Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-07-25
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

miners was declared general i
One Thousand feet Of railroad track
was washed away at Peoria.
THE Christian EndeavorerS CLOSED ;
their convention in Boston, Mass.
The Hotel Richelieu, Chicago, mas .
,ona into the hands of a receiver. ,
The Horr-Harvey debate on the Sill !
ror question was opened in Chicago.
lightning demolished the towers OF
the penitentiary at Jeff ina.
Secretary Hoke Smith refuses to pay
government employees for Sunday
work.
Five sailors on the Ericsson were ter
~ihly scalded by the bursting OF
steam pipe.
Three and three-fourths inches Oh
rain fell in Peoria, the heaviest tall IN
forty years.
Harry Boden, an operator, was killed
at Bucyrus, Ind, and his BODY placed
on the track.
The governor of Wyoming has asked
for government aid against the Ban
mock Indians.
The torpedo boat Ericsson Will take
the builders trial at the first favorable
opportunity.
The London Times predicts disrup-
ton in Canada as a result OF the Mani
toba trouble.
Judge Wheaster, Of Quincy, ILL.,, a
legal contemporary Of Lincoln and
Douglas, is dead.
Three children of G. G.. Newton died
nisnr
Gus mushrooms.
Miss Helen Gould and party are in
Chicago, on their way back from
tour in the west.
Cleveland was toasted at the dinner
given by the lord mayor of London to
the DAILY company.
Two highwaymen held up and robbed
twelve persons on the State street
viaduct, Chicago.
The examination of William Starr
Henry, accused of killing his father, in
Brooklyn, was begun.
The Michigan drOuth was broken by
a heavy storm. All brush fires have
been extinguished.
Fire destroyed the National linseed
oil company's mill at Sioux City.
Loss 100000; fully insured.
Mayor Caldwell, of Cincinnati, pre-
sented a beautiful silver service to the
cruiser Cincinnati at Brooklyn.
A package containing $4,000 myster-
iolsly disappeared from the office of
the Pacific express at Omaha.
Ben d. set the best mark in OhiO's
turf HISTORY, winning in three
straights, pacing the first in 2:O7 IA.
Arthur Busch, son of a millionaire
brewer of Burlington, Iowa, overcome
with heat, dropped dead in st. Louis.
John A Knight, an Indiana lawyer,
shot and seriously wounded his best
friend mstaking him for an intruder.
The old detective force of New York
which served under Supt. Byrnes will
be discharged and new bureau
formed.
Fire at Lewiston, n. Y, destroyed
the steamer CIbola. the American hotel
and the custom house. One life was
lost
The death in San Francisco of A. n.
Towne, second vice president of the
Southern Pacific railroad, was an
nOunced.
Judge e. S. Hammond, of the United
States district court of Tennessee, was
married at Memphis to Mrs. Margaret
WHISTLER.
A wall has been built around the en-
tire plant of the Pullman company
The officials say it is to keep out tres
passers.
Ex-Gov Cornell of New York, re-
fuses to pay his coal bill and may be
hauled into count. He has long been
hard up.
Maria Barberi was convicted of muir.
der in the first degree for killing heI
faithleSS lover, Domenico Cataldo, in
New York.
Lawyer f. X. Hawkins and his wife
have been missing from New York
city for two weeks, and foul play is
suspected.
Johnny" Ward, ex-captain of the
Brooklyn Baseball club, has been ad
~itted 30 practice before the supreme
e~urt of New York.
The Rev. Or. Arthur Brooks, rector
of the Church of the Incarnation, New
York, died at sell on the steamship
Fulda, July 10.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Belle
Farrell at La Plata, Nd, charged with
mudering her husband by poison, re.
turned a verdict of not guilty
President Roosevelt, OF the police
board, gave out statistics, showing
that crime had not increased, but had
decreased in New York city.
William X. Vanderbilt, who has
tried yachting and nearly every other
form of amusement, is now going in
for breeding and running race horses
The historic third ward of Milwau-
kee viii be forced out of existence by
its low population, the law requiring
5000, while the census shows only
$500.
In the federal court at Keokuk. Iowa,
Judge Wilson sentenced ex-State Sen
ator L. r. CaSSat, the Pella bank
wrecker, to nine years in the peniten-
tialy.
L. III. Wang, of Shanghai, now in
New York, says his business in Amer
lea will undoIbtedlr result in the es-
tablishment in China of American en-
terprises.