Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-11
TELEGRA.MS IN BRIEF
DOMESTIC RESUME.

Iobn Ruford was dedicated at Gettys-
burg.
Joshua PIN, the British tennis
champion, won by defeating Ell. S.
MahOney.
Colorado democrats to the NUMBER OIL
thirty held a state convention ana
declared for free silver.
Edward Parmelee Jones, reported TO
have been the famous king OF green
goods swindlers, died in Boston.
Shfnborn, the New York bank burg
Lar. is wanted for crimes committed
in New Hampshire and Illinois.
United States authorities detain
cutter in Florida for filibustering on
behalf of the Cuban insurgents.
A boiler explosion at Howard, ). D.,
killed one man and injured five others,
three of whom will probably die.
Charges are preferred against
Mayor Starkweather of West Superior,
and he will be tried by the council
Northern Pacific earnings, it is esti-
mated, will show an increase OF
S1,OOO,OOO for the current fiscal year.
failed.
Oliver Curtis Perry, the New York
train-robber, was transferred from an
asylum for insane to the Auburn state
prison.
Ex-President Peixoto, Of the Brazil
ian republic, died suddenly of fever in
his summer home near Rio Janeira,
8razil.
Herman Reich shot and killed his
wife Amelia at No. 45S East 151st
street, New York. A crowd at
tempted to lynch him.
Edward B. Harper president of the
Mutual Reserve Fund Life association,
died at his home in New York, Of
pneumonia and heart disease.
The house of Trotter Holiday, a
prominent rancher at Gridley, Cal, was
burned. Holiday and Miss Mary Tuell,
his niece, persisted in the flames.
A policeman of Yonkers arrested
twenty-five members of the salvation
army for parading without a permit.
Local clergymen support the salvation
lists.
The Maine worlds building, which
has been reconstructed at Poland
Springs, was dedicated on the one hun
dreth anniversary of the settlement
of the town.
Because MOliie Biers would not
marry him Luke Hoyer blew up her
home, in Lemont, ILL.,, with dynamite,
fatally wounding her. her mother and
her aunt.
A dispatch from Hot Springs, S. D.,
says that Judge Dundy, of the federal
court district of Nebraska, had his leg
broken and sustained other injuries
while bathing.
George Cochran and Cleve Morton
aged II and 10 years respectively,
were arrested at Peoria, ILL.,, for rob-
bing the Peoria postodice of several
letters and packages.
The police of Baltimore, Md, arrested
woman believed to be a confederate
of the three check raisers arrested
there, and who have been operating in
the south and west
Mrs. Taafe was chlOroformed in her
bed in Chatham, n. Y, and her three
year-old daughter stolen from her
arms. The child was afterward found
N~lHttllllS Ill IL cemetery.
Emsey Taylor, president of the Link
Line Railroad company. committed
suicide 1t GeOrgeton, Texas because
he could not secure financial assist
ance to complete the road
Game Warden Johnston arrested
four fishermen and confscated several
hundred yards of net at Oshkosh
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ordered the nets destroyed, but as no
actual fishing was done the prisoners
We're discharged. The arrests were
made to test the new fish law.
President Cleveland has dismissed
Prof. Mark w. Harrington, chief of
the weather bureau and Prof. w. L.
Moore of Chicago, once of Milwaukee,
succeeds to the vacancy.
Jules DeSpecher, a wealthy French
man, has arrived from Paris on mis-
way to the island of Anticosti, at the
mouth of the st. Lawrence river He
expects to purchase the property.
Judge GOggin, of the Criminal court
Chicago, pronounced the new law
which takes away from juries the
power ~ LIN SACepl III
murder cases unconstitutional and
closed his court.
Mary Wright, of Watson, was dis
charged from custody at Lowville. n.
Y, on the ground of insufficient evil
dence. She had been held for MUIR
der, five years ago, of her first hus-
band, James Hughes.
The New York city tax rate, which
was S1.T9 last year, will be near 81. 80
for the present year. While real es-
tate has increased only about So, 000,-
600, personal estate has decreased
about S2O,OOO,OOO
Flremen were repeatedly driven
back from the storehouse, printing eS-
adjustment and box factory of Nc
kesSOn 4 Robbins, in New York, by
the fumes of ammonia that had ex-
ploded by flames.
The attention of New York's gov
ernor is to be called to tie necessity
of an extra session of the legislature
to pass an equitable excise law. and
all mayors of cities will be asked to
sign the petition.
Miss Mai Rogers, daughter of the
president of the Standard Oil COM
pany, two years ago welded Joseph
Mott, of the Hotel Netherlands, New