Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-26
NEWS Of THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

The woman suffrage amendment mas
a majority of nearly 5000 in Idaho.
William J. Bryan has gone to Mis-
souri, on fishing and hunting trip.
R. P. Giles, congressman elect
from the first Missouri district, died.
The Georgia legislature has formally
elected A. S. Clay United States SEN
ator.
The Northern Pacific receiVership IS
ended except as regards the company s
lands.
Edwin Gould started a war in the
west against the Diamond Match COM
pany.
Gov. Allin of North Dakota COM
muted the death sentence of Myron
Kent.
President and Mrs. Cleveland enter
tanned at lunch Ian Maclaren and Mrs.
Watson.
Edison is experimenting with the
ray with the hope of aiding the
blind.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Allen Kirkpatrick
& Co., wholesale grCcers, were burned
out; loss, 100000.
James r. Sovereign has been re
elected general master workman of
the Knights of Labor.
Chicago & Northern Pacific bond
holders buy the property of the com
pany at auction.
F. H. Winston of Chicago welded
Miss Sallie Hews, the reigning society
belle Of New Orleans.
Within the week the Pullman Pal
ace Car company has added 800 men
TO it's list of employees.
"Cooney the Fox" OF Cronin muir
der fame, is back in Chicago. He re
turned of his own free will.
The president appointed William c.
McCreery collector of internal revenue
for the st. Louis district.
The fashionable Columbia apart
ment house, on Richmond Terrace,
Staten Island, was destroyed by fire.
The supreme court at Columbus,
Ohio, granted Romulus Cotell, the
Summit county murderer, new trial.
Captain Alfred T. Mahan, the we'll
known writer on naval topics, was
placed on the retired list at his own
request.
Bishop Doane, Protestant Episcopal,
declared that wine, theaters and dane
ing were not sinful under certain con-
ditions.
Holders of gold throughout the coun-
try are exchanging it for paper money.
Rev. J. D. Mentor, of Troy, Mont
lost his life in a desperate encounter
with a bear.
1t is said Tom Reed will not be a
candidates for speaker as it develops
animosities.
Racine, Wis: The Hartman Trunk
company has resumed business with
100 men, after an enforced idleness OF
three months.
Richmond, Va.-The official vote OF
Virginia is: Bryan 155, 9SS; Mckinley
1876, 3615 Palmer, 2,216; lowering, 2,347
Matchet, 106.
Montgomery, Ala-On the first bal
lot in the democratic caucus E. w.
Pettus was nominated to succeed Sen
ator Pugh.
In fight between William Gee and
William Magnus, farmers, near Macon
40, over an account, Gee shot and
killed Magnus.
The Boston art commission has fin
ally decided to permit the public Ii
brary trustees to accept MacMonnies
statute of Bacchante.
The New Castle, Pa, rod mill
which has been closed for several
months, has resumed operations. II
employees about 200 men
Mrs. Bourlier, wife of Henry Bour-
lier, agent for the Allan Steamship
company, shot herself and died soon
afterward at Toronto, Ont.
Bishop Mora, the last of the Span
ish Catholic bishops of California
LAS sailed for his home in Spain
where he will end his days.
Columbus, Miss: Minis Collier, a
young negro, attempted to assault Miss
Title Vaughn, a white woman, near
Stevenson. He was lynched
Charles w. Jenkins, at one time a
well-known portrait painter, and Jos
eph Siedenberg, a widely known cigar
manufacturer, died in New York.
st. Louis: The twenly-eighth an
nual reunion society of the army OF
the Tennessee convened, Gen. Green
vile NJ. Dodge, Iowa presided.
King Oscar II. has erected a granite
monument on the spot where Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel w. Youmans of New
York city met their death on July 4
last.
In q scuffie with footpad in Kansas
City, Mo-, ] w. Reaneman, manager
of the Central Coal and Coke company
OF TeNarkana, Texas, was severely
wounded.
Former PoStmaster-General John
Wanamaker consented to be a candi-
date for United States senator from
Pennsylvania to succeed J. Donald
Cameron.
The New York state board of health
intends asking the next legislature of
that state for a special appropriation
to analyze the different beers manu-
featured in the state.
Rev. Wyllys Rede, rector of En-
manuel Episcopal church of Rockford
Ill, has rendered his resignation to
accept the rectorship of the Church OF
the Incarnation at Atlanta