Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-21
IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

The Aston, Tilden and LennoX libra
ries will be consolidated.
Louisiana militiamen are guarding
negro laborers on the levee.
The eastern league baseball season
will open April % and close Sept. u.
Satolli doesn't like it because the
United States has no diplomatic repres-
entat!ye at the vatican.
Nine miners are threatened in New
Mexico in consequence of a fire, and
there seems little hope for them.
James Dewitt Rexford, for twenty
five years president OF the First Ma
tional bank of GAINESVILLE, is dead.
Three persons burned to death
and four others fatally hurt in a hotel
fire at MackeysyilIe, W. Va.
Coal miners in the Sangamon ds-
trict, of Illinois, threaten to strike
rather than accept a reduction.
A combination of all the electical
manufacturing interests of the country
is planned by Standard Oil magnates.
In his attack upon the income tax
before the supreme court Attorney
Choate said it smacked of j0bbery.
By a vote of 20 to IL the Illinois
senate passed the bin putting the
police under civil service rules.
Captain L. G. Shepard, chief of the
revenue cutter service, died of pneu-
monia at his home in Washington.
Plans have about been completed for
the colonization of 1900 soldiers in
Georgia on 100,0 900 acres of land.
a gun is invented at Springfield, Ohio
that will discharge a thousand shots
per minute.
John l.. Hawley, who located in Chi
cage in 1886 and was a member OF its
first fire department, died in Aurora.
The trial Of Mr.. and. Mrs Robinson
for the murder of Montgomery Gibbs,
the lawyer, began in Buffalo.
George l.. Littlefield, of Pawtucket,
has been nominated for governor by
democrats of Rhode Island.
Leroy Fernald, awaiting trial at AL
fred, Maine, for numbering his mother
at East Lebanon, starved himself to
death.
Mayor Fitzpatrick, of New Orleans,
is denounced pn all sides for not taking
steps to prevent the riots on the
levee.
-Four Italians suspected of murder
We're ambushed and killed by friends
Of the dead man at Walsenburg, Colo.
Two others in Jail were shot to death.
Several of the persons who took part
in the Catholic church riot, at Shelley.
Neb., have been arrested and quiet
restored.
Mrs. Ii. Il. Barton, of Chicago, at
tempted to kiln herself by shooting, in
milwaukee,. No cause for the act is
assigned.
The attorney general of South Da-
kota has started for Washington to
secure the eXtradition from Mexico of
ex-TTeasurer Taylor.
Unknown ~assasSins murdered a wo-
man and her daughter in Pennsylva-
MIA The victims were returning to
hungary.
Alois Foidl, an Austrian. committed
suicide on a street in Denver by ex-
plodlng a dynamite cartridge in his
body.
The dead body of Ferdinand Moritz,
a Milwaukee cattle dealer. was found
in the town of WauwatOSa. He had
been murdered.
Nine of the Walsenburg, Colo, lynch
ers have been arrested. Governor Me
lntyre will call out the troops if more
disorder occurs.
Attorney for the defense of Harry
Hayward, under sentence of death for
murder, announces that new and i'm
poftant evidence has been discovered.
negroes have been admitted
TO the Federation of Women's clubs
the Georgia Women's Press duh has
withdrawn.
Al Indiana judge has decided that
corporations are entitled under the law
10 ulscharSe employees who belong to
labor unions.
miners, in convention at
Birmingham, decided to join the Uni
Ter min workers, from which they
three years go.
The Illinois supreme court has de-
clared unconstitutional the section of
the eight-hour law relating TO the en-
pAoyment of women.
Girls in Professor Eakins' art class
in Philadelphia rushed from the room
when the instructor placed a nude boy
before them.
Wreckage Of the Chicora, which went
down during the winter with twenty
four persons on board, was washed
ashore at St. Joseph.
The pattern-shop of the Challenge
manufacturing company's plant at
Chicago was burned. The loss Is $45,-
600.
A. V. II. Carpenter, formerly general
passenger agent of the Chicago. Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad, died at
Milwaukee, aged rs.
Michigan legislators have decided to
submit the question of increasing
salaries of state officers to a popular
vote.
A number of people in Waupun.
Wis, We're injured, n fatally, during
the progress of a fire that DESTROYED
several business houses.
In White County, Ga, there is a
mountain stream which runs up hill.
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