Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-18
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
HOME HAPPENINGS,

Pennsylvania is damaged by floods.
w. Jennings DemOreSt dead.
Counterfeit 2-cent postage stamps
have been discovered in Chicago.
Lives are lost in a Kansas sand
storm.
Another income tax test case is in
sight.
young lady is mysteriously miss
ing from Hartford, Mimi.
Ex-Recorder Smyth Of New York
will be the new leader OF 1ammany.
The Massachusetts legislature passes
a severe law on Sunday observance.
Gov. Mckinley makes d speech at
Hartford, Conn, on his favorite theme.
Disastrous floods were reported
throughout the New England and
Middle States.
Six men were killed and four in
jured by the collapse of two business
buildings in Wheeling, w. Va.
The republicans were successful in
Jersey City, Newark and other nearby
Jersey cities and towns.
Kokomo, Ind, bequeathed $4,000 to
the American university.
Striking miners III Iowa threaten
trouble and the militia may be ordered
out
A Kansas City white girl married a
Chinaman. The pair were Wrongfully
arrested III Chicago.
Vermillion IS. D. young man gets
a marriage license before proposing
The girl demurs and elects him.
Twenty-one men are beneved to have
lost their lives by the explosion in the
Blue Canyon mine near New What
com, Wash.
Alfred Il. Champlin, a leading boot
and shoe dealer Of Westerly, II. l.
dropped dead from az internal hem
orrhage.
Heavy rains are reported from sew
eral places in North Carolina. There
have been several Washouts and rail
road traffic is delayed i'll consequence
Many serious problems are left by
the supreme courts income tax deci
sion for the government officials t
solve.
Dover, Del, April 16.-On the las
ballot taken for United States senate
the result stood: Higgins 8; Addick
3: Massey 1; PenneWill 1; Bayard l
Ridgeley o. A conference will be hell
between Higgins, Massey and Addick
looking to a settlement of the deadlock
The suit of Il Chicago man agains
Schweinfurth, the Illinois Messiah,
for alternating the affections of til,
formers wife, is on trial.
The cruiser Minneapolis easily out
sails all the other vessels of Admira
Meades squadron, now in the Yves
Indies.
The 300 employees in the Cashmer
mills Of John Chase X Sons, of Web
ster Mass, have been notified tina
their wages will be Increased 10 pc
cent.
Milwaukee clergymen are on til
warpath to secure a better Observance
of the Sabbath and have formed
union for the enforcement of tn
laws.
The steamer de LessepS has br0ugh
from Costa Rica to Colon Il numbe
of Colombian eXiles. The strike of Ia
borers along the line of the Panam;
canal continues.
There will be Il free silver cOnyen
zion III Minnesota during the comm:
summer or fall. 1t Will most likely b.
held III the latter part OF Septembe
or the early days Of October.
Addie l.. Lynch, is years of age,
pupil in the high school at Sterling
Mass, was instantly killed by bein:
run over while returning home from
church with her father.
Not 4 train arrived in Denver from
the east Sunday, and all roads traYerS
ing the eastern portion Of the state ar,
still impossible as 4 result OF The
great storm.
Rev. Charles Davis, pastor of tn,
colored Baptist church, at Harrods
burg, Ky, broke all baptizing records
when in twenty nine minutes he i'm
mersed Seyenty-SiX cOlored converts.