Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-01-10

1dIClSOn maj message.
An action has been begun at Dodge
vile by Eliza J. Briggs against Me-
lancthon J. Briggs for divorce on the
ground Of desertion. The plaintiff
was formerly teacher and the defen
dant was district attorney and mem
Der Of assembly and nominee on the
democratic ticket for attorney general
in 1881
Republicans hope to control the next
senate and many candidates for
places in the organization have al
ready appeared
Harvard's representatives were vic
torious in the college chess match,
Yale and Princeton trying for second
place.
Forty persons were burned to death
and fully as many more injured in the
Christmas eve fatality at Silver Lake,
Oregon.
Engineer Shull was killed and three
others injured, one of whom will die,
in collision between freight trains
at Yorktown, Ind.
Daniel j. Trombley, of Bay City,
Mich, cut his Wife's throat and set
fire to the house, suffocating his baby
daughter. He is believed to be insane
Five desperate prisoners, all armed,
escaped from the Jail at st. Joe, Mo-,
by saving the bars Of the corridor
window.
A race war is threatened in Morgan
county, ILL.,, because of the murder OF
Bob Harris, colored, by Robert War
wick, white.
Owing to the suspicious movements
of visitors the guards have been dou-
bled about the state treasury at In
dianapolis.
| Bay county's plan of indicting su-
pervisorS who fail to assess property
at it's real value may be followed in
other Michigan counties.
A brother of ex-Congressman Butler
! believes his strange actions were
caused by d blow on the head deliv-
! cred by d rObber.
| Three Menominee, Mich, fishermen
who were carried into the lake by
drifting ice were rescued when nearly
frozen and famiShed.
| A schedule showing eX-State Senator
| Settlers assets to be S1S6,2S4 and Ii
abilities $261,657, was filed at Mas
coutah, III.
! George Perry started a crap game
during a revival meeting at Jefferson
ville, Ind, and was elected by Rev.
A. NJ. Calvin.
First Congregational church, OF
Terre Haute, Ind, the oldest OF the
denomination in the state, is celebrat-
ing its siXtieth anniversary.
| Judgment for 81, 44O, 100 in favor OF
the Central Trust company has been
entered at Denver against the Ameri-
can and the City Water companies.
The Pittsburg railroad coal operat-
OrS' association refused to arbitrate the
wage question and declared 4 rate
war.
The executive council of the fedora,
ton of labor voted to aid Debs to ap-
peal his case to the United States su,
preme court.
The supreme court Of California at
frmed the decision of the lower court
that Alice Edith Dickinson was not
the legal widow of Millionaire Blythe
Murderer Lambert, who was to have
been hanged at Camden, n. j., has
been granted a respite by Judge Shiras
until March 4.
Instructions have been issued to
pOStmaSterS at all delivery offices to
prevent further overtime claims of
letter carriers.
A census Office report shows that
owners of farms and houses possess
more than 80 per cent. of the wealth
of the country.
The New York legislature met and
organized and listened to the reading
of Governor Morton's inaugural al
dress.
Owing to the position of the Cana
dian Pacific and the $500 there is
little hope of settling western passen
! ger rate troubles.
| Eastern and western freight officials
have begun the new year with a de-
termination to maintain rates at all
! hazards.
A party of Polish Jews camping
near Brazil, Ind, are charged with
cutting up a dead child's body and
feeding it to bears.
Bob Moore and George East, Okla
homa outlaws, We're killed in an en-
| counter with deputy marshals, one of
whom they wounded.
President Cleveland may send a
! special message to congress urging
harmonious action for currency re-
| form.
! Barrett Scott, defaulting treasurer
OF Holt county, Neb., was abducted
by vigilantes, and, it is thought, was
hanged by them.
Mrs. Catharine Nolan is dead in
Litchfie!d, Ill. She was born in Ire
land and had reached the age OF 112
years.
Mary L. Lathrop, a well-known poet
and lecturer, died at her home in
jackson, Mich, of neuralgia, aged 56
years.
Funeral services over the remains
4 80 IL