Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-06
NEWS OF TIE WORLD.
LOCAL MATTERS.


Washington.
The St. Paul is still aground at
Long Branch.
A vessel conveying men and arms
to Cuba was wrecked and ten men
were drowned.
James Gillespie was run over by a
Panhandle train at Elwood, Ind, and
instantly killed.
The South Chicago Qllinois Steel Co..
mills have opened; 5000 employees re-
Stunning work.
Populists compel republican senators
to consider new plans for the organ
ization of the senate.
Mrs. S. o. G. Hopkins was thrown
from her buggy in runaway in Mar
shall, Mo, and killed.
Dan Rider, young farmer residing
south of Creston, Iowa, was kicked by
a horse and killed.
William Mccoy, SO years old, fell
from the Will county, ILL.,, poorhouse
and broke his leg in four places. He
cannot recover.
Rev. Geo. H. Gutterson, president of
Talladego college, Ala, is dead, aged
g. He graduated at Yale and once
taught in Beloit.
In Sandwich, ILL.,, James Fl. Beve-
ridge, brother of ex-Gov. John L.
Beveridge, died, aged rs He was state
treasurer at one time.
Stanley Geer, an Englishman, at
in
requited love for a Miss Gault, of Chi
cago, is given as the cause.
1t was decided by the executive COM
mittee Of the American Whist league
to hold the next congress in Brooklyn,
N Y, from June % to o.
Emil D. Greiner, of Lawton, Mich,
a popular business man and promi-
nent in secret society circles, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Charles Ruppe, land locker, well
known throughout the upper PENN
sula, attempted to commit suicide at
Iron Mountain, Mich. He will recover
Three large wildcats were killed Is
miles southeast of Miller, S. D., by
Daniel Walsh and Geo. Mccarthy,
making the fourth killed within a
week.
The Western Passenger association
refused to grant an extension of the
time limit on G. A. r. tickets, and ST.
Paul seems to have lost the encamp-
ment.
At Marshalltown, Iowa, Charles
Dixen killed himself with a revolver
He was proprietor of billiard saloon
and the owner of considerable city
property.
At Marinette, Wis, W. A. and G. S.
Brown have purchased the Last
Chance gold mine in the Cripple
Creek region. They will call it the
Pewabic.
Chambers has appeared in Allen
county, Indiana. The state health of
ficers shot four horses and quaran-
tined thirty others six miles north OF
Fort Wayne.
The latest official vote for United
States senator at Frankfort, KY.
stood: Hunter 63, Blackburn 80; Haz-
elrigg 8, Williston 1, Bate Necessary
to a choice IS.
At Vincennes, Ind, Rufus Meyer
colored, was sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary at Jeffersonville fol
assault and battery with intent to Kill
Frank Schaller
The store rooms of George r. Glib
son, dealer in brushes and brooms al
s Thomas street, New York, were
badly damaged by fire. The loss was
$4,000, fully insured.
The net earnings of the Milwaukee
railroad for the six months ending
Dec 81 were 1892, 5S4, an increase o.
S256S,632 over the corresponding si2
months of last year.
Seth Chauncey Weed, one of tho
wealthleSt men in Connecticut is deaC
at the age of So years. The estate o.
Mr. Weed is rated at between $4,000,
900 and 100000.
Gen. Alfred Baker Smith, vel
known in Poughkeepsie as a soldier
and lawyer, dropped dead while lead
ing a cottage prayer meeting. Hear
disease was the cause.
Henry l. Case, formerly president O
the Chase Elevator company, died a.
Ills uoIuS III INlNSlSluS, LII. ne iSlllSt
from active business several years ago
and was rs years old.
Potter Palmer, lifelong democrat
will probably be named by Presiden
Cleveland as the successor of Theodore
Runyon, as ambassador eXtraordinar!
and plenipotentiary to Germany.
]. l. Fry, of Andrews, Ind, wht
sued the Wabash railroad for SIC, 900
alleging improper treatment at tn,
hands of the company's physician
when he was sick, lost his suit
Considerable mystery surrounds tn,
death of Bessie Anderson, whose deat
body was found stretched across he
bed in the Elmo hotel at Salina, Kan
There is no trace of suicide.
Letters received from Henry C
Payne say his health is slowly i'm
proving. He is now in Rome. His in
tentions appear to be to remain in Eu
rope for an indefinite period.
1t has been decided by the nationa
supreme court justices that the Mil
waukee court Judge Jenkins) SHOULD
have primary jurisdiction in tn,
Northern Pacific receivership case.
Barton Peek, of Peoria, Ill.,, wa
robbed near Lamar, Mo-, by highway
men, who left him gagged and bounC
TO tree, where he remained for tire,
low i j