Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-10-04

The Connecticut democratic state
convention nominated Ernest Cady for
governor, his principal rival, Morris
B. Beardsley being given the second
place on the ticket.
Nathan Straus is strongly urged by
Tammany leaders for their mayoralty
candidate IN New York Thomas c. |
Platt is endeayOring to have the re-
publicans nominate Lemuel &. Quigg.
One of three stoWaways who arrived
in Baltimore on the British ship Ross
more, September %, was Frank G.
Myers, a deserter from the United
States ship Chicago.
John Moore, a United States navy
penSiOner, who was a passenger on
board the Teuton:c, which arrived in
Queenstown died on the voyage and
was buried at sea.
Thomas Flunohel, a Bohemian, his
wife and 12-year-old son, were fatally
poisoned by eating supposed mush-
rooms which they found in the woods
near Chicago.
The Unitarian conference at Sara
toga adopted resolutions in memory
Of George William Curtis Senator
HCar, the president, delivered the bien.
NAL address
A man claiming to be God, Jr., and
who said he had a commission from
on high to kill President Cleveland
and the pope, was arrested at Alex
andria, Ind,
! Annual report Of the Illinois Central
shows an increase of 100000 IN traffic
! receipts, due principally to worlds
/ fair business.
Claus Runge, Theodore Beckstrom
and Edward Voorwynkel, aged re-
spectiVely 16, II and 10 were held at
Moline, H., for highway robbery, hay
ing robbed Christ Me1ci.
Charles F. Wilson was sentenced
at Syracuse, N. Y, to be electrocuted
at Auburn state prison during the
week beginning Nov. for the murder
of Detective James Harvey.
George Clifford, United States con
sui at Basic, Switzerland, says that
the prospects of the Swiss watch in
dustry are unusually discourag ing
the export to the United States being
very light.
While Conrad Bitter, farmer living
north of Crown Point, Ind, was 1e-
pairing the roof on a large barn he
fell about fifty feet and was instantly
killed.
Soreve Winter, son Of Judge j. S.
Winter, of Lewiston, Ill, died from
secondary hemOrrhage, the result OF
a gunshot wound accidentally received
a few days ago while out hunting.
Police of Columbus, Ohio, arrested
Frank Wiegand and Edith Ray on sus
picion of completely in the murder OF
Police Sergeant N. H. Sheehan il
Cleveland ON the night Of Sept. 5.
Attorney Darrow argued for the de
PENDANTS in. the Debs contempt case
He claimed the court had no jurisdic
ton and that the charges made haG
not been proved.
Schooner William Home sprang &
sleak in the gale on Lake Michigan ant
; capsized and all but one of the sly
drowned.
Natural gas was struck on the farm
: of Andrew Myers, three miles east Of
, Princeton, Ill 1t has a high pres
sure and the field is considered valu
able.
Fred Lamont, a well-known circu:
) clown, travelling with RobinsOns show
is lying at the point of death at Ter
race Park, Ohio, from injuries re
ceiyed at the hands of robber.
Two prisoners who escaped from the
Carlinville, ILL.,, Jail Saturday evening
were captured near Girard. The TIVE
| important ones, Yeargen and Cain, are
} still at large.
= Suit for $4,000 was commenced a
La Crosse, Wis, against the Burlington
: road by Charles Olson, formerly a fire
: man, who went out with other striker:
t in June, and alleges that he has beer
blaclllisted.
Judge Alex w. Hope, of the Alton
H., city court, and Ferdinand Vail
/ brocht, deputy sheriff of Madison
county for the same court, had a figh
in a saloon the trouble growing gu
, of the democratic county convention
/ At the West Michigan fair in Crane
Rapids the entries in every department
are more numerous and varied than a
, any fair the association ever made
and the display Of live stock is the
largest ever made in the state.
+ Schooner Agnes l.. Potter, which
went on the beach near Grand Haven
f Mich, Sunday morning, was freed
from her perilous position by the steam
barge Charles Reitz. She will be
. towed to Manistee and put on the
dry dock.
Col Breckenridge files an earnes1
protest with the district committee
of the seventh Kentucky congressional
district, charging fraud, but annOunc
ing that he will support the regular
nominee.
John Blackburn, a student who was
working in the Big Four shops at Della
ware Ohio, during vacation, was
fatally injured by fall. The affair
rendered his wife insane.
United States Judge Morrow, at San
Francisco, decides that three of the
Salvadorian refugees, including Ezeta,