Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
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at the stake by an Oklahoma mob.
Joaquin Miller was so badly frozen in
Alaska that he lost a toe and ear.
Win j. Morgan & Co., real estate
dealers at Milwaukee, have failed.
The futurity stake of 1900 has 923
nominations.
Denver authorities have refused to
permit prize fights.
f. n. Simon of Neenah, Wis, COM
mitted suicide at Marinette.
Miss Helen Long, the daughter of
Secretary of the Navy Long, will chris
ten the new Japanese cruiser Kasagi.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has decided to
occupy the Pratt cottage, Arleigh, at
Newport next season.
j. P. Rowe, once famous actor, was
SEN to BlackweIls Island by New
York police court as a vagrant.
William L. Wetmore, a pioneer of
Marquette, Mich, died yesterday, aged
II years.
N. Douglas Kicks of Taylorville,
Ill, died III Los Angeles, Cal, yester-
day, aged 81.
Tommy Tucker, the Washington first
baseman, is said to be likely to play
that position for Chicago.
John Mcintosh is on trial at Logans-
port, Ind, for the murder of Frank
Pottmeyer.
William Putnam and Parrish John
son were frozen to death near Conlee
City, Wash.
JFrcd JCntges, who embezzled S., 700
from Moon brothers of st. Louis two
years ago, has been arrested.
A nerVy robber held UP twenty men
in the Palace saloon at Prescott, Ari,
and got away with $500.
Factories at Anderson, Ind, are
exporting large numbers of shovels
to China
The sixth conference of the foreign
mission boards of the United States
and Canada is being neld in New York.
Prof. Bryce says foreign, especially
American, competition is making seri-
GUS inroads on British trade.
Dr. John Hall resigned the pastorate
OF the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church, n. Y.
1t is rumored that Seminoles in the
Indian territory are on the warpath
and that twenty-five people have been
massacred.
Rev. Thomas e. Moore fell dead
from an apoplectic stroke in the mids
of his sermon at Harper, Kan, Sun
day night. He was IS years old.
Enos Putnam, president of the Grand
Rapids, Mich, board of public works,
died yesterday of heart failure, aged
IS.
Pugilist COrbett has made an offer
of $685. 900 to Fitzsimmons, to whip the
Australian in ten rounds. The latter
refuses to enter the ring with Corbett.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ending Jan. were $401,-
900; for the same period last year,
$302,000; increase, $4,000.
Mrs. Scott Junkins of North Web
ster, Ind. has lost the use of her vocal
cords and is unable to articulate a
word.
At Algonquin, ILL.,, 13-year-old Louise
Wallert was killed by her stepmother,
who started a tramp story to hide her
crime.
William H. Greed of Shelbyville,
ind. died from blood poisoning caused
by scratching a pimple with his finger
nails
Mrs. Darlington Booth is pronounced
to be out of danger, but it will be sew
eral weeks before she can regain her
u~uaI strength.
A. c.. Frost, a Chicago travelling
nan, disappeared at Kansas City Dec.
81, and has not since been heard
from.
Thomas A. Edison has discovered a
new metal, which mixed with iron,
renders cast-iron as tough and strong
as Wrought-irOn.
The Hoadley-knight and the Hardie
compressed air motor companies have
formed a combination with $7,0O0,0O0
capital
Ii Hung Chang cabled the Chinese
minister at Washington to request the
president to appoint Colonel Fred
Grant minister to China.
Duluth citizens at the special cleo
ton yesterday voted to issue 1850, 600
bonds to purchase the gas and water
companies plants.
Charles Page Bryan is to be made
United States minister to Brazil, in
place Of Minister Conger, who will be
sent to China.
Schlatter, the healer, is said to have
performed remarkable cure at Zanes-
vile, Ohio, by restoring sight to a girl
who had been blind from her birth.
Commissioner Martin 4. Knapp has
been elected chairman of tle inter
state commerce commission to succeed
Colonel w. Il. Morrison.
Mrs. Augusta Mack was sentenced
to fifteen years in Auburn prison for
hel part in the murder of VIM. Cal
densuppe in New York.
Theodore Prowl, who was shot by
a guard during a fight on the Tolles-
ton Gun Clubs grounds in Indiana,
has secured verdict of $4,000 damages
against the club.
EX-Mayor Charles Nieman of Free
port, grand master of the eXchequer of
the state lodge Knights of Pythias and
member of the democratic state CEN
trail committee, is critically i'll.
Gen. J. P. S. Goblin, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, who is visiting New York,
says he approves the plan to publish