Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
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HOME HAPPENINGS.

been sent TO the penitentiary.
Maine republicans have nominated
Henry Cleaver for governor.
-Four non-union miners were muir
dered by strikers in West Virginia.
Liberal PresDyterians have secretly
organized and the result may be
split in the church.
Senator Morgan introduced a bill for
bidding the formation of trusts in i'm
ported articles.
The third Haine district republican
convention has renominated Seth l..
Mill.kn for congress.
A business block in Ashland, ILL.,,
was burned. Loss 100000; insurance
small.
Mgr Sat6lli, the papal delegate, has
returned to Washington after some
what extended absence.
John r. Heard was renOminated for
congress by the democrats of the
seventh Missouri district convention.
The district organization of Odd Eel
lows observed their seventy-tifth an
niyersary at Algona, Iowa.
Two men robbed passengers of u
train at Thompson Falls, Mont, Of
$500 in cash and several watches.
Fourteen Coxeyites escaped from the
officers at Helena, Mont, where they
had been sentenced to jail
Indictments against Van Leuven, the
alleged pension sWindler, were sus-
tanned by Judge Shiras at Dubuque.
Otis Haskins, living near Pittsfeld,
ILL.,, was teeced out of $4,000 by two
strangers who wanted to buy his farm.
George w. Vancuven has been ar
raigned at Winona, Mimi, for pension
frauds. He was released on $4,000
bail.
A large vein OF paint ore along the
Potomac river, near Cresaptown, Md,
seven miles west of Cumberland, was
recently discovered.
The terms of siXty-three presidential
pOstmaSterS will expire this month.
Most of them are in New York, Penn
Sylyania and Iowa.
Peter Jackson adhereS to his deter
mination not to fight in the south, in
spite of COrbetts acceptance of the
Jacksonville clubs offer.
The University of Pennsylvania has
conferred the degree of doctor of sci
e1ce upon DR.. Sarah Hackett Steven
son, of Chicago.
NJ. L. Cornell of YOrkyiIle has been
nominated for congress by the prohi-
bittonists of the eighth district of IL
linois.
John ID. Miller was nominated for
judge and George w. Young for prose
cutor by the republican judicial con
vention at Rushville, Ind.
Twenty eight Illinois atorial dis
trict democrats nominated w. A.
Compton, Edward Manifold, and JAS.
A. Tell for the legislature.
A steam heater exploded in a Bur
lington chair car near Princeton, Ill
The porter was probably fatally scald-
ed and Il dozen passengers injured.
The supervisors of Osceola county,
Iowa, have rejected the statements of
consent filed under the Martin mulct
law on account of informality of the
signatures.
Secretary Carlisle has requested the
resignation of Mr.. Van Valkenburg,
colll Ctor of customs for the twenty
first collection district of New York.
The house committee on apprOp1ia-
tons has voted to fayOrably report
Representative LivingSton's bill for an
appropriation of 100000 for the At
lanta exposition.
The court of claims has rendered
judgments in favor of Michael Bald
win and lightweight other letter car
riers of Chicago for time over eight
hours day.
Brodie's Block, a four-story structure
on Church street, Burlington, VT, was
totally destroyed by fire with its con-
tents. The loss is estimated at 500, 900;
insurance $4,000.
Out of funds and unable ID find en-
pIoyment, Henry II. Welch, who for
a quarter of L century had been d
Chicago postoffice clerk, drowned him
self N park pond.
Judge Russell in Minneapolis SuS.
)ained the indictment against W. S.
STeeter of the Guaranty Loan COM
pany, whose trial for embezzlement
Will now proceed.
Ada NJ. Dow Currier has been award
ed S1914O damages by a New York
court against Manager David Hender-
son for injury received at the Chicago
opera house.
Lyons county Qllinois) democrats Sc
lected state, congressional, and sena-
tOrial candidates. The latter were in
structed for George Wendell and the
congressional delegates for W. NJ.
Springer.
The Illinois supreme court ordered
the apportionment cases consolidated
In the Ohio republican convention
Supreme Judge Dickman was singled
out for retirement. John A Shauck
of Dayton, secured the nominal ton.
Obituary: At Salt Lake City, J. R.
Il. Walker, Z. S. A, retired, brother
in-law of James G.. Blaine-At New
Orleans, Rev. DR.. Henry NJ Smith
At Kansas City, H. NJ. Vale. aged
sixty-three.
City last night and two servants,