Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-15
EELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

The second vile OF Rev. DR.. L. De-
Witt Talmage, died at Evansville.
Father Marquette's memory is hon
ored by many citizens Of Michigan.
The hearing in the sugar bounty
cases begins in Washington.
Otto Zeigler the California cyclist
had an. arm broken in race.
DefaultiDg Treasurer Taylor turns
over to the state 100000 in cash.
Chicago coIored people are raising
funds TO secure arms WhereWith to
fight the Italians at Spring Valley.
Lightning struck the Methodist
church at Quakerton, n. j., and in
jured ten persons.
Minister DENLY demands redress for
depredations committed upon Ameri-
cans in China.
One Italian was killed and fourteen
negroes wounded in a race war att
Spring Valley, III.
President Ives inaugurated move
ment against the Northern Pacific re-
ceiyers.
A government signal station has
been established at Plaintield and dis
patches are now being daily received.
Judge Tuley, in Chicago, decided
that speculation on change is leglti-
mate business and not gambling.
Near Okmulgee, l. r., four Indians,
all unknown, raYiShed a white girl in
the presence of her father, who was
covered with a Winchester rifle.
Burglars blew open the postoftice
safe at Warwick, n. Y. Five hundred
dollars worth Of stamps and a small
amount Of money were taken.
Judge Golf, at Richmond, Va,
handed down a decision unfolding the
present registration laws of South
Carolina
Counterfeiters arrested in New York
were held in $4,000 bail each, with
the exception of Lizzie Smith, who
was held in $4,000.
StakWeather, the deposed mayor of
West Superior, finally vacated, after a
vain attempt to preside at a council
meeting.
Washington negroes decided not to
hold a mass meeting until the grand
jury had acted on the case of Miss
Flagler, who killed a colored boy.
Mrs. "A. NJ Gardner, the Nebraska
delegate to the Endeayor convention,
who disappeared in Boston, has been
found in Norwich, Conn.
MyrOn Il. Kent, tried a second time
for wife murder, was convicted at
Fargo, the jury fixing the death pen
atty.
President Hill, of the Great North
ern, says a plan for the control of the
Northern Pacific has been agreed
upon, and nothing remains to be done
put the reorganization of the company.
The Chicago presbytery has decided
that the churches belonging to it must
not use fermented wine at communion
services, and that unfermented grape
juice must be substituted at all times.
ElWood l.. Butler aud Timothy
Sweeney while sailing on the Niagara
river were overtal<en by a squall and
the boat was capSized. Both men
were drowned and their bodies went
over the falls.
Charles Dunlap, general superintend-
ent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
citic railroad, died at Chicago of in
Juries which he received at the chutes.
Mr. Dunlap was Is years old and. was
bne of the best known railroad men lin
Chicago.
10. Il. B. Davis, president of the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers, was thrown from his horse
While riding i'll Central park, New
York, and fatally injured. He died an
hour after the accident.
duel which resulted in the death
of G. w. Bacon and the fatal wound
ing of Polk Saloan occurred at Maui
NEE, Ind. The two men had a quarrel
and both drew pistols, backed off and
began firing. Saloan was hit twice.
Charles II. Merritt, station agent of
the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad at Pelhamville, n. y,
was thrown from a wagon, and a cider
press which he was taking to farm
school fell on him, killing him in
Stantly.
Vice President Stevenson, wife and
daughters left Bloomington, H., for
Alaska, expecting to be away about
six months Miss Julia Stevenson has
been in poor health for some weeks
and the trip is undertaken for her
benefit.
Ebenezer kellogg Wright, president
of the National Park bank, of New
York, died from meningitis, after an
illness of less than two weeks. lie
had not enjoyed good health for some
months, and had but recently returned
from a trip abroad,
John Irving was fatally burned and
John Danko badly burned and bruised
by an explosion of natural gas in a
furnace they were repairing at the
mills of McConway, Torley & Co, on
Forty-eighth street, Pittsburg. Irving
will die
Two American sailors who arrived
from Monteyideo told the United
States shipping commissioner how the
ship Arabia, of Maine, was wrecked
off Cape Horn and her crew saved
after being cast away for eight days
on d desert island.
Zip Wyatt, alias Dick Yeager, the no.
torious bandit, is still alive at South
Enid, I. T., but fast sinking. When
told that he could not live he made a