Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-06-04
IEIEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
THE HOME FIELD.

Ont. and 5O,OOO ClaZe III Md1oAe, ~ L
Ore-bearing copper rock has been
found near Petoskey, Mich.
The school board of Rhinelander has
made cut of 10 per cent. in teachers
salaries.
A New York photographer advertises
to take pictures by x rays of the inside
of the body.
The Drunkards il session in Plqua,
O.. declare against bicycles and golo
filled teeth.
Right Rev. ]. D. Wirgfeld, Episcopal
bishoD of northern California, has been
paralyzed.
The New York court of appeals has
decided that the Ralnes excise law Is
constitutional.
Ex-Secretary of State Cunningham
has become owner and editor of The
Stanley Journal.
Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, has
been indicted for failure to comply
with a county tax law.
James A. Mckenzie United States
minister to Peru, is suffering from
UlNIu dDIdCh I'll pOh'
Governor Morton has signed the bill
to establish Poe Park, to which the Poe
cottage will be removed.
Walter P. Brown, who shot saloon
keeper named Sherry in Jacksonville,
H., has been acquitted.
The president vetoed the bill for the
relief of B. F. Jones, who was post
master at Beauregard.
Mark A. Mckenzie, manager of ex-
Governor McKinley's campaign, is i'll
at his home in Cleveland.
Obituary: At Olney, ILL.,, DR.. Ed
mond Ridgway, Sat- Champaign,
Ill, DR.. J. T. Pearman, Sc.
Robert G. Ingersoll is one of the
latest converts to cycling, and he rides
for an hour or two every day
The Lasell (Auburndale, Mass
crew on the Charles river saved two
men overturned in a canoe.
Stephen W. Thomas, insurance man
of Eau Claire is missing. He got some
SO 900 together before he started.
At Mansfield, O., the Aultman &
Tayler warehouses were struck by
lightning and destroyed. Loss 100000.
The democrats of Washington
county, Va, adopted resolutions against
the free coinage of silver and the unit
rule.
John Hendrickson, 40 years of age,
committed suicide at Joliet, H., by
hanging. He was unknown in the
city.
Jargen Thompson, 80 years of age,
while walking on railsoad track lear
Stoughton, Wis, was run down and
killed
The steamer Monkseaton, from
which the son of ex-senator Henry G.
Davis was lost on April "a, arrived in
New York.
The jury for the trial of Mrs. Elem
ing, charged with poisoning her mother
in New York was completed and the
trial begun.
A car on the Agate avenue line, Den
yer, jumped the track. There were a
passengers on the car, a dozen of whom
were injured.
The proposition to bond Sawyer
county, Wis, for $4,000 in aid of the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Ashland rail
road has carried.
The gold-standard democrats re-
manned away from the primaries in
Chicago and the silver men had every
thing their own way.
In New York the rapid transit COM
mission will go out Of business in con-
sequence of the adverse decision of the
supreme court
Mrs. James G. Blaine and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Damrosch with her little
daughter, Alice, have arrived at Bar
Harbor Mrs. Blaine is busy looking
after the preparations for the early
opening of Stanwood, which Mr.. and
Mrs. Damrosch will occupy in company
with her this season.
Francis ]. Kieckhoeffer, ex-disburs-
ing agent Of the state department,
waived an examination and his bail
was fixed at $4,000
The Marquis of Queensberry has been
in the English courts again. This time
he was fined Is shillings for riding his
bicycle on the sidewalk
Alfred Won Meter shot and fatally
wounded his wife il Philadelphia and
then shot himself. He will recover
Jealousy was The cause.
Secretary Marley, of the Maine re-
publican committee, announces 81 con-
tests involving the rights of 1856 dele
gates, mostly in the south.
For the third time in as MANY
months DR.. 7. E. Bell has been ap-
pointed receiver for the TuthiII Springs
company of Hammond Ind
Governor O'Ferrall has accepted an
invitation to deliver the address OF
welcome to the confederate veterans al
the coming reunion in Richmond.
At West Superior Wis, Fong Bo died
in one of the Chinese retreats, sup
posedly of heart disease. He is the
first Chinaman to die in that city.
The owner of the Australian trotter
Fritz, PA IA, is willing to bet $4,000
that his horse can beat any trotter in
the world over an Australian track.
Roy j. Tompkins and Justin j. Wy
man, both of Chicago, were united in
marriage with Miss Matte Ross and
Miss Margaret Ford of Beloit, Wis.
Georgia Brock, aged q, and her sis
ter Florence, aged II, daughters of a
well-todo businessman of New York,
have been arrested for burglary.
Bishop Thobucn criticised the dele.
gates to the Methodist EDiscona1 con.