Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-14
DOMESTIC.

North Dakota had a heavy snow
storm.
Wholesale grocers of the northwest
held conference at Duluth.
President Cleveland names Nov. Is
in a Thanksgiving proclamation.
Deep waterway commissioners are
appointed by President Cleveland.
Wilkin county failed in it's attempt
to get seven townships away from Of
ter Tail and Grant counties, Mimi.
The worlds record for double SOULS
was lowered by Teemer and Rogers at
the Austin (Tex) regatta.
A $1,000,0O0 fire occurred in New
York and twenty-five firemen were in
jured.
President Cleveland appoints P. H.
KerWin surveyor general of Mime
sofa.
The library, music hall and art gal
lery presented to the city Of Pittsburg
by Andrew Carnegie were dedicated.
Eugene Field, the poet and humor-
list, died suddenly of heart disease at
his home in Chicago.
his $4,000 bail rather than go to
prison in Bavaria for fourteen days
Miners from Alaska say Canadian
military police are building fortifica-
tions on the Alaskan boundary line.
Erwin Hartley shot his sweetheart
in West Virginia town and was fat
ally wounded by the young woman.
of Little Rock, Ark, destroyed por-
ton of the town. Loss, $4,000.
Plans for a sea wall in Lake Michi
gan near the lake front in Chicago
have been approved by the secretary
of war
It is reported that seven students of
the German Theological seminary, at
Bloomfield, N. j., have been suspended
for hazing.
The Indiana state auditor is after
several sheriffs whom he charges have
been swindling the state by classifying
their accounts.
Wisconsin's cranberry marsh case
ended in court with $4,000 expenses
and the property involved not valuable
enough 10 pay Ineul
Vicar General John M. Farley re-
ceived many congratulations upon his
appointment as auxiliary bishop of the
diocese of New York.
The bodies of two more victims of
Wednesdays explosion in the Journal
Office at Detroit were recovered. The
victims number about 40.
Michigan logging firms in the east
crn end of the upper peninsula find
great difficulty in securing men TO
work in the logging camps.
The Great Northern strike only ma
terializes at Devils Lake, n. D., where
freight trains stop running while the
passenger service continues.
Three Omaha men accused of as
saulting and numbering little girl
were saved from lynching by being
whisked off to the penitentiary.
The steamer Missoula has been over
due at Cleveland five days. Her
owner thinks she is disabled and
adrift in the middle of the lake.
The thirty-third congress Of the So
ciety for the advancement of women
Howe was among the thirty delegates.
H. H. Holmes, convicted of the muir
der of Benjamin F. Pitezel, in Phila-
delphia, Pa, fully expects to have a
new trial, and is cheerful in conse-
quence
Booker T. Washington, a southern
negro leader, wrote an open letter to
Senator Tillman against the PROPOSE
ton to deny education to the negroes
of South Carolina.
A woman, who said she was Mrs
Jennie Mclean, and had been de-
serted by her husband in Brooklyn
ricd to kill herself by taking poison
n Boston, Mass.
The Hinds-Williams damage suit
brought by salesman's wife against
a rich unmarried woman for aliena-
ton of her husbands affections has
been compromised in Suffolk county
Mass
Harbor Grace island, on which is sit
uated one of the principal lighthouses
of Newfoundland, was partly sub,
merged recently. 1t is expected that
the lighthouse will collapse in the mex
northeast gale.
William F. Collins, a well-llnowr
man of Bloomfield, \. J., died suddenly
from heart disease. He was said tt
be the inventor of the Lappin brake
shoe, extensively used on elevated
railroads, and he claimed to be an eX
member of the Canadian parliament.
Cards are out for the marriage o
Ellis Mills, United States consul gen
eral and secretary of legation at Homo
lulu. to Cora Richie, daughter of Ben
iamin Franklin Male, at the residence
Of the latter, Bellevue, Rapidan, Va.
today
Planters have filed two sugar bount!
suits in the United States court under
an agreement with the Washington
authorities who will aid a speedy tria
and appeal to the supreme court.
The religious ceremony of marriage
OF Count Max De Foras, son of thu
grand marshal of the Bulgarian court
and Maria, daughter of Gen. Meredith
Read, was celebrated in Paris. Thu
church was packed with the arts
tocracy.
The Bellingham Bay national banl
of New Whatcom, Wash, has closet
unable to meet the county treasurer
demand for county deposits liabilitie
S1O5 00O. assets S1S7 600 The suspen