Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-09-05
CELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
AMERICAN MATTERS.

Tyler defeated Johnson and Sawyer
in cycle race at Toledo.
The American Bar association held
its convention at Detroit.
Quay got control of the Pennsyl-
yania republican state convention.
Idaho Indians drove white settlers
from their homes, claiming the land.
A. B. French, member of the Min
nesota legislature, died at Lake Emily.
Men connected with the bull tight
ing at Cripple Greek, Col, are being
arrested.
Two South Dakota train robbers
were sentenced to the penitentiary, one
for life.
United States Treasurer Morgan is
sued an order designed to assist in
moving the crops.
Bones of the boy Howard Pietzel,
said to have been murdered by
Holmes, were found in Indianapolis.
The coroner's jury in Minneapolis
found that Mrs. Hawkins was killed
by an accidental lamp explosion.
A murder mystery of fourteen years
standing is explained by the finding Of
a skeleton near Butte, Mont.
Young Duke of Marlborough ar
rived in Newport, r. l., and is the
guest of Mrs. William *. Vanderbilt.
Wisconsin Indians are War-dancing.
Twenty-Five thousand Knights Tenn
plar paraded in Boston.
Edward Brighton, collector for the
Otto Hueber brewery in Brooklyn,
was sadbagged and robbed of $500.
President Cleveland has reappointed
Matt w. Ransom United States min
lister to Mexico. This is to cover an
error in the original appointment.
The Atlas rubber company-of 241
Greenwich street, New York, made
an assignment. The firm is composed
of John +. Doty and Eugene Herbert
Carlos II. Blackman, VINO was re
ported fatally shot at Block Island, L
l., by a boy during target practice, is
very wealthy and prominent mem
Der of the Chicago board of trade.
A Fargo bank clerk is said to have
taken $500 of the banks money
North Dakota officers went to Winni
peg and got the cash from the clerk
but he was not arrested.
About 5000 cloth WeayerS at Pull
adelphia have asked their employer
to adopt a uniform wage scale WhicI
they have drawn up. If their deman'
is not acceded to a general strike ma,
ensue.
Even Lee, a Norwegian resident O.
Eau Claire, is soliciting contributions
to fund to take him to Norway
where he hopes to secure a forum.
of 100000 which he believes was
left TO him when Il boy, and which
has been increasing ever since.
When the cruiser Olympia steame
away from San Francisco for Chins
via Honolulu, Captain Read denIe
that he intended to break the world
record between that port and tn
orient
Heads OF wholesale and retail mel
camille establishments in New Yor
city express the opinion that the com
ing season will he most active an
witness the return of business pres
perity.
A special dispatch by Mexican cabl
reports the conviction of Co!one
Romero in the city of Mexico, wher
he was tried on the charge Of killin
Senior Verastegin, head of the Mexica,
stamp department, in duel
1t is charged that Louis Hammond
of New York city, who committed sui
eide i'll Boston, was an embezZleI
His wife, Kathryn, who also took he
life, had contemplated suicide TO
some time.
John Dane, the noted forger, who S
efectually worked so many citizens il
West Virginia two years ago in tn
cOunterfeiting business, was sentence,
1T Huntington, w. Va, to five years i
the penitentiary.
The president entertained his guests
Mr.. Perrine and Dr.. Rrya with ;
fishing trip down the bay ON tn
Esther. Mr.. and Mrs. Thurber passe,
through Buzzards Bay on the way t
Falmouth, where they will call OF
Secretary and Mrs. Olney.
Il. III. King, president of the Cas-
down the hall stairway of his resi-
dence and received injuries which re
suited in death. Mr.. kin was s
years old and was one of the wealth
lest men in Allegheny county.
4 split" in the board of New Yori
police commissioners III the decision
of the case of Police Captain Eakin
TD,
missioner Parker's SympathieS, a
we'll as those of Commissioner Gran
are on the side Of the accused otficia
Frank Bevin, the East Hampton
Conn, bookkeeper who skipped wit
$4,000, is in Mexico, where he has il
vested in silver mines. He has wrt
ten his wife to go on there, but Sh
has refused because Of objection o
the part of her family.
DR.. Grenfell, superintendent of tn
deep sea mission at st. Johns, n. f
writes of the extreme deStitutio
among the residents of norther
Labrador, owing to the failure of tn
salmon fishery. He says that man
persons will perish next winter unles
prompt assistance is rendered.
Martin Gerard, a prominent citize
of Warrington, w. Va, was shot an
almost instantly killed by James \
Riddle, who was insanely jealous Q
his wife and who claimed that undu
intimacy existed between the woma
and Gerard. Riddle is under arrest
The petition of James Peralt
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