Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
THE LOCAL FIELD

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Ex-Governor Kirkwood, of Iowa, is
dead.
Sixteen families were made homeless
by a fire in Jersey City.
A national irrigation congress was
held in Denver.
Incendiaries operate at Washburn,
Wis, and five of them are arrested.
Gov Waite is renominated by the
Colorado populists.
Indians in the Canadian northwest
threaten an uprising.
The trial of Debs and other A. +. Z.
officers is OH in Chicago.
Populists of Iowa met and nom
mated a full state ticket Seven hun
dred delegates We're present.
John Manning, 30, a bookkeeper for
the silver plate company in Naubac,
Conn, was killed by an electric car.
Fire destroyed all but two stores
and fifty dwellings in Bows City,
Iowa, a town of / 200 inha bitants.
S. B. Elkins is not dangerously i'll,
but is convalescent and will be about
sn a few days, his physician says.
Seven prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Hillsdale, Mich, by
cutting through a twenty-inch wall
Fred Hawkins won the senior sin
sIes and the Bohemians the senior
Fights in the regatta of the New Eng
land Amateur association.
Roswell Bills, prominent in political
and business circles of Peoria, where
he had resided since 1849, is dead.
After services in North Side Turner
hall the remains of Fire Marshal E.
L. Refs were taken to Graceland.
Burglars entered the Wabash ticket
office at Springfield, Ill, at the noon
hour and robbed the safe of $1,000.
Mrs. j. McPete, her two children
and a nephew were caught in a water
spout near Perry, O. T., and drowned.
Purses aggregating $4,000 will be
hung up for the harness races at
Terre Haute, Ind.
l-.1ht persons were injured in an ac-
cident on the Chicago Great Western
road in Iowa.
Iowa, charged with the murder of his
wife and a man.
The American bark LOttie Moore has
arrived, after being at sea for seventy
Ter, 1arv with disc hIa1 FII11nr,
Brooklyn is tortured by a plague of
f1eas and the constant ringing of the
city hall fire bell.
Dr. +. A. Cooks arctic expedition,
from New York, was obliged to re
turn, its ship sinking.
A division for the testing of road
building materials may be established
in the interior department.
The prospectors near Saltwater think
4hey have struck Il vein rich in gold,
silver and copper.
The navy department has been no.
tiled by Lieutenant Usher that the
Ericsson will not be ready for trial
for ten days.
Nleteorolo9ists are studying the pc
culiar haze now hanging over the
country, which is attributed to the for
est fires m the west
TO lure her husband with reach of
contempt papers, friends of Mrs. Lizzie
T. Harrell, of Brooklyn, gave out the
report of her death.
George w. Fithian, democrat can
didate for congress in the nineteenth
district, has challenged his republican
opponent to joint debate.
Urban a. Woodbury., the republican
candidate, was elected gOvern0r of
Vermont. Returns show republican
gains of 5000
Chairman Maxwell and Secretary OF
State Hinrichsen have arranged a test
case to secure judicial construction OF
the Illirois ballot law.
Selika, the extreme outsider, beat
lakewood and Lehman in the handi-
cap For three-year-oIds at Latonia,
causing much unfayorabIe comment
"Pi,tSburg Ihil'' is said to have won
4 small fcmune by the victory of Can
dalub'a il. the second race at Sleeps
head Bay.
All but two of the nineteen business
house in Shipman, H., were destroyed
as were a number of residences. The
loss is $4,000.
At Union City, Ind, Houk Brothers
butter tub factory and several stores
and residences were burned. Loss is
100000.
D. w. Caldwells appointment as
general manager of the Lake Shore
Is believed to foreshadow his election
As president
Stockholders on the Western Ala
bama consolidated the offices of preSi-
dent and general manager and elected
G. c. Smith to the place.
A Wisconsin farmer prevented a
disastrous train wreck near Stevens
Point by taking off his shirt and set
ting it aire.
Henry Irving, the English actor,
cabled $500 to the mayor of New York
to be used for relief of forest fire suf-
ferers.
Hearing of Bishop Scanned of the
charge of contempt growing out of
the St Paurs church litigation, was
begun at Omaha.
A receiver is asked for David Gold
berg, a Chicago hardware dealer, who
Is alleged to have fraudulently dis