Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-06-11
TEL EGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Power from Niagara falls will ne
transmitted to Buffalo.
It is e4timated that there are in New
York 100000 bicycles.
Natlra gas has been found within
nine miles Of Indianapolis.
Robert Tabor and Julia MarloWe-
Tabor have sailed for Europe.
Some rogue is raising g bills to IS
very successfully in New York.
Edward Pullman died at Jefferson,
Iowa, after being gored by bull
Alonzo Nall, late editor Of the Noko-
mis-, IL, Progress, died at Terre Haute,
Ind.
Frank Wiman, aged % years, third
son of Erastus Wiman, is dead in New
York.
The democrats and populists at En-
poria, Kan, have agreed on fusion for
next fall.
lists are returning to the democratic
ranks.
Governor Bradley has Withdrawn
from the race for the presidential nom
ination.
The sheriff has seized the stock of J.
e. Jenner & Co., wholesale milliners of
Milwaukee.
TIE Centennial Eureka mine in Utah
has been sold to an English syndicate
for $t,00O,O00.
Senior Calvo, minister to the United
States from Costa Rica, was presented
to the president.
Charles E. Bartlett has been renom-
mated for congress from the fourth
Georgia district
w. P. Price one of the first mer-
chants in Medford, Wis, died suddenly
OF heart failure.
The Kansas and Kentucky demo-
cratic state conventions were run by
the silver men,
Henry Belder, farmer, aged 81, liy-
ing at Pawnee, H., committed suicide
by cutting his throat
Adam Hesselbacher, aged 81, and
Mrs. Josephine Glade, aged So, were
married in Galena, H.
All the painters in Springfield, ILL.,,
nave struck against an increase in
hours from nine to ten.
Fourth California district democrats
renominated Congressman James G.
Mcguire at San Francisco.
Christian Blocher, of Elkhart, Ind,
well known republican politician, aged
SO years is dead of paralysis.
Congressman George Perkins has
been renominated by the republicans of
the eleventh Iowa district.
J. H. Baker, of MinOt, n. D., was
shot and killed by his 17-year-old son
while beating his wife.
George M. Pecks dry goods store in
Elgin, ILL.,, was robbed of $500 worth Of
silks and handkerchiefs.
A ilibuster expedition sailed from
Mobile with the purpose, it is said, Of
capturing a Cuban seaport
w C. Arnold, president of the Mer
chants National bank of Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, is dead, aged "A years.
Mayor Walbridge, of st. Louis. has
been hung in efigy for refusing outside
aid for the cyclone sufferers.
Dr. Homer Virgil Milton ex-United
States senator from Georgia, died in
Rome, Ga, aged eighty-two years.
The assets of Ferdinand SCHUMACHER,
the oatmeal king. of Akron, O., foot up
to 81 ,6SS zoo; liabilities 100000 less.
The pest of commandant of cadets
al West Point is to be vacated in Oc-
tobcr, Capt Samuel NJ. Mills retiring.
Andrew UnhOrse, who murdered An
drew Stuf1lni at Grape Creek, H., re-
Gently, nas been captured at Corning,
Ohio
Jesse Slayton and William Meyers,
both colored, charged with assaulting
white women, were lynched in Column
bus, Ga
Miss MiImo, sister of Mrs. Eugene
Kelley, was married TO Prince Albert
Radziwill by Archbishop Corrigan in
New York
Charles Smith of Chicago. has been
sentenced to four years in the peniten-
tiary from Valparaiso, Ind, for stealing
a horse.
The president has nominated Abram
f. Server, of New York to be chief
examiner Of the civil service commits
sion.
A Turkish detachment of IS men sent
to VamOs, Crete to remove war mater
ial was cut pieces by insurgents, only
few escaping.
The house committee on ways and
means. Is to 2, decided to report the
senate bill forbidding the issue of
bonds advertised.
Wolff & Sharp wholesale dry goods
dealers of Macon, Ga, have failed for
S250,000. The assets are about the
same
Lieutenant Commander Mark,
United States navy, and Mrs Grace
Filkins. the actress, were married in
New York
The senate rejected the nomination of
Vim. II. Fowle to be collectors of in
ternal revenue for the sixth district of
Virginia
c. B. Keene, of Maine, has been APP
pointed chief of appointment division
in the fourth assistant postmaster gen
erals Office.
Henry NJ. Stanley, who has been
dangerously i'll at Madrid, has recov-
cred sufficiently to start on his return
TO London.
colt Jackson has been transferred to
the jail III Covington, KY, as a pre-
caution against a possible jail delivery
at Newport
Frank McShaffery, lamp chimney
salesman of Pittsburg, has disappeared