Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-28
IN BRIEF.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

1890
it's second triennial session in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Eliza D. Hamill, a resident Of
Chicago for half a century, and con-
s~picuouS in charitable work, is dead.
American Horse, the Indian, was
buried at Evergreen cemetery, New
York, with a tomahawk in his coffin.
Food and clothing were distributed
by the state to 80 destitute families
In Burnett county, Wisconsin.
The centennial anniversary of the
birth of George Peabody, the philan-
thrOpiSt, was celebrated.
Sept. 21 has been agreed to by the
London Athletic club as the date for
the contest with the New York club.
Judge Severance, at MankatO, denies
the motion for a new trial Of the
Stein-Salpaugh breach of promise case.
The A1tamonte bill was defeated in
the house, so the project Of big dams
I'm the vicinity of Duluth falls through.
Residents of Arizona fear an uprising
vi LIT lLDthIoLlNo " tlIS I1oOpo "lS II
moved from the San Carlos agency.
Captain Richard T~revellick, one of
the founders of the greenback party,
and Later a Labor organizer is dead
in Detroit.
Judge John Handley, of the forty
fifth Pennsylvania district, is dead at
Scranton. He leaves an estate of
several millions.
p. BogdanOff, first secretary of the
Russian legation at Washington, killed
himself while Respondent from illness.
In the annual report of the Alton,
President Blackstone calls the atten-
ton to the enormous taxes paid by
railroads.
A 13-y ear-old boy created a sensa-
tion during revival services in an IN
%dianapolis church by claiming TO have
seen heaven in a vision.
Charles Uafallett, arrested at the in
stance of his grandfather on the charge
of theft, died from grief in the Jail ait
Shelbyville. Ind.
Congress will be asked to establish
a uniform electrical unit to agree with
that adopted by Great Britain, Ger
many and France.
Names of $500 violaters of the Sun
day Law were reported to the chief of
police of louisville. Test cases will
be brought.
Secretary Gresham has returned
thanks to the Mexican government for
the exceptional honors paid to Minis
ter Gray's memory.
Lieutenant Colonel James 2. Mar
tin, adjutant general of the depart
ment of the Missouri, u. S. A., died
in Chicago.
Charles Il. Warwick, republican, de
feated Ex-Governor Pattison, democrat,
for mayor of Philadelphia by over
10000 majority.
Albert Whipple, who wrecked the
city while acting as overseer of the
Crawford (Neb.) bank, is found to
have had a remarkable career.
Wincenzo Nino, a New York barber,
cut his wifeis throat because she re-
fused to longer support him and their
two children.
C~incinnati's board of administration
has ordered the Incline Plane Railway
company to remove it's tracks from the
streets.
Skeletons of three men and sixteen
horses We're found in a tive-chambered
cave on a farm in Sandusky County.
Ohio
Johu g. Warmer, a wood chopper,
and his wife and three children were
found frozen to death in their cabin
near Irondale, Mo.
Three residents of Utah, including a
daughter of Brigham Young, addressed
the national council of women at
Washington.
Frederick Douglass, the negro orator
anC author, dropped dead at his home
near Washington. He was rs years
old.
Eleven of the seventeen republican
aSSemblymen from New York city is
sued a manifesto in support of Mayor
Strong.
The New York assembly passed the
oil referring TO the popular vote the
question of issuing S9,OOO,O 900 bonds
for canal impr pvement.
AT Alton, Ill.,, John Nixon shot Chas.
Nevlin and ''Dode'' Daily, who pelted
him with stones when he demonstrated
with them fir insulting his sister.
An attempt was made to assassinate
Rev e. ID. Cooke, of st. Johns Ohio.
while he was returning from a revival
meeting at New Hampshire.
New York police are actively search
ing for the unknown man who accom-
panied Henry Knoop and John Seims
90 Miller's hotel, williamsburg. where
they were found dead and robbed.
The freight steamer laurie brought
into h New York port fourteen men
of the ship Rialto, which was ADAM
n in a sinking condition 500 miles
west of Queenstown.
A contract for 10000, 900 gallons of
wine and the lease of six of the
largest wineries in the state has been
made by the associated wine dealers
of San Francisco.
a. c. Wilson, of Maryland, was
chosen to succeed President Luscomb.
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