Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-18
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Miss Hanna announces her engage
ment to a young business man of Tole-
do.
Arthur SewalI, one of Bryan's running
mates, went to Central America to re-
cuEerate.
Snow has fallen every day this month
in Minnesota and North and South
Dakota
Thomas Evans was fined by a New
York Judge for splitting on the floor of
8 street car.
Justice Lawrence, of the supreme
court of New York, has declared another
Oklahoma divorce invard.
The Texas Cotton-Growers' associa-
ton adopted resolutions urging farmers
to raise more food crops
A bill has been introduced in the Il
linois legislature to prohibit continuous
long distance bicycle racing.
Leslie Combs, a noted mooushiner,
who said he had killed fifty men, was
found dead near Hazard, Ky.
G. C. Snider, engaged in the hardware
trade in Canton, O., assigned. The
assets are estimated at 100000.
President McKinley's plan to secure
an international monetary agreement in
favor of bimetallism is announced
Gus Norling, 35, shot and fatally
wounded his wife and killed himself
at GOT May street, Kansas City, Mo.
Thomas NJ Bran was sentenced in
Boston to be hanged June IS for the
murder of Capt Charles I. Nash.
Henry w. Lanier son of Sidney Lam
ier the poet, was married at Greenwich,
Conn, to Miss Josephine L. Stevens.
Ex-senator Dolph of Oregon is dead.
An absolutely sure cure for hog chol-
era is said to have been found in Iowa.
The Chicago and St Paul passenger
pool which has been in existence for
more than year, has practically col
lapsed.
Secretary Sherman asked Gen. Lee to
remain in Havana and promised to sup
port him with all the power Of the
government.
JeIanco Brothers & Loeb, who have
a big department store in Charlestown,
w. Va, assigned. Assets large, liabil-
tiles, $4,000
The German-American Bank, of Ton
AMANDA, n. Y, which was closed by
the banking department, has reopened
It's doors for business.
Inc report OF the LeXoW committee to
the New York legislature recommends
national and not state legislation for the
regulation OF trusts.
Alonzo ]. Whiteman, a former state
senator in Minnesota, was arraigned in
a New York court on charge Of hav-
ing swindIed bank.
James Powers, living at 292 Aberdeen
street, Chicago, shot his wife, killing her
instantly. He then fatally shot him
self. Jealousy was the cause.
A special train bearing a French opera
troupe of $50 people to San Francisco
was wrecked near Casa Grand, Arizona.
One boy was killed and ten tramps in
jured.
The big hotel at Rodeo, Cal, was
burned TO the ground. 1t was unoc-
cupied and cost $4,000 a few years ago
when the stock yards at Rodeo were
started.
The new Canadian census shows the
surprising fact that seventeen III every
thousand in tho Canadian population
were born in the United States. This
is seven more in the thousand than the
number reported from all European
countries outside OF Great Britain.
Three men entered the jeWelry store
u Jerome n. DesiO, in the busiest part
of Washington and stole tray of dia-
mend rings and pins valued al SO 1000
and escaped.
Ella Parker, Is, and Robert Parker,
J., a.a,l. ala DrOJher, were struck by
the fast Knickerbocker OH the Big -Four
at Terre Haute, Ind, Sunday and killed.
They were on a trestle
Senatorial leaders agree that the re-
publicans retain control of the commit
tees and the general offices be in the
hahds of the democrats until the reg
ular session IN December
Two thousand Chicago pIasterers and
hod-carriers went on strike, and as the
Masons and Builders association later
III the day set aside the agreement about
employing union labor, a general strike
may follow
Mrs Ruiz, wife of the American den
fist who was tortured and killed by
Spanish officers in Cuba, arrived here
with her five children. She goes to
Washington TO lay the facts before Pres
ident Mckinley.
Edward J. Russell, recently convicted
OF blacImail in trying to obtain $1,000
from Incorporation Counsel Almer f.
jerks, was sentenced in Brooklyn to
Sing Sing for 10 years. This is the
extreme penalty.
Colonel Conrad Krez, poet, politician
and lawyer, died in Milwaukee, after a
brief illness, aged 90 years. He was
prominent in the German uprising of
1913, and was one of the distinguished
emgrants Of that period
Capt. John D. Hart, formerly of Bal
timOre, was sentenced at Philadelphia
to pay fine of $500 and costs and to
be imprisoned two years for filIibuster-
ing. He secured writ of error and
was again released On bail
Representatives of leading domestic
spool cotton manufacturers met in New
York and perfected an organization
whose purpose, the secretary says, lis
to make harmonious the relations exist
ing between manufacturers.