Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
HOME MATTERS.

1t is expected that the California
legislature will re-elect United States
senator George S. Perkins.
Bishop Bonacum was defeated in his
war upon Nebraska priests.
Election riots with deadly conse-
Quences occurred in Bulgaria.
Nearly every house in Ralston, o. T.,
has been destroyed by a cyclone.
The president appointed D. H. Nor
gan assistant surgeon in the navy.
Additional atrocities are perpetrated
in Cuba under the direction of WeyIer.
J. V. and L. D. White were shot and
killed by l.. j. Williams at Mccormick,
s. g.
Schools of starfish are causing great
loss to the oyster-growers of COnnec-
ticut.
A closer alliance is formed by the
Postal and Commercial Cable compa
MES.
Tesla says there is no hope for the
blind through the agency of the x
rays.
William Steinway, the piano manu-
ldcIuItI, uleu III NC" 1oIh VI W pAolu
fever.
Prof Beauregard Boaz, of the Col
lege of Charleston, S. c., died, at the
age of &c.
The international commission on
Boring sea claims begins work at Vic
toria, B. G.
Governor Joseph F. Johnson Of
v,roe
gomery.
Moritz Rosenthal, the pianist, who
is i'll at Chicago, is probably develop
ing typhoid fever.
Preliminary steps have been taken
at Pittsburg for the formation Of a
sewer-pipe trust.
Patrick Mcguire, a well-known editor
and democratic politician, died at his
home in Roxbury, Mass.
VIM. BARLEY, a railroad fagman,
was mysteriously murdered in a signal
tower at Minneapolis.
Mayor Edward T. Burke of Rawlins,
WyO., has been arrested charged with
passing a bogus check.
Floods and ice gorges in Wisconsin
have caused great damage to property
liz the Chippewa region.
Gov-elect Dorrin A. Cooke has APP
pointed John Halsey Buck of Hartford
as his executive secretary.
The county treasury at Dallas, Tex,
was robbed of $4,000 by unknown men
who held up" the treasurer.
M. t. Hart of Miller & Hart, Chicago,
is raising skunks on his farm near
Hartsdale, Ind, for their hides
H. M. Scott of Bickneu, Ind. com
mitted suicide because his wife had
ckastised him for drunkenness.
Bryan declined to comment on the
presidents message Monday, saying
that he had not yet carefully read it.
The entire stock Of goods of II. l..
Kelly q Co., Milwaukee, were sold in
bulk at public auction Monday to
Nose p. Newald for $4,000.
The leading transatlantic steamship
agents in New York will hereafter
gnore all metropolitan agencies.
The Missouri National bank of Kan
sas City has failed, as has also the
First National bank of Tyler, Texas.
Cincinnati-A national convention of
!umbermen will be held here Dec. IS
to urge a restoration of the lumber
tariff
Rev M. b. Hill was stricken with
paralysis while preaching in the South
ern Methodist church at Bentonville,
Ark
Cornelius N. Bliss Of New York is
said to be McKinley's choice for sec
reatry of the treasury if Hanna de-
ciines.
A national convention OF lumbermen
will be held in Cincinnati December
If to urge a restoration of The lumber
tariff.
The executive committee of the ma
tional democrats will meet at Indiana
polls Dec. 10 to decide upon the partys
course.
A club is said to have been organized
in New York with the purpose of
marrying rich American girls to titled
foreigners.
Complete returns from California
show that Mckinley will have eight
SECTORS from that state and Bryan
will have one.
Judge w. L. Cundiff of Enid. o. T.,
who made the speech that nominated
Bryan for congress the first time, has
been declared insane
The receiver of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad company turned the
property over to the new company
which will operate it,
Engineer Bennett and Driver Walter
Stevens of the Everett, Mass, fire de-
partment were killed while responding
to an alarm of fire.
Yesterday was the first of three days
to be consumed in the dedication of
the new Temple house in indianapolis.
The Temple cost s150,000.
Miss Florence Beckwith died at
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, within five min
utes after receiving an injection of
anti-toxin for diphtheria
The United States commissioner of
immigration is successful in his at
tempts in Europe to restrict the ship
ment of undesirable immigrants
James Wesley Dorsey. colored, of
Springfield, Ohio, is said to have fa!'an
heir to fortune left by the late Peter
Shaffer, of Frederick county. Md
John A. Heron. a San Jose electri-
clan, claims to have made trip from
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