Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-04
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Gretna la police are charged with
a Iynching.
Another claimant for Senator Fairs
millions appears.
Arms will be shipped to Hawaii
from the United States.
Philip Phillips, the composer and
singer, lied in Ohio.
Reports Of increased wages come
from various parts of the country.
)ne of the victims of poker raid in
Englewood Sunday was POSTMASTER
Carr.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle and Sec
rotary and Miss Morton have gone TO
Marion Mass, for a vacation.
Thieves who have been operating en-
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific are arrested at Spokane.
The Telephone Protective asSocia-
ton, formed to fight the Bell company,
organized and elected officers.
The Michigan silver convention fiz-
zles, not enough people attending to-
form a convention.
Spikes placed on the track wrecked
a train near Aiken, S. G. Three were
killed.
The next international deep Water
way convention will be held at CleVe-
land in September.
At St. Marys, Ohio, the wooden mills
and seven other buildings were
burned. Loss 100000.
Northern Pacific receivers are auth )r-
lied to bring suit against Henry Viii
lard
The recent hail storm in Nicollet
county, Mimi, caused a loss of over
100000.
G. Haywood & Sons, bankers, of
Clinton, Ia, have assigned. Liabilities
$16O,OO0; assets, $4,000.
Andrew Engebretzon, of, Viroqua,
Wis, charged with attempt to poison
his family, was sentenced to six years
in prison.
julius MannOw and Joshua Wind
rath have been arrested for the murder
Of Carey Birch, cashier of West Chi
cago Street Railway company.
G. l.. Morehouse, OF Mt. Pleasant, Ia,
state, committed suicide with a razor.
Exercises commemorative of the cen
tenniaI of Union college were held at
Schenectady.
Mahoney and PIN, the Irish and
English tennis champions, won their
matches at West Newton, Mass.
Woodward, tie former st. Paul
newspaper man in Cuba, has been i'm
prisoned by the Spauiards.
1t is said the Great Northern Will
operate the Northern Pacific under Il
lease.
Sailors on the cruiser Chicago are
stricken by a disease of peculiar la
ture.
A Spring Valley Minn.) attorney is
reported to have vanished with $4O,-
600 or $4,000 of county funds.
The Millers' national association net
in Chicago. c. 4. Pillsbury vas
chosen president.
Sanger and Sims were suspended
from the l.. A w. racing tracks for
thirty days for selling their prizes.
For the first time in many months
the treasury receipts for the current
month will exceed the expenditures.
The late Secretary Walter q.
GreSham'S estate is valued at only
sol, 900 1t is all bequeathed to his
wife.
Anthony Comstock seized Il quantity
Of circulars and tickets of the Supple
mentary Royal Havana Lottery com
pany. New York.
\ convention was held in Mime
apolis to discuss the question Of eX-
tending Mississippi river navigation up
to Grand Rapids, MINI.
Speaker Bros. x Co. a wholesale dry
goods firm of Cincinnati, have as
signed. Assets said to be $4,000,
with liabilities less.
After adopting sound money plat
form, Kentucky democrats nominated
=. W. Hardin, free silve: man, for
governor.
Sanger, Johnson and Tyler, bicy-
cliSts, will enter professional ranks
July at Waltham, Mass The purse
is $1,000 in gold.
The engagement of Miss Louise d.
Winlller, daughter of Gen. and Mrs
f. c. WinkIer, of Milwaukee,, to d..
Henry B. Hitz, is announced.
Particulars of the turning of the
Gillian G. pitoI with all its archiy IS and
S1,000,O00 in United States gold has
been reported to the state department
at Washington.
Domain Houser is dead at High
lands, Col, aged ninety-two. He took
part in the attack on barn near Nan
WOO when Joseph Smith, Mormon
prophet was killed.
There will be another American pill
grImage to the shrine of Lourdes this
year, under the direction of the fathers
of mercy. The pilgrims will start July
10 and return Sept. 10.
Democratic delegates to the recent
silver convention at Memphis issued
an address saying that free silver must
be achieved through the democratic
party if at all.
The tri college boat race on the Hud-
sor~WaS won by the Co'Vmbia eight in
p minutes % seconds, seven lengths
ahead of Cornell. The Pennsylvania
shell sank before, the finish.