Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
NEWS UE THE WORLD.
HOME MATTERS.

VIM. J. Bryan addressed the FLORIDA
legislature at Tallahassee.
KeIlihan, the Sherburne bank robber
and murderer, is sentenced to ne hang
ed.
Assemblyman Ray Of La Crosse says
he hopes some time to vote for Iheo-
dore Roosevelt for president.
Prof Edward B. Cope of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania died in Phlla-
delPhia.
still another fruitless ballot for the
limited States senatorship was taken IN
Kentucky.
Charles L. Davis, New York banker
who was born in Richmond, Va, dec IN
South Africa.
The New York assembly passed the
greater city charter bill over Mayor
Strong's veto.
The trouble between the Milwaukee
brewery companies and employees IS
amicably settled.
President Mckinley will recommend
that congress vote an indemnity for
Italians lynched in Louisiana.
John Wanamaker has written a letter
declining to be a candidate for state
treasurer of Pennsylvania.
Alan Arthur, son of ex-President Ar
thur. is a candidate for United States
minister to the Netherlands.
The wife of Commander Booth
Tucker, of the Salvation Army, gave
birth to a son in New York.
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cashier of the Yonkers Savings bank,
Yonkers, N. Y, and stole $4,000.
The water in the Mississippi, from
Vicksburg to the mouth of the river,
is the highest ever known there.
Governor Bloxham of Florida has
called a national fisheries congress to
meet at Tampa January 10, 1898.
The body of ex-senator Daniel w.
voorhees, lay in state in the capitol at
indianapolis and was afterward taken
to Terra Haute for burial.
Vice President HObarts home town
Of Patterson, which gave him 3,4OO
majority in November, elected demo-
cratic mayor by 1900 majority.
The Illinois Steel Works, at South
chicago, resumed operations. The 100
rail finishers, whose striking involved
$500 men, were not re-employed.
Jean and Edouard De Reszke have
decided not to sing in grand opera in
America next season. This practically
settles the fate of Grau's company next
season.
oct i'm
erick health officers of Cincinnati, have
been arrested on charges of black
mail
Arthur Sewall, late democratic can
didate for vice president, said in an
interview that the recent democratic
successes in city elections were due to
local causes.
The New York State senate passed
the liquor law amendments to tax clubs
the same as saloons and to permit the
latter to serve free lunch.
Charles A. Gibson, private detective,
was sentenced to the penitentlary in
New York for perjury in a case in
which he was employed
: Il. J.. Iartin, vice president of the !
Union Stock Yards company and con-
hdential legal adviser to P. ID. Armour. |
rhe millionaire packer, died at his home |
in Chicago
Rev. J. NJ. McIlvaine, at one time
professor at Princeton College, notified
.@& New York Presbytery that he has
, 'NeeEye1 into the Protestant
'eeh IL ~uch
Episcopal Gu .-.
Pugilist FitzsimlA -4S q hA'eu III NE"
York and was greeted b. " eIoWu tnat
lacked the downtown streets ana
jr1ckaded traffic. He SAID he Will nght
10 one for year.
President c. w. Spaulding Of the
3IObe Saving bank, Chicago, who is 8
accused of having received deposits =,
when he knew the bank was insolvent, !
and was released on bail. r
Three {hoTe arrests III connection !
With alleged illegal transactions in Bos- I
.on's paving department were made.
Michael Reddish, James Kelly and j.
R. MURRAY were the victims. They !
we're held for trial. #
Mrs Caroline Booth of NeWtOwns :
Conn, who was shot it was supposed !
)y tlamps, now says that J. w. futile, +
WITH whom she had been living, in t
iicted the wound. futile is in jail. t
phe woman will recover.
At Fremont, OhiC, the dam
age suit of Mrs. Addie M. Smith against
he estate o. ex-President Hayes was
placed on trial The suit is for in
iuries alleged to have been received in
4 runaway caused by vicious dog
owned by the Hayes family.
Three masked men broke into the
Office of the Hoboken Neue Zeitung,
a German newspaper, While the paper
was on the press and after beating the
editor. Adolph Hoefner, and two of his
assistants, locked them in the closet
and demolished everything in the Of
fee.
At a Jefferson day celebration in
Washington William J. Bryan declal ed
that Mr.. Cleveland was more than any
other man responsible for the creation |
of the monetary issue. He also said |
that the position taken by the demo- |
cratic party in 1896 would not be sur !
rendered. i
In receivoiShip proceedings connected
with the failed Globe Savings Bank of
Chicago charges were made involving
former Gov. Altgeld President Spald-
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