medical college, is charged
with embezzling $1,000 while in the
employ of a Milwaukee jeweler.
Deputy Sheriffs Whipple and La
Sage have been arrested at Eau Claire,
Wis, charged with the wanton killing
OF burglar.
William Griffin and Leroy Moores,
Perrien county, Georgia, farmers
fought a duel with axes, both being
killed.
Seven persons were Suffocated in
tenement-house fire in New York. 4
woman who jumped from a third story