Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
IN UNCLE SANS DOMAIN.

occurred at Cleveland.
Cash balance, Sill 1880 ,290; gold re
serve, $44 1868, 493
Nansen has found the North Pole and
is coming home.
Editor Brown, of the Galena Gazette,
one of the 1906" died
A large earolite exploded above
Madrid and created a panic.
Edwin F. Uhl was appointed and con-
firmed ambassador to Germany.
Congressman Grain, of the eleventh
Texas district, died III Washington.
Mrs. Lease becomes a preacher and
may be pastor of a Kansas church.
The section 30" case will be ap-
pealed to the secretary of the interior.
The president has nominated James
w. French to be postmaster at Harlan,
Iowa.
Thomas Sexton has declined the
craftsmanship of the Irish National
federation.
Petitions are circulating in Missis-
sippi asking w. C. Whitney to stand
for president.
son of Fred Jeske, Jr., fell in a pail of
hot milk and died.
At Saltwater, Mimi, DR.. Edward A.
Edholm, prominent Swedish physi-
clan, is dead aged AZ years.
A Newton QoWa) man killed his
mother-in-laW, mortally shot his father
in-law and committed suicide.
L. H. Mcguire left Rock Valley, Iowa,
for Texas with party of land seekers.
They go to the Galveston country.
Edward Bennett was seriously cut
and severely beaten by three cOlOred
highWaymen near New Paris, Ind.
The Minnesota Chippewa Indians
visiting Washington want eighty-five
cents per day for their visit.
George Kalinsky, the North Dakota
wife murderer, pleaded guilty and goes
to the penitentiary for life.
The bursting of a Waterman in
Cleveland destroyed several houses and
drowned one of the occupants.
The state department shows that the
stories of Canadian aggression along
the border of Alaska are untrue.
The new Methodist Episcopal church
at Montpelier, Ind, erecting at cost
of $4,000, was dedicated Sunday.
The convention on Boring sea claims
arranged between the United States and
Great Britain is sent to the senate.
Bat Shea, the murderer of Robert
Ross, of Troy, n. Y, was killed by
electricity in Clinton, n. Y, prison.
Richard Croker is reported to have
decided to remain in New York and re-
sumo active control of Tammany hall.
At MarshalltoWn, Iowa, Arson &
Co.'S large brick and tile plant was
burned; loss, $4,000; insurance, 5000
a train on the Great Northern was
,%recked near Clarissa, Mimi, and
twenty-five passengers were slightly in
jUred.
Rev. DR.. Sandford Hunt, senior agent
of the Methodist book concern, New
York, dropped dead of apoplexy at Gin
cinnati.
a house committee takes action in
dicating that Arizona and New Mexico
will not be admitted to the union by
this congress.
Sterling Elliott was elected president
of the League of American WheeImen,
which will hold it's next meeting at
Louisville.
Howard NJ. Cummings, we'll known to
the gambling fraternity, committed
suicide at Fort Scott, Kan, by taking
morphine.
4 bill has been introduced in the
Ohio house providing a fine of from
so to 500 for every legal voter who
neglects TO vote.
a statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that the government
will realize from the new 100000, 900
loan Sill, 37S ,S36.97.
Glass B was abolished by the Ameri-
can League of Wheelmen, and all
wheelmen will hereafter be either anna
teurs or professionals.
Republican members of congress
from New York were asked to sign a
pledge to support Gov Morton for the
presidential nomination.
Letters received from VIM. >Sacht-
leben, who is now in Armenia, say the
trial of the murderers of Frank LEM,
the American cyclist, is a farce.
Sanford Utterback, a farmer living
near Charlottesville, Ind, while cutting
d huge tree, miscalculated it's fall and
was crushed to death.
At Clarissa, Mimi, the mixed train
on the Park Rapids branch was
wrecked by a broken rail. Several per-
sons were injured.
The Degrey, S. D., postotfice, has been
burned H. L. James, the postmaster,
lost everything he possessed besides
stamps and postal supplies.
Senator Pettigrew introduces joint
resolution for the foreclosure of the
government lien on the Union Pacific
and Kansas Pacific railroads.
The book committee of the Methodist
Episcopal book concern has decided to
build an edifice at Chicago for the use
of the concern, to cost S150,O0O.
At Hudson, Wis, the county board re-
solved to build a county insane asylum,
to cost not over $65, 900. The vote stood
% in favor and Il opposed.
Ex-Consul Walters case is settled by
the United States and France. Waller
though proved guilty of the charge
against him, is to be released.
Alex Lavrenius, a Russian political
prisoner. who escaped from Siberia in
1883 and who was for some time a
resident of Chicago. died in Denver.
At Omaha fire quilted the three top