Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-15
ALI SORTS.

the Ohio house and is 10Y Il law.
Attorney Quimby recovered Il verdict
for 81, Go against Mrs. George S. Hoyt
1t was reported and Immediately dc
MED that eX-PreSident Harrison is to
marry the widow of Leland Stanford.
Fire insurance companies received
last year and paid S~2.o43,021 losses.
A. J. McLaurin was elected by the
Mississippi legislature to succeed E. L.
Walthall in the United States senate.
George w. Childs' body was placed
in the DreXel m%ausOleum, Philadelphia.
The funeral was very largely attended.
Troop X, fifth cavalry, owns the
Nevada trophy for best general aver
age in revolver, carbine and rifle fir
ing.
Gov. Flower of New York has sent
to the senate the mime OF DR.. jenkins
for health officer of the port of New
York.
George T. Alexander, a druggist at
South Bend, has made a voluntary as
signment for the benefit Of his credit
orS.
J. S. Stein, a farmer living near Tole-
do, Tama county, Iowa, has discovered
copper about seven miles from that
place.
Mother Jerome, daughter of Com
~ pdnr Sniy, gNnrf nnI thirfu rS a
sister Of mercy, died at Independence,
Mo.
Twenty-one pupils, seven of them
girls, were suspended from the Mount
Horeb, Wis, Academy for attending Il
masked ball.
Residents of Valparaiso, Ind, and
vicinity are worried over the disap-
p~earance of Farmers Jensen and Tay-
lOr.
Reports from the Indiana-Kentucky
peach section indicate that the crop
has been practically ruined by the cold
weather.
Re-establishment of a military depart
ment of the south is contemplated,
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Ga.
Paste" Jones, of a Union Grove,
Ohio, negro church, was arrested for
Following the vocation of prophet
without Il license"
Greenbackers are urged to prepare
petitions for an increased issue of
money, on the anniversary of the legal
tender decision.
In the water pipe extension depart
ment, Chicago, 443 men We're discharg-
ed. a total reduction in the force of
1000 men since Jan. L.
Muncie. Ind, Free MethodistS
Stampeded through the windows of the
wOodshed where a revival IA in prog
ress at the cry of fire.
A cigar loaded with a pistol cartridge
exploded while being smoked in New
York by Lawyer James G.. Brady, who
narrowly escaped being killed.
Captain Daniel Pratt ManniX, United
States marine corps, died at the ma
rine barracks, Washington, after a long,
illness, from cancer of the stomach.
Tears were brought to the eyes of
Northern Pacific Receiver Cakes by eX-
Senator %Spooner's remarks at the hear
ing in Milwaukee.
John Philip Quinn, the reformed
gambler, eloped with the siXteen-year-
old daughter of the evangelist, e. n.
Golf, in New York city.
Lena Wetherell, aged Is, the hand
some daughter of a contractor at OS-
kaloosa, Iowa, committed suicide by
taking poison.
John, Eckert, of Valparaiso, Ind, sued
Frederick G. Miller for $1,000 for call
ing him a murderer. Eckert will SUE
all concerned in his Imprisonment.
1t is announced that w. e. Smith,
owner of a large glass works at Alton,
ILL.,, is in Germany making arrange
ments to locate some of his factories
there.
Secretary Carlisle has called for the
resignation of c.. NJ. Gosham, coiner of
the San Francisco mint, and 2. E..
Ellis, assayer and coiner of the Carson
City CNeyada) mint.
Tramps boarded a motor car at Alton,
Ill.,, the other night and robbed the
conductor Of $50. The only passengers
in the car were women, who became
highly excited over the affair.
Miss Amy Gordon, an actress, has
stranded at Galesburg, Ill, and is suf-
fering with .delirium tremens. The
local Woman's Christian Temperance
Union has taken her in charge.
Secretary Carlisle signed writs for
the deportation to Havana Of 1913
Spanish cigarmakers who recently ar
rived at Key West under contract to
work in the cigar factories there.
Aldermen and county commissioners
Of Columbus, Iowa, have placed 400
unemployed laborers at work on the
streets. There are yet 800 men who
will be put to work on a sewer.
1t was by a smooth game of freeze
out that Rockefeller got the Lake SUI
periOr mines away from the Merritts,
getting $12,000,000 of the S1S,0O0,00Q
stock for $4,000, 600. s.
The National Wool Growers associa-
ton convened in annual meeting in
Washington. 1t was resolved to pre-
sent a protest and a request to the
senate finance committee, asking for
a hearing on the wool schedules of the
Wilson tariff bill.