Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25
TELEunAIS II BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.


The Whitney combine" proposes to
give Boston 5O-cent gas.
A blizzard ragged in Nebraska, Wy
oming and South Dakota.
The strike of the New York cloak
makers has been called off.
Fire at the New Brighton stock
yards caused $500 damage.
The national supreme court will
hurry Durrant's execution along.
The United States supreme court has
taken a recess until November 20.
In Washington Ex-Congressnan
John NJ. Langston, colored, is dead.
Oil rock Mt for fuel has been dis
covered on farm near Carthage, Me.
Kid Mccoy was interrupted by the
police in whipping Australian Billy
Smith.
Michael Kohler, an ola resident Of
Danville, H., killed himself with
poison.
Lars Olson, an old resident of How
ard, S. D., was suffocated in bed by
coal gas.
Col VIM H. Bell is to succeed Gen
eral Sullivan as commissary- general
of the army.
A mob destroyed eight tollgates near
NicbolasvilIe, KY, and warned the
keepers to quit.
Many yellow fever refugees are pre-
pairing to return from st. Louis to
the gulf states.
William S. Wilson, son OF the late
United States Senator Wilson of Mary
land, committed suicide.
Mrs. Lease declined an offer of
Crookston (Minn.) populists to give
her a home at that place.
The Norwegian tariff, which went
into effect August Z, affects American
trade in many branches.
Warrants are issued for the arrest
of four more of the officials of the
town of Superior.
Mrs. A. M. Dorm of Fresno, Cal,
ruptured a blood vessel while laughing
and died instantly.
highwayman held up a mail car
rier at Warren, Idaho, and got away
with $4,000.
Pennsylvania monuments on the
battledelds in the neighborhood of
Chattanooga were dedicated.
Postmaster General Gary, in his
annual reports, favors the establish
ment of postal savings repositories.
Ed Purvis, d negro, was hanged in
+l,o jo;I1ro7.d for
the murder of M J. Blackman, white.
Annie Neidlinger, a woman of means
and high reputation, was arrested in
New York on a charge of shoplifting.
Durant was granted another respite
by the California supreme court. He
will probably not hang till in Febru-
airy.
A conference Of seal experts, repre-
senting Great Britain, the United
States and Canada met in Washing
ton.
TWO weeks age Lynn Taylor came to
Cynthiana, Ky, instead of appearing
at the side of Miss Maria Burns on
the evening he was to make her his
bride. The girl took the matter so
seriously that she committed suicide
Later Lynn Taylor took his own
life from remorse.
Premier Laurier and party left
Washington for home. The status of
the negotiations is regarded as favor
able.
William Carpenter of New York,
while walking in his sleep, fell and
received injuries that may cause his
death.
An expedition. in which there will
New York this week for the Klondike
gold fields.
The Leather Betting Manufacturers
association decided on a general ad-
vance of rs per cent in the price of
betting.
EX-CCunty commissioners at Duluth
were indicted on a charge of having
audited and allowed false bills against
the county.
Philadelphia museum anaconda
coiled itself around watchman and
b~oke his ribs and then crushed a.
pony to death
DR.. Martin Roche, president of the
Pennsylvania College of Pharmacy and
OF the Polytechnic University, died in
Philadelphia.
TWenty-eight alien stone-cutters
We're arrested at Memphis, Tenn. They
arrived at Baltimore on the steamship
holland Sep. 9.
Postmaster E. T. Page of Red Water,
Tex, will be retained in office because
of the birth of bankruptcies and twins
in his family.
The Illinois Central is again said to
be planning to enter St. Pau and Min
neapolis and to have got control of the
kikapoo road.
Robert Sims, colored, was hanged at
Jonesboro, Washington county. Tenn.
for the murder of Walter Galloway
July last
Elliott Danforth and John B.
Stanchtield are being doomed for the
democratic gubernatorial nomination
IN New York next year.
The president Of the American Bible
Society says there is a possibility that
the building in New York owned bv
the society may be sold
Two democratic assemblvmen intend
introducing bills in the New York
legislature for the repeal of the Raines
liquor-license law.
A new ritl5al for tho Ordo, 80 mn,