Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-25

dinance. Emporia, Kan, will stop all
nickel-in-the-slot machines and devices
for games of chance.
Henry Bernjus, who assaulted Louis
Jensen at Cedar Rapids with an ice
pick. has been arrested at Clinton.
Iowa. His victim may die.
Compulsory education. after a fair
trial. is reported a failure by a COM
mittee of the Chicago board OF educa-
ton.
| For the third time jury has dis
agreed in the damage suit brought by
II. II. Porter against ex-senator Sabin,
of Minnesota
Secretary of Agriculture Morton was
cenSured in a resolution adopted at tn
meeting of the National Farmers Al
lance.
1t is not thought western banks will
subscribe heavily for the new govern
ment bonds. There are better invest
! mentS
Friends of Senator-elect John III.
Gear rendered him.a brilliant reception
ii Burlington. Iowa
Chairman Cutcheon. of the Minneso
ia democratic state central committee.
has resigned, owing to Cleyeland's de,
lay in making appointments.
Railroad officials are very much en-
couraged over large sales of mileage
books and heavy orders for cars.
Two members Of the Northern paci-
fic directory have resigned because
they could not agree with Receiver
Ives.
Harved NJ Sewell eX-consul at
Samoa, and his wife and child mar
roWly escaped drowning in the China
sea.
Towns in Sicily are patrolled by SOL
diers, who dispense all crowds and ar
rest the anarchists, who are very des-
perate.
John Haley Spears, of Jacksonville
H., is dead. He was one of the found
ers of the republican party in Illinois
Three men who robbed a train at
Centralia, ILL.,, pleaded guilty and We're
sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment.
Sons of respectable and wealthy peo-
pie of Fort Wayne, Ind, have been
arrested for robbing seven business
houses.
Nellie Fay, "a years old, was found
dead in Boston. She had been murder
ed by a jealous lover.
At Sullivan, ILL.,, Milton Bond and
Charles Colt, brothers-in-law, fought
q duel. Colt was fatally wounded.
At ST Paul the bonspief of the Ma
tional Curling association was opened
with every indication of success.
! BY using trains or steamboats, the
Duval club is confident of pulling off
the big fight, despite the troops.
Heikes, Of Chicago, has not yet
missed bird in the shooting tourna-
ment at Hamilton, Ont.
Citizens of Gordon, Wis. beat Frank
Beehe and drove him from the town
He bad slandered women.
Freemasons were asked by the bar
to- lay the corner stone of the new
Monmouth. ILL.,, courthouse, but % COM
mittee objected.
Dam Benton, alias Bill Newbg, has
been released from the penitentiary
pending action on his appeal case.
! Mrs. Jane Stanford has called upon
Coils ?. Huntington to account for
several million dollars worth of miss
ing securities.
Eight new cases of smallpox have
developed al the charity hospital at
Blackwelrs island, New York.
While drinking water from brook
7-yeaT-old boy at Muncie, Ind, swal
lowed an insect, which devoure@ his
heart. causing death.
Owing to q misunderstanding of the
law state officers of Michigan have
drawn thousands of dollars in Illegal
salaries.
Colawash Indians of Washington
have asked government permission to
burn one Of their medicine men at the
stake.
By securing an exclusive contract
the United States Express company
has shut the Adams company out of
Wisconsin.
Al Milwaukee a very discriminating
letter written by Banker Koetting to
his wife was ruled ouN of evidence.
Mrs. Hattie P. Evans, wife of HI.
! X. Evans, county attorney of Wayne
county, Iowa, has been admitted to
practice by the supreme court.
! The vol1nr mems demOcra zig cluh of
Canton, Ohio, commemorated the tariff
reform message of President Cleveland
! by a banquet.
| Leon Rozner, years old, was crush
ed to death at Griswold, Neb., under
a railroad turn table which some child
rem We're turning around.
DR.. +. 0. Matthews, spiritualiSt, was
sentenced to fourteen months in the
penitentiary for selling a bogus claim
in the Cripple Creek mining camp.
L. A. Constantine, proprietor of the
Aurora, H., News, has bought the
Times and will consolidate the two
papers into a first-class and pronounced
democratic daily.
By a vote Of SO to ii the congregation
of Westminster Presbyterian church
of Rockford, ILL.,, has decided not to
extend call to Rev. David l.. Platter,
of Chicago.
Rev. G. G. Baker, pastor of Union