Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-03
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

killed four more people.
Mrs Joseph Pullman died at Niles,
Mich, at the age OF II.
Miss Frances E. Wizards remains
were buried at Evanston.
Scurvy has broken out among the
miners at Dawson City.
Charles w. Day, aged 81, formerly OF
Chicago, is dead at Honolulu.
Buck" Hall will be head football
coach at Michigan this fall.
There was a war scare in Wall
street and some stock fell points.
Tiberg, convicted of murder at Mad
ison, Mimi, will probably have new
trial
American contributions for the suf-
fering Cubans do a vast amount OF
good.
Amos R. Emo, proprietor of the Fifth
Avenue hotel at New York, died aged
80 years.
Rich cobalt ore has been discovered
in the grand encampment region Of
Colorado.
There are 1,4OO dogs on exhibition
New York.
Nat G. Goodwin the actor, was mar
ried to Miss Maxine Elliott in Cleve-
land, Ohio.
Fire at Duluth damaged the Cham
Der of Commerce building to the extent
of $4,000.
Ex-Mayor Piero Of Canton, Ohio, is
"a fNA
robbery.
A Hudson CWis) man jumped the
rope 400 times and claims the cham
pionship.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
State Savings bank at Webster City,
Iowa, and secured $2,7OO.
The Northern Pacific is said to have
bought the Washington & Columbia
River railway
The President has nominated w
W. Cobb of Virginia to be consul at
Colon, Colombia.
President Mckinley delivered
Washington's birthday address in
Philadelphia.
South Dakota has had rare occur
rence-a prairie fire. 1t consumes
considerable property.
The wooden mills at Genessee, Wis,
We're destroyed by fire, entailing a loss
of $4,000; no insurance
The Mardi Gras carnivals in New Or
leans, Mobile and Memphis closed with
brilliant scenes of festivity.
William J. Seaman, the singer ana
comedian, died in Bloomingdale asy-
lum for the insane, New York.
At the end of the fiscal year, March
81, the Oshkosh postoffice will be
ranked as first-class office.
Mr. Morgan laid before the senate
a document showing 100000 deaths in
Cuba by war and starvation.
The plan to hypnotic Murderer
Moshik when he is executed at ST.
Paul March Is has been given up.
DIR. Barton S. Taylor, for fifteen
years librarian of Albion college, died
of stomach trouble. He was 76 years
old
George Plumer Smith, VINO died in
Philadelphia, left large requests to
hospitals and for other public pur-
poses
Newbold II. Trotter of Media, Pa,
the well-knoWn animal painter, died
at Atlantic City, n. j. He was 70I
years old.
Hugh Mclaughlin, who has con-
trolled the Brooklyn democratic or
ganization many years, is rapidly fail
ing in health.
me Bonanza Eldorado company
with a capital OF $500, 100000, has been
formed to control mining in the klon-
dixie region.
The administration is determined
to end the Cuban war Immediately, no
matter what the result OF the Maine
episode may be.
The Western railways, backed by
transatlantic steamship companies,
have boycotted the Canadian Pacific
on immigrant business
Napoleon" Ives has agreed to play
Billiard Expert Schaefer April 2 at
Central Music Hall for the champion
ship of the world.
Further reductions in railroad rates
are announced as the result of the rate
war started by rivalry for the Klon-
dixie passenger business.
Ignatius Donnelly, author OF The
Great Cryptogram, was married att
Minneapolis to Miss Marian Olive
Hansen, his typewriter.
Gen. Harrison spoke in Chicago of |
the obligations of wealth, and sug-
gested how taX-dodgers could De
forced 10 be honest.
The British ship Asia, bound from |
Manila for Boston, was wrecked near
Nantucket, and it is believed her en-
tire crew of 20 men persisted.
Judge Gary, in Chicago denied the |
motion for new trial for Adolph l.. |
Luetgert, the convicted wife murderer |
who goes to prison for life.
George w. Simmons, proprietor of |
Oak Hall, Boston, and one of the most
widely known retail clothiers in the |
United States, committed suicide.
Charles Lyons, one of the most
widely known travelling statesmen |
throughout Wisconsin and Michigan.
dropped dead at his home in Green |
Bay of apoplexy.
Mrs. Helen Hammond, widow Of
George H. Hammond, founder of Ham
mond, Ind, the pioneer in shipping
fresh meats in refrigerator cars, died