Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24
KILOGRAMS In BRIEF.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

The exports at this port so far this
year are $21, 100000 in advance Of the
same period in 1895.
Six clergymen in New York, Brook
Tyr and Jersey City Denounced the
Chicago platform.
William Mccormick, the 18th victim
of the opera house fire at Benton
Harbor, Mich, died from Lis injuries
The Sioux and Chippewas ended
their ancient enmity by smoking the
pipe Of peace at Ashland Wis.
John Stack, aged 100 years II
months, has turned up in Chicago
Jail. He tells story of abuse by a
second wife.
The Cleveland police have been
Obliged to stop speeches in the park.
There was a riot over the arrest of
silver orator.
Gold reserve is at $1O5, 1881, 207.
The Arkansas democratic majority
may reach $4,000.
Bourke Cochran has accepted an in
vitation to speak in Nebraska.
H. Fl. Kohlsaat will see to it that
Kate Fields body is cremated, as she
desired.
A. j. Dearborn, state president of
the a. ?. A. for Kansas, was murder
ousIy assaulted by an unknown man
in Kansas City.
An Elkhart, Ind. man has secured
two crops of peaches from his trees
this year and says he will get another
in thirty days.
Grover Cleveland's brother, the eX-
preacher of Chaumont, n. Y, will
make his home in Cleveland where
his two sons live.
Herbert F. Plympton, aged 81,
chairman of the executive committee
of the republican Massachusetts cen
trail committed suicide.
The once beautiful Marie Williams,
opera queen, is now d wreck in the
Chicago slum5. She accepts aims
from the passers by. Gin did it.
Katherine Kidder, the actress, has
written a play entitled Love at War
Miss Kidder expects to appear as
star in the piece in the near future.
The Delaware oil works at Trainer,
Pa owned by Hiram E. Lutz of Phil
adelphia, were destroyed by fire.
Loss over 100000, partly covered by
insurance.
Chris Won der Abe, president of
the ST. Lous Browns, is defendant in a
suit filed by Miss Annie Kaiser, who
asks for $4,000 damages for breach
of promise.
A 15-year-old boy Of Newport, Ill,
shot his 11-year-old sister in the face
with a shotgun. He shot her pur-
poseIy, having become augered at her
The girl died.
The Quincy Herald the Oldest dem
ocratic paper in Illinois, has repud-
lated Bryan and Sewell and the Chi
ago platform. 1t declares for Pal
mer and Buckner
The bitter feeling against Ben S.
Morris, one of the negroes who muir
dered John Ruckman, a prominent
cattle dealer eliminated i'll his lynch
ing at WatOng, Okla.
At Dcs Moine5, Iowa, D. e. Lyons.
capitalist, has made an assignment,
due to money stripgency. His total
liabilities are $174, 047.39 and mis- to-
tai assets $l02.597,31.
The silver democrats of Connecticut
nominated this ticket: Governor, JOS
oph b. Sargent; lieutenant governor,
S. 4. Crandall secretary of state,
Homer S. Cummings.
An East Side New York preacher
gives a loaf of bread to every unem-
ployed nan who attends his Sunday
morning services, and last Sunday full
~ 200 received food.
John J. Mccarthy, under arrest in
San Francisco for an attempt to rob
the First National bank at Los
angeles. is a familiar character to the
police of the Pacific coast.
A Frisco jury rendered a verdict of
guilty in the case of Oliver w. Win
throp. charged with robbery in cor
nection with the abduction of James
Campbell Hawaiian millionaire.
The South Carolina democratic eX-
ecutive committee las declared Judge
Earle the nominee for United States
senator lhe vote stood: Judge Earle,
~ DIS: Governor Evans, SO, 567; Earle's
majority. 3.34S.
The Midland State Bank of Omaha
closed its doors and requested the
banking board to take chan sc of the
bank During the past few days the
depositors had been withdrawing
their aCccdnts.
A great legal battle is imminent be-
tween the Bell Telephone company
and the Western Union Telegraph
company The latter corporation in
sists that its privileges are being en-
croached upon.
H. J. Webb the pioneer vessel
broker of the great lakes, is dead in
Cleveland. He began the business in
1856, the only che and at one time he
managed more tonnage than all the
ether brokers together.
Obituary: At Fort Atkinson, Wis,
Mrs. Lucretia B. Chadwick, 100.-At
Carlyle, H., Judge Alexander H.
White, 65-At Cleveland, O., H. J.
Webb, 64-At Biloxi, Miss, General
Joseph R. Davis.
In Baltimore in a contest between
Jake Kilrain and F. P. SIavin the
former was knocked out in the first
round. The mill only lasted two and
one-fourth minutes when Slavin
landed the decisive blow.
At Danville. H. Ethel Woods, an
unmarried lady CT about % years, has
been arrested for arson. Her lover.
George Allen. deserted her, and she
is charged with attempting to burn