Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-02-08

can republics is that the Armour Pack
ing company will establish a Mexican
branch.
Tie cash balance in the national
treasury Jan. 81, 1894, was SS4,OS2,09 9
The decrease during the month being
S5.223,4 )
Edward and Patrick Toole probably
Ind, who prevented them from killing
their mother.
Mayor Baker, of Menomonie. thinks
Gov. Peck ought 10 permit fights for
charity so long rs he advises boys
to do the melon act.
Attorney Lord is likely to be dis
barred from Wisconsin courts for al
legged crookedness in the Meade muir
de- trial at Waupaca.
Farmers near WestervilIe. Ohio,
money TO relieve the country if con
gress will at ice adjourn.
Governor Matthews told "Parson''
Davies that under no circumstances
would he permit prize-ighting in In
diana.
The Illinois board of agriculture has
decided to spend 100000 on the per-
manent state fair buildings and
grounds at Springfield.
The Milwaukee Observation-Disclosures
are aroused ver an order of the state
board requiring school children to be
yaccinated.
Judge Cox, of the district of Column
bia supreme court, denies the applica-
ton of the knights of Labor for an in
junction restraining Secretary Carlisle
from issuing bonds.
Myra Bradwell, editor of the Chicago
Legal News, and the first woman ever
admitted to the bar in the United
States, is at the point of death from 4
complication of maladies.
a son Of Rev. DR.. Merits of Gosport,
Ind, became infatuated with the bride
Of John d. Schler, a wealthy farmer,
and the couple have el0ped, with Schler
in hot pursuit.
The MiddletOwn street railroad and
the Meriden street railroad are now
owned by a syndicate OF Philadelphia
capitalists. 1t is understood the two
cities viii be connected by an electric
road.
The Colorado legislature deadlock
may result in a duel between Colonel
A. G. Fisk and Senator Boyd for an
attack made by the latter upon the
c%olonels character in the senate cham
Der.
Lemuel Ely Quigg, republican, was
elected to congress from the fourteenth
New York district, to succeed Colonel
John r. Fellows, democrat. In the
fifteenth district Isadore Strauss, demo
crat, succeeds Asifbel 2. Fatch, demo
crat.
G. NJ. Jarvis, a Chicago man, has
made a proposition to the common
council Of Oconto, Wis, TO erect a
plant for the manufacture of tele-
phones. He wants the city TO give him
a $4,000 bonus to erect a 3 O,OOO fac
tory.
William Milhollin is dead 1T Spring
field, O. Seventy hours before his
death he was suddenly seized with Il
fit of hiccoughing. All known rene
dies were applied but the hiccoughing
continued with increasing severity I'M
til death.
Judge Jenkins in the United States
circuit court has denied the petition
Of the Brayton-Ives faction of the
Northern Pacific stockholders to COM
pei the receivers to turn over the con-
troll of the road to the officers.
The Buffalo police arrested 81
tramps in n precinct. Nearly all of
them came from Chicago and belong to
the mob that was driven out of that
city recently. The city is almost over
run with them, and hundreds have
passed through there On their way east.
The bark Mary Hasbrouk, which ar
rived at New York from Auckland,
New Zealand, after having been out
1O4 days, reports that on January %,
in latitude 1926 and longitude 43.15,
at night, an immense iceberg, which
looked like a large island, was passed
and also much field ice.
Attorney General Moloney of Illinois
has given it a his opinion that when
a member of a building association
has perfected his right as a withdraw
ing stakeholder, he ceases to be a mem
Der of the association. Actions Of the
association after that time have moth
ing TO do with the stakeholder.
Six children have been left destitute
at ElwOod in the southern part Of
VIII county, Ill, by their father and
mother both becoming insane. The
mother, Mrs. Paul Augustine, lost her
mind, and her husband, in grieving
over the affair, was also seized with
insanity and is now a raving maniac.
Champion James j. Corbett was
greeted with loud cheers and other
demonstrations of approval from a big
audience as he stepped upon the Bos-
ton theater stage to assume the title
role in Gentleman Jack. He was COM
PEELED to acknowledge his reception
in a brief speech, merely thanking
those present and expressing the hope
hat he should continue to merit their
praise.
George Kehoe, the "de facto" super
visor of Kings county, n. Y, by whose
vote as the rightful representative from
the Str ward of Brooklyn the demo-
Gratis captured the board and elected