Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-17
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
AT HOME.

Fire at Portsmouth, Va, caused a
loss of 100000.
Six children were burned to death
near Tweed, Ont.
"A Georgia man poisoned eight or
nine Of his children.
Durrant testffes in his own behalf
and makes poor witness.
A fatal explosion occurred in an
opera house at Corsicana, Tex.
Fire destroyed the Racine, Wis, re-
frigerator plant. Loss, $4,000.
Tammany and the "Garoos" fix up
a county ticket in New York.
Chicagoans celebrated the twenty
fourth anniversary of the big fire.
Ex-senator William Malone, of Vir-
gnia, died in Washington, D. G..
DR.. Meyers, the insurance swindler,
Is caught planning a murder in Sing
Sing.
1t IS definitely decided to hold the
CWbett-Fitzsimmons fight in Hot
Springs.
Three city officials of Buffalo, n. Y,
ere arrested on the charge of padding
the pay rolls.
The York mills at Saco, Me-, after
two months shutdown for repairs,
resumed opera tons.
Hooking Valley operators have in
creased the wages of their coal
miners 8 cents per ton.
The fourth annual convention of the
Commercial Travellers Home associa~
ton was held at Buffalo, n. Y.
VIM. G. Knodle. a Kansas City
druggist under indictment for fraud,
committed suicide with morphine.
The twenty-ffth convention Of the
general conference of Evangelical
Lutherans was held at Easton, Pa.
Two men, said to be members Of a
noble family in Sweden, were arrested
in Chicago on the charge of forgery
Alfred w. Fritz, the missing treas
urer of the Chelsea wire rubber COM
pany, has been heard from in Japan.
The Good Government clubs and
German-American Reform union
bolted the fusion ticket in New York
city.
Miss Augusta Brady was united IN
marriage to Commander Robert Ma
lory, Il. S. n, at st. Paul church, Du-
luth.
Gen. Doe, assistant secretary of
war; has finished his vacation and re-
sumed his duties at the war depart
ment.
Stockholders of the Bank of Amer
lea, of New York, voted to reduce the
capital Of the bank from 100000 to
S1.500O00.
Rev. DR.. Herrick Johnson, of Chi
cago, who for many years has been a
powerful factor in Presbyterian cir
cles, is very i'll.
Miss Marie Elizabeth Donaldson.
who is we'll known as a pianist of
ability, has composed a piece of music
called The Defender March.
Chief of Police Luton of West Su-
perior is arrested for ejecting from
his office a man who called to com
plain about gambling houses.
Nine damage suits. aggregating
$550,O00, brought by EXPIRES. Green
hut Of the whisky trust, were dis
missed in the Peoria, ILL.,, court
The revolt against Croker in Tam
many threatens open disruption on
the very beginning of the fight
against the New York fusion ticket
The triepnial session of the national
council of Congregational churches
was held at Syracuse, n. Y. Nelson
Dingley of Maine was chosen mod
orator.
Fire was discovered IN L. 3.
Browns photograph gallery, on the
second floor of the Whitcomb block in
Waltham, Mass. The property is in
Sured.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant, the leader in
the social purity crusade against the
London music halls, reached Boston,
but declined to discuss the failure of
the crusade.
Mrs. Louise Downs Quigley, wife of
Forger L. .. Quigley, now serving a
term of fifteen and a half years in
Sing Sing, has begun proceedings for
divorce.
The building of the Iorkville branch
of the Young Mems Christian aSSocia-
ton at 1913 and 100 East Eighty-sixth
street, New York, was wrecked by
fire. Loss $4,000.
Prof. BemiS, it transpireS. resigned
the chair of political economy in the
Chicago university in consequence of
certain anti-railway utterances on the
great railroad strike.
j. W. Wilson. Il scout for United
States troops, reported in Idaho Falls,
Idaho, that Captain Smith and two
companies We're killed by Bannock
Indians in JackSOn'S Hole.
Six persons were killed, ten fatally
injured and many more hurt by the
falling of a platform at the laying of
the corner stone for st. Mary's Cath
Ole church in Lorraine. Ohio.
Father Flaherty. the priest con-
yicted, found guilty of criminal rela-
tons with girl under 16 years of
age, was sentenced to seven years in
states prison at GeneSeo, n. Y.
Gov. Culberson of Texas will prose
cute officers of the Florida Athletic
club and others concerned in the Cor
bett-titzsimmons affair for violation
of the new auti-prize fight law.
The convention of international fire
chiefs opened in Augusta, Ga 1t is
the biggest gathering in the history