Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC MATTERS.

tarpOn weighing 263 pounds was
caught by Senator Quay at ST. Lucie,
Fla.
Mu~h harm was done in and around
Florence, Ala, by a wind, rain and hail
storm.
Mary Abigail Dodge Gail Hamilton)
died at Hamilton, Mass. She was born
there in 1880.
Nat Goodwin has begun proceedings
for divorce, charging his wife with
habftual drunkenness.
The republicans of the 18th Missouri
congressional district have renom-
mated George G. Crowther.
A crowd of 10000 persons heard
Coin" Harvey expound free silver in
Charlton, Iowa, Tuesday night.
Adam Adelberger, democratic coun-
Gilman, was killed instantly in a run
away accident at Dayton, Ohio.
Ex-Gov. Boies made his initial ad-
dress in the present campaign at a 16
to l rally at Rhinebeck, Ia, the 22d.
Mrs Benjamin McCue of Jefferson,
Iowa, was struck by freight train on
the Northwestern railroad and died.
The republican congressional con-
vention of the 18th New York district
at Geneva renominated Serene E.
Payne.
Judge C. C. Bland, brother of Rich
ard P. Bland, has been nominated by
Missouri democrats for the supreme
court.
There is a strong impression among
republican politicians in New YORK
that Governor Morton will be renOm-
mated.
Miss Helena Hartnett Mitchell, a
teacher of Delsarte and an actress of
ability, will shortly take the stump for
Bryan.
The Plat faction in the New York
city republican primaries elected 10
out of 1876 delegates to the state con-
vention.
The executive committee of the La
tiOnaI democratic party issued a formal
call for the Indianapolis sOund-mOney
convention
A Key West Indignation meeting de
manded prompt redress for the murder
in Cuba of Charles Gown because he
was an American.
The bids for New York city gold
bonds were so disappointing that the
sinking-fund commission will read
vertise for bids.
The national party of Rhode Island
passed resolutions requesting President
Cleveland to recognize the belligerent
rights of Cuba
Three men were killed and fifteen
more or less injured by an explosion Of
twenty-five pounds of dynamite at New
Holland, near Lancaster, Pa.
The president has appointed Col
Charles G. Sawtelle, quarter master
general of the army, vice General
BatcheldeT, retired.
The report that Mgr. Martinelli is tC
be the apostolic delegate to the United
States has been confirmed by recent
letters to Cardinal Satoli.
Mr.. Bryan himself and officers OF
the bimetallic league denied that the
democratic candidate had been the PAID
spokesman of the silver men.
Mrs. Cougar preceded Gen. Gordon
at the CHAMPAIGN, H., Chautauqua
and when she began to talk free silver
the crowd hooted her down.
The rast river steamer Unique, Ct
Port Huron, Mich, has been bought ty
agents of the Cuban government, tC
be used as a blockade runner,
A Large dog attacked Minnie Black
ford, years old, at Shelbyville, Ill.
and bit her nose off and otherwise
wounded her so that she will die.
Mrs. Henry E. Abbey, the wife of H
e. Abbey the theatrical manager, has
been given $4,000 a year alimony Cl
one-third of Mr. Abbey's income.
The First Baptist church at La
Crosse, Wis, has secured Rev. H. w
Reed, who for six years acceptably
filled the pulpit of a church at Wauke
gan, H.
Charles Nelson shot and killed his
wife in a fit of jealousy at Chicago. He
shot their three-years-old daughter
infiicting slight wound. He was ar
rested.
candidate for the presidency of the
National Republican league at the
meeting AT Milwaukee on the 25th IN
slant
Henry c. Ford, president of the
Pennsylvania fish commission, is dead
York county republicans Endorsed
Congressman ]. A. Stable for renom-
nation.
Mr.. Bryan's managers have changed
his plan of campaign again. He Will
make the east his battle-ground be
ginning with a speech in Brooklyn next
month.
The liabilities of Ferdinand Schu-
macher, the Akron, Ohio, oatmeal king,
are $977,550 and the assets 1888, 006,
according to the schedule filed by the
assignees.
Chauncey NJ. Depew will preside at
the mass meeting in Carnegie hall,
n Y, Aug. q, at which the campaign
there is to be opened by ex-President
Harrison.
PercIval Lowell announces from
Flagstaff A. T., that with his new
twenty four-inch telescope he has been
able to see that the Martin canal,
Ganges, is double.
The findings of the court-martial
which sentenced Capt NJ. F. lamar,
of the fourteenth infantry, to dismissal
from the army, have been approved by
the president
Rev. F. E. Hall of the Congregational