Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-11-01

ton with the management of the
smallpox epidemic.
Isaac \. Phillips, of Bloomington,
Ill. H., been appointed reporter Of the
Illinois supreme court, to fill the va
c.tLt., c.tused by \. l.. Freeman's
death.
A deer was chased into Ashland.
Wis, by Il hound, finally taking ref
uge in house, from a second-story
window of which it jumped and was
killed
TO Tut an end to lawlessness in In
dian Territory Secretary Smith will
recommend abrOgatiOn of the treaties
and establishment of a territorial gov
ernmeut
Postmaster General BiSSell has is
sued circular letter calling attention
to the sections of the civil service law
relating to forced campaign contribu-
lions.
In his report on the Pittsburg in
vestigation Civil Service Commissioner
Roosevelt recommends that internal
revenue officers be put in the classi-
fed service.
A second huge meeting of the Sal
walton army to welcome General Booth
was held in Music Hall, New York.
Chauncey NJ. Depew made an ad-
dress.
Fire in the Copley swamps near
Akron, Ohio is still raging, and the
city is made almost uninhabitable by
the dense clouds Of suffOcating smoke
which float over it.
Nathan Strauss, who at one time
signalized a willingness to be Tam
York city, has given up the contest
and sailed for Bremen, Germany.
Charles Carpmael, 4S, director Of the
meteorological service OF Canada and
director of the magnetic observatory at
Toronto, has just died in the south of
France.
Fire at Detroit, Mich, Sunday de-
stroyed the American paper company's
warehouse on Larned street and four
small buildings adjoining. The total
loss is $4,000.
The supreme court Of the United
States in session at Washington, d. c.,
yesterday rendered no decisions of
great Importance. A re-hearing was
denied in the Indiana tax law cases.
George Sclater-Booth, the first Baron
Basing, is dead, aged IS. He was eIe-
waited to the peerage in 1887. From
1874 to 1880 he was president of the
London local government board
Two unknown Austrians We're crush
ed to death, being mutilated beyond
recognition, and another was fatally
injured, in a freight wreck on the Illi-
nOis Central railroad at Putnam, ILL.,,
Saturday night.
Leading football games resulted:
Chicago Athletics, So; University of
Chicago, 0; Yale, %; Boston Athletics,
o; Princeton, 80: Lehigh, 0; Massachu-
sets "Techs," s; Boston, 4 Lafayette,
4C; Swathmore, 0.
1t is said that ''Deafy" Letson, in
jail at st. Cloud, Mimi, on a charge
of swindling passengers on the Great
Northern trains, is a step-son of Mil
lionaire Baldwin, the San Francisco
Street-car magnate.
Lebanon, Ind, is at the mercy of an
organized gang of robbers. The post
office was robbed of 81 900 in cash and
stamps Monday night, and the resi-
dence of nearly every prominent man
in the vicinity has been raided.
EX-POlice Sergeant George G.. Liebers
of New York, who is under Indictment
for bribery, and for whom a bench
warrant has been issued, surrendered
himself at police headquarters at II 80
o'clock yesterday morning. He was
released on bail.
Fitzroy d. Moncrief, for eighteen
years private in company e, nine
teenth infantry, stationed at Detroit.
received notice from relatives in Scot
land the other that 100000 had been
left to him. The next day he was
found dead in his boarding house.
John f. Marsh, the mayor of Kins-
ley, Kas., and an influential politician
in his state, was killed by two Okla
homa outlaws, who made good their
escape to the territory A reward of
200 is offered for them and all
Kinsley is after them
William Chesebrough Noyes died
Sunday at his home in New York city.
in his S4th year He was born in
Stonington, CT. He was a pioneer in
the dry goods commission business.
and also dealt in stocks, and was
widely known in Wall street.
Two cases of smallpox are reported
to the New York board Of health The
names of the victims are William
Hall, 80 years old, and Thomas Hall. |
L years old. Both live at 300 East
Ninty-third street They have been
sent to North Brothers island.
Terry Cox, nine, and Fannie Cox, II,
were burned to death near Ardmore. l. !
T., and G. NJ. Cox their father. was so |
badly burned that no hopes of his re-
covery are entertained. They were |
trying to fill lamp with coal oil VII le !
the wick was burning
j. B. Boyle, of Portland. manager of !
the Portland steam packet company,
Maine steamship company and Inter-
steamship company. says the !
story published in a Boston paper
about the consolidation and purchase
Of important New England steamship |
lines, is pure fabrication.
Fifteen masked men entered the Jail |
n do