Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Ex-Mayor Richard Vaux. of Phila-
delphia, is dead.
Cleveland appointed NJ. Springer and
Kilgore, of Texas, federal judges.
The supreme court dismissed the
bill in the Oakland water front case.
-Four mail cars will be put in use
on the Yerkes line in Chicago April /.
DR.. Henry Coppee, acting president
of Lehigh university, died Of heart dis
ease, aged 70.
Tommy White, of Chicago, bested
George Siddons, Of New York, in a
six-round go at the Triangle Club.
Young CRITICS manager has covered
McAuliffe's deposit for a fight for the
light weight championship.
Cornell will SEND her varsity eight
to England to AXE part in the race
for the visitors challenge cup.
Judge A. A. Winters, president of
the Ohio League of Building and Loan
associations, died at Dayton.
Amos Townsend, of Cleveland, Ohio,
ex-congressman and a prominent
merchant, died at st. Augustine, Fla.
Postmaster McBain, of OwOsso,
Mich, was assaulted and almost
murdered by an unknown thief.
James Cooley, of Spartansburg
county, South Carolina, was whipped
by white caps for teasing his mother.
The National Bank of Kansas City
has suspended. Liabilities are $1,000,
coo, and assets 81, $50, 900.
Window glass manufacturers of the
United States will meet at .P%ittsburg
and form a trust.
A shortage Of $4,000 has been dis
covered at the Carson mint. An in
V~estigatiOn is in progress.
Silas p. Carpenter is the town treas
Irer of Rockford, vt. He has been
elected for fifty years in succession.
Miss Mamie POwderly, of Randolph,
Mass. is assistant private secretary
to Lady Henry Somerset, and has gone
to England with her.
Officers believe they have a clew
that will lead to the arrest of the men
who lynched Mrs. Holton, in Nebraska.
Leonard Miller, a wealthy farmer of
Newton Falls, Ohio, was probably
fatally injured by a masked robber.
Manufacturing plants in Burlington,
VT, valued at 100000, were destroyed
by fire. One life was lost.
Miss Anna Miller, formerly a kinder
garten teacher, was burned to death
in a state institution at Lincoln, III.
Haryard's faculty has reiterated it's
declaration against students participant
ing in intercollegiate football games.
Mgr. Satolli has temporarily sus-
pended the pope's edict shutting out
Catholic Knight of Pythias.
Final papers consolidating the entire
coal interests of Ohio operators and
carriers were signed at COLUMBUS.
Marie Burroughs, the actress, has
filed divorce suit against her husband
at San Francisco, charging intidelity.
The United states Cordage company
has sold its Chicago plant to the
behring's, its former owners.
Vice President Stevenson, with his
family, will leave April 10 for Europe,
where they Will spend the ummer.
The commissioner of internal revenue
reports an increase in total receipts
for eight months OF 50,
Alfred L. Tinsley, rejected by the
senate, has been again appointed post
master at Sioux Falls, s. d.
Coal miners in the Abba district of
Iowa threaten to strike il their wages
are reduced, as the operators propose.
United States authorities have de-
cided to take n firm stand against in
reference in Venezuela.
People of Thomasville, Ca, rendered
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio, a recep-
ton, which was largely attended.
President Cleveland upholds the ac-
ton of Secretary Gresham in the
Alliance affair.
Major Frank f. Peats, formerly ad-
jutant of the soldiers home at Quincy,
ILL.,, died at his home in Rockford, Ill.
Populists and socialists in Cleveland,
Ohio, are organizing what they call a
work-house club.
Colonel NJ. V. Il. Edgerly, known
through his connection with various
insurance companies, died at a New
York hotel.
Professor Peter H. Wander Weyde,
well known as a scientific writer and
teacher, died in New York, aged 81
years.
The jury in the Davis train wreck
ing case at Lincoln, Neb., was unable
to agree, and was discharged by Judge
Holmes.
William Loeber has confessed that
he killed the Milwaukee cattleman.
Ferdinand Moritz, but claims that the
shooting was accidental.
Nath Reed, alias Texas Jack, who
participated in the Blackstone. l. T..
train robbery, is under arrest at Fort
Smith.
Two tramps who offered stolen goods
for sale were captured at Battle Creek.
Mich, after an exciting chase, during
which many shots were fired.
steamer Spokane. running on Lake
Kostenai, was burned while making a
trip. Passengers were panic-stricken,
but no one was hurt,
A new will of the late Senator Fair
was offered for probate an San Fran
risco. 1t divides the property between
the children.
Two hundred negroes at Savannah,
Ca, are waiting to go aboard the
steamer Horsa, which will take them
10 Liberia.
Unknown robbers bound .John Nc