Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-08-01
CEIEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

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The Defender, in the second race
with the Vigilant, won by more than
nine minutes.
Gustaye SCHUYLER of Wabpeton, S. D.,
and Miss Pauline Brown, of Green
Bay, were married.
Indications point to a reOrganlza-
ton Of the Chicago gas trust as
single new corporation.
Joseph Tuosig, ar aged New York
pianomaker, was found aSphyXiated in
a room where his pet canary was sing
ing
Reports from various parts of north
ern New Jersey show that Sundays
storm did considerable damage to
property.
More than 81 900 a week are collected
at Rockaway Beach to pay the police,
but more than one-third is divided
somewhere else.
A warrant charging Herman 2.
Mudgett, alias III. II. Holmes, with the
murder of Julia L. COnnOr was sworn
out in Chicago.
Hoke Smith, secretary of the interior,
addressed a large audience in Gaines
vile, Ga, in opposition to the free
coinage of silver.
Chairman Charles w. Hackett, of the
New York republican state committee,
is out for Morton for president and a
more liberal excise law.
Former Judge George w. Greene
lived with woman in New York city
Tor years, allowing his wife and daugh-
ter in Goshen only a pittance for sup
port.
Letters received from members of
the Princeton college expedition in
Wyoming indicate that the students
changed their route to avoid the hostile
Indians.
Charges that the SWick Piano COM
pany was a fraudulent corporation
were made in an argument before
Judge O'Brien, Of the New York su-
preme court
George BarnLart, young son Of
Chauncey Barnhlrt, a farmer living
near Savoy, ILL.,, was kicked to death
by Il horse.
Patrick Callahan, bartender,
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge. He
alighted on his feet, and was taken
from the water alive, but weak and
splitting blood.
Wilbur A. Watkinson, of Freehold,
n. j., eloped with Miss Ray Reid, gave
her a borrowed engagement ring, paid
the marriage expenses with stolen
money and was arrested.
Scouts report to Adjutant General
Sitter that Indians are guarding all
the passes into the Jackson'S Hole
country. Captain Smith, a prospect0r,
was wounded in the breast
Wolf Silverman, of New York, ac-
cuSed Of having imposed a substitute,
instead of his wife, upon the Empire
Life Insurance company, in order to
collect insurance money when the lat
ter died, was held in 81 800 bail for at
tempted larceny by false pretenses.
The movement for the pardoning of
Maria Barberi Of New York has be
come almost national. Applications
for pardon petitions are coming in by
the thousands An impostor secured
money by representing himself as a
collector for the girl.
1t is believed that Dr.. Allan Norton
Leete'S death, in Scranton, Pa, was
occasioned by the doctors disappOint-
ment and chagrin at his failure to Sc
cure a legacy of $4,000 from a sup
posed estate, which now appears to be
fictitious.
Charles \. Miller and Sym Il. Cum
ningham, of the firm of Miller X Cum
ningham, straw hat manufacturers,
New York, who failed on May % with
liabilities amounting to SCI 900, are
charged by their creditors with having
made fraudulent failure. They have
been arrested.
\ dispatch from Newport, Il. l., re-
ports the engagement of Miss Pauline
Whitney, daughter Cf eX-Secretary
Whitney, to Almeric III. Pager Of St.
Paul, MINI. Mr.. Paget is a member |
Of the English family of tnat name,
and a brother of Col. Arthur Paget. I
He is the American real estate agent !
for British capitalists.
Secretary Lamont has appointed
Lieut.. Col. George l.. Gillespie, Capt |
W. l.. Fisk and Lieut. w. e. Craighill
of the engineer corps board to visit
Greenwich Conn, to consider and re
port on the harbor lines of that port,
over which there has been so much dis
cuSSion. /
At Richmond, Va, Philip Nicholas
was hanged for the murder of William
]. Willlerson and James Mills by
drowning them in the James river
Nicholas had been intimate with
Mills wife
AS a result of the recent democratic
state convention in Denver, an address
has been issued appealing to demo
Gratis to get together. The address as.
Serts that the vast majority of demo-
Gratis advocate bimetallism, and that
restoration of silver can come only
through the democratic party.
DR.. Francis Walker, son of Gen.
Francis A. Walker of Boston, has ac-
cepted his invitation 10 the department
of political and social science in Colo
RADIO college at Colorado Springs. DR..
Walker has taken his postgraduate
studies at Columbia college and is re-
garded as strong among the younger
men in his department.
William Greenwood, engineer on the
Russian toboggan at Crescent park in