Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-28
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
AT HOME.

ern baseball league.
Col Ingersoll, in letter, strongly
condemned vivisection.
Sixty coal miners left Iowa, driven
out by low wages.
An earthquake shock was felt at
Denver and east to Missouri.
Settlers were ousted from Wisconsin
Central railroad lands near Ashland.
Officials of the incolvent Citizens
bank at Redwood Falls are indicted.
Chairman Caldwell, of the Western
Passenger association, was reelected.
John L. Peak of Kansas City has
been appointed minister to Switzer-
land.
Congressman J. P. Dolllver welded
Miss Louisa Pearsons of Fort Dodge,
Iowa.
The cruiser Minneapolis has been or
dered to Turkish waters to protect
Americans.
Nicholas Stigar, of Elwood, Ind, is
mysteriously missing. Suicide or foul
play is feared.
David F. Jones, one of the oldest in
habitants of Valparaiso, Ind, is dead
aged rs years.
Francis Peyre Porchester, an emf
nent physician and botanist, died at
Charleston, S. G.
A Chicago story has the Canadian
Pacific building a line to that city
through Wisconsin.
Arthur Messick died at Bloomington
Ill, aged 80 years. He leaves widow
and two children.
David F. Jones, one of the pioneer
business men of Valparaiso, Ind, is
dead aged IA years.
Claude Bruner, treasurer of the
Young Mems Christian association al
Greensburg, Ind, is dead.
Charles H. Stuckey, the defaulting
cashier of the Duluth State bank, was
arrested at Perley, Wis.
The body of an unknown man who
had probably been murdered was
found near Aberdeen, S. D.
Abner c. Nation, eX-assemblymar
and eX-state senator of Oswego, N. Z.
is dead, aged 81 years.
Five sailors on an American vesse
were blown to pieces by an explosion
in South American waters.
The joint traffic agreement was
unanimously adopted by the most i'm
pOrtant railroad meeting in years.
The coal miners strike at Leaven
worth, Kan, has been settled after
four weeks of stubborn fighting.
Benjamin Whitmore will be placed
on trial for the murder of Edward
Leary at Delphi, Ind. last May.
Austin Corbin is bringing 700 Ital
ians to America, and will start al
agricultural colony in Arkansas.
An Iowa judge declares that the sol
diers' home management cannot retai1
a portion of the pension of soldiers.
Aldace F. Walker, receiver of TIE
Atchison, it is reported, will be chair
man of the new board of directors.
A Milwaukee firm withdraws from
the spring wheat millers' combine
which may be wrecked in consequence
w. r Concannon, eX-superintenden
of the poor asylum and an Influential
politician, died at Laporte, Ind, ageC
s. years.
Gid McFall has bought the Dali!
News at Oskalocsa, Iowa, and viii
change it from a republican to a demo
era,i c paper
4 four-year-old daughter of job
Crouch, Fennimore, Wis, was caugh
i'm he line shaft at Biedermann Bros.
81 Dry and died from the injuries re
a. wed. The child's head was terribly
mangle6
She strike of the housesmiths o
New York city may involve 10000 me1
and be the greatest building strike Thu
country ever had.
The Henry o. Shepard company, on,
Of the largest printing firms in Chi
cago, has assigned. Liabilities 500,
900, assets $4,000.
Joseph Donnelly, who murdered
Samuel Turner, of Mexico, Mo, Will,
trying to rob him of 80 cents, is to b,
banged Dec 81.
4 new bank. to be called tn,
Farmers State bank, will be estab
Eished in Dyersville, Iowa. with a cap
ztaI of $4,000.
The seasons iron ore shipment.
from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michi
gan are about 100000 tons-th,
largest in history.
The boiler in Samuel Kelley's saw.
mill at Columbia City, Ind, exploded
&nd killed Engineer Joseph Allen anC
Frank Kelly.
Fire at Purcell, Oil, destroyed 8:
buildings. The loss is $150,O00. Two
men have been arrested for arson. NJ
fveS were lost.
Dunraven expresses WILLINGNESS Il
ceturn to America and attend an in.
Vestigation Of his charges against the
New York yacht club.
Mrs. NJ. L. Reaves Miss Rose Dean
wife of Lon NJ. Reaves and sister tc
Iunis T. Dean, died at the home of hel
snother in Baltimore, Md.
Thieves broke into the postoffice at
Summit, n. j.. blew open the safe and
secured from it over $4,000 worth OF
stamps and $500 in cash.
A Chicago paper quotes Gov. Altgeld
as saying he is out of politics and de
sirous of returning to the practice OF
law and making money.
Adam Ault was killed by train on
the Chicago and Erie road at Decatur
Ind. He was one of the pioneers OF