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

New York state is free from debt for
first time in over seventy-hve years.
Boycotts in certain cases are declar-
ed legal by the Pennsylvania supreme
court
Charles B. Roberts, Jr, and Miss
Mary Grace Sloan were married at Bal
timOre.
w. H. Kelley, chief of the Montgom-
cry (AlaD fire department has sued
his wife for divorce.
Payment of $3O1O,OOO in gold for in
terest on bonds carried the reserve
down to S17 100000.
The agreed case to test the Florida
prize fighting law was thrown out of
court
A series Of match races to take place
in New York has been arranged be-
tween Donoghre and Norseng, the
amateur skaters
A Missouri lady who is a grandmoth-
er elOped with Il youth twenty-On2.
In San Francisco, Feb. Is, Trans
Mississippi commercial congress is to
be held
Last month the public debt increas-
ed $2.0OO,OO0 and the cash balance de-
creased $5,OOO,oOO
Posing as a millionaire. W. H. Camp
bell promoted an electrical forging
scheme and disappeared from Chicago
with more than 100000.
nj Of IN ,,oo,e, who ,e, ,v,
ed on the elbow by d physician of
Paulding, Ohio, died after weeks of in
tense suffering.
A company, with Senator Brice at
its head, has secured leases Of Indiana
gas lands and will pipe the product to
Ohio
Earnings of the Chicago postoffice
in 1893, We're $2,964, 500. Postmaster
Hesing has enlarged the special de-
livery district.
annex for women to the Michigan sol
dier's home was dedicated. 1t cost
$4,000.
Policeman James Ahearn, of New
York, who was recently butted in the
stomach by Joseph Mccarthy, his
prisoner, is dead.
John A Conlen and Miss Leona Lef-
fer, of Indianapolis, overruled parent
al objections by getting married in
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A dividend on worlds fair stock of
3 or 10 per cent, will probably be order
ed paid about the middle of the
n onth.
Sarah +. Angle was victorious in her
suit against the Omaha road for
S205,S33 due her husbands estate for
work done.
An unknown man, who said he was
from Jackson, was found frozen to
death on the road near Cambridge
Junction, Mich. He had been drinking
The Wisconsin and Minnesota Bridge
company formed at West Superior with
a capital of S1,000,000. to construct q
bridge between Superior and Duluth.
Cleveland will ask the Ohio legisla-
ture for permission to use portion of
the public square on wn4vn to erect
q city hall costing S1,00O,000.
AS the leasing Of convicts in Missis-
sipi must end with the present year.
Governor Stone recommends to the
legislature, now in session, the pur-'
chase of state farms.
Litigation over the estate of William
B. Ogden, Chicagos first mayor, who
died a resident of New York in 1877,
was renewed in the Kew York courts
after new years.
Michel signs new articles and it is
now thought that nothing can prevent
the fight between the EngliShman and
COrbett.
The d@composed bodies of white
and a colored girl, supposed to
belong to medical students, were found
in an unoccupied building in Kansas
City.
Holders of Atchison bonds to the
amount of S5,000,00O met at Boston and
appointed a committee to safeguard
their interests.
The California midwinter exposition
was opened to the public at San Fran
cisco though the formal opening will |
not take place for several days
1t is expected that the decision in the |
case of Judge Charles Long, of Michi-
gan, against Commissioner of Pensions |
Lochren, seeking restoration Of his |
former pension rating, will not be
rendered before the latter part ef next
week.