Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Wheelmen gathered in force at Louis
vile and $1,000 paraded. 1
At Owensburg, Ky, sixteen deaths
were caused by the heat.
South Dakota's wheat yield is esti- /
mated at q ,233 900 bushels. +
Three Italian murderers were
lynched at Hohnville, La. /
At Mobile, Ala, Bishop jeremiah o. .
Sullivan died after lingering illness. \
Alfred Delavan Davis, judge of the
United States circuit court, died at
Fargo, n. D., aged SO.
George Meyer who is held in New
York on charges of bigamy, has it is
said fourteen wives alive.
A corps of women will make a cam
paign in the tenement districts of New
York against free silver.
Judge Samuel B. Price, associate
justice of Carbon county, Pa, died at
his home, in Hazleton.
In Chicago spcial proof is adduced
in support of the charge that Bryan is
in the pay of the silver men.
M l. Frank - Portland. was nom
mated tor dtn "r'atic governor #.
Maine in place of M. W'nslow. who
declined.
Mexico has reduced the duty on corn
and will probably import thousands of
carloads from the United States.
According to the government report,
the condition of spring wheat in July
was IA points below that of year ago.
P. c. Jones, ex-minister of finance of
Hawaii, arrived in San Francisco on
mission to sell bonds in this country.
The Japanese Steamship company
has begun an aggressive war of rates
against the Pacific Mail and ether COM
panies.
At Jacksonville, Ky, the democrats
of the second district nominated John
D. Claudy for reelection. He is a sill
Eer man.
The populist convention of Texas, at
Galveston, adjourned after nominating
full state ticket and presidential
electors
The assessed valuation of railroad
property in North Dakota is raised
$1,25O0O0 by the state board of equali-
cation.
F. r. Schultz, a Brooklyn baker,
while bathing at Rockaway Beach,
choked on his false teeth and was
drowned.
During a thunderstorm in New York
Miss Names, thinking her brother
had been killed by lightning, lost her
reason.
Rev. George r. Kramer, pastor of the
Pilgrim Baptist church, New York, who
was born in Baltimore, died in a Bos-
ton hospital.
The executive committee of the New
York State Mckinley league, in letter
to Chairman Hanna, warns him against
the Platt organization.
Howard Lowe, IL, died of hydro
phobia at Bay City, Mich. About SIX
weeks ago the boy was bitten on the
wrist and ankle by a cat.
Secretary Carlisle and his party left
Washington for a two weeks cruise on
the lighthouse tender Maple, including
a stop at Gray Gables.
The Very Rev. Prior Vaughan of
London is lying at the point of death
at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago. He
was overcome by the heat.
Indications are that George w. AID
ridge, OF Rochester, will be nominated
for governor of New York by the re-
publican state convention.
Harry X. Brown, exchange clerk OF
the bullion and exchange bank of Car
son, New, is defaulter for about $75,-
600. He is believed to be in Mexico.
Gold standard democrats executive
committee organized at Indianapolis by
electing eX-Representative Bynum
chairman and John r. Wilson secre-
tary.
1t is reported that Richard Croker,
former Tammany leader, will soon re-
turn to New York because of his heavy
losses during the racing season IN Eng
land
Representative L. d. Apsley, vice
chairman of the republican congress
siOnal committee, announces that he
will not be a candidate for reelection
to congress-
NJ d'Epinay, the distinguished
French sculptor and his daughter, a
noted portrait painter, who have been
entertained in New York, have gone to
Newport. R. l.
The gold standard democrats of Ore
gon have issued a call for a convention
to be held in that city Aug. % to elect
eight delegates to the national conyen-
ton in Indianapolis.
Representatives of the opposing fac
tons in the republican party in Vir-
ginia held a conference at national
headquarters in New York and came to
to a harmonious agreement.
The secretary of state will probably
represent President Cleveland when Ii
Hung Chang comes to WASHINGTON
bearing a personal letter from the EN-.
peror of China to the president.
The Union Veterans Patriotic 1eao1,a
Of which Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. of New
York, who is democrat, is president
mas issued an address urging veterans
OF the union army to vote for McKin-
ley.
The Venezuelan commission has
nearly completed the work of securing
evidence relating to the boundary dis
pute, and the members of the commits
sion are now preparing DraIipinor1- ,o