Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

fdgle river, WIS.
Miss Minnie GIbb Of Brooklyn is
engaged to Count du Moi OF France.
1t is said that Chicago syndicate
Is trying to corner the barley market.
Atlanta's city council passed
measure designed 20 prevent high hats
In theaters.
Over sixty arrests were made in
New York for violation Of the Raines
liquor law.
An effort is being made to weld all
classes of railroad employees into one
big federation.
The death rate in New York last
FIVE years.
John Cudahy's Klondyke company
was incorporated in Montana, with
s25,000,OGO capital.
large number of cotton mills in
various sections of the country re-
sumed operations.
David G. Swain, U. S. A, retired
judge advocate general, died, aged 63,
OF Brights disease.
At North Adams, Mass, the funeral
OF Congressman A. B. Wright was held
from the family residence.
1t is said that the great silver mines
OF Creole, Col, will soon close because
of the low price of silver.
Supt Jones, of the Honeybrook col
lieries at Hazleton, was arrested on
warrant sworn out by a striker.
PoOlroOms in st. Louis have been
raided. Fourteen st. Louis establish
ments were closed and 200 arrests
made.
Gen" Bradley was arrested as he
entered the town OF Coffeen, ILL.,, at
the head of a marching column of
miners.
Governor Griggs of New Jersey has
declined to be a candidate for the
united States senate because he cannot
afford it.
Two men and two ladies were de-
tanned for three nights ana four days
by storm in the crater of Mount
Tacoma.
The democrats Of North Carolina
propose to make white supremacy the
leading issue in the next campaign in
that state
The immigration authorities at New
York are keeping a close watch tor
anarchists who may come on ocean
steamships.
Longshoremen along the East river,
New York, say that Cuban hlibuster-
ing expedition left that city early last
Sunday morning.
a decision by New York judges
SEEMS to make the enforcement of the
2aines liquor law largely discretionary
with the courts.
George Gilmore, a farmer of Belle
Plains, Ia, dropped $1,1OO in Chicago
woman induced him to drink
glass OF drugged beer.
Minneapolis millers have advanced
prices OF Hour S~om % cents to 81 a
barrel within sixty days, owing to the
advance Of p cents in wheat.
The American Bankers Association
held its twenty-third annual meeting
at Detroit. Governor Pingree and
Mayor Maybury welcomed them.
The striking coal miners near Pitts
burg will send their wives and daugh-
ters on marches, claiming that the
lnJunctions do not apply to them.
Mrs. Nancy Mckinley, the mother of
the president, is visiting her married
daughter in Cleveland. Mother Nc
kinney is enjoying the best of health.
Virgil Gallagher, aged 20, years, is
under arrest at Galveston, Tex, for
numbering his mother in order to Sc
cure money to spend on a variety
actress.
General James Longstreet, who is
10 years old, is said to be engaged to
be married to Miss Ellen Dortch. as
sistant state librarian of Georgia, and !
y years old.
cable dispatch from England an !
nounces the birth of a son to the |
household Of Rudyard Kipling, the |
novelist. The boy will probably be |
named Rudyard
The Elgin Watch company has ad- !
yanced the price OF fine watch move
ments 10 per cent Cheap movements
have been advanced from so to Is !
cents one each.
Mayor Warwick of Philadelphia has
offered $1,000 reward for infol nation
OF the murderers of William c. Will
son, the aged bookworm found Monday
among his books with his skull
crushed
The new president of Brown uni
versity will probably be either Prof.
Wheeler of Cornell or Rev. w. H. P.
Faunce, who occupies the pulpit of
the Fifth Avenue Baptist church in
New York.
A committee of the National Asso-
citation of Credit Men will devise a
standard form of statement which
shall so bind any applicant for credit
that II found untrue any state court
will hold him for fraud.
Tammany aldermen to prevent the ,
present reform municipal administra-
ton OF New York from gaining credit |
Tor decreased tax added to the city
budget over $9,000,000 to meet possible {
deficiencies, thereby raising the rate
to $40 .
insurance Commissioner Merrill has s
P ttioned the Massachusetts supreme {
court to appoint a receiver for the Y
Massachusetts Benefit Life association I
on the ground that it is for the best ,