Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-03
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC DOINGS.

At La Crosse, Wis Philip e. Gaynor
was killed by train. He was 80
years old.
The aggregate state tax of Michigan
apportioned to the various counties
is $3,O13.919.
Two thousand school children joined |
in the parade of the soldiers in re-
union at Salina. Kan.
At Fulton, Mo, whitecaps whipped |
William Massey because he drove his |!
wife and children from home. !
F. c.. Gassum of st. Louis died on
the train while crossing the Glorietta |
mountains on bis way to New Mexico.
School III one of the ward buildings
at Peru, Ind, had to be dismissed
because of the prevalence of bed bugs.
Near Brazil, Ind, a flow of oil was
struck while digging a well, and peo-
pie believe they have fortunes in their
farms.
Investigation at Perry, Oklahoma,
shows that county warrants to the
amount of $4,000 have been illegally
issued
A dispatch from Rome states that
forty delegates Of the Italian Young
Mems Christian association held
meeting.
Among the pall-bearers at the flu
neral Of the widow of Gen. Crook were
Secretary Morton. Logan Carlisle and
Gen. Morgan.
Charles 0. Seaman, an actor, who
shot Il hack driver at Mount Clemens,
Mich, in 1885, will be released from
prison Saturday.
At Clinton, Ia, August Swanson,
who cut his child's head off with a
Ratchet several months ago, was sent
to the insane asylum.
Eugene Eyer. 80 years old, whose
home was at Chicago, committed sui
eide at Milwaukee. She had been i'll
for several months.
The new schooner Aurania took 1890
tons of ore out Of Ashland, Wis. This
is the largest cargo that ever went
out from that port.
According to a letter from Colonel
Cockerill, the Japanese government is
not altogether satisfied with the Anglo
Japanese alliance.
A st. Louis servant girl exposes the
female hospital management. Bodies
were sold to students and the collins
filled with bricks.
While sinking a we'll in Posey town.
ship, Indiana, the WOrkmen struck a
vein of oil which filled the we'll to the
depth of twelve feet.
Iowa will produce half a billion
bushels of cereals this fall; half the
area win yield so bushels to the acre.
1t is Iowa's biggest crop.
Prof. Nathaniel Butler, of Chicago
university Qiterature), goes to Colby
university, Bangor, Me-, as president
He graduated there in 1873.
According to commercial cable
dispatch from Berlin, the Kreuz Zeit-
ung, of that city. prophesies that war
may break out at any moment
The annual funniest of the Indiana
Turnverein will be held at South Bend
next July. Chicago, Danville, ILL.,, and
Indiana societies will be present.
w. II. Johnson, the defaulting county
auditor of Muscatine, Iowa, captured
in Honolulu, has been sentenced to
fifteen months in the penitentiary.
Edward Taylor. st. Louis painter,
has disappeared under circun1 tances
similar to those adopted by D.. Fra
ker, tie alleged insurance swindler.
At st. Louis. near the entrance to
Tower Grove Park, Robert Schmidt
and Della Bowen committed suicide
by shooting themselves at the same
time
At Lemars, Ia. foreclosure proceed
ingS have been commenced against the
Northwestern Water and Light COM
pany to collect $4,000 bonds ard in
tereSt
Near Fort Wayne, Ind, Mr.. and
Mrs John Aker were bound in their
bed by robbers, who took all the
money in the house. The amount was
not large.
Herbert Meyer of Tiffin. O., says he
worked for II. II. Holmes and slept
in the secret room of the castle.
He does not believe Holmes murdered
anybody.
Colored people at GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
celebrated emancipation day. Repub-
lican and democratic candidates for
various offices were the principal
speakers.
John Steele, Il Nolseman, from New
Richmond, Wis, was fatally injured
in fight with \. 7. Ross, also a
Norseman at the Woodland race track
in Duluth.
Governor Altgeld has restored the
rights Of citizenship to John Lappin,
of Danville. who served one year in
the state penitentiary for burglary
and larceny.
At Dubuque, Ia, the German soci-
cites of the state organized the ST.
Boniface band. Fifty-one societies
were represented. The object is to
build mp Catholicism
DR.. W. B. Ridgeway and Miss Kate
Vance Rabb, daughter of J. H Rabb,
president of the First National bank
of Yincennes, Ind, eloped and were
married at Evansville
1t was discovered that diphtheria
has been epidemic in the New York
Juvenile asylum for two months The
institution has been quarantined and
all danger is now at an end.
,.1 Naor cbapoaS with ba