Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-05-24
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Foster Of st. Paul. won the Brooklyn
handicap.
Chauncey Shaffer, noted lawyer,
died at the age of seventy-five in New
York.
DR.. Harrison Allen Tucker, Of Brook
Ign, died of Brights disease in Cottage
City Mass
Four Harvard students were
drowned by the capsizing Of a catboat
in Dorchester Bay, Mass.
Captain Phillip declared that the
stories about defects in the cruiser
New York were false.
Miss Pollard had been in New York
to consult with her publisher about
a book she had written.
Floods prevail in various parts of
Minnesota. saltwater was again Wis
tied by terrific storm.
Fire, which started on the Boston
baseball grounds, burned over fifteen
acres and caused 100000 damage.
The United States proposes to Sc
cure a coaling station at Samoa be-
fore withdrawing from the tripartite
agreement.
The legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill is reported. 1t
carries sd, 1O1, 1913, or $766, 1919 less
than last years bill
The monster whale washed ashore
near South Bend, Wash, last October,
&c, Jy iCtc +n
years old He was ia feet lorg.
Eugene Brady became sud- NY in
sane in Albany, ran amuck n the
streets, killed his mother and seriously
cut his sister-in-law and seyt al citi-
zens.
Ex-Goy A. c.. Hunt of Colorado died
of paralysis at his residence in Tennal-
lytown, near Washington, d. G. He
was 50 years old.
Despondent because he could not
make a living and barred from his
studio, Artist Henry Alexander went
to the Oriental hotel New York, and
killed himself by taking carbolic acid.
-Four men attempted to abduct six
teen-year-old May Stuhl in Lambert
vile, n. j., and there is evidence that
twenty men were in the plot to carry
her off into Pennsylvania.
Judge Jenkins overruIed the demur-
rer and plea Of the Northern Pacific
to the bill of a trust company to fore
close a mortgage for $30000,000.
Terrible floods sweep down the
Black and Chippewa river in Wiscon-
sin, carrying away dams, factories
and bridges, causing a loss of millions
Of dollars.
Oscar E. Rasch & Co. of Detroit,
wholesale and retail furrierS, have
given chattel mortgage on their
stock for $27, 800 to secure creditors.
The farm barns owned by Daniel D.
Burditt of Rutland, VT, and located
at PittSford, were burned. The loss is
$4,000, and insurance $500
Lucius r. Wilson was executed by
electricity in the death chamber of the
Auburn On. W prison for the murder
of Detective James Harvey July 81,
1898.
Miss Julia w. Morris, of New York
city, was married by proxy to Frank
f. Gedrity, at st. Francis Xaviers
and her husband died within forty
eight hours after the ceremony, in El
Paso, Texas.
Katie Rupp, German servant girl,
Of Rome, n. Y, lured to New York
city by Bernhardt AItenberger on
promise of marriage, was murderously
assaulted after having been robbed of
all her savings. She will probably die.
Fire totally destroyed Rev. DR.. Tai
mage's Brooklyn tabernacle for the
third time. 1t also destroyed the fash
ionable Hotel Regent and seriously
damaged the adjoining property. The
total loss is estimated at S1,260,000.
A political convention in a Missouri
town which was held the other day,
got tired of waiting for the committee
on resolutions to report, and so ad-
journed and went home without fixed
opinions
Mendel Mendelovitz, a thirteen-year- !
old boy, confessed in the Yorkville DO
lice court that he was graduated from |
a New York training school for pick I
pockets, where lads are taught to be- |
come thieves
Mrs. William J. Harmon, the daugh- |
ter of the late Brevet Brigadier Gen
eral o. L. Shepherd will CONTEST her
fathers will, alleging that he was of .
weak mind and that her three brothers
influenced him to leave her share of
the estate in trust, to revert to them
should she die without children.
Taylor'S woodworking establishment
of Jacksonville, VT, was destroyed by
tire, together with his house, adjoin-
dig, and the contents of the mill and
the house. The loss is estimated at
$4,000, partly insured.
-Four men, named Boivin, Lachance
Devarennes and Silodeau, while sail
ing in a small boat on the ST. Charles
river at Quebec We're thrown into the
chance were drowned and the other
water by a squall. Boiyin and La
two rescued
Ex-President Harrison has left New
York for his home in Indianapolis. He