Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-23
TELFGRAMS In BRIEF.
HOME HAPPENINGS.
German hanks will invest $40 OOO, 900


DR.. Decker, alias Pierce, hotel thief, +
committed suicide in prison in Florida.
The Hymans brothers have again
been put on trial at Toronto, Ont.
Three of Cleveland's five Venezuelan
commissioners are Yale graduates.
Revival services converted a number
of miners at Pana, H., 72O feet below
the surface.
MIME Palmer, the actress, is to
mar the Duke d'Estelle Of Navarro
on May 10.
The Venezuelan government takes
measures to assist the United States
commission.
Chicago police want outside pockets
in their overcoats so they can pull
their guns quicker.
The candidacy Of Governor Morton
for the presidency is rapidly gaining
strength in the east
The heirs of Jay Gould pay an ag-
gregate of about 100000 inheritance
tax to New York state.
N. S. .oelby has sold his interest in
the Princeton Ind, Leader to his
partner, H. T. Carlisle.
August Ne;son, a barber of Neenah
Wis. committed suicide by shooting
himself in the right temple.
Chief Justice Snodgrass, of Tenne5-
see, is indicated for felonious assault;
his victim is improving.
DR.. Adams, one of the founders of
Nashotah, is dangerously i'll at his
residence in Nashotah.
Dick Moore of st. Paul and Paddy
Purtell finally fight at Kansas City
and the former is defeated.
Henry Thomas and Albert Stafford
fought a duel about a girl near Mount
Pleasant, Fla. Both were killed.
Judge Collier at Albuquerque, N.
M, appointed Charles w. Smith re-
ceiver of the Atlantic and Poetic rail
road.
Gov. Hughes of Arizona is charged
with corruption and dishonesty by the
grand jury. 1t is said he will be re-
moved.
Three men and two women tried to
kill themselves in New York city in
one day. Two men and one woman
succeeded
MiddletoWn, KY, was burned with 90,
coo bushels of wheat The loss is
100000
EX-President Harrison called on
Mrs. Dimmock, his wifes niece in New
York and the engagement rumor has
fresh start.
The milwaukee, common council is
waits direct C. injection with the gulf
and the sea coast.
The little daughter of Mrs Clara
Myers, Of Toledo, Ohio, fell from a cab
at Wabash, Ind, and was run over.
She may not recover.
EX-Goy. Campbell has been sum-
moned by Columbus jury to tell
what he knows of bribery to which he
referred in his speeches.
Norris Edelstein, of Superior, is I'M
der arrest for arson. The Scion block
which burned Sunday was partly o2-
cupicd by EGeIstein's brother.
The city high school building of
michigan City, Ind, was totally des-
troyed by fire. The loss is $4,000,
with an insurance of $4,000.
In Philadelphia Keene Sutterlee &,
Co, one of the largest exporting and
importing firms of this city, failed.
The liabilities will exceed 100000.
The foreign rC,ation committee of
the senate favCrs an emphatic and
final affirmation of the Monroe doc
trine and is friendly to the Cubans.
Extraordinary powers are given TO
the secretary Of the navy in the naval
emergency bill, reported to the senate
by the committee on naval affairs.
Harry M. Pindell, proprietor of the
Peoria Herald, is one of the heirs to
an estate approXimating 100000 lett
by Mrs. Henry G. Noble,of Columbus,
Ohio.
mob a few miles below New Or
leans riddled a white man and his
colored wife with bullets. The river
beat in which they lived was first set
on fire.
Bjbelow, McHenry and Burleigh
may eventually be the receivers of the
entire Northern Pacific line, under the
jurisdiction OF Judge Caldwell at St.
Paul
Jonn IS. Walker, VINO was to have
been hanged at Lexington, Neb., was
keprieyed by Governor Holcomb until
March IL. His sanity will be investi-
gated.
The New York Life Insurance COM
pany withdrew $1O,0O00OO gold sub
scription from the bond syndicate
yesterday and advised Mr.. Morgan to
dissolve it.
Rev. ID. NJ. Heagle has resigned the
passionate of the First Baptist church
of Valparaiso, Ind. A call will be ex-
tended to Rev. S. c. Frilmer, OF Elk
hart, Ind.
y Japanese yiscount has arrived at
Frisco He will study at the Annapo-
lis naval school. He reports that al
READY some graduates are in the ia
palese navy.
The New York board of health cen
&us shows that there are 10,942 old
maids in that city, and that there are
24,055 more women than men Of mar
Tiageable age.
George Shockey, a United States
prisoner, sent from Louisville to serve
in the Jacksonville, Ind, prison for
passing counterfeit money. died sud
denly in his cell
Melon Webb, a drayman. of EIwood,
Ind, who was mysteriousIy shot