Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-04
IN GENERAL.

$50, 900 for the state fair.
An order is to be issued at Winamac,
Ind, for a new courthouse, to cost
100000
Thomas H. Taylor, Il veteran of two
wars. has been appointed chief of
police of Louisville, Ky.
Smallpox has broken out on Com
monWealth avenue, Boston, the most
fashionable street of the city.
Congressman w. S. Forman, of
Nashville, H., is said to be willing to
succeed United States Senator Cullom.
Governor Russell, of Massachusetts,
declined an invitation to address the
Watterson democratic club at Louis
vile, Ky.
Fifty sheriffs of Kansas met at To
pelza and protested against the social
ed tramp circular of Governor lie
yelling.
James Collins, Covington, KY, kick
ed a Newfoundland dog and was so
badly bitten that he will die.
Father Flaherty, deposed priest, and
his accuser, Con O'Leary, disturbed a
Mount Morris, n Y, church by quar-
reling.
Farmer Gotholtz, near New Castle
ney as Santa Claus. 1t took an hour
to dig him out.
Operative pOtters of Trenton, n. Y,
will petition congress not to make the
Wilson tariff bill Il law.
Captain Stevens ran the burning
steamship Seneca into Havana harbor
and sunk her to prevent total destruc-
ton
Mrs Mary Brown, aged and in1irm
widow, has gone to the pOorhouse. In
dianapolis banll-wreckers took her all.
Joliet, Ill, convicts were given Il
roast pig dinner and a good cigar
each by Warden Allen.
Reports of depredations committed
by tramps continue to pour in from
all sections of the State of Kansas.
Stricken with paralysis, Mrs. Daub,
ner, of Elizabeth, n. J., fell on q
kitchen range and was terribly burned.
New rules adopted for the army pro
vide for the giving of commands with
Il whistle.
Statesmen are planning two junket-
ing trips in connection with the Mica
ragua canal and Hawaiian matters.
President Bowden, of the Jackson
vile, Fla, Athletic club, says Cover
nor Mitchell will get left trying to
stop the big fight.
Indiana temperance workers propose
to begin a crusade to force saloons out
of residence sections.
Governor Waite has issued call for
the converting of the Colorado legis,
Iature in extra session.
Religion in the public schools is caus,
ing trouble at Raymond, Ill. Catholic
children refuse to repeat the Lords
prayer.
Dynamite was found under a saloon
ut Ossian, Ind, where it is supposed TO
have been placed by incensed villagers.
! 1t is feared the tank steamer Bur
gomeister Peterson Is lost. She left
Rotterdam Nov. % and had crew of
( thirtyeight.
Near Mandan, n D., a broken rail
caused a tourist sleeper to leave the
track Its four occupants escaped
with slight injuries.
! Sixteen hundred miners in the Bell
aire (Ohio) district win strike Jan. 1
! if the operators insist on a reduction in
wages.
Indictments against Drs. House and
Ferguson for Illegally dissecting Mind
Reader Bishops body were dismissed
in New York.
Memories Of the Turney are reviv-
ed by the filing of a suit for divorce
by E. H. Gillette, of Des Moines.
The Presbyterian board of foreign
missions warns all against Rabbi Bahia
Syrian imposter.
Edward A Major was given 53 ma
JOrlty as the popular cnolce LOT post
master at SheIbyville, Ind.
Suicides: Hattie |. Nolan, at Elk
hart, Ind; dependency from unrequit
ed love- w. w. Reed, at Atlanta, Ga.
dependency.
Joseph and Henry Manly and Georg'
Cronk died at Plattsburg, \. Y, from
privations they experienced in tryin:
, to walk on the ice from Saranac LAX
to Topper Lake.
Near the pueblo of Santa Maria
/ ed camp, killing one man and fatall
2 wounding two others.
Elmer Click and Miss Harrison wer
badly hurt at Columbus, Ind, by