Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-13
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
HOME MATTERS.

Cduduldu SpSCuloIOio CCluSuI Cll4ScASO
men short on September pork.
The rowboats which left New York
June 6 passed the Scilly islands.
Warrants to the amount OF S4,988, 036
were issued to pay sugar bounty.
Cornelius VanderbiIt's condition was
reported to be not quite so favorable.
AT Chattanooga H. G. Young, we'll
known broker, committed suicide.
Logan Carlisle, son of the secretary
and chief of the treasury, has bolted
Bryan
The knights of Labor took steps to-
ward the organization of a military
company.
Mr.. Hanna announced that Mr..
Platt will have charge of the campaign
in New York.
In New York it is reported that R. T..
Wilson, Jr, is to marry Miss Kath-
crime Garrison.
Thomas Hall, a wealthy farmer iV-
ing near Huntertown, Ind, was fatally
shot by a burglar.
Prof Edwin A. Alderman has been
elected president of the University OF
North Carolina.
Willis Whalen, single man. % years
Of age, was drown I'd at Greenwood,
Wis, while bathing.
The Catholic Abstinence Union of
America held it's tWenty-sixth annual
convention in st. Louis.
At Salt Lake, Utah, Bob Thompson,
the prize fighter charged with killing
Carter, has been held to the district
court
In Chicago Sprague, Smith & Co.,
wholesale dealers in plate and window
glass and furniture manufacturers,
failed
Inhabitants of Franklin parish,
Louisiana, lynched a tramp who, a
few days ago, outraged and murdered
a woman.
Alexander MacGregor, grand sentinel
of the Grand Commandery, Knights
Templar, for twenty-five years, died at
Detroit
Two colored men were lynched near
Selma, Ala They were charged with
attempting to assassinate Col c. D.
Hunter
Chairman Jones of the national dem
Ocratic committee says Bryan will not
accept the populist nomination for
president
At Columbus, O., Dunden & Bergen,
lumber dealers, have assigned. AS
sets estimated at $2OO,OO0 liabilities
not known.
The Columbus (Ohio) Buggy company
has made an assignment. Assets $780,
600 to $1,0OO,OOO; liabilities nearly
$1,O0O,0OO
f. H. Hoyt & Co, welI-known Phil
adelphia clothIers, have made an as
signment. The liabilities are $40, 900;
assets 100000.
Rev. DR.. Talmage, who has returned
from trip through the south, said Ae
found but few gold men in that section
of the country.
The residence of Charles A. Seibert,
a grocer, at Burea, Ohio, was blown up
by dynamite by unknown persons. No
one was hurt.
The National Association of Dental
Faculties, President S. H. Guilford, of
Philadelphia, presiding, held it's annual
session at Saratoga.
Electric wires set fire to Mcintyre &
Wilson's dry goods store at Oskaloosa,
Ia, which was destroyed. The loss is
about $4,000; insurance $4,000.
Judge Horton, sitting in the criminal
court, Chicago, created a great deal of
comment among lawyers and others by
accepting two women "a jurors.
The total number of victims of the
railroad collision at Atlantic City is
forty-four There are several injured
persons in a precarious condition.
Secretary Carlisle will make an
other trip on the lighthouse tender
Maple. Postmaster General Wilson
will probably he one of the party.
Fourteen hundred of the $500 en-
ployes Of the South Chicago Ship
Building company struck. which will
necessitate the closing of the yards.
Rufus G. Russell, an old and we'll
known architect, died at New Haven.
aged 70. He designed the Garfield
Memorial church, Washington, D. c.
Senator Jones, chairman of the dem
The examination of patrolmen for
promotion to roundsmen in the Brook
lyn police department began on SaIur-
cay. There were $50 competitors. One
OF the mental capacity questions called
for report on the recent trolley disas-
ter in Thirty-ninth street, with wnich
incident in local history they were ali
supposed to be familiar.
While a gang of thirty prisoners from
the United States penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth were being worked on
the prison farm, a mutiny broke out.
The guards commenced firing with
shotguns and all the prisoners but
three surrendered. East was shot
six times before he gave up. He was
fatally wounded. Sam Mills and 6.
Dove were also badly wounded.
Bloomington on complaint of his wife.
who charges that he has failed to sup
port her.
Henry Tuescher, farmer, arrested
Alfred Montgomery, the portrait and
animal painter. is under arrest at
at Burlington. Iowa, has confessed that
he murdered his grandfather, Louis
Krekel, last winter during a family
quarrel.
Thomas E. Watson, populist candi-
date for vice president. is opposed to
fusion between democrats and popu-
lists on electors unless Sewall shall be
withdrawn
A fire which originated in what is