Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-28

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Isabella Reuther, IS years old, has
disappeared from her Chicago home
and Anton Metzenroth is under arrest,
charged with her abduction.
Alexander Driscoll. a prisoner in the
Cadiz (Tenn) jail eloped with the IL
year-old daughter of the jailor. They
were caught.
Ex-senator Bishop Perkins, of Kan
sas, died suddenly in Washington. He
was prominently mentioned for the
senatorial nomination
More than 1000 men are now en-
gagged in the ore miners strike IN
Michigan, and the movement is CON
Stantly growing.
Governor Altge!d has declined to
prevent the manufacture of cigars by
the convicts at the northern Illinois
penitentiary.
Mrs Howard A Koogle. who has
been missing from Pana, H., for two
days, has been found in a demented
condition and will probably die.
A cyclone visited South Dakota, Iowa
and Nebraska. Two Iowa villages
were partially destroyed, with some
loss of life.
A receiver was appointed for the
American Investment company of EN-
metsburg, Iowa, which is several mill
ions in the hole.
1t is the belief that ninety per cent.
of the striking coal miners will go to
work under the Columbus scale of
wages.
The wheat harvest has begun in
Missouri. The grain is said to be of
good quality. Corn and oats are also
reported in good condition.
Taylor Champion, of Napanee, Ind,
was arrested for drunke lness. He felt
the disgrace so keenly he committed
suicide
The influences in New York city that
are working against a citizens cOmbin-
alton municipal ticket are headed re-
spectively by Grace, Platt and Gilroy.
Darwin E. Ware, of Boston, was ap-
pointed in place of William G. Rus
sell as master in the New York and
New England Railroad receivership.
Miss Laura Warren COlquitt, daugh-
ter Of the late Senator Colquitt, was
married in Atlanta to George Howard
a young lawyer of Augusta.
Charles Chapman, president of the
National bank of Great Bend, Kan.
shot himself while alone in his private
office and died in an hour.
The Delaware building at the worlds
fair has been taken to Wolf Lake, Ind
on scows, where it will be used as a
clubhouse.
The Colorado miners union has
adopted resolutions endorsing the at
titude of Rev. Myron Reed toward the
Cripple Greek strikers.
Joe Lamdin, 16-year-old university
student at Lincoln, Neb, has brought
suit for divorce against his 24-year-
old wife on the gound of fraud.
Schaefer & Herold, newsdealers in
Baltimore, have been held under bail
for selling papers devoted exclusively
to criminal news to a minor.
A million and a half dollars worth
of bonds are to be issued by the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation company
after July L to repair flood damage.
The American Railway Master Me
chaDics' association held it's twenty
seventh annual convention in Saratoga,
n. Y.
A population of 1 100000 is estimated
by the compilers of the Chicago city
directory. the canvass for which has
been completed.
e. ]. Murphy, of East st. Louis, will
oppose John J. Higgins in the race for
congress in the twenty-tirSt Illinois
congressional district. Murphy was
nominated by republicans
Mr.. Hasenstab, pastor of the Chi
cago mission for the deaf and dumb,
married a teacher in the state deaf
institution at Fulton, Mo-, Miss FL
lott, by name. Both are mutes.
The house committee on merchant
marine has favOrably reported a bill
to grant an American register to the
steam yacht Margarita, bought in
England by A. J. Drexel.
William Friday of Brooklyn is to be
grand exalted ruler of the Elks.
A schooI er is sunk by an iceberg
off the Newfoundland coast and twelve
lives are lost.
The Buffalo police are said to have
obtained a confession from Mrs. Bar
thOlomy that the murder of ex-City
Clerk Delany was the result of an at
tempt at blackmaiI.
AS the result of a split in the demo-
cratic senatorial convention for the
eighteenth Illinois district two candi-
dates for representative were put in
the field.
A resolution favoring the nOmina-
ton of General Black for United
States senator was adopted by the
Bureau county, Illinois, democratic
convention.
Patrick Justice, for thirty years a
British soldier tried to commit sui
eide by drowning while his beautiful
daughter was being committed for
in New York.
Many visitors are in Monticello, \.
Y, to attend the trial of Lizzie Halli-
day, who is accused of killing Paul
and Margaret and Sarah Nc
Quillan.