Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-09
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC DOINGS.


Chicago were indicted.
The Philadelphia street car en-
ployes have struck again.
New York tailors will have CO.
Operative shops OF their own.
A ST. Louis negro escaped lynchers
even after being strung up.
Germany will take portion of the
new issue of American bonds.
West Superior is after the WiscOn-
sin semi-centenniaI celebration.
Venezuela is negotiating in the
United States for war supplies.
The Pepin boats won the first ice
yacht lace on Lake Minnetonka.
The season Of 1895 was the most
prosperous in the history of the 500
canal.
Governor Morton is candidate for
the republican nomination for presi-
dent.
Secretary Carlisle is accused of dou-
BILE dealing in connection with the
bond bill.
A California Episcopal bishop
caused a scene in church by denounc-
ing the pastor.
Senator Davis denies that he is
connected with any private enterprise
in Venezuela.
And now the friends of Gov. Brad
ley of Kentucky begin booming him
for president.
A Sioux City youth killed a boy of
thirteen for refusing to give him a
chew of tobacco.
Kings county, N. Y, has virtually
passed out of existence, becoming the
city of Brooklyn"
Grand Rapids, Mich, is chosen as
the eighth member of the western
baseball league.
Erastus Wiman, with ample back
ing, begins anew his struggles for
fortune in New York.
Willard McKinstry has resigned his
position as civil-service commissioner
for New York state.
Three persons were killed and two
injured by the explosion of boilers
near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Stepniak, the well-known Russian
author, was killed by a railway train
at Chiswick, England.
Only Secretary Carlisle's signature
is lacking in the contract for the next
bond issue of $780, 900.
The cOrOner's jury in the case of the
Baltimore theater disaster found that
the audience alone was to blame.
The years gold output of Colorado
for the first time in the history of
the state exceeds the silver production.
The New York city budget for 1896
calls for $43,996,571 to be raised in
taxes or $6,519,611 more than in 1895.
The summer residence of August
Serega on Terry avenue, Lorillard
Point, N. Y, was burned. The loss is
$4,000
Policeman Daniel Redner was
caught levying blackmail from the
keeper of a disorderly house in New
York
Gov Morton appointed Irving G..
Vann, of Syracuse, N. Y, to succeed
Judge Peckham on the court of ap-
peals.
The American consul at Matanzas
was SO alarmed by Gomez's raid that
he asked for protection from Wash
ington
Postmaster John A. Pace of Weldon,
ILL.,, killed DR.. w. e. Taylor, mem
Der of the Legislature, for wreclzing his
home.
Harry Hayward's ashes, in a little
box, were taken from Chicago and
placed in a Minneapolis cemetery
vault
The three principal national silver
organizations are to consolidate under
the name of the American Bimetallic
union.
Lieut.. Payne, who attempted to
shoot Col. Crofton, commanding Fort
Sheridan, was dismissed from the ser
vice.
The Press fiat building, Sixty second
street and Lexington avenue, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss 100000; in
sured.
The first state dinner of the season
at the white house to the cabinet was
given by President and Mrs. Cleve-
land Thursday night
Il. VI. DyrentOrth, OF Detroit, Mich,
has scheme for dispelling London's
fogs by the explosion of balloons,
causing rain.
The republican organization propo-
sition carried in the United States
senate, 80 to %, only one of the popu-
lists voting.
There is no cIew to the robbers
who stole 100000 worth of jewels from
the residence of I. Townsend Burden
in New York
Chief-Justice Snodgrass, of Tennes-
see, was rearrested on a warrant
charging him with shooting with in
tent to kill.
The Buffalo, n. Y, brass and iron
bedstead company has gone into in
solvency. Assets are $4,000 and liza
bilities SSS,000.
Mayor Swift, of Chicago, H., in a
speech at a banquet, charged The cor
ruption of the city council to "promi-
nent citizens"
About $4,000 more immigrants have
arrived at New York in 1895 than in
1894, and they are of better class and
brought more money with them.
1t is stated that the administration
has determined to ask full indemnity
from Turkey for damages suffered by
American citizens in her empire.