Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-14
IEIEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
AT HOME.

At Worthwhile, S. D., high license
ticket was elected.
George w. Barrett is dead at Boone,
Iowa, aged "a years.
The Alaskan gold craze is assum-
ing large proportions.
It is rumored that a bread trust is to
be formed in New York.
Samuel Barrows, vice president Of
the Equitable Assurance company, died
In New York.
The strike OF employees of the Excel
gior Show Case company at Quincy, ILL.,,
has been settled.
Lebon d. Benson, the Oldest person
in Hancock county, is dead at Warsaw,
H., aged 81 years.
Josiah w Clark, one of the leading
business men of Bloomington, ILL.,, is
dead, aged II years.
About 1900 carpenters in Newark
N. j., are on strike for an increase Of
pay to $2.75 day.
Secretary Herbert has granted Engi-
neer Peary six months leave, With per
mission TO go abroad.
A new counterfeit S. note on the
First National bank of Suffield Conn,
has been discovered.
Turner's in the Akron, O., China COM
pany struck because of the discharge
of one of their number.
In New York VIM. Steinway added
$1,000 to the Paderewski endowment
fund for immediate use.
The seventh annual meeting of the
National Association of Canned Food
Packers met in w.. raCuse.
A bicycle corps of A. D. 7. messen-
ger boys has been organized in New
rork by the management.
Mr.. Perry Belmont sailed for Europe
His friends say he is not a candidate
for governor of New York.
At Custer, S. D., an Indictment has
been returned against John Sellers for
the murder of Morris R. Smith.
In New York it is said that Mr.
Choate received a fee of 100000 for
arguing the Raines liquor law case.
DR.. Forrell, of Elliston Ky, came
home drunk and whipped his wife. A
mob at once strung him to limb.
The rumored reduction in the saIar-
les of Spanish consuls in the United
States is denied on official authority
A party of representative American
manufacturers will leave Philadelphia
July 1 for trip through South Amer
iGa.
The business of the New York grand
jury and the district attorney is greatly
augmented by violations of the Raines
law.
The Belgian government has in
creased the duties en- imported tobacco,
cigars and cigarettes from $3.50 TO
1880 per 100 kilOs.
While VIM Gerndt and three com
lantOns were crossing Oconto river
at underhill, Wis, their raft broke
Gerndt was drowned
Mexico has proved no refuge for a
PoWeshiek county, Iowa, official who
stole $4,000. A Mexican judge SEN
fenced him to twelve years.
The shortage in the accounts of F.
}. kelckhofer, late disbursing officer of
the department of state, is said to
amount TO $4,000 all told.
Four hundred union plumbers, gas
and steam filters of Kansas City, are on
a strike for eight hours and the same
wages paid for nine hours.
A western hypnotist has offered to
restore the eyesight of Charles Broad
way, and will try his art on John Mar
tin, Mr.. Rouss's substitute.
John Huther made an attempt to
close saloon i'll Long Island City at
midnight, was struck by the proprietor,
John Hogan, and died instantly.
Admiral Bunce has applied for per-
mission to change the headquarters of
the North Atlantic squadron from
Hampton Roads to Tompkinsville S. l.
Dillwyn and Parrish, who have
form ed a syndicate to take the London
surface railways, tried to interest New
York capital in the enterprise, but
failed
Raines law hotels from the Battery
to the Bronx in New York did a rush
ng Sunday trade. The police made
.wenty-four arresos for excise law VIC
iationS.
A Spokane detective started for
Edgenont, S. D., after P. A. Brown, an
insurance agent, charged with embez-
ceiling 1900. Brown will return with
out trouble.
row-boat with four young men was
capsized near Astoria, n. Y, in the
East river and James Gallagher and
Joseph Summers, both New Workers,
were drowned
Kate Stokes Stetson, widow of John
Stetson, the Boston theatrical man.
ager, who died the other day, died
Monday also. She was formerly a cir
Gus rider.
The senate committee on coast de-
lenses amended the Squire bill so as
to make no appropriations, but author
izing contracts for the full amount pro-
posed in the bill
The Ishpeming, Mich, miners union
will endeavor to secure part time for all
members out of work, failing which
the men discharged will apply to the
county for assistance.
Oscar George Westphal, a barber.
struck George Bischoff, a tailor, such a
blow with his fist in Buffalo as to
break his neck Westphal gave him
self up to the police
At Houghton, Mich, the financial
difficulty of the kerbs-Jacobs Brown
Stone company has been adjusted and