Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-12
TELEtJRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

New York Yacht club.
President Cleveland is to have a
duck preserve of his own.
The Seventh district immigration
convention is a hummer
The old receivers of the Northern
Pacific filed their last report.
Prohibition is killed for five years,
at least, by the Iowa house.
At Sleepy Eye, Mimi J. N. Mont
gomery, aged Il, is dead.
Republican National Committeeman
Campbell, of Illinois, is dead.
Horseless mail wagons will shortly
he used in all the large cities.
Considerable snow comes down in
Montana and the Dakotas.
Much damage has been inflicted
along the Hudson by an ice gorge
Arthur Cough has been appointed
postmaster at Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Judge Ewing, of Chicago, rules that
a city can fix fares on street railroads
Richard Little, who was injured in
the mines at Houghton, Mich, has
died
A fire at Stockton, ILL.,, destroyed
many business houses and residences;
loss $4,000.
Frank Bates, of Stanford Station,
Conn, shot and killed himself in
Bridgeport
The official dock trial of the torpedo
boat Ericsson was begun at New
London, Conn.
The postoffice at Footville, Wis,
NV
who secured $275 in stamps
The house committee on agriculture
has begun hearings in opposition to
the anti-option bill
A { ike is threatened on the street
car lines of all the great eastern cities,
Chicago and Milwaukee.
There are only 200 cats at the New
York show. Trick cats are a feature.
The prizes amount to $1,000.
At ClOquet, Mimi, Benz. Dietz, man
ager of the slate quarry, was fatally
injured by dynamite explosion.
Geese and ducks in large swarms
have been seen flying north in the last
few days all over the northwest.
Aristide Griffel, of La Crosse, Wis,
pleaded guilty to incendiarism and
was given a sentence of six years.
President N. C. Hill, of Jewell Lu-
theran college, Iowa, is dead. He was
active in educational work for years.
AT Olivia, Mimi, Strong & Miller's
elevator and fiat house were consumed
by fire and 5000 bushels of grain was
lost
Mr.. Hubachek is removed as receiver
of the Irish-American bank, Mime
apolis, and Judge Maheny succeeds
him.
Theodore Harper, aged fourteen, of
Astoria, N. Y, accidentally discharged
rifle and killed his younger brother,
Fletcher
mass meeting of labor people and
Others in New York protest against
the proposed appropriation for coast
defenses.
At Joliet, ILL.,, a jury has been Sc
cured in the Preston-Curtin murder
trial and witnesses are being ex-
amined
President Cleveland presided at the
mass meeting in New York in the in
terest of the Presbyterian home mis-
sionS.
Resolutions recognizing the Cubans
as belligerents are reported in the
thusiasm
Rev ]. H. Lippard, of Rockford, has
accepted call to the pastorate of the
First Congregational church at
Shopiere, Wis.
Captain ]. z. Braden, founder of the
Northern Indiana regulators, has
called the survivors to meet in Lyon
Ter, April Is.
Andrew Wharton murdered his wife
Louisa, in ST. Louis, cutting her throat
while she was asleep. Jealousy was
the cause.
Clara Barton writes that she is given
a cordial welcome and that much is be-
ing done by officials to help her mis-
sion.
Congressman Tawney fails in an at
tempt to have a S100 a month the
year through appropriated for mem
bers' clerks
A Joint resolution authorizing the
erection Of a statue of Francis E.
Spinner at the treasury department
has passed the house.
Ellis Jacobs, aged eleven, fearing a
promised whipping, ran away from his
home in Harlem nine days ago and
has not been found.
At Stamford, Conn, Rev. Mr.. Tat
lock, d. d., secretary of the house of
bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
church of America, is dead.
Coroner Butter, of Detroit, whose
dismissal was recommended by the
grand jury, has sent his resignation
to Governor Rich.
Mrs. Rose, wife of a drummer in the
West Point, n. Y, band, saved her
daughters from being burned to death
at the cost of her own life.
Officer John Graham, who shot
Worthington at Alexandria, Ind,
while the later was resisting arrest,
has been refused bail.
A New York florist, for the sole
right to the famous double carnation
known as the "Murella,'' has paid it's
Grand Rapids discoverer $4,000.
Governor Stone of Missouri, has
granted a respite until April to
Thomas Function, of ST. Joseph, SEN
fenced to be executed March Is.
Keely, the motorman, wants to get
patents for his inventions which for
80 years he has kept secret. His