Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-28
1ELEGRAiiS IN BRIEF
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Morris NJ Estee is CALIFORNIA; re-
publican gubernatOrial nominee.
Another member of the Dalton gang
Is killed in Indian Territory.
President CIevland has returned to
Washington.
Gov Mckinley will not be at the
Denver republican league rally
James B. Clay, a grandson of Henry
Clay, refuses to support Breckenridge.
Lillian Russell is seriously i'll in New
York.
A splendid rain falls in southeastern
Minnesota.
Erastus Wiman is sentenced to Sing
Sing for five years and six months.
The A. K. o., *. of L. and Farmers
Alliance may form a triple alliance.
The trial of Prendergast, Mayor
Harrison's murderer, for insanity, is
begun
Two Americans are said to have
been eaten by cannibals in southern
California.
George Feh1eGbach, the San Fran
cisco swindler captured in Minneapolis,
committed suicide.
Nineteen million bushels of wheat
In Chicago will be inspected, being
under suspicion.
Prices at Elgin, H., the great dairy
market, are very skillfully manipu-
Iot for tho hana6t of fau
The Yale team runners, jumpers,
etc, to compete with Oxford July IS,
has sailed.
Over $4,000 visitors gathered at
Iowa City to see the parade and CON
tests of 1,15O firemen.
G. de Grimm, the artist, announces
the suspension of Halo, ne comic
weekly in which he was interested.
The West Virginia republican league
has declared for a tax of $500 per
head on immigrants.
Chicago men will put up monster
tin plate mill at Anderson, Ind. A big
bonus is given them.
The republican convention of Cali
fOrnia has nominated S. @. Willard, OF
Los Angeles, for lieutenant governor
The Homeopa thists at Denver re-
solved to erect monument to Hahne
mann in Washington to cost $4,000
Minneapolis mills last week ground
207 ,476 barrels Of flour, against 205,27!
the week before and 17S,645 in 1898.
At Little Falls, n. Y, the Dolgeville
wooden mill was burned to the ground
Loss 100000; insurance 100000.
Crops in Illinois has been greatly
benefited by rain during the last few
days.
The collapsed bank at Sibley, Iowa,
will not pay over 10 cents on the dol
lar.
The American Railway union voted
in Chicago to shut out negroes, 113
to 1O2.
EX-Congressman Ransom Durham of
Chicago has been divorced from his
wife.
II. j. Walker of South Bend, Ind, was
arrested at Winnipeg on charge of
embezzling $4,000.
JOhnson's fast mile on the bicycle at
Waltham, Mass, breaks the record in
public. Time, BOB 80.
James b. Seward and wife, of Ray
mond, ILL.,, were both killed. Their
horse ran away.
A wind storm broke at Chadron,
Neb. One man was killed and
twenty buildings were unrOofed.
Warning has been sent to all post
masters not to interfere too much with
the politics in their localities.
Bank MatSuki, a Japanese educated
in this country, married Miss Martha
Putnam Meacam, of Salem, Mass.
At wedding feast at Suffernville,
I'LL, John MacOri shot and killed two
men, the result of an old feud.
Mrs. William Miller, Of Peoria, seek
ing shelter under a tree during a
storm, was killed by lightning.
Tramps caused the wrecking Of Il
freight train in Missouri, whereby one
man was killed and one badly injured.
Out of 1866 900 adult males in the city
of Chicago, only 230,249 registered for
the last election.
The night clerk of the Arlington
hotel at Findlay, o., was gagged and
chloroformed and the office safe looted.
An eight-inch vein of gold ore sixty
ounces to the ton is reported at Grip
pie Greek, Col.
Wicked Breckenridge leaves Wash
ington for Kentucky to make more
speeches.
The nine cOmmonwealers, prisoners
in the barracks at Leavenworth Kan
sas, were found guilty.
Mrs. Lucy S. Lowell, a pioneer of Ell
gin, ILL.,, is dead, aged IS years. She
was the mother of Judge E. G. Lowell
Captain Smith Moore, prominently
identified with lake transportation,
died of apoplexy at Marquette, Mich.
Six members of the Peary relief ex-
petition have sailed from New York
They hope to find him in a month
Fifty men were imprisoned in a
rning mine at Lewisburg, Ala, and
II of them were suffocated.
Poet Scout Jack Crawford will
shortly sail for Scotland to look up his
claim to a S20,0OO,000 estate. New
York state now holds the estate.
Mrs. e. Considine OF Waukesha.
who was arrested for snopliftlng at