Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
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States tariff.
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Col William T. Holt died At Denver.
Gov Mckinley addressed the old
soldiers a a fair in Auburn, \. I.
No one under the age of II will here
after be enlisted in the army.
1t is said the war department has de-
cided TO make an artillery station of
Davis island.
In a battle with burglars at New
Memphis. Ill. Louis Krause was shot
and severely injured.
1t is alleged that timber worth
$1,OOO,OOO has been fraudulently cut
on Minnesota school lands.
William Hayes murdered his 16-
year-old wife and wounded his mother
in-law at Jacksonville, Fla.
Peter Diego, postmaster at Moriah
Center, n. Y, was arrested, charged
with rifling mails.
Howard White, a bicycle dealer of
Trenton, n. J., is missing, and is said
to be heavily indebted.
Thomas C. Noyes and Miss Dorothy
Byrde, the well-known vocalist, were
married in Washington, D. c.
Police Captain John T. Stevenson Of
New York was found guilty Of taking
brides and dismissed from the force.
P. T. Banco, of Quincy, ILL.,, was ar
rested for selling cigars bearing a
union label
All but one of the prisoners in the
county Jail at Milan, Mo, escaped by
means of a false key.
Victor Brownell, of Chicago, and
Ethel B. Lyman, of Pana, Ill. were
married.
Elizabeth Tippett, of Elyria, Ohio,
has sued Josiah Scott, Of Sunapee, n.
H., for breach of promise.
Four prominent young men of Ra
cine have been arrested on a charge of
systematic burglary.
John Reese, of Ligonier, Ind, a self
confessed barn burner, escaped from
the officers while being taken to Jail.
Colonel Henry O. Kent WAS NOM
mated fer governor by the democrats
of New Hampshire at Concord.
1t is claimed that Senator Tones has
joined the populists because he fears
the election of Congressman NeWlands.
At Springfield, Miss, Bliss of Chi
cagO, rode a mile On 4 bicycle in
-
At Indianapolis Robert J. paced
mile in 2:O2 II, beating his own mark.
Aiix trotted a mile in 2:04 3-4.
Peter Jackson will pay no more at
tention to the mysterious offers for his
fight with Corbett III Sioux City.
Henry 2. Ayers, a veteran Of the
civil war and a pro linent banker of
Peoria, fell dead at White Bear Lake.
Efforts are being made by stock
holders Of the Peoria, Decatur and
Evansville railroad to reorganize it.
Republicans, basing their claims On
the returns from Oregon and Vermont,
predict many congressional victories.
During a fire in Milwaukee a port
killing Fireman Adolph Meyer.
Misses Marion Glendenning and
Kitty Kintze of Brooklyn were
drowned in the Oyster river, Connect
cut.
The Anchor Insurance company of
Wheeling, w. Va, has collapsed. G.
E. Merwin, the president is missing
with $4,000 in premiums.
In wreck Oh the Lehigh Valley road
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, Frank German
was killed and Fireman Reade seri-
ously injured.
Marion G. Snyder was killed near
Edelstein, Ill, by being thrown from
a piledriver owing to a defective
chain
J. W. Brooks, a saloon-keeper Of
Abilene, Texas, became converted and
made a bonfire Of his stock and fxt-
ureS.
Stephen Giles, of Kirkmansville, Ky,
shot John Wagner and Addison Mason,
members of a charivari party. Wag-
ner cannot recover.
Electric Railway company will extend
its road west from Norwalk to Monroe
vile and thence to Sandusky.
Democrats of the thirteenth Illinois
district, in convention at Urbana, nom
mated Andrew Jackson Bar for con-
gress.
In the free-for-all pace at Craw
louisville, Ind, Guerita stumbled and
fell, fatally injuring her driver, Gee
Grimes.
Alar defeated Phoebe Wilkes in the
unfinished race at Fleetwood. Mascot
won the free-for-all pace, but did not
lower the record.
With two exceptions Hawthorne
races went to outsiders at long odds.
The track was very wet and in bad
condition.
Colonel c. W. Saladee, a prominent
inventor of Freeport, died from a dose
of morphine which he had taken by
mistake.
Mrs. Anne Ballou Hubbard. who !
settled in Chicago in 1868, died of con-
gestion of the lungs at the age of 81 |
years.
Colonel H. c. Cross, the first mayor |
OF Emporia, Kansas, died of heart
failure while visiting On Mackinac Is
land, Michigan.
Bishop of Urgel has denied the su-
Zerainty of France and proclaimed |