Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-09
TnAr}tU3RAlls II L IEF.
DOMESTIC DOINGS

quakes.
Gov. Mckinley ard Mrs. Cleveland
will soon visit Minnesota.
A heavy rain banisned the drOuth
in western Minnesota and Iowa.
State troops are withdrawn from
the California strike centers.
Fire in Chicago lumber district
caused a loss of about $1,500,O0O.
Samuel Hill becomes president of
the Eastern railway of Minnesota.
Mayo college the leading north
Texas educational institution, is
burned. Loss $1,0O0000.
Protestant w. c. T. U. women at
tended the Catholic w. C. 7. L. con
ventiOn in st. Paul.
The annual interstate encampment
of the O. A. K. was held at Nebraska
City. About 10000 were present.
The five-mile- bicycle record was
broken at La FayGtte, Ind, by f. J.
Titus. Time, 1928 10.
A hail storm in Stevens county,
Mimi, destroys from 5000 to 10000
acres of grain.
A grand jury in Chicago finds that
gambling places are run under police
protection.
Charles Ii. Warren succeeds g. w.
Case as general manager Of the Great
Northern road
Carr b. Neel of Chicago proves
champion in the Northwestern tennis
tournament, defeating George Belden.
A jury has been selected to try eX-
Wardman jeremiah s. Levey. accused
of bribery in New York.
The government commission to in
vestigate the strike will hold its first
meeting Aug. 10 in Chicago.
Gov. Mckinley and party leave
Cleveland on the steamer Northwest
for a trip to Duluth.
Five labor leaders, railroad men
have been arrested in st. Paul
charged with the assault on Conductor
O'Brien
VIM. II. Bright, an oil operator, was
probably fatally shot by Barney Muir
ray, Il discharged emplOye, at Buffalo
n. Y.
With revolver Maud Maddox, al
actress known as FriXie Bennett
killed herself at Hot Springs. She had
an insane husband.
The Hawaiian royalist commission
passed through Pittsburg on its way
to Washington. The restoration OF
the queen is confidently expected.
Joseph Daul, of Newark, n. j.,
glanced at Il Broadway thermometer
in New York, saw that it registered
102 degrees, and thep. cut his throat.
Mayor G.lroy formally announced
that up.uer no circumstances WOulC
ne accept a denomination for mayor
of New York.
Fire at Fulton and Gold streets
New York, Quilted three six-story
buildings owned by the Roosevelt es
tate and damaged many tenants.
While a new explosive was being
tested in Chicago an explosion oc-
Cured which killed three men and
fatally injured two others.
Frederick Hartman, a retired Eng
lish army officer, committed suicide at
North Beach, New York, because of
business troubles.
Miss Jennie Joyce and Mr.. Phil
DAILY, Jr.. were married at Long
Branch by justice of the peace and
New York society is agag.
A bill for the enrolment of every
able-bodied male citizen in the militia
receives the approval Of the house
committee on militia.
The Michigan republicans placed a
full state ticket in the field, headed
by Governor Rich, who was renom,
inated on the first ballot.
Major e. w. Halford, formerly
private secretary to President Harri
son, was painfully injured in a run
away at Omaha.
The constitutional convention at AL
Dany considered tie proposed amend
ment providing for compulsory yot-
ing.
Mayor Gilroy, of New York, In an in.
terview, intimated that perhaps Tam
many would nominate a man outside
the organization for mayor this fall
William Arnett, an aged farmer,
was surrounded by forest fires which
he was fighting at Oregonia, O., and
was burned to death.
ldoyo college, the leading educa-
tional institution of northwest Texas
at Cooper, Delta county, was burned
with loss of 100000.
Farnum & Co., commission produce
dealers, 1913 Faneuil hall market, Bos
ton, and fruit dealers at 80 CONNER
cial street, Boston, have assigned
The two Scott brothers, negroes
were hanged in the jail yard at Can
ton, Miss, for the murder of Norman
HopsOn in October, 1898.
The first execution in Norfolk, Va
for 80 years took place when Madison
Brown, Legro, was hanged for the
murder of John Dollard in April, 1898
Two million dollars in gold were re-
Gently shipped from New York tC
Paris in kegs. One key containing
$4,000 mysteriously disappeared. but
was found.
The third biggest fire in the history
of Minneapolis occurred in the Schev.
lin-Carpenter yards. Value Of prop
erty is 100000. Insurance about $780,