Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-08
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Iowa, have failed; liabilities, $4,000.
In New York a movement against
high hats in theaters has begun.
A Birmingham, Ala, mother dropped
dead with JOY when her runaway boy
returned.
campaign tour through the north
west is proposed for Generals Palmer
and Buckner.
The football game between Yale and
Amherst resulted in a score of II to 0
in favor of Yale.
A nephew of Russell Sage and a
prospective heir was jailed in Troy, n.
Y, for neglecting his wife.
In Philadelphia Captain Hart was
aeld in $4,000 bonds under the neu
trality law for filibustering.
John Wanamaker bought the stock
and store of Hilton, Hughes & Co., and
will reopen the New York store.
Chairman Jones, of the national EN-
ocratic committee, says he does not be-
Eeye Mckinley will carry Maryland
c.. AIbin Nelson and Miss Ethel
Melcher were married at Rockford, H.,
DR.. P. H. Swift Of Chicago officiating.
Dionicio Saldoval who shot and
killed Victoriano Tenorio on July 29,
1895, was hanged at Albuquerque, N.
M.
Whitney & Son, bankers of Atlantic,
Iowa, have failed. The assets are
scheduled at 1922, 700 and the liabilities
at about $4,000
The Columbus Ohio Buggy COM
pany, assigned, has filed it's statement
showing assets of $948,OOO and liabil-
tiles of $1,O69,O0O
The Eleanor iron works of Holidays
burg and the Tyrone iron works of
Tyrone, both in Pennsylvania, have
gone to work.
Joseph Cundy, ex-sheriff of Vermil-
ion county, died from heart failure
while attending PAINS Last Days of
Pompeii at Danville, Ill.
Obituary: At Clinton, Iowa, A. R.
Mccoy, 50.-At OIney, Md, Dr. H. G.
Sherman of Washington, a brother of
Senator John Sherman.
Elkins Bros grist-mil and elevator.
with 10000 bushels of wheat, were
burned at Chicago Junction, O. The
loss is estimated at 100000.
The First Baptist church of Belvi-
dere, H., has extended a call to Rev.
w. t. Irvine of Yorkville, but the ten
der has not yet been accepted.
Burglars entered the Hotel Norman
near Wilmerding, Pa, chloroformed
all the inmates and carried off $4,000
in money, jewelry and silverware.
State Senator Adolph Pluemer has
been missing some days, and the Gin
clDnati city treasurer stated that he
had failed to turn over $500 due.
Andrew j. Poppleton, an Omaha
pioneer, the first general solicitor of
the Union Pacific railroad, died at his
home in Omaha aged sc years.
William c. Whitney, former secretary
of the navy, and Mrs. Edith S. Ran
dolph, nee May, were married in the
Church of ST. Saviour, Bar Harbor.
Maud Cleveland, an actress with
Ensign company, took a large dose of
choral in St. Paul, She is said to
have received bad news from New
Miss Margaret Jefferson, eldest
daughter of Charles B. Jefferson, and
granddaughter of Joseph Jefferson, and
Glen McDonough of New York, were
married at Buzzards Bay.
The Saratoga Victory Manufacturing
Company, employing 600 hands, at Vic
tory Mills, Saratoga county, has re-
sumed operations, after being shut
down two months.
A contest between the socialistic
and anti-socialistic elements in the
Cigarmakers' International Union
which met in Detroit, resulted in a de-
feat for the socialists.
Col. Joseph HILL once assistant gen
eral manager of the VandaIia line, is
dead in St. Louis. He was formerly
superintendent of the Panhandle at
Logansport, Ind
At Gray, w Va, two lives were lost
in a political dispute John Roberts
struck Doc Estep with a cane. Estep
shot and killed Roberts. King Roberts,
a brother, shot Estep.
Miss Emma Ashley, who shot at E.
]. Baldwin, the millionaire horseman,
in court in San Francisco, and narrow
ly missed killing MIN, has been acquit-
ed on the ground of temporary in
sanity.
The failure of H. E. Gets & Son pre-
cipitated the assignment of H. E. Gets
& Co. general merchandise, at indie
pendence, Wis. Assets, $1,000; liabili-
dies not given. The failures involve
10000.
The Northwestern Fire Underwriters
elected officers as follows: President,
G. H. Moore, Chicago; vice president,
S. =. Cate, Des Moines; secretary, A
V. Mum, Chicago; treasurer, J. A. Kel-
sey. Chicago.
Ten tanks of oil belonging to the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company, at East
st. Louis, were destroyed by fire. Many
thousands of barrels of oil were burned
causing a loss of $4,000 to S45, 900;
fully insured
John Fitzgibbon, sentenced to i'm
prfsonment for life from New York
City for murder, was discharged from
Sing Sing prison. He is an English
man and was received at the prison on
April "a 1878
In Chicago at the Sixtieth street
station, a thug felled Mrs. Addie Way
a ticket seller, and her defender with
a piece of gas pipe. A desperate high
wayman also shot and fatally wounded
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