Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-30
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC MATTERS.

H., was killed by train.
Heavy rains have caused much dam
age about Frankfort, Ky.
Prof. Hugh C. Mclaughlin, formerly
of Rock Hill, Md, died.
Marshall Shepard of East Orange, n.
J.. a summer resident at Edgerton, died
there.
James Griffith, twelve years old,
stabbed and killed his older brother IN
New York.
Ex-President Harrison said that he
will speak on the currency question in
September.
Tom Lovens and Berry Short of
Knoxville, Tenn, quarreled, and the
former killed the latter.
Frank w. Walz and Miss Cora Z.
Wamsley, daughter of a minister, were
married at Bemet, III.
A receiver was appointed by Judge
Simonton for the MiddIetown Car
Works, MiddletoWn, Pa.
A man from Iowa who has nine sons
came to New York and adopted nine
daughters left by his brother.
The Atlanta Journal. controlled by
Hoke Smith, secretary Of the interior,
has decided to support Bryan.
wealthy young merchant, and Miss Els
tella Beggs were married at the home
of the brides mother in Arcola, Ill.
The agricultural department reports
poor condition of fruit throughout the
country, especially apples and peaches.
Daniel Wendall, a Staten Island
farmer, found a pot of gold which had
been buried by his father many years
ago.
Mrs. Agnes Frazer died at Indianapo-
lis from stomach trouble. Autopsy
showed a pearl button was the cause of
her death.
The railroads running into Centralia,
ILL.,, have suspended running trains on
account OF washouts, the result OF
heavy rains.
The mint bureau of the treasury re-
ceiyes daily requests from all parts of
the country for information on the fl
nancial question.
In New York it is reported that the
Standard Oil company has acquired a
controlling interest in the Great Rus
sian Oil company.
George Mitchell, the well-known
postmaster and democratic politician
at Batesyille, Ind, dropped dead from
heart trouble.
Carl Swain, son of Aratas Swain and
nephew OF M. l.. Splitter of Indiana, was
drowned in ditch near Morocco, Ind i.
He was an only child.
William Ruger, Jr., and Miss Winni-
fred jerome were married at James
Ville Wis, and are spending their
honeymoon IN Chicago.
Right Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coke,
bishop OF the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of western New York, died sud
denly at Clifton Springs, N. Y.
William j. Bryan, democratic NOM
inee for the presidency, is unable to
read all the letters which come to him
at his home in Lincoln, Neb
Fourteen frame buildings in the viii
lage of Trout Run, twelve miles from
WIlliamsport, Pa, were burned. The
loss VIII amount to about $4,000
John Ducro & Sons brick building in
Ashtabula, Ohio, and a dozen smaller
frame structures, were destroyed by
fire. The loss will reach $4,000.
Mrs Henry Leslie, blind IN one eye,
did not see an approaching train at
Springfield, ILL.,, and was killed. She
was As years of age and leaves a fam
lily.
General Rosecrans, president of the
Society OF tie Army OF the Cumber-
land, announces it's next annual re-
union at Rockford, ILL.,, September %
and "a
Quartermaster-G General Batchelder, of
the army, will retire July 2S. Colonel
SawteIle and Colonel Ludington are
mentioned in connection with the
vacancy.
Milton Barger, wealthy resident of
Shelbyville, Ind, slipped and fell head
foremost into cistern. He was res
cued alive, but will die from injuries
sustained.
Col. John f. Hobbs, formerly of Lex
ington county, S. c., who says he is
king of Ilika, a cannibal island in the
South Pacific ocean, is in New York to
be married.
While driving horse rake near Ed
inburg, Ind, Fenten Wright fell upon
the farm implement, when the horse
bolted, and both of his eyes were
gouged out.
William Skea, for fifteen years a
conductor on the Hannibal and st. Joe
railroad, living at Hannibal, Mo-, was
run down and Killed by a train at Pal
myra, Mo.
The state department has received
from the United States minister at To-
kio an account of the recent tidal-wave
disaster in Japan, causing the death of
10000 people.
The Window Glass Workers associa-
ton at Pittsburg, Pa, passed resolu-
ton generating all the ex-officials
from having appropriated any money
for their own use.
Senator William f. Villas and Gen.
Edward Bragg have each prepared an
address to the democratic party in Wis
consin in opposition to the Chicago
ticket and platform.
The building instruments and outfit
of the Columbia College School of
Mines, on Banton lake, near Litchfield,
Conn, were destroyed by an incendiary
fire The loss is about $4,000.
DR.. E. NJ. Whitscn, of Marion. Ind.
and Miss Alcinda Marrow of the Uni
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