Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-16
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC MATTERS.

The McCoy-Ryan fight was stopped
by the police in the fifth round.
There is danger of pulp famine in
Gae Fox river valley in Wisconsin.
w b. Dean Of st. Paul accepted a
position on the monetary commission.
Secretary Reeder Of Pennsylvania
zesigned at the request of Gov Has
gzrgs.
Nr. Andrews declines to withdraw
mis- resignation as president of Brown
university.
ETnur masked men held up a train in
New Mexico and robbed the express
r:zr Of So, 900.
A supposed incendiary fire in the vii
4aga of HOpewell, N. j., caused loss
ct $4,000.
Miss Katherine Corbin was married
30 William Usher Parsons at Cover
aEGg.s Island.
"a splendid clubhouse for working
anen. given by VIM. F. Cochran, was
eapmed at Yonkers.
II is stted that S. N. D. North of
Boston has been selected as superin-
tIGEQ6uL OF tne census.
There will be less buying of clothes
IN Europe by Americans in conse-
qgGence Of the Dingley bill.
Twelve people were killed and as
many others were injured in collision
On the Santa Fe road in Kansas.
South Dakota's railroad commission
nas been temporarily enjoined from
pgIEfing the new rates into effect.
Gen. Jas. Longstreet welded Mrs.
lzJlen Dortsch assistant librarian OF
Georgia. He is over 70, she is %.
IT. M. Prime wanted for forgery and
grand larceny at ClarksviIle, Ark.
EaS arrested at Hutchinson, Kan.
at Columbus, Ohio, Frank Mueller
was electrocuted for mu der.
IN Chicago Peter Green, a horse
eleealer, was fined $40 and costs for
DOCKING the tails of span Of horses.
Yellow fever has appeared at Ocean
Springs, Miss, and one death from the
disease has occurred at New Orleans.
Fire in Philadelphia damaged a
G>umber of buildings, causing loss OF
a6oat $100,000 covered by insurance.
The yellOW-fever scare in the South
us aUbSiding. No new cases were re-
ported at New Orleans or other points
The Christian Endeaverers of Ala
media county, Cal, have started a cru
-asde against the riding of bicycles on
Sunday.
EIx-Congressman Lew Hanback, died
Al Kansas City, Kan, and eX-Congress-
man T. T. Flagler died at Lockport,
New York.
"A Brooklyn wheelman fell from his
from drinking cold lemonade while
operheated.
Mrs. II. L. Spellman, mther of Mrs.
sohn d. Rockefeller, died at Forest
H2Il, Mr. Rockfeller's Cleveland home
She was SIS years old.
Lieut-Gen. G. DIZZY Barker, COVER
Tor of Bermuda, and wife, are in New
York, and will make a tour of the
United States and Canada.
Charles M Charnley of Chicago,
&1easurer of the Presbyterian Board of
Aid for Colleges, is charged with hay-
ing misappropriated $4,000.
Near Friends Mission, Va, Miss
gSaaTs Cook, a young white girl, was
outraged and murdered by Henry Wall,
white, aged, 81. Wall was lynched.
Governor Ellerbe of South Carolina
asnys tha& the railroads Of that state
z11usrsstop carrying liquors or forfeit
their charters according to state law.
The dark accounts OF the condition
qof affairs at Skaguay are confirmed
Miners are breaking down under the
strain and crime is rapidly on the in
grease.
The pension office has. received a
conscience contribution of $3.50 from a
-pensioner of Pennsylvania who states
&Ea1 he had obtained the money fraud,
nlently.
Joseph W Shannon, formerly vel
known character actor, is deal in New
YORK. IN his prime he was a member
s2f the Wallack and Abbey stock COM
Qan5es.
The agricultural commissioners re-
port shows that 66 per cent of Ken
41rcl2y's 1,000,0 900 bushel crop Of wheat
is snII in the hands of the farmers OF
The state.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
20 eyict the striking miners at Orange
,Tiile. Pa. The mob, headed by women
attacked the deputies and forced them
TO leave.
Love letters written by Sausage
Maker Luetgert to Mrs. Christine
Eceidt, widow, were introduced as
evidence of a motive for the murder OF
airs. Luetgert.
The sale of liquor in Alaska is for
hidden by federal statute, and whiskey
shipped to points in the gold country
MAS seized by the collector at Port
Townsend, Washington.
Ex-Governor Altgeld of Illinois, in
"a speech at Philadelphia spoke of the
zxTils that threaten the people of the
aYpned States and denounced gov
<erIment by Injunction
aSunsul- General Lee, accompanied by
This son and private secre tary, sailed
as19Un Havana for New York. 1t is moi
believed that Gen. Lee will return tt
Cuba in an official capacity.
The Spokesman-Review has weather
1cTop reports from all sections of east
sagn Washington and Idaho. From
nearly all points come reports of weep
5up skies and SOdden fields