Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-07
TEJEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
OUR OWN AFFAIRS.

is determined.
In New York the Brooklyn bridge
trustees authorized the building Of
movable stairway.
The New York Tribune says the
Maryland monument in Prospect Park
is badly located.
Louis Sherry's restaurant will be
moved uptown opposite the site Sc
lected by Delmonico.
Mckinley carried the Illinois repub-
lican convention Tanub was named
for governor.
Thomas @. Seabrooke, the comedian,
has been sued by bis wife, Elvia CroiX,
for a separation.
Colored delegates. to the st. Louis
convention will hold conference in
New York on May IA.
Colonel Ludlow, late military attache
at London, has been assigned to duty
at TOmpkinsyiHe, S. I.
The National bicycle racing circuit
for the season of 1896, was inaugurated
at Oakland Cal, yesterday.
ct Decatur, Ill, Joe Myers is under
arrest charged with having killed
August Hickman, the man whose
dead body was found in the woods east
Of that city.
The members of the First Congrega-
tionaI church Of Frisco voted to accept
DR.. Browns resignation.
Senator Sherman said that Mr. Har-
risOn cannot as an honorable man ac-
cept the nomination for the presidency
James Wilson was arrested in Eau
Claire for issuing spurious checks on
the Commercial bank of Eau Claire.
Elections committee No. reported
in favor Of Representative Tucker,
whose seat was contested by Mr. Yost
The Bermuda passed out of Jackson
vile, Fla, loaded with a warlike cargo
and four hundred men, bound for
Cuba
The sum of $25, 600 was subscribed at
the New York thoOsOphical convention
for the founding of a school of occult
ism
Gov. Hastings has refused to grant
a respite IL the case of H. H. Holmes,
who is to be hanged in Philadelphia,
May Z.
The battle ship Massachusetts made
1929 knots on her official trial. and
earns a bonus of $125,OOO for her
builders.
The Guatemalan government, as a
matter of comfy, has surrendered j.
II. Cowan, wanted in Pennsylvania for
forgery.
Mrs. Annie Snow, a wealthy widow,
of New York, jumped from a window
and killed herself as the result of a
dream.
The question of the constitutionality
of the Raines excise law will be argued
in the New York court of appeals
April 30
The anniversary of General Grants
birthday was observed in New York
city and elsewhere by commemorative
timers.
The Indians at Yankton agency have
gain been made happy by the receipts
of another installment of $4,000 inter
est money.
James j. Bush, cashier of the broken
Elmira IN. W National bank, was in
dicted after three attempts and placed
under arrest.
Spanish authorities in Washington
have discovered a Cuban plot to seize
a port, blow up a war ship and capture
Spanish gold.
Gen. James Longstreet spoke in
eulogy of General Grant at the Grant
birthday banquet of the Midelesex club
in Boston.
Iieutenant-ColoneI Ludlow, chair
man of the Nicaragua canal commits
sion, says the construction of the canal
is feasible.
Southern congressman say the silver
men of the south will make a hard
fight for a free-coinage plank in the
Chicago platform.
The census of the German empire for
the past five years hows a population
Of 81, PA SOB, an increase of LA per
cent. per year.
Senator Chandler, from the commit
tee on privileges submitted a report
setting forth that Senator Morgan's
election was invalid.
Commander Booth-Tucker, of the
Salvation Army, was arrested in New
York while stunning in disguise
With Steven Brodie.
The democratic congressional cam
paign committee has resumed its work,
and Chairman Faulkner urges an ag-
gressive campaign.
Thomas c. Plat wrote a letter to
Rochester republicans which is re-
garded as defiance to his enemies in
the Mckinley camp.
At Livingston, Mont, Henry Koch
Ter, convicted of burglary in the first
degree, has been sentenced to four
years at the penitentiary.
Six suits have been begun in New
York by three persons who claim they
are entitled by reason of kin to part
of A. T. Stewards estate.
Burglars got 5000 from the Milwau- ,
kee House saloon in Eau Claire H. /.
MacKinnon and H. r. Duffy, strangers, /
were arrested on suspicion.
A rumor is current in WASHINGTON
that Cardinal Satolli has been urged
to intercede with the pope in behalf
of the Cuban Insurgents.
At Glenwood, Wis, three hundred
men are out on strike at the Manufac-
turing company's plant Everything
is quiet. An effort is being made to
procure men from the outside.
Maria Barberi. the Italian girl who