Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-27
NEWS OF TIE WORLD,
AT HOME.

nOlS, Wisconsin, iowa ana InOldnd.
Six new battleships will probably be
recommended by a house committee.
a 70-year-old farmer living near
Joliet has married an 18-year-old girl
The cemetery at Carbin, Kan, has
been shockingly devastated by skunks.
DR.. hansen, the Norwegian explorer
is said to have reached the north pole
Minister Terrell secures the release
of an American missionary in Ar
menia
Mrs. Beckman, daughter of Chief Of
Police Conlin of New York, is divorced
at Fargo.
Several working girls and women
lose their lives in a burning factory at
Troy, n. Y.
Maher gets sand in his eyes, and the
fight between him and Fitzsimmons is
postponed.
Howard Boring killed his father at
Crooksville, N. c., mistaking him for
q burglar.
Rev. D. ]. mcdonnell, of Toronto,
best known Presbyterian of Canada, is
dead, aged 3d.
Over fifty men are thought to have
been killed by an explosion in a Col
Orado mine.
At Fairbault, Mimi, James Shonts
had a $500 sealskin overcoat stolen
yesterday.
The big Milwaukee brewers propose
to erect industrial colleges for negroes
in Mississippi
A 9-year-oId boy living near Terra
Haute was whipped by his father and
took arsenic.
Jesse M. Gregory was placed on trial
yesterday for the murder of his wife
in New York.
A defensive alliance has been formed
by the flint, the bottle and the window
glass workers unions.
The Southern Wholesale Grocers' as
ISOLATION has lifted it's boycott on the
Louisville & Nashville.
At the picture auction of the Amer
fcan Art association in New York, 70
paintings sold for SOS, $50.
DR. Kolle, of Brooklyn, succeeded in
getting a shadow-graph of a boys
brain by use of the X rays.
Richard Croker and two of his boys
sailed on the steamship St. Louis from
New York for Southampton.
William H. Iams was shot and prob
ably fatally injured at Baltimore, Md,
in a quarrel with Charles ATndt.
EX-President Harrison has refused
to be candidate for delegate-at-large
20 the republican national convention.
At Iron Belt, Wis, Julius Haltonen
was dubbed to death in a saloon row
by John Hendricks. Hendricks is in
Jail.
Albert Benz, a Brooklyn boy, is dying
from hydrophobia. His father kissed
him and is supposed to have been in
fected.
The Illinois Steel company is max
ing plans to use the ROentgen photOg-
~aphy for the detection of flaws in
steel.
Chauncey M. Depew, Bishop Potter,
eX-Goy. Flower and others took the
SD degree in Masonry, Scottish Rite,
Tuesday.
A colony OF fifty mechanics and their
families will leave Cleveland soon to
settle on a tract OF land in OaXaca,
Mexico.
The body of Minnie Edison, who was
suiIocaJed by gas in the room of An
drew {. Rahe in Passaic, n. j., was
buried.
There is a laugh on the Chicago civil
service because a man with d wooden
leg passed the examining staff as
physically sound.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette S
article on democratic presidential pos
sibIliues is devoted to Gov. Claude
Matthews, of Indiana.
IN a communication to congress, At
torney General Harmon says it is i'm
possible to procure convictions under
the antitrust law.
The Manoa company, OF Brooklyn,
which owns immense concessions in
Venezuela, has been placed in the
hands OF a receiver.
Columbia, Mich, has a 7-year-old
who composes music and has set Eu-
gene Fields Little Boy Blue to music.
James NJ. Harris, of Chicago, was
hypnotized at Milwaukee by Professor
J. A. Gregorovitch for a seyen-day
sleep.
The candidacy of ex-senator Charles
T. Henderson, of Nebraska, for the re-
publican presidential nomination, was
annouced at the capital.
peculiar sensation is developed in
the fight over the conservation OF
Bishop-Elect Williams of Marquette
but he was consecrated.
Senator Morgan, at the Pacific TafI.
road hearing, intimates that certain
papers were burned to destroy proof o.
the liability of stockholders.
At Parker, S. D., Charles G. Grant
an ex-robber, was found guilty of big
amy and sent 10 Sioux Falls for three
years-one year per wife.
President Cleveland has sent the
name of William Woodward Baldwin
Of New York, to the senate as third as
sistant secretary of state.
Rufus W. Peckham took his seat a
associate justice of the United State
circuit court of appeals for the south
ern district OF New York.
The United States torpedo boat vii
be ready for the sound trip within
three weeks. She will be ready for he
machinery test early EeXt week.
Slason Thompson, until recently edi
tor-in-chief Oh the Chicago Evenin;
journal, has accepted a position on tn