Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-30
TELEUnA1iS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.


In retaliation for our new tariff
Law Germany will exclude American
-1eats and preserved,
Waupaca has voted for high license.
Two bears were killed six miles
from Wausau, Wis, the other day.
Passenger and stock trains collided
near Edwardsyille, Kan; Engineer
Scarf. of the passenger train, was
Killed
George w. Liberman has qualified
as deputy collector OF customs at She
boygan, Wis, succeesing Jacob De
Smidt.
Judge Jackson Of West Virginia, has
made his famous order Of injunction
against Eugene V. Debs and others
perpetual.
Richard and John McGriff, without
doubt the oldest twins in the United
States, celebrated their ninety-ffth
birthday near Decatur, Ind.
An attempt TO form a cooperative
manufacturing and agricultural COM
pany, is to be made at Bay City, Wis,
at the head Of Lake Pepin.
Hugh Murphy, a conductor on the
Wisconsin & Chippewa railroad, fell
.~t,.n a car under the wheels at Tom
,hawk, Wis, and was killed.
-.-ttie Quinn and Mamie Morrissey
had their hair cut off by unknown
men while walking unaccOmpanied at
night in the streets in Chicago.
LI;pa two 11rCn harms and
several sheds belonging to D. J. Cam
eron, at La Crescent, Mimi. The loss
is estimated at $4,000; partly insured.
Mrs Andrew Hess committed suicide
at Brazil, Ind Her dying statement
was that she feared that her husband
would leave her They were recently
married.
The Japanese minister at Washing
ton denies that Japan's government
ha- imposed objectional conditions
upon the arbitration of its differences
with Hawaii.
Andrew w. Jordan, a well-knOWn
Gotham photographer, committed SUI
icide by shooting himself through the
head at his New York home He was
So years old
The .aoC suit against the Chicago
and Northwestern road on account OF
the Christian Endeavor excursion
train wreck near Chicago June 20
demands $4,000.
BY the explosion of a boiler at
LiVermore, Ky, three men were killed
and ten severely injured. Josh Good
GoJO
man were killed
Firebugs burned the home of Jer-
cine Fry, in the town of William.
Richland county Wis. Fry is the
nan who killed Deck Thompson about
three weeks ago.
Joe Patchen won two of the three
heats in his race with Star Pointer
at the state fair in Milwaukee. The
best time was 2:03A made by Poin-
ter in the first heat.
Mrs William Goddard, an old lady,
went to Jail for thirty days at Oshkosh
for disorderly conduct, her husband,
though a man of considerable means,
refusing to pay her fine.
Henry Crosier, aged II, an old
resident of Hartland Wis, hanged
himself in his barn He was road
commissioner, and disagreements with
the village board led to his discharge
The republicans of New York have
adopted a resolution requesting the
former secretary of the navy, Benja-
men F. Tracy, to allow the use of
his name as republican nominee for
mayor of Greater New York
The Nebraska gold democrats have
placed a ticket in the field, Judge J. S.
Crawford and j. Sterling Morton for
regents, and adopted a platform re-
affirming the Indianapolis declaration
as 1.-THE true exposition of democratic
teachings in aspect to finance"
Attorney General McKenna has de-
cided that the discriminating duty
provision of the DingIey tariff law
does not apply to goods coming di-
rectly into the United States through
Canadian ports, or to goods brought
to this country in foreign vessels.
Bernadina Rudiger, whose hus-
band, Leopold Rudiger, died in Sept,
1894, from the effects Of injuries re-
Omaha railroad at Menomonie, Sc
cured a judgment against the Omaha
railway company of $4,000 and costs.
The village of cambridge, O., was
listed by a disastrous fire which
burned up the business portion of the
town. P Beardsley and Thomas Hig-
gins, his brother-in-law, were killed
by an explosion in Beardsleys drug
store, which was among the places
burned.
A freight train of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway struck and
killed William Reid, ST., short dis
lance from Genesee, Wis. He was
over so years of age. William Reid
Jr., who was employed in the execu-
tive Office at Madison during Gov Up
hams term, is his son.
While Sylvanus Johnson was being
hanged at Key West, Fla, the knot
slipped under his chin. Johnson
struggled violently for ten minutes
and was still alive at the end of
twenty-five minutes. He confessed
is crime, professed conversion and
died forgiying and blessing his enem-
les.
The ella river, the most uncertain
and most treacherous Of Arizona
streams, is again SWOLLEN from eX-
Cessiye rains in eastern Arizona, and
has reached a height unknown since