Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-04
IN BRIEF.
Or OWN AFFAIRS.

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Chicago jury to be hanged for murder.
Six United States prisoners escaped
from the Jail at Fort Scott.
Inere was discovered a shortage OF
nearly 100000 III the accounts of the
whisky trust.
Bodies of three men were found in
a lumber mp near Ingram, Wis.
They are supposed to have been ac-
cidentally poisoned.
Naval experts believe the Spanish
cruiser Reina Regente was sunk by
colliding with Il derelict or another
vessel
Henry w. Clapr, ex-mayor of Con
cord, n. H., died. He had been in
the foundry business for 30 years.
An unsuccessful attempt vas made
to launch the steamship st. Iaul at
Cramps shipyard, Philadelphia.
Argument in the Debs case W:lS be-
gun before the United States supreme
court.
A resolution fixing May 2 as the
date for final adjournment was adopt
ed by the Illinois senate.
The bill to tax inheritances in excess
of $4,000 was advanced to third read
ing in the Illinois senate.
United States Consul Enoch j.
Smithers died at Hioga, Japan, from
a p%aralytic attack.
William $. Kimball, vice president
of the American Tobacco company,
porations, died at Rochester, N. Y.
Sanfnr1 Wilson 81 ratnYa n of Cn6or
Fille, Ohio, was killed by robbers, who
then set the house on fire.
Joseph w. Pascoe, of Galena, ILL.,,
prominent as a raiser of fine horses,
committed suicide.
Hugh Glenn, a Well-knoWn resident
Of Sandstone, Mimi, was beaten to
death by Ole Anderson.
Governor Altgeld has issued a pro-
clamation designating Friday, April
10, as arbor day.
A bill has been offered in the New
York senate to prohibit the wearing
Of tights by women.
Judge Ludwig, of Milwaukee, APP
pointed S. T. Beattie receiver for the
Florence Iron River Mining company.
Mrs. Van der Abe, wife of the we'll
known baseball magnate, secured a
divorce on the ground of ~infidelity.
Coal operators of Indiana are dis
:ussing a plan to form a pool like the
me recently effected in Ohio.
A New Orleans grand jury, investi-
rating the recent riots, lays the blame
or the trouble upon the authorities.
Students of the University of Cali
tornia have raised $1,000 to send an
athletic team east.
James Keelan, a celebrated confeder-
ate spy, died in a hospital at Kansas
City and will be buried as a pauper.
The Victoria hotel, of New York, the
stopping place of President Cleveland
while there, has made an assignment.
A settlement of the Davis will con
test has been effected by the heirs of
Butte millionaire.
Ex-Congressman Cultivate has been
appointed Il member of the board of
ordinance and Notifications.
Supreme our of Michigan has de-
cided that the Shaw %antifusion act is
legal.
Both houses of the Nebraska legis-
lature passed the bill providing that
a bounty shall be paid on sugar.
Employees flee from a fire in the
Bell clothing store, Chicago, which
caused a loss of 1865, 900.
Secretary Herbert has contracted for
the construction of a torpedo boat of
the Holland type at a COS of $15O,OO0.
Minnesota legislature is considering
a bill, which, if adopted, will prevent
nuns teaching in public schools.
Citizens of Lexington. Neb., are urg-
ing San Wo Tai, a Chinaman, to make
the race for mayor of that place.
Milwaukee yachtsmen will ask the
Lake Michigan association to return
to the old rules of measurement.
Nj. f.. Dwyer has bought fourteen
head OF Kentucky yearlings for $751;
600, II will take them to England.
General John A. McClernand, OF
Springfield, H., is 50 far recovered
that he visited his office.
dearing of Anna Dickinson's snit fo,
damages for illegal false imprisonment
u L 1IluuplDIll9.
brlg Gen. William Smith, paymastnr.
genera OF the army, was placed an
tue retired list, having reachad tho
ATE OF 81 years.
\ large building i'll Maiden. Owned
oy AIRS. Elizabeth Tate, and occuniad
Jointly by the Tate wire core com
Qdhy, was partly burned last NIGHT
Mr., Thurston, the Hawaiian minister
at Washington, has returned 70 Hone
iulu without waiting for a formal
notice of his recall.
John G. Shafer, of Richmond. Va
one OF the Wealthiest citizens Of +ba :
city a retired merchant and fnanciar
died, aged 10.
l barns Il a large shed of the
oak Harbor Cooperage and Tumhor
company, at Edgerton, Ohio, We're de-
s0Foyed by. fire with their contents.
John t.. Bell, a prominent citizen of
CINCINNATI, Ohio, identified for a LONG
tlIne with public affairs in Cincinnati
oled OF appendicitis, aged 81.
Ahe insurance committee of tba m
mos house agreed to a bin to abolish
the state department. and decided 10
investigate Superintendent Durfoo
John Il. Tucker, aged 81, nm attornor
OF Jeffersonville. md. was killed ~
an encounter with William tn y,or
aged 10.
The bank at M0Tnt Mounts III