Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC DOTS.

years.
Gold reserve is at $105, 281, POI.
The Arkansas democratic majority !
may reach $4,000.
Bourke Cochran has accepted an in
vitation to speak in Nebraska.
H. H. Kohlsaat will see to it that
Kate Fields body is cremated, as she
desired
VIM. H. Baldwin, Jr., was elected
president of the Long Island Railroad
company.
Alfred B. Darling, one of the pro-
prietors of Fifth Avenue hotel, New
York, is dead
At Warsaw, Ind, a coaching party
rolled over an embankment and six
were killed.
Confessions Of judgment aggregating
$1,000 were taken against James Nc
Connel, farmer of Lexington, III.
Harry Lowell rode ten miles on a.
wheel in 22:0 3-5 and twenty-five miles
in $3.50 Is, both indoors at Chicago.
Maggie Reardon, aged II Years, shot
herself dead in the street at Sharon,
Pa She had quarreled with her lover
Carson & Co., plumbers at Danville,
H., assigned to Walter Hannum. Liza
bilities, $4,000; nominal assets, $4,000.
An Illinois court decided that ploW-
ing corn on Sunday in sight of church
goers is not disturbance of the peace.
John Kreuder, a commission mer-
chant at Akron, Ohio, assigned to Rob
ert L. Andrew. Liabilities, $4,000; as
sets, $4,000.
anna Livingstone, known as the
common law wife Of John l.. Sullivan,
died at New York hospital.
Jackson and WaIling, Pearl Bryan's
murderars, were dete cted in a plot to
escape from jail at Covington, Ky.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison has
declined the presidency of the new
university of Indianapolis offered him
by the trustees.
A hack driver in Manistee, Mich,
drove into the river off an embank
ment He had three passengers, one
of whom was drowned.
The democratic state convention of
New Hampshire adopted free silver
resolutions, which caused the soun1
money delegates to withdraw from the
hall
e. H. Murray, dry goods dealer at
Wabash Ind, was closed on attach
ments by Chicago house. The liabili-
ties are about $4,000.
Twenty members out of twenty-four
of the Connecticut democratic state
central committee will resign because
they are gold men.
George w. Shaw, shoe dealer at Mat
tcon, Ill, made al assignment to w. B.
Dunlap. Liabilities, about $4,000; as
sets, double the amount
Fire was discovered in the Yale COM
mons building. 1t is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin, but was put
out before any damage resulted.
Six members of Schweinfurth'
Heaven" at Rockford, H., including a
son and daughter of Schweinfurth,
were married in Minneapolis.
Gov w. c. Oates, of Alabama, in an
interview in San Francisco, says the
cotton states will go for Bryan and that
the border states are doubtful.
Central Music Hail. Chicago, was
packed to the doors to hear Carl Schurz,
who spoke under the auspices of the
American Honest Money league.
In New York the excise commits
sioner has decided that the administra-
ton of the communion in churches is
not a violation of the Raines law.
George Hall, light weight pugilist, is
open to meet any 11S-pound man in the
United States Hall defeated the terri
Bile Swede in Chicago last spring.
DE- Gallagher, the released Irish pris-
oner. became violent and was taken to
a private sanitarium in Amityville, III
l. He is said to be hopelessly insane.
Sewall Gillian, father of the late
Barnard Gillian, OF Judge" the artist,
died of grief over the death of his son.
The father was an employe of the
paper,
At Gettysburg, Pa, the democratic
convention nominated George J. Ben !
ner. Of Gettysburg, for congress and in !
dorsed free silver and the Chicago plat |
fern.
At the opening of Knox college Judge
Grosscup of Chicago gave an address
in which he warned the students !
against the teachings of false political !
leaders.
South Chicago taxpayers who are
represented by 1O6 lawyers are making /
a fght in court against a proposed J
sewer 16 miles long and to cost about !
$1,000 900
Thomas z. Watson, speaking to an
audience of 5000 persons at Dallas. !
Tex, called Mr.. Sewall "a knot on the |
party" and advised the democrats to /
''let him scoot"
Texas republicans, in convention at |
Fort Worth, decided to fuse with the
populists and gold democrats on an !
electoral ticket and to vote for the
pOpuliSt state ticket.
Five masked men with drawn pistols |
entered the saloon of George Zung, near
Paramount. O.. and robbed him of SIS. |
got only $40
The latest returns from the senatorial |
election indicates that Judge Earle has
a majority Of over 5000. thus defeating !
Governor Evans, who has been actively |
championed by Senator Tillman
Rev. Father Killen. pastor of st. |
Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church.
at Bayonne, against whom charges had
been made, has been retired by Bishop
Wigger on a pension of $500 a year
The body of Bessie Little. of Dayton,
Ohio. was found in the river at that |
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