Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-25
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF .
AT HOME.

George T. King, a miller, made an as
signment at Richmond, Va, for $4,000,
Populists legislated the entire repub-
Hcan city government of Omaha out of
office.
Postmaster Hesing of Chicago re-
signed in order to hustle for the may
orality.
A non-partisan convention in Chica-
90 nominated Washington He5ing for
mayor.
Five persons were severely injured in
a wreck on the Southern Railway at
Rome, Ga.
Three prisoners were burned to death
in a fire which destroyed the Jail at
Dover Tenn.
Peter Watson, colored, was fatally
shot by his brother, Harry Watson, at
Oxford, Pa.
President Mckinley decides upon the
enforcement of the neutrality laws
against filibusters.
The so-called Ireland land cases were
decided in favor of the archbishop by
the st. Cloud land office.
The Boston Rubber Shoe company
has cut prices in defiance of the United
States Rubber company.
The republican state convention of
Rhode Inland nominated Elisha Dyer
Of Providence for Governor.
Congressman w Godfrey Hunter has
been nominated for United States
senator by the republican caucus of
the Kentucky legislature.
Dr. Castillo and Gen. Roloff, alleged
Cuban filibusters, failed to appear in
the United States court N. Y. their
bail-$6, 0O0-was forfeited.
The Mississippi river continues to
rise in its lower course. Nearly a thous-
and refugees from the flooded district
have been removed to Memphis.
At Cole City, Ga, Engineerman T.
eagle was severely injured by the fall
of locomotive over an embankment.
Miss Blanche Berard, for 80 years
pOstmistre5s at West Point, N. Y. and
Wlt'SC ldIilGI anu uOlIItf1 udu Lie OllCG
for tnirty-two years before, resigned.
tray of diamonds valued at Sc, 500
was stolen from l. Dornberg's jewelry
store in Spokane, Wash, by a man who
threw pepper into the face of a clerk.
Three colored men were lynched at
Blue Springs Fla. for the murder OF
James Barefeld, postmaster of that
was, and his assistant, John r. Turner.
Six Philadelphia policemen were dis
missed from the force for the alleged
improper use of fund collected to aid
the passage of an ordinance increasing
their pfy.
Indications are that the Grant monu-
ment inaugural parade April 81, in New
York, will be the greatest demonstra-
ton of the kind ever witnessed in this
country
A united States commissioner in
New York has decided that stealing a
package from the top of a street mail
box is no violation of the federal
statute
Mrs. Mary Johnson of New York left
a fortune estimated to be worth $500,
600, the greater part of which she be-
4ueathed to Catholic institutions and
prel2tes
The Mississippi river continues to rise
below Cairo, H., and is causing havoc
In Tennessee and Arkansas. Many Per
sens have been rescued from housetops
and treetops.
Governor Bradley Of Kentucky de-
cIined to commute the sentence OF
Waller and Jackson convicted murder
ers of Pearl Bryan as they were hung
Saturday.
Captain Andrew Robertson, once a
welI-known lake captain and father OF
Morga Robertson, the writer of nauti-
cal stories, died at Oswego, N. Y. He
was so years old.
John Parshall Of indianapolis died
He was one of the three men deputed
to bury the body of John Wilkes Booth
They were sworn never to reveal the
secret of the burial place.
Frank Sheldon the Brutus farmer
was found guilty Of the murder Of his
wife, Eva Sheldon, and sentenced to be
electrocuted in Auburn n. Y. prison
the week beginning April 25.
The Jenney electric motor works, at
the Pan Handle crossing of the Belt
railroad, in indianapolis, was entirely
destroyed by fire. The loss is from
$4,000 to $S5 900.
President Kruger, Of the TransvaaI
republic is on a visit to the Orange
free state. He said he hoped to see a
union OF the whole of Africa.
Five employees Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company; have been discharg-
ed for getting drunk on wine shipped
by eX-President Cleveland to his new
home in Prince<on
Garrett F.. Thorne, said to be a veal
thy resident of Keyport, n j., was
found dead in New York, having, it is
Supposed by the police Of that city, fall
en- down basement stairs while III
toXicated.
Ex-President Cleveland has arrived
in Princeton from his hunting trip
among the Carolina sounds. 1t is re
ported that Mr. Cleveland will become
a member of a law firm in New York
city.
At a conference of republican leaders
in New York it was decided that the
greater New York charter and police
board bills and stringent amendments