Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-02
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
AT HOME.

tram were married at New LenOX, Ill.
There is large demand for Dakota
horses in the south.
John q. Allen, broker at Buffalo,
assigned Friday. His liabilities are
about $250,00O
Willard is reported to be planning for
reorganization of the Northern Pacific
railroad.
EX-United States Senator James f.
Wilson Of Iowa is dead.
Rain fell in Oklahoma territory for
the first time since last October.
William Ii. Brewer and Mrs. Emma
Luck were married at Hillsboro, Ill.
The price Of rye continues to adj
vance.
A New Jersey bank is robbed Of 49,
765.
Forest fires are raging near Cumber-
land, Wis.
The new Spanish minister to Wash
Agton reaches New York.
A resolution is introduced in the
Pennsylvania municipal affairs.
Charles Walker was appointed post
master at Lewiston, Me.
The Minnesota legislature adjourned
cine die.
Negroes who were induced to leave
southern states and go to Mexico are
held there in absolute slavery.
Theodore Roosevelt will resign from
Ghe civil service commission to become
a New York police commissioner.
The Wisconsin state federation of
labor will convene at Green Bay
June II.
J. n. Newton and Miss Nettie Cooper
were married yesterday evening at
Moline, Ill.
Charlton, Iowa, has organized a
military company to take the place of
the disbanded Burlington company.
In Washington the condition of Con-
gresham Hit is about the same. Con
gresham COgswell is reported better.
A national reunion of veterans of
the civil war will be held in San
Francisco in June.
A son of the marquis of Queensbury
is arrested in California charged with
insanity.
Thomas Il. Watson, eX-cOngresSman
from the tenth district of Georgia, has
returned to the practice of law.
The police reorganization bill was de-
feated in the New York senate by tie
vote.
Morris Hopkins, negro, was hanged
at Richmond, Va, for the murder of S.
I'll. S. Parsons.
At the breakfast table at Paducah,
KY, Jake Brewer shot and killed his
cousin, William Metcalf
June il has been selected as the
time for holding the pOpuliSt state
convention at DeS Moines, Iowa
The Kentucky republican state cen
trail committee has postponed the state
convention from May % to June ,
Miss Wainwright's manager says
that Mr.. Schultz was not the actress
angel"
A u. Porter. who is supposed to be
the man who passed himself off as
Hawaiian CONSUL and who was ar
rested in Chicago for numerous swind-
ling operations, has been arrested in
Jackson, Mich, for beating postmas-
terS.
Il
closed, employers refusing to restore
wages of last year.
Ianphier Finch 4 Skinner. whole
sale furniture manufacturers of st.
Paul. lost $4,000 by fire. Insured.
Suit has been brought by Annie
Holds, a Hungarian girl, against Otto
Rauchfuss, a druggist, of New York,
aow missing, for $4,000 for breach of
promise.
The national supreme court is
equally divided on the income tax
question: that is, the members now in
Washington; and Justice Jackson must
umpire.
Frank Schneider, New York, a fire
Insurance pauolman, was caught try
ing to steal watch while doing duty
at fire. lie was held for trial in
$1,000 bail.
Fred Tamke and Joseph KaIischer,
both of Brooklyn, and loving the same
girl, met in a hall and fought to a tin
lSh with bare knuckleS, Tamke win
ming in the nineteenth round
Samuel +. Aymar, the defaulting
bookkeeper of the Shoe and Leather
bank, New York, occupies the cell in
Ludlow street Jail in which his
brother-in-law, Seely, was confined.
Harry Holmes, aged -, employed in
the Blodgett Touring mill at Beloit,
Wis, got caught in a belt and was in
stantly killed. His body was fright
fully mangled.
Arthur NJ. Smythe was married at
Elgin, H., to Miss Birdie Bishop. and
John f. Lawrence to Miss Ella People.
The men are partners in the jewelry
business.
Stephen Donahue, aged %, was acct
dentaly drowned at Kankakee while
boating. He was a medical student in
the employ of the Illinois hospital and
his home was in Kanevillle, Wis.
Justice Cullen of Brooklyn dismissed
the case of Mrs. Gerty against the
Standard Oil company. She claimed
Gnat she had been induced by fraud to
part with property valued at 100000.
Principal Gray, of Point Pleasant, n.
j., could not face the grave charges
which had been preferred against him.
and fled
Members of ex-President Harrison's
cabinet have no knowledge of his in
tentions regarding the nomination for
chg presidency.
A California woman claimed $500. 600