Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

IL,
healer, has disappeared.
Earthquakes occurred in South Da-
kota, Iowa and Nebraska.
President Joseph Banigan, of the
rubber trust, has resigned.
All the lumbermen of the Pacific
coast have formed a trust.
George Nicholson, proprietor of the
New Orleans Picayune, is dead.
A new, bill dealing with land titles
is prepared by a house committee.
Jesse Hoyt, wheat plunger on the
New York produce exchange, failed
May / is fixed as the date for the
opening of tie Red Lake reservation.
The trust clause in the will of the
late James G. Fair was declared in
valid.
First Assistant Secretary of State
Edwin F. Uhl will be nominated to be
ambassador to Germany.
Dunraven may apologize.
The national farmers alliance,
which meets in Washington, may en-
ter politics over the silver side.
A receiver in Wisconsin of the Amer
dean Loan and Savings association of
Minneapolis has been appointed.
John L. Andrew, wealthy La Porte
farmer, hanged himself He is be-
lieved to have been deranged.
At Duluth old officers and directors
of the various Rockefeller mining com
panies have been reelected.
The pnCbtipn n
short terminal line, was sold to~the
Wisconsin & Michigan for $4,000.
John Weber, of Tornado, Wis, has
been arrested on a charge of illicit dis
filling and put under bonds of $500.
Governor Altgeld has asked for H.
L. Mccormick, under arrest in Indiana
and wanted at Arcola, H., for forgery
Benjamin Harrison formally an
nounced that he would not be candi-
date for the nomination for president.
Many witnesses testified about the
use of whips and chains by Supt.
Pierce, of the Westchester New York
home.
:, Orders have been received at the
navy yard Brooklyn, to finish the
monitor Terror to go into commission
March /.
The white-pine lumber manufac-
turers of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota are reported to be forming
a combine.
A young dental student of Cincin
natl has been arrested, charged with
the murder and mutilation of young
woman.
has decided the famous Conkling muir
der case of Oskaloosa shall be tried in
Washington.
Edgar Holmes, who killed his sister
at Seymour, Ind, in a quarrel over
property, has been sentenced to two
years in prison.
Ernest A. Ewes, taken from Chicago
to Menominee, Mich, pleaded guilty to
a charge Of forgery and was given
year in prison.
Joseph Helgoth. a travelling painter,
whose only relative in America is a
Chicago cousin, was killed by a train
at Thorp, Wis.
President Cleveland reduces the SEN
tence of Cadwallader, the West Su
perior banker serving a sentence for
enlightenment.
Senator Hansbrough of North Da
kota thinks Harrison's declination will
help Davis, and the latter will be
nominated
While burning brush near Dallas
City, H., one daughter of A. Tollivero
was burned to death and another very
badly injured.
d. H. Goodyear, son of eXMayor D.
f. Goodyear, of Memphis, committed
suicide by taking strychnine. Lack Of
money and work
BY resolution of the trustees Column
Oia college becomes Columbia univer-
sity. and the school of arts becomes
Columbia college.
Ray Van Tassel, charged with muir
dering his wife, was arraigned for trial
at Mason City, Iowa. He claims she
committed suicide.
Differences on the Chicago and
Southeastern railway have been ad-
justed and the strike of shopmen at
Lebanon is at an end.
Over $500,000,0O0 bids were received
for the new loan. Half of it will
probably go to the Morgan syndicate
at a 5 IA per cent rate.
Despondent over his wife's death,
Charles Kurz, cigar salesman from
Platteville, Wis, killed himself by
shooting at Dubuque, Iowa.
Rev. Frederick 0. Grannis, pastor of
Grace Episcopal church, of Muncie,
Ind, has accepted a call to St. Pauls
church at Richmond, Ind.
The five cases of criminal libel
against Charles NJ Lane, a member OF
the Macon count, ILL.,, bar, were dis
missed in the circuit court
The Italian war ship, Christofer Co.
Lombo. having on board the duke OF
,AbruZzi, nephew of the king of Italy
arrived in Frisco from the north
William Sanders, an escaping muir
Sierer from Graves county, Kentucky
was arrested at Broken Bow, Neb., anG
will return without a reQuisition.
In collision on the st. Louis branch
of the Wabash railway, at Carpenter
I'LL, Frank Hoff, fireman, was killed
and Engineer Hargrove badly hurt.
President Charles Kendall Adams O
the Wisconsin state university ha
consented to deliver the commence
cment Grafton at Ann Arbor June 26.