Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-23
TELFURANS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Butler, n. j., by Mgr. Satolli.
The senate committee on pensions
has reported Senator Aliens service
pension bill adversely.
Police Justice Quigley of Brooklyn,
fined a carriage driver $50 for deliber-
ately running down bicyclist.
Professor Joseph A. Armsley, the
eminent Syrian scholar, died at Glen
dora. Cal, ut the age Of 81.
Two cases of smallpox have deveI-
oped ut Wauwatosa, just out of Mil
waukee.
The Washington-Denyer bicycle re
lay reached Denver over thirty-seyen
hours ahead of time.
The president has approved the act
to subject to state taxation national
bank notes.
kudyard Kipling, wife and family
have arrived from Europe on the
steamer Wilhelm IL.
The prohibitiOnists of the Eleventh
Illinois district nominated Marion Gal
lup Of Livingston couSty for congress-
Horace Williams, one of the founders
of Clinton, Iowa, well known in char
liable work, is dead, aged 20.
William f. Swift, ex-mayor Of Ish-
peming, Mich, and former repub-
lican state senator, died, aged 46.
President Cleveland is i'll with
malaria and has gone to Buzzard's
Bay to recuperate his health.
Masked robbers at Bristol, Wis,
burned the feet of an aged woman,
forcing her to give them $500.
Efforts are being made to bring about
q combat between Messrs. Corbett and
FitZSimmOnS.
Frank Nj. Eddy Of GlenWood was
nominated for congress by the repub-
leans of the seventh (Minn) district
South Omaha butchers have de-
clared the strike off and will return to
work at the old scale of wages.
Striking Pullman employees are on
the verge of starvation. The relief
store has closed for lack of supplies.
MethodistS Of the four Iowa confer
ences united in jubilee convention
at Cedar Rapids.
At the Lucy Stone anniversary meet
ing at Freeport, Ill, u United States
flag with but two stars was displayed,
causing much comment.
The government crop bulletin says
corn has been irretrieVably injured by
drought in Nebraska, Iowa, South
Dakota and Kansas.
Mines in the MaSsillon (Ohio) district
will be consolidated so as to enable
the owners to operate them more
cheaply.
Albin and FdrDSWOrth were twice
beaten by ShoWalter and PiliSbury in
the New York State Chess Association
tourney.
John Quincy Adams, prominent in
Massachusetts politics and two OF
whose ancestors were presidents of the
United States, is dead.
Congressman Bynum was renoml.
mated by the democratic cory ention st
Indianapolis, receiving 152 votes out
of 1SS
Democrats of the eighth Missouri
district renominated Congressman
Bland. ii. q. Orten w. named by
third district republicans
The national league of oolored demo
Gratis met in Indianapo is. Greetings
were sent to President Cleveland, the
purest exponent of Americanism."
Withdrawals of whisky from bond
are expected to swell the treasury re-
ceipts by $1S,000,000 before the tariff
bill goes into effect
10 Tambien won the Foster Memorial
handicap and LiSSak the Melbourne
Stud stakes at Saratoga Both were
second choice.
Five professors in the agricultural
and dairy departments of Iowa college
have been asked to resign in the inter
est of harmony.
A company has been organized at
Sioux City, Iowa, for the purpose of
consolidating the street railway lines
OF the city.
Enraged by a charge of intidelity,
Mrs. Albert Hatch secured a revolver
and pursued her husband through the
streets of K0kOmo, Ind.
Frank Fratenes, living near Kala-
mazoo, Mich, miStook his wife for a
burglar and shot her. She died in his
arms.
Orrin n. Carter resigned as attor-
ney of the Chicago drainage board
and George E. Dawson was elected to
the place.
c. s. Beattie, of Chicago, was elected
high chief ranger by the high court
of the independent order of foresters
of Illinois at the meeting in Sterling.
The Great Northern railway system
has been divided into three divisions,
and superintendent appointed for
each.
Partridge, the Chicago speculator,
was confined to an inebriate asylum
He resisted immurement, and nearly
Drained an attendant.
Professor Bookmeyer, a Catholic,
has refused to resign the principal
ship of the North Peoria schools, as
requested.
Charles Georget, an engineer of Ho-
bOken, has discovered old deeds en-
fitting him to valuable real estate in
st. Louis.