Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-21
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.


Four men were killed in fight be-
tween settlers and sheepmen in Idaho
The jury IN the case of Mrs. Gov.
Atkinson Of West Virginia disagreed.
Bishop Hennessey, just back from
Rome, found the pope in good health.
Baltimore wins the deciding base
ball game with Boston for the Temple
cup.
Anthony Hope sailed for New York;
where he will give readings from his
books.
The SchuylkiH Valley, Pa, was de-
luged by one of the heaviest rains in
years.
There is a considerable shortage
in the amount of coal on the Duluth
docks.
A drop of two points in the average
condition of corn took place in Sep
TENDER.
The evidence ended and argument
began in the Luetgert murder trial.
Chicago.
FIJI Torrance of Minnesota was ap-
pointed judge advocate general OF the
G. A. r.
Leigh Hough confesses having muir
dered Joseph Clark at Owatonna for
his money.
w. S. Gilbert, disguised with the
London critics, says he will write no
more plays.
Minnesota lumbermen will build
canal from the Lake of the Woods 10
the Seine river.
Violence is threatened by people
stranded at St. Michaels on the way
to the mines.
John Armstrong Chanler, divorced
husband of Amelie Rives, is in an
insane asylum.
The total available assets Of the
treasury June 80 last amounted 10
s374,764,377.
Edward D. Adams has resigned as
chairman Of the board of Northern
Pacific directors and the office IS
abolished.
Seven girls were burned to death in
q fire which destroyed cottage at
the State Industrial School, Planking-
ton, S. D.
Seth Low has taken personal charge
of his own campaign for mayor OF
greater New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. II Throop OF
Brooklyn are organizing pilgrimage
to the holy land.
The democrats carried the municipal
election in Indianapolis, rejecting
Mayor Taggart.
The Case threshing machine plant
at Racine, Wis, was sold to eastern
capitalists for 100000.
Burglars at Camden, N. j., killed
aged Mrs. Emma Zane and her daugh-
ter Mrs Sarah nj. Shaw.
At Raleigh, N. c., Albert Watson,
a machinist, shot and killed his wire
and then killed himself.
Ali Ferouck Bey has been appointed
Turkish minister to the United States
to succeed Mustapha Bey.
w. c. Drenar of South Carolina has
been appointed consular agent at
INSTRUMENTATION, Germany.
Inc w GSlcEu Cdlollusb btIih CIV
Asheville, N c., has closed its doors
and will go into liquidation.
A Ninot IN. d. bank president
was indicted, charged with violations
of the national banking law.
Senator-elect Money was appointed
to fill the unexpired term of the late
Senator George of Mississippi.
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is organizing party of thirty, chiefly
women, to go to the Klondike.
The yellow fever scare in Texas
has led to the almost complete block
aiding of railroad travel in that state.
A trolley car went over an embank-
ment near Cedar Falls, Iowa, killing
one person and injuring sixteen others.
EX-Judge Augustus M. Cunningham,
one of the counsel in the famous Til
ton-Beecher case in New York, is dead
The naval armor board will go on
trip to the south to look at sites for
the proposed government armor-plate
pant.
According to new arrivals from
Klondike, the stories Of the wealth OF.
that region have not been eXagger-
ated.
Jeremiah L. O'Sullivan, a we'll
known journalist Of Lawrence, Mass,
died in Asheville, n. c., of consump-
ton.
Former Gov Boies, of Iowa, in a
letter said the Chicago platform had
had its day in the tribunal of last re-
sort"
Senator Foraker of Ohio was the
principal speaker at a meeting in New
York which ratified the municipal
nominations.
A tornado swept through New Jer-
sey from Far Hills to Elizabeth, kill
ing John Clark and wrecking num-
Der of buildings.
Detective William Moore of the New
York police force, is in prison in that
city on suspicion of having stabbed
his wife to death.
DR.. Van Giesen, the instructor in
Columbia college, was sued for di-
vorce. The couple separated the day
after their marriage.
Secretary Sherman has invited
Great Britain to take part in a seal
conference in which Russo and Japan
VIII not be represented.
A deal by which the citizens union
ticket in New York county will appear
on the Henry George ticket has an