Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-02
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Cor congress.
An anarchist bolnbarded Pullman's |
house with stones.
Iowa republicans make no mention !
of prohibition in .heir platform.
The annual convention of the in
ternationa1 order of Kings Daughters
and Sons was opened at Ocean Grove.
The prosecution in the New York po-
lice trials completed the taking of
testimony and the defence began.
Three persons were killed near Gin
sinnat in a collision on the Big
-four" road.
Brooklyn aldermen voted an appro-
priation of $750,OOO for an increased
water supply.
Boston will have an elevated rail
road. The citizens voted in favor Of
the Meigs system.
The annual session of the imperial
council of the Order of the Mystic
Shrine opened at Denver.
The sixteenth biennial convention of
the North American Turnerbund met
at Denver.
The Indian Territory miners strike
was declared off, the miners accept
ing the company's terms.
Five cottages, together with Com
stocks hotel, at Riverside, r. l., a
summer resort, were destroyed.
Three firemen were killed and 200
horses incinerated by the fire in Wash
ington.
Reports from southern Minnesota
show that the wheat crop has seldom,
f ever, been eXcelled.
Attorney Erwin made a tonal
speech in the Debs case. The con-
tempt proceedings are continued until
Sept. 5.
An elevator fell in the New York
brewery of Clausen e Price, killing
three persons and injuring two.
A H. Blackall & Co., of Chicago,
extensive dealers in teas and coffees,
made an assignment.
Three young men were drowned
while bathing in the Snake river,
three miles below PenewaWa, Wash.
A schedule of the defunct American
loan and trust company shows liabih-
ties of $S11.623, and assets Of $40, 1893.
2. J. Wheaton. superintendent of the
Bismarck On. d. schools, who stabbed
himself two weeks ago, died in Min
neapOliS.
The senate committee on judiciary
decided to report favorably the house
bill providing for the taxation of
greenbackS.
Fire started in Reed Il Sherwood's
lumber yards, at Anoka, Mimi, and
100000 feet of lumber was burned.
Loss. $4,000.
Olivia people broke into the Beaver
Fails court house and carried off coun-
ty records to Olivia, to which place
tE2 voters of Renville decided to re-
move the county seat.
Bootblack Costantino killed his
sweetheart in New York and wounded
himself seriously because he was
Respondent and feared they could not
marry.
The New York constitutional conven-
ton sent to the third reading the pro-
posed amendment to prevent the rail
coading' of bills through the legislat-
Ire.
6y deal with the Oregon Railway
and Navigation company, which COM
pany cut loose from the Union Pacific,
to Portland.
At Coal City, twenty miles south of
Toilet, ILL.,, John Brown killed his wife
md committed suicide because she
deserted him for another man.
The ROSEBUD Mill, at Cripple Creek,
Col, one of the most co.Aplete gold
ore reduction plants in the country,
WAS burned. The loss is fully $150000.
Aaron Hammond, colored, head ,Han
VT barn burners club, was shot and
KILLED by Chief of Police Davis, while
resisting arrest, at Huntsville, Ala
The fourteenth annual convention of
she Photographers association of
America held its four days session al
st Louis.
4. sgd Weeks, an actor, was acquit- !
ted, in New York, of the larceny of a
"runk from Laura st. James, an act |
IesS. |
Governor Tillman issued a proclama- |
ION announcing the reOpening of the
dispensaries in South Carolina on Au-
gust 1. |
Michaei L. Doyle, retail dry goods |
dealer at 267 and 269 Grand street, |
New York, made an assignment. The |
liabilities will amount to about $780, |
600
1t IS reported that a compromise |!
on the tariff, endorsed at the white |
house, has been agreed upon. The bill |
will be returned to conference without |
Instructions
Giuseppe TomaSco was stabbed and !
killed in New York city by Francesca |
Colacc1a. The murderer was locked up. |
The tragedy was the result of GUAR i
red over the purchase of two bananas. |
DR.. n. B. Smith, aged 60, a we'll |
known resident of Cecil county, Md. !
and for many years engaged in the |
practice of dentistry at Port Deposit, |
died at Black Barren Springs, Pa. |
where he had gone for his health.
The judiciary committee, at Albany. |
n. Y, has decided to report favorably |