Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-29
NEWS OF 1HE WORLD.
AT HOME.

populist proposition to fuse.
At Bloomington, ILL.,, Mrs. Constance
Book, aged "a, was killed by a train.
'Spooning' is the charge on which
young couple were arrested at Sioux
City.
AT Homer, Ill, Miss DolIa Taylor of
Odgen was thrown from a carriage and
killed.
Ward Muckler, retired merchant,
hanged himself at Toledo, Iowa. FL
nancial trouble.
VIM. j. Bryan made a number of
speeches in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and
Pennsylvania.
One hudred and sixty-seven Armen-
ian refugees arrived at New York from
BoulOgne, France.
Mrs, Mary Herkberry was fatally
burned by the explosion of lamp near
La Grange, Ind.
Frank Meline, farmer, of Jackson
vile, H., in debt and widower, killed
himself with rat poison
The Conigslay Dry Goods company
at Peoria failed, entering confessions
VI JuuSIllcHL Luz Poo,OUU.
R. P. Nelson and B. F. Dougherty
are in Jail in Lancaster, Wis, charged
with selling salt for sugar.
The Golden Eagle Clothing company
at Topeka, Kan, has failed. Assets
and liabilities about 100000.
There was a heavy snowfall through
out the copper country of Michigan
Over three inches has fallen.
The Kansas supreme court decides
that WatsOn's name cannot be with
drawn from the pOpulist ticket.
Sloatesburg, N. Y, was quarantined
on account of an epidemic of diph-
liberia. The schools have been closed.
The stoneware works of Whitmore,
Robinson &, Co. at East Akron. Ohio,
were burned, the loss being 5000 00O
Herman B. Schnaubelt, brother of
the Chicago bomb-thrower, died in
San Bernandino, Cal, of consump-
ton.
Miss Edith Shepard, daughter of
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, was married
at Scarborough, N. Y, to Ernesto J.
Fabbri.
There was sufficient frost in Green
vile, Miss, to kill the top leaves of
the cotton, which stops the growth
absolutely.
Judge Jones WithdraWs as pOpuliSt
candidate for governor of Missouri in
order, as he says, to defeat the republi-
can ticket
A mob of 500 toIlgate raiders tore
away the gates on the Owenton, Peak S
Mill and fiat Greek roads in Kentucky
during the night
MyrOn r. Kent, convicted of wife
murder in North Dakota, must hang.
as the governor refuses to commute
his sentence
The Bluefields Banana company of
New Orleans, has assigned to Fenelon
Canon as trustee. Assets, $25 900;
liabilities, 100000
Bishop George L. Seymour, of the
Episcopal church at Springfield, ILL.,,
has written a letter denouncing the
Chicago PLATFORM.
Charles F. Briggs, 60 years old, COM
mitted suicide by shooting at Carlyle,
from paralytic stroke.
The distributing reservoir of the
Oakland, Cal, water company broke
its walls and flooded the town with
100000 gallons of water
Justin S. Morrill, was reelected
United States senator from Vermont.
He is Sc years old and has been in the
senate for thirty years
Mrs. Barbara Orr of Providence. R
l., and formerly of Chicago, was found
dead in her apartments in New York.
She had committed suicide.
Funeral services over the remains of
Henry E. Abbey, the theatrical man
ager, were held in the Catholic Church
of the Paulist Priests, New York.
Mrs. Joseph CopIe of Brooklyn in
Jured her eyes by rubbing them with
her hands after she had handled a
tainted one dollar United States note.
In the mountains and woods near
Hot Springs, Ark, many miners are
prospecting for gold Rich finds are
reported six miles northeast of the
city.
A large number of the Hooking Val
ley miners have voted to go to work
at the reduced wages of As cents a ton.
Not more than 1900 miners are now
idle.
Robbers entered the bank of Cass-
vile at Cassville, Mo, last night and
blew open the safe, securing the con-
fonts. The amount obtained was
large
Minister Lazo Arriaga has invited
the United States to participate in the
Central America Exposition to be held
in Guatemala, beginning March Is,
1897.
Commander Glass of the Texas has
been exonerated by the naval court of
inquiry for the grounding of the vessel
in Newport harbor d few weeks
since
Richard and Mary Hayes, brother
and sister, while driving over a Grand
Trunk railway crossing near ST.
and killed
Mrs. Columbus Delano wife of the
ex-Secretary Of the Interior, fell and
broke her hip in Columbus, Ohio She
is old and i'll and the mishap may
prove fatal
At Montpelier, VT, DR.. Geddings,
superintendent of the state insane
asylum at Waterbury, was arrested
on five indictments for mistreating