Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
TELEGKAMS IN BRIEF.
HOME NOTES.

Ex-Governor Levi Fuller of Vermont,
is dead, aged Sc years.
Major Mckinley received delegations
at his home from the Shenandoah val
ley of Virginia and from east Tenn
essee
The Bank of Sherburne (Minn.) was
raided and an official and a customer
killed The murdarars escaped on BIZ
cycles.
Hog cholera exists to an alarming eX-
tent in Ohio and Indiana.
The Wisconsin FISH law is pronounced
invalid by the state supreme court
Gen. Lees mission to Cuba failed
through lack of support from Wash
ington.
Rev. Crosby H. Wheeler, D. D., the
welI-known missionary of the Ameri-
>an board, is dead.
Mrs. Walter Fleming, well known in
s1ciety and literary circles in New York
is dead.
w. R. Sperry of Wilmington, Del, ex-
minister to Persia, has returned to the
United States.
Episcopal Bishop Williams of Mar
quette, Mich, spoke strongly against
the Chicago platform.
The Atlantic coast has the highest
tide ever known and loss of life and
great damage to property result.
]. d. Kennedy, banker of Manchester,
hung himself Losses in worlds fair
investments are said to be the cause.
BufOrd Overton was hanged at Har-
Ian, KY, for the muruer of Gustav and
Julia Loeb, Jewish peddlers, June q,
1896.
Ex-Speaker Crisp OF Georgia will
succeed United States Senator Gordon.
Gen. George H. Sheridan, republican
orator, died in Virginia
Ex-Goy VIM. II. Smith of Randolph
county, Ala, for many years an I'M
compromising republican, has taken
the stump for Bryan and Sewall
J. A. Tankard of Ohio is at Denver
placing bets on McKinleys election.
He has already put up 100000 at
various odds from to l down to to 2.
John l.. Bushnell, only son of Gov.
Bushnell, and Miss Jessie HarWood,
daughter of the proprietor of the Daily
Gazette in Springfield, o., were mar
ried.
At the Philadelphia meeting of the
Loyal Legion, Rear Admiral Gherardi,
u. S. N. was elected commandeT-in-
chief to succeed the late General John
Gibbons.
The republican national committee
intends sending nearly one hundred
speakers into the Virginias and North
Carolina the last Few weeks of the
campaign.
1t is reported at Rome that Rev.
John l.. Spalding, bishop of Peoria, will
succeed Bishop Keane as rector of the
Catholic university of America at
Washington.
Lit is rumored that new Roman
Catholic province is to be created in
New York state and that the new arch
bishop will be the Right Reverend
John J. Keane.
Jerry Simpson, one OF Kansas con-
gressional candidates, has started
boom for Rev. Myr0n Reed of Denver
for chaplain of the national house of
representatives.
After lengthy discussion of dele
oates from the German Baptist
yhurches in the eastern district it was
decided to hold the annual conference
from June to II.
The body of a man, with two bullets
in it, was found in the woods near
Youngstown, Ohio. The police believe
ho - ofT IVA
Brooklyn, New York.
Miss Mary Gwendolin Caldwell,
founder of Divinity college Of the Cath
Ollie university, in a letter announces
that she will be married at Dresden,
Oct. 10, to Marquis Des Merinville.
The ] & P. Coates company Of Glas-
gov has bought Clark's Mile End
Thread mills at Newark. The price
paid is said to have been $1,250,00O.
This sale ends the long competition.
The surviving SherbErne bank rob-
Der states that his name is Lew Kelli-
han, and Rock Rapids. Iowa, his home.
A fire burned the major part of the
business section of Great Darlington,
Mass
AT Atchison, Kan, Mrs. John Meyers
and her 13-year-old son are in Jail, the
latter charged with numbering Lester
Dyke, the 12-year-old sou of neighbor,
and the former with being an accessory
to the crime.
Before adjourning the delegates at
the annual session of the general con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, in Corning. n. Y, subscribed
$4,000 for the American university at
Washington
In order not to deprive the sixty
chorus girls of nights wages Miss
Lillian Russell appeared Monday night,
in her comic opera role in St. Louis
in spite of the fact that her father is
lying dead at his home.
Descendants of Jacob Roger, who
settled on the site of St. Louis early in
the present century, have decided to
bring suit for a large tract of real es-
tate in tie heart of the Missouri metrop-
oils worth 100000, 900.
w. 7. Rambusch of Juneau, Wis. has
disappeared. The affairs of the Citi-
zens' Bank, of which he is president,
are declared to be in excellent condi-
ton, but his personal accounts as custo-
dian Of trust funds are tangled. He is
short 100000
Cyrus B. Watson, the democratic
nominee for governor of North Caro-
lima, is i'll and will probably be unable