Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-02
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Ln6 assembly, IL 10 90.
Fifteen hundred Dunkards, from col
onies in six states have gone to North
Dakota.
The Princeton track team will meet
California university in the Yale-Prin-
ceton games May Is.
Three prisoners in the county Jail at
Wausau, Wis, escaped by digging
through a brick wall.
F. H. CastIemaine, of New York, hus-
band Of one of the Switzerland sisters,
committed suicide taking poison.
T% Ball the eminent naturalist, says
that the whaling and sealing industries
III Alaska are practically exhausted.
Major Edward Leslie, a well-knOwn
inventor, whose wife and family are in
Canada, committed suicide in Patter-
son, n j.
A cablegram is received by the state
department confirming the rumor of
the death of President HIppolyte,
Hayti.
Alonzo P. Carpenter has been ap-
pointed chief justice Of the New Hamp-
shire supreme court to succeed Charles
Doe, deceased.
Mrs. Howard NJ. White, wife of a BIZ
cycle rider, of Trenton, n. J., has been
granted a divorce at Perry, o. T., on
plea of abandonment.
A stable in New York city has the
following sign displayed: For sale, a
good secondhand mule, acquainted
with the ice wagon business"
Detroit's mayor has fixed up a sys-
tenn of street car transfers in that city
by which passenger can ride thirty
five miles for cents.
Guy Smith, who was stabbed at Su-
perior, Wis, by Con Lewis, is in crit
ical condition. Lewis admits the stab
bling, but claims defense.
Albert Swanson was killed by fall
ing earth at Marquette.
Samuel Stage, a we'll known farmer
al Iowa City, Iowa, has disappeared.
Machars, Maine, had a $125, 900 fire
yesterday. The Vose block, the finest
in the city, was destroyed.
Sydney Smith, of Pendleton, KY,
killed Robert w. Vance, the brother of
successful attempt at suicide.
There is great activity in railroad
car building this year. So far u 500
cars have been built and most of the
builders have large orders on hand.
ColcOlough, who pitched for Pitts
burg last season and is now on Wilkes
barre's reserve list, refuses to sign
contract unless he is given a larger
salary.
Mrs. Josephine Snyder, of Port Jar
Wis, N. Y, has died of poisoning. Her
husband died two days previously from
the same cause. A daughter is under
guard
Coal miners in convention at Phila-
delphia, Pa, representing the central
and northern fields, decided to accept
the advance of cents ton offered by
operators.
John Barth, receiver of the South
Side Savings bank of Milwaukee, de
clares that the depositors will receive
a dividend of per cent in about two
months
The c. n. Nelson Lumber company
has sold all its interests at Clequet,
Mich, and in the adjoining county for
$4,000,00O, the buyers being the Fred
erick Weyerhauser interests.
In the 7. c. Shove banking case, on
trial at Oshkosh, Wis, Judge Burnell
refused to admit as evidence the books
of Flagler & Co. of Manit0woc who
failed soon after the bank suspended.
The board of directors of the Union
Park Driving association of Saginaw,
Mich, have decided to hold a race meet
ing during the coming summer. The
total amount of money offered is S25,-
600.
Health officers want 100000 with
which to fight tuberculosis in New
York state. They claim that the
disease is the one most prevalent
among human beings and animals in
the state
TOney Bernadino attempted to thaw
dynamite cartridge over a bonfire
near Niagara Falls, N. Y. Ten cart
ridges were exploded and BerHardino
and Seymour Eddy, Of Lewiston. n. Y,
were killed.
Miss Frances E. Willard, VINO is in
Chicago, authorizes the statement that
the national convention of the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union for
1896 will be held at St Louis in Sep
TENDER or October
Frederick Nelson and Frank Lewis
have been arrested at Warrington, D. c.,
for administering knock out drops to
victim. 1t is thought they are wanted
in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia
on similar charges.
Arthur j. Goodwin, who has a record
as a defaulter and bigamiSt, has been
arrested in New York. and will be sent
to Cripple Creek, Colo, for trial. He
admits embezzling 81, 500 and two of his
wives have been found.
The eight sisters and sister-in-law
of Bushrod, Kelch, the wife murderer,
of Cleveland, who is under sentence of
death, have issued invitations for leap
year party. Their object is to raise
money with which to fight for new
trlal.
The family of a farmer named Ray
mond, living in Calhoun county, Mich
igan, is in the heavyweight class.
There are six sons and their combined
weight exceeds a ENTHUSIASTICALLY
over 800 pounds each. Neither the
father nor the mother tips the scale at
more than $50 hounds