Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-30
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
HOME HAPPENINGS.


al convention in Chicago.
Sioux City's new bridge across the
Missouri river is formally opened.
Eighteen million more silver dollars
are to be coined by the government.
A bill is to be reported in the house
authorizing a cable across the Pacific.
Senator Davis Monroe doctrine reso-
1ution will probably be pigeonholed in
the house.
Baptists of Stonington, H., have de-
dictated a new church, which cost them
5000.
Bapti is of Stonington, H., have
dedicated a new church, which cost
them $500.
A passenger train fell into a coal
mine at Hazelton, Pa. The engineer
was killed
Gen. Thomas Ewing, formerly prom
Inent in Ohio democratic politics, dies
in New York.
Chicago gas companies are opposed
by the secretary of state in attempts
to consolidate.
George L. Wellington has been elect
ed United States senator by the Mary
land republicans.
Gov. and Mrs. Morton gave recep-
ton to 1920 members of the bar asso-
citation and the legislature.
Spaniards arrest American citizens
at Havana and Call of Florida brings
the matter up in the senate.
Five firemen were killed by the
d15 proa 5urau pl1iC
falling on them in a 100000 fire.
Miss Mary e. Hills, known as a
poetess, was found murdered in her
carriage at Mamaroneck, n. Y.
Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown
have been elected to the United States
senate by the Utah legislature.
The Orange Judd Farmer gives the
decrease in the value of live stock dur
ing The past year at 81, 1864, 100000.
Northern Wisconsin, especially West
Superior, wants to organize a naval
militia TO tight England if necessary.
The seyenty-sixth anniversary of the
University OF Indiana was celebrated
at Bloomington by speeches and music.
Helen Gould has sent a check for
$4,000 to Vassar college to found a
scholarship in memory of her mother
Col Robert G. Ingersoll said that
the prayers of the Christian EndeaV
orers have had no effect upon his be-
liefs.
Col John l.. Peake, of Kansas City,
recently appointed United States min
lister to Switzerland, sailed for Glib
Taltar.
The late Mrs Anna r. Aspinwall, of
Pittsburg, left $3,O00,000 to the Phil
adelphia hospital of the Episcopal
church.
Billy Ernst of New York knocked
out Joe F'laherty of Lowell, Mass, be-
fore the Lynn athletic association i'll
the ninth round.
Fire at the Hotel Martin, the swell
divorce headquarters, at Fargo, did
some damage and caused considerable
excitement.
At Saltwater, Mimi, Lawrence John
son, aged years, jumped on loaded
sled, Tell under the rear runner and
was killed.
At Castlewood, S. D., Otto Jacobson,
a farmer, was taken to Watertown on
a charge of rape on his own daughter,
about Is years old.
by a collision of freight trains at
Valparaiso, Inu., fifteen cars and an
engine were demolished. The damage
foots up $4,000.
William Buckner and Frank Smith at
tempted to steal some clothing at Ma
con, Mo. Buckner was shot and Smith
arrested.
q. ID. Toulme and Charles Merry were
found guilty at Salem, III. of assaulting
ex-Mayor Sugg. of Odin, and will be
fined.
Hugh O'Neil, employed in Armour &
Cos icehouse at Cedar Lake, Ind, was
found dead near the railroad tracks. 1t
is thought he had been murdered
John Gibson, Missouri farmer, liv-
ing across the river from Quincy, H.,
quarreled with his wife and killed him
self. He was 70 years old and a vet
eran of two wars.
Business men of St. Paul have agreed
to erect a fireproof library building if
they are given a ninety nine-year lease
on that portion of the structure not
used by the library.
l. c Riggs, of Xenia, H., has been
arrested on a charge of operating an
Illicit distillery and selling whisky il
legally.
Rollin Steward, representing Mime
sofa and Iowa capitalists, has pur-
chasedthe zinc smelling works at Che
rokee, Kan.
Judge Pugh at Columbus, O., de-
cided the buckeye law which taxes
foreign corporations doing business in
Ohio to be valid.
A wealthy Brooklyn man failed to
get Eugene Remains library for Cornell
university 1t will be presented to
the Bibliothique Rationale in Paris.
At Brazil, Ind, James Combs, a bust
ness man of Carbon, received a gunshot
wound while hunting which caused his
death
The Missouri barber law prohibiting
work on Sunday has been declared un-
constitutional by Judge Burgess at JEFF.
ferson City
The wife of George n. Curzon, who
was formerly Miss Mary Letter, o
Washington, was delivered of {
daughter Monday