Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-06-20
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEE.
IN THE UNITED STATES.

/ urthern precautions were TAKEN ny
the administration TO prevent tilibus-
tering expeditions from leaving this
country for Cuba.
Judge Goff's decision in the South
Carolina registration case was re-
versed by the United States court of
appeals at Richmond, Va.
D. Ivan Van Cleaf, son of the pro-
prietor of the Mansion house, Brook
!yn, drank poison and died in his
fathers presence.
Survivors of the American bark
Carrie e. Long, burned at sea,
reached New York on the British
steamer Antilia.
George A. Skilton, 70, a farmer, was
attacked by bull on his farm at
WATERFOWL, Conn, and was so badly
gored that death is looked for.
The case of j. X. Emmett, the
actor, who attempted to murder lis
wife, by shooting her at San Francisco
was continued in the police court.
1t took the ingenuity of Chicago
servant girl to adopt the folding-bed
as an instrument for murder.
That Michigan preacher who has
gone to jail sixty days for kissing a
woman must realize that microbes
are not the only menace surrounding
osculatiOn.
Colonel A. Loudon SnoWden, for
merly minister to Spain, was assaulted
in Philadelphia by Colonel w. NJ.
Runkel.
Fifty-one savings banks of Maine
have been assessed $197, All by the
state assessors. This is $2,671 less
than the last semi-annual assessment.
Mgr Farleys silver Jubilee was
celebrated in SIT. Gabriel's church,
New York, and at the banquet which
followed he was presented with a
purse of $4,000.
Prominent bankers of New York
and Boston unite in forming a COM
mittee to inv estigate the United States
Cordage company and protect the
bondholders' interests.
Henry Schneider, q retired whole
sale LIQUOR merchant of San Antonio,
Texas. committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head. The act was cue
to financial troubles.
Miss Saran Jane Lester, assistant
secretary of the Young Women's
Christian association, of Brooklyn
was instantly killed by being caught
in an electric elevator.
George Shallbacker and Miss Nellie
Neff were rowing on the lake at Wash
ington park, Kansas City, anv., when
their boat capsiZed and both were
drowned.
The president has appointed Dorsey
Claggett collector of customs at
Georgetown, d. c., in place of Mano-
que. resigned, and George w. Drisko
to be collector for the port of Ma
chaiS, Me.
Charles Walton Ogden, a million
aire and member of the iron firm of
ogden & Wallace, New York, com
mltted suicide in Central park by
taking poison and shooting himself in
the head.
railroad officials Indicate an abundant
crop of all grain in Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, Missouri and Illinois, due es-
pecially to the heavy fall of rains this
week.
An appeal for aid has been receiv ed
at Wichita, Kan, from Medford, ok
The citizens are in a wretched condi-
concerned and ask for relief imme
diately.
Florence L. Wallace, wife of w. L.
Wallace of Wallingford, Conn.,, has
eloped with an amateur prize-fgnter
named Callahan, who came to New
Haven from the west some time ago.
Nothing is known of the whereabouts
of the pair.
The New York and New Jersey
bridge company will be permitted to
build a siX-track bridge. The plans
for structure of this character meet
the approval of the engineer corps.
Secretary Lamont has approved the
plan.
The persons who blew up a Hun
garian boarding shanty neal, Wilkes
barre several months ago, killing four
men, have been arrested. Five men
and two women, all colored, were con-
cerned in the scheme, which was for
robbery
Forty to fifty bed room suite makers
met i'll Grand Rapids, Mich, to con-
slider action towards raising prices. 1t
is claimed that no trust nor combina-
zion Will be formed, but it is said that
the business was carried on at a loss
last year, and that the compe tition is
ruinouS.
Bob Young. farmer living near
Richmond, Mo, who was suspected of
arson, was called out of his house by
mob, and hung to tree. He denied
knowing anything about the fire and
WAS let down. Young says he knows
he men, but will not divulge their
names.
j. W. Bradbury, ex-United States
senator, celebrated his 93d birthday
at Augusta, Me. A number of lawyers
called ON him. He made brief but
interesting speech. He was born at
ParSonfeld in 1902 and was elected to
the United States senate in 1913, serv-
ing six years.
The department of state has re-
ceived cablegram from Cape Town,
South Africa, announcing the sle1lh
tbara of Cba ,1aS II papa5;ct Tr,;+oa