Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-10-24
l1ELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.

to protect gilsonite deposits in Utah.
Massachusetts Man-Suffrage asso-
citation protests against woman suf-
frage.
The house of Episcopal bishops de
cides, after all, to elect Il bishop for
Alaska.
Ex-Congressman Belden has de-
for mayor.
President Cleveland and family
have returned to Washington from
Gray Gables.
Mrs Alice Fitzgerald, wife of P. c.
Fitzgerald, a Kansas City travelling |
man, is missing.
John G. Coulter, democratic poll !
tician of Chesterton, Ind, is dead, |
aged y years.
The National Association Of Bankers
held their twenty-irst annual SEES
sion in Atlanta.
The New York brewers have re-
fused Tammany their customary cam
paign contribution.
Gov. Clark says Fitz and Corbett
will not be allowed to fight in Arkan-
sas even with soft gloves.
DR.. Scott was robbed by masked
hiShWaymen while on his way to the
Fordham hospital, New York city.
The annual business session Of the
National Association Of Retail Liquor
Dealers was held at Washington.
Experiments in New York with
Prof. Schweitzer's potonuclein to
cure cancer show successful results.
Miss Oliver, nurse in the Seney
hospital, Brooklyn, confessed to
wholesale thefts in the institution.
Republican National Committeeman
Thurston says the 1896 convention
will be held in San Francisco, Chi
cago or Pittsburg.
Defaulter Taylor begins Serving"
his sentence in the South Dakota pen
itentiary and everything is made
pleasant and easy for him.
Gen. Taylor, commander of the
Arkansas state guard, has arrived in
Hot Springs to prevent the proposed
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight
A paper by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
pleading for moral equality between
the sexes. was read before the social
purity congress in Baltimore.
Rev. Frank Hyatt Smitl, of North
Cambridge, Mass, was arrested in
Denver, accused of sending scurrilous
postal cards through the nails.
Elikam Norton, one of the Oldest
settlers of Rockford, H., while APP
parenty in the best of health, dropped
dead. He was % years of age
Blanche Martin, for whose alleged
abduction Leonard Neiss was ar
rested i'll New York has again disap-
peared from her home in Brooklyn.
G. A. Clark and NJ p. Martin are
appointed treasurer and auditor, re-
spectively, of the western end of the
Northern Pacific by Receiver Bur-
leigh.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, hearing was
postponed until the November term
on the charge of embezzlement
against Casper j. Wagner, the ex-
priest
The New York Yacht club, at
special meeting, formally accepted
ALS iAOSS NI<iliClI-C lOl a SSllCS Vi Ill
ternatOnal races for the Americas
cup.
@. j. Marley, of Buffalo, ILL.,, was
taken suddenly i'll in a Springfield
restaurant and died within thirty
minutes. He was "a years of age and
married.
The grand jury Of Monroe county,
n. Y. has indicted Rev John NJ
Fitzgerald, pastor of the Holy Cross
church at Charlotte, for arson in the
second degree.
President Wilson, OF the health
board, reports that anti-toxine has re-
duced the death-rate in cases of diph-
liberia and Group nearly Al per cent.
in New York city.
Gov. Altgeld has pardoned all of
the 105 inmates of the girls indus
trial home at Evanston, Ill. An in
veStigation showed that the waits
had been starved and neglected.
Henry f. Billings, the Chicago law
yer, died at the Elgin insane asylum
yesterday at the age of 45. Before
coming to Chicago to practice law he
had been a resident of Alton, Ill.
Capt James Brewer of Morrison,
H., an Old-time Mississippi steam
boat commander, died suddenly at Be
lott, where he was staying. He was
a Free-masOr, and members of that
fraternity took charge of his body
and caused it to be sent home.
The house of deputies of the EpiS-
copal convention adopted the reSoIu-
ton to refer all messages of the house
Of bishops touching constitutional re-
vision to a com mittee of the house.
\ majority of the California rail
way commissioners intend to fight for
the maintenance Of their freight
schedule reducing grain rates per
cent. aud general freight rates 25 per
cent.
Fireman Jesse Baxter. of Buffalo.
was crushed to death and Engineer
Brockway and Brakeman Hagnlire,
both of Buffalo. were seriously N
jured in Il freight wreck near Brad
ford, Pa
Near Manchester, Tenn, Eugene
Vanoy, 4 negro, was called out of his
house by a crowd of white men and
shot n 6natb Ha yy-ac al1o ,,frnl