Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-22
TELEGRAMc IN BRIEF.
AT HOME.

A cyclone caused considerable dam
age near Rock Greek, Mimi.
Congressman Towne of Duluth de-
livered free silver speech.
The big freight steamer Zenith City
was launched at Chicago.
DR.. L. n. Cohen, formerly rabbi in
st. Paul, died in Minneapolis.
Two postmasters in West Virginia
eIoped with married women.
Three Minnesota men are thought
TO have been eater by Indians II
Mexico.
The American Library association
held its annual convention in Den
yer.
Two new strikes in New Lork, in
volviug several thouSanI men,
were on.
The whisky trust property was sold
TO the reorganization committee for
$9,SOO,O0O.
A Chicago theOsophist suicided in or
der to discover whether there is a
future life.
Contending factions in Omaha de-
clueu W SuDLllL Inc case " IAS gu
preme court.
Two men, father and son, were
lynched at Ellensburg, Wash, for a
double murder.
A negro in st. Louis fired into
passengers and the crew of the
steamer st. Louis.
Burglars took $1,000 in checks and
a small amount of cash from White
sides general store at Joslyn, Ill.
A Washington dispatch says the
United States government will act IN
concert with Great Britain i'll regard
to the missionary outrages in China.
While John ID. and VIM. McKinnon,
Pittsburg lawyers, were absent from
their offices robbers took $4,000 in
stocks and bonds.
Emmett Diverse, the negro who muir
dered Mrs. Cain near Fulton, Mo-, two
weeks ago, was taken from the Sher-
iii and hanged.
William h. O'Neil, a patient Of the
New York asylum for the insane
stabbed three of the keepers with a
knife.
Administra ton officials favor the APP
pointment of a New York lawyer tC
the vacancy on the supreme court
bench.
The twelfth annual convention Of
the National Association of News
Dealers and StationerS was held il
Brooklyn.
Jesse G. Jones, a Minneapolis lum
herman, has been forced to assign
His liabilities are $4,000 and his es
timated assets $23S, 700.
The American steamer Petrol was
seized at Key West, Fla, by the Gus
toms authorities for failing to show
an inspection certificate.
4 defective air brake on ThirG
avenue Il" train caused a crash a
the city hall station, New York. ant
injured numerous passengers.
Max l.. Gutman, a retired jeWelry
manufacturer OF Rochester, n. Y, at
tempted to commit suicide after try
ing to shoot his four daughters.
The sloop yacht Christine, which
left Ulmer park, N. Y, and was sup
posed to have gone down in storm
with four persons, returned safely.
Aaron j. Bliss, of Saginaw, Mich.
was chosen treasurer of the repub
lican national league and treasurer ex
ofticio OF the executive body at Chi
cagO.
Taylor, the defaulting state treas
urer of South Dakota, was arraigneC
for embezzlement, pleaded guilty anG
was sentenced to five years inprison
ment.
OF the $40 negroes confined in the
government quarantine camp at Eagle
Pass, Texas, 120 are afflicted witt
smallpox The deaths average abou
four daily.
Four young men of Huntington, W
Va, were lodged in jail for cursing {
congregation while in prayer. Pulling
out pack of cards they INDUCED il
a game of poker.
Gov Altgeld has issued a proclama
ton for a special election in Cool
county Nov. 10, to fill the vacancy il
the superior court caused by the deatl
of Judge Blanke.
over 200 commercial lawyers Were
present at the opening session of the
convention of commercial lawyers
credit men, etc, held at the Hote
Cadillac, Detroit.
Edward Miller Cameron, presiden
of the Hygeia Distilled Water com
pany, New York, killed himself, per
haps Intentionally, at his home il
West Islip, L. l.
Rev. Dr. Williams Dean, diStin
guished as the first Baptist missionar!
TO China and SIAM and who gave 81
years to the work, died at San Diego
Cal, aged 81 years.
Miss Olive L. Wilson, daughter o
the well-known evangelistS, Mr.. an(
Mrs. Clark Wilson, and niece of 2
2. Bliss, the famous composer o.
gospel hymns, died of brain fever il
Chicago. Miss Wilson had a ma
tional reputation as the contralto il
the Wilson family quartette.
The Hotel Orleans, of Spirit Lake
Iowa, shut its doors because the pro
hibitionists of the town had it's wine
cellar searched. The hotel will not bt
opened again this season