Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-14
TEIEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
AT HOME.

The Mecca saloon, Il Of the finest III
Cincinnati, was Quilted by fire. Loss
about $4,000.
Loeb Leyen, against whose chances
100 TO l was Laid, won the last race
at New Orleans, a ~tiye-furlong dash.
Charles Lanman, author, artist and
librarian, died at Washington from
heart disease, aged 81 years.
Proceedings have begun at Portland
rocking to the appointment of separate
receivers for the Oregon Short Line.
Illinois senate has passed bills to
exUarminate the russian thistle and
TO regulate elevated railroads.
Rev. Daniel Nrooman, who spent
twenty years in the orient as a mis-
Sionary of the Presbyterian church,
died in San Francisco.
The Farmers Loan and Trust COM
pany has begun foreclosure proceed
ings against the Green Bay and Wi
mona.
A pistol accidentally exploded in
James Martins residence in Cincinnati
duu h1lleu I1clu w CSSIy IL, Il
passer-by.
Members of the freshmen class of
the University of Illinois have adopted
resolutions pledging themselves to alb
stain from hazing.
Frank Feyler, whose confirmation as
postmaster at Rochester, n. Y, failed
in the senate, was reappOinted by the
president.
Silver men in Washington discussed
Sibley, Bland, Teller, Cameron and
Bryan as presidential candidates for
1896.
The new Bellaire, o., blast furnace
was placed in operation. Its capacity
is over 200 tons daily. Two hundred
hands were given work.
Otis Russell Johnson, a millionaire
lumberman and prominent in Mich
igan industries, died at Racine, aged
so years.
Harry T. Armstead, captain of the
Oxford boating team Of the New Eng
land Amateur league, died at Linn,
Mass, aged Sc years.
Judge Allen, of the United States
court, has enjoined strikers from in
terferring with the operations of the
Tudor iron works, of East st. Louis.
Alfrel MiInes, lieutenant governor
of Michigan, was nominated by re
publicans at Kalamazoo for congress-
man.
In a speech at Canton, Ohio, Senator
PETER predicted that the populists
uJn111i no nhSn1.hn6 nv a now anti
monopoly parity.
Commodore Eldridge T. Gerry was
summarily elected from the New York
legislature door for lobbying for a
whipping post.
Two boys at Los Angeles We're
poisoned, one of them fatally, by cakes
containing ~strychnine, given by q
neighbor.
Henry A. Wing, for thirty-eight
years cashier of the Grafton Mass
National bank, killed himself by
shooting.
Worried by his daughters marriage
troubles, John Townsend, of Lynch
burg, Ohio, committed suicide by
drowning.
John l.. Clark, of Muskegon, Mich,
wanted at Sacramento, Cal, for big
amy, is found to have at least four
wives.
The First Baptist church of Cincin-
natl has sued the ministers conference
of that city for $4,000 for alleged
defamation.
Fifteen thousand of the $4,000 miners
in the PittSburg district have re
sponded to the order calling for a
strike.
The ~reichstag approved the appro-
priation for the four new cruisers.
Deputy State Game Warden Hicks,
OF Wisconsin, was found dead. 1t Is
thought he was murdered by poachers
A ~3-year-old girl is under arrest a;
Terre Haute, Ind, for setting fire 10
her accepted mothers barn.
Cheaper telephone facilities are
likely to result from the recent patent
decision of the United States supreme
court.
Germany is extending the functions
of her consuls with the purpose of en-
larging her foreign trade, especially
With the United States.
Thomas Howard, deputy sheriff of
Bar county, Kentucky, was killed by
an unknown assassin, who fired
through a window.
Joseph Roberts, principal witness in
a murder case at Winston, \. c., was
found dead and it is thought he was
murdered.
People of Seattle, Wash, have been
Mortified by the discovery of dead hui
man bodies IN the city's main reser-
Soir.
A Cincinnati judge has granted a
minister's license to Mrs. BaIiington
Booth in order that she may o~tticiate
ar marriages.
Chief Justice Orion, of the Wiscon-
dangerously i'll at his home in Madi,
son
Arrivals of immigrants during the
seven months ended Feb. 1 showed a
decrease of 10 per cent, compared with
the corresponding period the year be
for.
Hanotaux. French minister of for
eign affairs, has announced that the
difficulty between France and San
Domiuco has been settled through the