Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-11-15
TELFGRAMS In BRIEF.
AT HOME.


Politicians of both parties are agreed
of power in the next senate.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton, the we'll
known artist, author and poet, died at
Paris. He was go years old.
The tug Crusader was burned at
her dock at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
Two firemen lost their lives.
Striking union stevedores are be-
lieyed to have caused the fires on the
ships loading cotton at Savannah.
II. H. Houston, of Philadelphia. has
given 100000 to the University of
Pennsylvania to build a students hall.
The proposal to issue bonds for a
new courthouse was defeated in Chi
cago by 1925 votes.
It has been decided to play the
annual Yale-Princeton football game
on Manhattan field, New York. Dec. 1.
Daniel w. Powers and Bradford
Bryant persisted while hunting in a
swamp near Halifax, Mass.
Residents of New Jersey were aWak-
ened from sleep by the supposed ex-
plosion and light of a falling meteor.
Thousands of Michigan ballots have
been rendered illegal by a supreme
court decision. Contests may result.
Speaking of democratic defeat, Gov
ernor Altgeld says President Cleveland
is mainly responsible for the result
Cabinet officers believe that Cleve-
land is the only man who can lead his
party to success in 1896.
Indiana republicans contemplate re-
districting the state so as 10 take
patronage away from the governor.
-Four masked bandits rode into Shat
tuck, o. r., and robbed the postotfice,
n store and saloon.
President Cleveland gave a dinner at
the white house in honor Of AmbaS-
sador Bayard.
Exhaustive information on the sub
ject Of good roads is to be issued by
the agricultural department.
An order retiring Admiral Gherardi
and detailing Captain Philip Cooper to
be superintendent of the naval acade-
my was issued by Secretary Herbert.
An extension of the classified SER
vice to include chiefs of divisions in
the departments is said to be con-
templated.
At Chillicothe, Ohio, Cyclist Johnson
rode third of mile with stand
ing start in 0:39, and half in 0:55 1-5,
new records.
On IA macadamized road at Mont
clair, n j., Paul Grosch lowered the
quarter-mile flying start bicycle record
TO 0:20 II.
David s. Bennett, one of the mill
onaireS of Buffalo, n. Y, and an eX-
member of congress, died, aged 81
years.
Three servants were burned, one Of
Ihem fatally, by an explosion of gas
in the Westminster Seminary at Fort
Wayne.
During Il fight AT a dance in San
Antonio, Texas two cowboys and the
musician, the latter Mexican, were
killed.
Two colorcd convicts in the Ohio pen
itentiary attacked Il guard, and race
war followed in which several were
injured
Mrs w. X. Vanderbilt has consented
to the securing of Il divorce by her
husband and will receive $3,OOO0OO in
lieu of dover.
Steamship companies are preparing
TO move their headquarters from Mil
waullee owing to alleged unjust taxa
ton
George r. Davis has opened head
quarters and will make a vigorous eff
fort to wrest the Illinois senatorship
from Cullom.
President Cleveland is said to be
pleased with Hills defeat and to re-
Gard democratic loss of congress with
complacency.
John English, of Portland, Ind,
elected sheriff on the republican ticket,
was taken i'll after the close of the
polls and died from heart disease.
Bradstreet's reports show an in
crease in the visible supply of wheat
in the United States and Canada of
3,320,000 bushels.
Governor AItgeld has committed the
death sentence of Gustave A. Menk-
hansen, convicted of wife murder, to
life imprisonment.
Detectives found the body of Mrs.
Mary Cottrell, of Hamilton county, on
a disSecting table in an Indianapolis
medical college.
Hundreds of people in Deerfield,
Ohio, have been exposed to smallpox
through contact with a Christian faith
cure victim.
Customs authorities at Cincinnati,
ohio, have seized the imported we'd
ding suit of Arthur Stem, the wealthy
attorney.
Rev. L. De Witt Talmage, pastor Of
the Brooklyn Tabernacle for twenty
five years, has rendered his resigna-
don.
Professor Swings will gives $4,000
to the Illinois humane society. The
bulk OF his estate goes to his two
daughters.
Mike Kelly, famous as a baseball
catcher for Chicago and Boston clubs
died of pneumonia in a Boston hospi-