Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-15
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
LOCAL MELANGE.

There was no run on the Cape Ann
savings bank at Gloucester, Mass, af-
ter the suicide of Treasurer Geo. Marsh
the 100000 defaulter.
At least twenty persons were killed
1t Cedar Keys, Fla, by the recent hur-
ricane, which was accompanied by a
tidal wave.
Vice-Presidential Candidate Arthur
SeWall issued his letter of acceptance.
The International BARRIERS Union
held a convention at Evansville, Ind.
Bishop Henry T. Bachman, of the
Moravian church, died at Grace Hill,
Iowa.
The National Wholesale Druggists
Association held a convention in Phil
adeIphia.
An electric motor made its first pub
lie trip on the Third avenue elevated
road, New York.
Miss Virginia Fair denies absolute
ly that she is to marry H. Maitland
Kersey of New York.
G.. T. Cole, cashier of the National
bank at Corning, Iowa, is a $4,000
embezzeler under arrest
A bullet-proof stockade will be
built around some of the Leadville
mines to protect them from attacks by
strikers.
Miss Annie Lewis, the well-known
actress, died at her house near Wash
ington, of consumption.
Miss Edith Collins, who, it is ex-
pected, will become Mrs. Chauncey M
Depew in October is in Paris
Rev. John A. Rockford, of the Order
of st. Benedict, who was born in Alex
Andria, Va, died in New York.
Justices Brown and Clement of the
supreme court, declined to accept a
denomination at the hands of the
democrats.
Carrot A. Hobart issued a formal
denial of any connection with the
coal trust. In fact, he said, he knew
of no such trust.
Eight armed men fired on the
guards at the Resurrection mine, near
Leadville, Col. The firing was kept
up twenty minutes.
Ex-President Harrison made num-
Der of speeches on his way from Rich
mond, Va, to Charleston, w. Va. He
also spoke at Charleston.
Seven persons were killed by the ex-
plosion of the boiler of a locomotive
on passenger train on the Sante Fe
railroad at Usage City, Kan.
Judgments aggregating 1897 were
rendered at Hot Springs, Ark, against
Ed Hogaboom, as president of the de
funct City Savings bank.
At Logansport, Ind, st. Michaels
college burned to the ground. Loss
$4,000; insurance, $4,000. Sixty.
five students had matriculated
Surgeon General Sturgeon in his an
nual report for the fiscal year 1896
states that the general health of the
United States army was excellent.
On board the American liner New
York, which has reached port, wer
Colonel J. HI. Mapleson and twent.
members of his grand opera company
Henry P. Suman, accused of having
swindled the Dallas (Texas) News
to Jail in New York to await extradi
ton.
The case of John Seward, the de.
tective, charged with subornation o
perjury in the trials of Jackson an,
Walling, at Newport, KY, was post
poned.
At Lexington, KY, Colonel Rober
p. Todhunter, one of the oldest an,
wealthiest breeders of trotting horses
is dead. He bred many famou:
horses.
John Collins attempted suicide at
Staten Island resort because a balle
girl joked him by taking a seidlitl
powder, saying she intended killing
herself.
Bishop Keane, the deposed rector O
the Catholic University at Washing
ton, left for Santa Fee after a sorrowfu
scene In the chapel. Cardinal Glib
bons wept
Wichita division of the Order O
Railway Telegrapher one of the larg
est divisions of the order in America
voted funds to aid the Canadian opera
tors on strike.
The police of New Haven assert tina
trainment on the New York, New Ha
ven and Hartford railNad murders
several tramps for stealing rides Of
freight trains.
Margaret Kolsch recovered a verdiC
of $500 damages for breach of prom
Use of marriage against George Jewell
son of a wealthy New York candy
manufacturer.
1t is feared that J. F. Watkins, gen
eral freight agent of the Chicago Grea
Western for the past ten months a
Kansas City, is dead. He has been
missing nearly a week.
Y. o. Hopkins, formerly prominent
in Missouri politics, where he repre-
sented Atchison county in the state
legislature for three terms, died il
Colorado at the age of 70.
The Georgia Morning News has in
formation from a prominent Catholic
that Bishop Thomas A. Becker OF
Georgia will probably be made rector
of the Catholic university.
The general store owned by Burlin-
game & Pitts in East Olean, N. Y.
was burned. The junior partner Of
the firm, Leon Pitts, who slept in the
building, was burned to death.
The national campaign committee
of the gold standard branch of the
democratic party has formally organ
lied. Chairman Bynum is chairman
and John P. Hopkins vice chairman.
Gossip in society circles connects