Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-19
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

The federation of labor adopted a
free coinage resolution.
The last boat of the season has
passed the 500.
A rich strike of gold has been made
in the Black Hills.
Theodore Durrant has been SEN
fenced to be hanged Feb. q.
Ransom Delhoy, aged 10, was
drowned while skating at Bellevue,
IOWA.
Miss Eva Brussan, aged %, we'll
known in Elkhart, Ind, society, is
dead
Ambassador Bayard says he will not
resign because of the Impeachment
resolution.
A valuable vein Of silver is reported
to have been discovered in Thomas
town, Mich.
Another effort is brewing to bring
the republican presidential nomination
Shermans way.
Chauncey R. Stuntz, for many years
teacher of chemistry in Woodward
high school, died suddenly at Cincin-
natl, Ohio, ,froD heart disease.
J. B. Sch hauber, proprietor of a jew
elry store in Creston, Iowa, suddenly
became insane.
The Germanic collided with a coast
ing vessel and is badly damaged, but
no lives were lost.
Indiana democrats may present the
name of Gov. Matthews for the presi-
Dental nomination.
Elmer ThoreT, aged Is, was
drowned while skating on the river at
MenOminee, Mich.
Apache Indians suspected of the
murder of a settler and his daughter
have been captured.
Martin Byers, aged 81, long a resi-
dent of Berrien county, is dead at Ben
ton HarbOr Mich.
Mrs Elizabeth Schrafter, aged 60,
one Of the earliest settlers in Will
county, died at Joliet.
A. G. Holmes, for fifty years lum-
Der merchant and storekeeper at
Green Bay, Wis, is dead
Sanford S. Perkins, aged 65, a for
mer member of the Michigan legisla-
ture, died at Saginaw.
Rev. Jordan Charles, of Quincy, has
accepted a call to the Mount Zion Bap-
fist church, of Peoria.
George Rube, aged 40, a Jefferson
vile, Ind, saloon-keeper committed
suicide by shooting.
Prohibitionists selected Pittsburg as
the place for holding their next ma
tional convention.
Committeeman Evans says that SEN
ator Davis has a fighting show for the
presidential nomination
Mrs. H. e. Sitter, aged 20, and
nurse, Mary Harris, burned to death
in a dwelling at Troy, N. Y.
The republican national committee
has decided to hold the national con-
venti0n in st. Louis June 16.
Henry Massey, a colored prize
fighter, was shot and instantly killed
at st. Louis by Nelson Casey.
Della Biggs, a servant girl in Jack
sonviiIe, ILL.,, unused to city life, blew
put the gas and was asphyxiated.
Benton Harbor, Mich, has appointed
a committee to ask congress for a far-
Dor appropriation of 100000.
Lillian Hughes, of Chicago, was sent
to the penitentiary for one year for
shOpliftng in Joliet.
Over 1000 hogs have died of cholera
during the last three weeks in Harper
Barber and Sumner counties, Kansas.
The trial of James Ish and wife for
the murder last winter Of W. B. Chap
pie, of Kansas City, began in Omaha
IF "
searching for the supposed murderers
of William P. Edwards, a wealthy
farmer.
Michael Beggs was found guilty Of
placing distractions on the railway
tracks at Harpster, III. Sentence was
deferred
United States Senator Cameron, of
would not be candidate for re-elec-
ton
Mrs. Frank Nightlinger, aged 50,
living near Marshall, H., disappeared
with Charles Mink, employed by her
husband,
Lewis Batten and Abraham De
Vault were fatally hurt by the explo-
sion of a sawmill boiler at Bloomfield,
Iowa.
A. NJ. Zimmerman, of Warrensburg,
Mo, aged 70 years, died of apoplexy
While driving. He was a heavy prop
erty-holder.
The fur establishment of A, e.
Burkhardt & Co., of Cincinnati, has
assigned. Assets are S3SO,0O0; Iiabili-
ties S2500OO
Charles Prince, aged Is. while play
ing with gun at De Gray, S. D.,
killed Bertha Alderman, aged 10
years.
Frank Porch, a Lacon, H.. baker,
has failed. His small assets, it is
stated, are more than covered by
mortgages
The supreme court of Michigan has
confirmed the conviction of Joseph
Hanaw, a wealthy Hebrew of Jackson,
for embezzlement.
William 0. Bradley, republican, was
inaugurated as governor of Kentucky.
Josiah Quincy, dem, was elected
mayor of Boston.
The E. P. Cowen wholesale lumber
company OF Kansas City, Mo-, made
an assignment. It's assets are 100000;
liabilities 100000
c. P. Huntington will found a col