Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-10
CELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC DOINGS.

maries in Chicago.
Catholic archbishops have a secret
meeting in Chicago.
Fifteen hundred SaWmiu employees
struck at Ashland.
The American Public Health asso-
citation met at Denver.
A new cable will be laid between
Brest, France, and New York.
Myron Kent, convicted of Wife-mur-
der at Fargo, got a new lease of life.
The ecclesiastical congress of the
Catholic church was held in Washing
ton.
The National Free Baptist confer
Mimi.
Very sensational proceedings took
place at knights of Labor gathering
in New York.
George Fred Williams was nomi-
mated for governor of Massachusetts
by the democrats.
Cleveland defeated Baltimore in the
first of the series of baseball games
for the Temple cup.
Six Of Ashland's eight saWmillS are
shut down. The men want more
wages.
The c0urSing meet at Aberdeen, :.
D., proved the greatest event of the
kind that ever occurred in America
Milwaukee millers deny that the
Millers' National association has any
thing to do with forming a combine.
The tranScontinental lines reduce
through rates, which action is con-
sidered blow to western interests.
The schooner John Raber went
ashore at Whiting, Ind. Two of her
crew were drowned and nine rescued.
Gen. Drake, republican candidate
for governor of Iowa, opened his cam
paign with a speech at Orange City.
The Wabash school furniture COM
pany at Wabash, Ind. has failed. The
liabilities are $4,000 and assets $125,-
900.
Gen. o. e. Poe, the United States
engineer who supervised important
works on the great lakes, died at De-
trOit
Formal orders placing Major Gen
eral Nelson A Miles in command of
the United States army have been
issued.
McMahon Hall, devoted TO secular
education, was dedicated as branch
of the Catholic university in Wash
ingtOn.
Lieutenant Pearys last polar expe-
ditiOn was a failure, and he declares
he will never again try to find the
north pole.
An enthusiastic mass meeting in
Chicago called for the recognition of
the Cuban revUlutionists as belliger-
entS.
Mrs. Gust Pabst, once Margaret
husband in Milwaukee. The public
knows not the reason.
+. S. Christensen, Danish vice con-
sui for Minnesota and eX-asSistant sec
Rotary Of state, committed suicide at
his home at Rush City.
William STANFORD, II, and Dairy
STANFORD, 8, brothers, were drowned
LII tue MI III river dl NEW 1OIh ny
the capsizing of a sail boat.
The Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight will
not take place in Texas, the legisla-
ture in special session having passed
billmaking prize-fghting a felony.
Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
church from all parts of the United
States gathered in Minneapolis, Mimi,
to attend the triennial convention.
Ex-senator Malone, recently stricken
with paralysis, is better than at amy
time since his collapse. He is, how
ever, in a very precarious condition.
j. Riley Boyd, an eminent lawyer
and recently a minister, was found
dead in his bed at Paducah, Ky.
Heart disease was the cause.
Judge Hartford. at Seattle, removed
the receivers of the Northern Pacific
and appointed Andrew f. Burleigh re-
ceiyer for the lines in Washington
state.
The Rock River Methodist confer
ence at Elgin, H., by a vote of 142
to ~ decided in favor of the admis-
sion of women as delegates to the
general conference.
Six of Ashland'S saw mills are
closed on account of workmen's de-
mand for increased wages.
In an engagement between the in
surgentS and Spanish troops at Las
Yaras. near Sancti Spiritus, the in
surgents lost forty killed and one
hundred and thirty-siX wounded.
The secretary of the interior has or
dered the continuance Of the adjust
ment of the old Manitoba railroad
grant in accordance with Secretary
Mobiles decision.
John n. Stetler. stenographer, en-
ployed in the New York police civil
service bureau. was dismissed for
coaching intending applicants for po-
sitions on the force.
The police found anthony and ar
senic in the carpet of the room occu-
pied by Mrs. Mary A. Fleming, -ac-
cused of poisoning Mrs. Eveline NJ.
Bliss in New York city.
Two thousand Massilon (O.) miners
stopped work. They want 60 cents a
ton and the operators are willing to
pay, but the two parties disagree as
to the plan of fixing the rate.
Charles Gore, assistant cashier of
the New York Herald, who absconded
July II with $4,000 and who was
captured at Burlington, VT, was
"a ION to Now York city and ARA o-Dp6