Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-10-25
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Trustee Pence, of the Central church,
denies that Rev. Frank Gunsaulus has
been asked to succeed Professor
Swing.
Decided decrease in earnings was
reported at the annual meeting Of the
Pullman Palace Car company. The
usual quarterly dividend was declared.
Senator German and Secretary Car
Isle have agreed to make speeches in
New York, supporting Hill for gov
ern0r.
Nebraska supreme court has decided
that candidates of the democratic
boilers may not be placed on the of
fetal ballot.
George W. Champlin, member of the
Chicago board of trade, and proml-
nent club man, died at Hot Springs,
Ark, of paralysis.
Celebrated Catholic dignitaries par
ticipated in the conservation of Right
Rev. James McFaul bishop of Tren-
ton, n. J.
Advices from Rome verify the rumor
His secretary, Father Papi, will take
Jesuit orders.
Four masked and armed thieves in
Inundated the family of John Mooney,
of Highland Park, ILL.,, and looted the
house.
Marshall Reardon, while trying to
collect a bill Of William Kingston.
cook at LemOnt, ILL.,, was murdered by
the latter.
Miners who took the places of
strikers at Ashland, KY, were fired
upon from ambush and several OF
them were wounded.
Health Commissioner Kempster, OF
Milwaukee. against whom impeach-
ment proceedings have been brought,
threatens to begin a like action against
his chief accuser.
The strained relations between the
United States and Colombia growing
out of the latter's refusal to negotiate
reciprocity treaty have been ended
by the new tariff law.
Nearly 24OOO democrats were placed
in charge of poStOfficeS during the first
year of the present administration, eX-
ceeding the record made under Har-
riSon.
Militia fired on mob which tried
to lynch a negro fiend at Washington
Court House, Ohio. Four persons
were killed and ten wounded, three
fatally.
An association whose object is the
suppression of gambling in the United
States and Canada has been formed
by Dr., W. G.. Clarke and others in
Chicago.
Christensen Pearson, a special pO-
liceman employed by wealthy resi-
dents of the Hyde Park suburb of
Kansas City, was murdered by burg
lars.
The bingham Qll.) canning factory
closed for the season. Two hundred
and fifty thousand cans of tomatoes
were put up and six car loads mar
keted.
John A. Battlorf, employee of the
United States Express company in
Springfield ILL.,, who embezzled $500
some months ago, was sentenced to
one year ia the penitentiary.
At Sibley, Iowa, Sheriff Stamm and
his wife went to a political meeting
and left no one at the jail. While
they were gone one of the prisoners
got away.
William z. Smith, who was for
years the body servant of the late A.
! Il. Stewart, seeks to regain possession
of the house in New York, which he
transferred to his daughter.
The Chicago city health department
has established a department with
elaborate apparatus for archaeological
tests for the detection of diphtheria
germs or similar pests.
1t was decided, against Mr.. Straus'
protest, to leave to Senator Hill the
question of whether the state demOc-
, racy city ticket headed by William
L. Strong, should be printed with the
I regular state ticket.
A suit was filed in the United States
circuit court, at Madison, Wis, to test
Secretary Hoke Smiths decision in the
, Ashland county land cases, involving,
besides the title to the land, about $780,
600 worth of standing pine.
Thomas Lucero, the notorious out
law, who was the leader of the gang
that assassinated Sheriff Doherty, of
Mora county, n. NJ, was captured at
Grand Station n. NJ, on the Atlantic
and Pacific railway yesterday
Impeachment proceedings against
Health Commissioner DR.. Walter
kempSter for the manner in which he
has handled the smallpox epidemic in
Milwaukee We're begun in the common
council here Monday night.
In the supreme court at Providence,
r. l., Judge Tillinghast granted an in
junction against the master plumbers
association, in behalf of the non-mem-
bers, restraining the association from
lnstituting a boycott
Amos Wallack, formerly city mar
shall at Pecatonica, and an old G. A.
K. man, was fatally injured while run
ming a patent stump-pulling machine
A small boy near by touched a spring.
releasing the machine. which struck
Mr.. Wallack IN the breast, crushing
it in.
Myron b. Gilbert, a driver at South
Bend, Ind, for the American express
company, was arrested for systematic
robblng OF money consigned to the