Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-05

a bridge across the Mississippi.
Ex-Governor Russell was the chief
speaker at the exercises Of alumni day
ut Yale, in which a large number OF
graduates took part.
e. e. Christopher mas been arrested
for defrauding the Presidential IL
s.-.rl2ce company Of $1,000 through
fictitious bills for supplies.
L-A-JuIge John D. F.nney. Well
known political writer and founder OF
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81. LOUIS.
\ plan of reorganization OF the
seven companies composing the gas
trust into a compact whole, 50 formed
as to resist every attack, is under way
i'll Chicago.
School accommodations in Chicago
are 50 cramped as to deprive 12,G0U
children of u full days schooling; and
10000 others are crowded III rented
Easements and other quarters.
Democrats fear that the fate Of
the Wilson bill may hang upon the
vote of Senator Irby, CT South Caro-
lima, but have been unable to get him
to commit himself.
Passenger travel by rail was prac
tically stopped in California by the
boycott against the Pullman cars, the
Southern Pacific refusing to run any
trains without them.
One consumption microbe and half
d dozen pus germs have been found
by a Philadelphia physician in the
dregs of the communion cup used by
the Fourth Baptist church.
A train was held up near Savannah,
Ga, by half a dozen armed men. They
broke the express cOmpany'S safe and
secured $1,222. Bloodhounds are in
pursuit.
The Coxey army in Washington has
! no welcome for new hosts. There is
| not bread enough for all. Frye and
his men who arrived have been turned
away by Carl Browne.
A mob nearly killed a Spring Val
! ley, H., man in a court room. He
was forced to jump from second
! story window. He is charged with
! assault.
Edison is heavy man and his fall
from chair on his veranda at Ogden,
n. j., was very serious. He has been
! engaged Of late in developing his mag
netic ore separator.
By the sinking of the tug James D.
Nicol, off Scotland Lightship, New
York, with a herring fishing club, it is
believed that Al of the so persons on
board were drowned.
There are wide differences Of opin
ion as to why Richard Croker sudden
ly changed his plans and announced
his intention of returning within two
| weeks.
w. NJ. Pinkerton, one of the alleged
assailants of Anna Baroski, was
stoned by mob at Spring Valley, ILL.,
the woman completing its deadly
work with pick handle.
Masked men held up a train at HON
erville, Ga, and secured $l,222 from
the express safe. They then ran the
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tant and took to the woods.
Prof. Herman, the magician, anG
his wife are out, because she insists
on accepting an engagement as ser
pentine dancer under George Leder
er's management.
Pretty Alice DoWner, postmistresS
at Yorktown, Ia, confessed with tears
in her eyes that she opened letters
not addressed to her. She was put VI
to it by politicians.
A New York policeman has found
in a clam a pearl weighing 50 grains
1t is about the size of a thumb nail
and one of the largest clam pearls
ever discovered. Its value is $1,000
A department store is to be opened
by a syndicate of capitalists which
has leased nearly the entire west
frontage on State street, between Van
Buren, and Jackson, Chicago.
President Eliot rounded out % years
of service for Harvard. The day also
marked the first commencement when
by vote of the president and fellows
punches and distilled liquors were pro
hibited within the college rooms.
Interest in the Prendergast hearing
in which several physicians supported
the theory, was eclipsed by the news
that Judge Payne had had DR.. Carried
superintendent of the Jacksonville
asylum, make a private examination
| of the prisoner.
A crazy woman called on eX-Presi
dent Harrison. She seemed sound in
saying that the democratic party had
ruined the country, but when she pro
posed with Gen. Harrison to purify
that party, it was deemed wise tC
call in the police.
A Boston woman has started with
out money round the world on a bi
! cycle. The bet fixes fifteen MONTHS as
the limit From the W. c.. r. Q.
she receives one cent for wearing the
white ribbon badge and from a lithia
water firm she receives 800 for car
! rylng its sign.
The recent 10 per cent. dividend t.
depositors of the defunct Chicago
Chemical National bank was only
partly paid out of the assets of the
bank. The controller of the currency
advanced 100000 from the funds o.
other banks to make up that dividend
The matter is creating comment.