Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-28

LIT, j. VI. wagner ana CIVu EngI-
neer S. r. Lewis, both attaches Of
the government engineering corps,
were drowned while bathing IL the
Mississippi river
Samuel Mend, aged 10 years. was
drowned while swimming near Maiden.
W. Va. He slipped from board and
stuck in the mud. He was found
standing straight up.
Postmaster Goodman Of South
Evanston has gone to Washington to
flee. which Postmaster O'Leary of
Evanston is trying to accomplish.
In the forthcoming report of the
board of visitors 10 the naval AGA
deny at Annapolis it will be recon-
mended that the course of instruction
be six instead of four years.
Goodwin & Swift. electric road
builders and promoters, Of New York
assigned. Liabilities in the neighbor-
hood Of S1,00O,000. The LockpOrt, \.
Y, Mobile, Ala, and Kingston, \. Y,
roads are among the assets.
Col. Breckenridge may address Tam
many hall July 1. His son says sew
eral Chautauqua assemblies have in
vited the congressman to deliver adj
dresses.
The lexington hotel in Washington
burned. Representative Funk of IL
linois, McCleary of Minnesota and
others with their families barely es-
capped.
Rev. B. B. vartzbar, member of
LivingtOne's exploring party in Africa,
attempted suicide in Cincinnati. He
is charged with murder in Cha tia
nooga two years ago.
The professional football league viii
consist Of six clubs. Manager Irwin
Of the Philadelphia baseball club and
Secretary StacahOuse of the New
York club are prominent in the league.
At the commencement exercises OF
the Catholic university at Washington,
Rev VIM. Kirby, Of Dubuque, deliv-
cred the valedictory and Mgr. Satolli
addressed the class.
Mrs. j. r. Miller, wife of a leading
merchant of Leadyille, Col, and her
two children were thrown down an
embankment by runaway while
driving to Evergreen lake and al
three were fatally injured.
The Southern hotel, in Petersburg
Va, was sold yesterday by I'll. c.
Lashley, its owner, to Colonel S. Snod
grass, of Butler, Pa. The price paid
for the hotel, with furniture and
appurtenances, was $4,000.
Six ballots were taken in the re
publican convention of the tenth Ohio
congressional district without result
A lOngdraWn contest is expected be
tween supporters of the seven candi
dates.
Philip Moran, decorator, attempted
to murder his daughter at her home il
Harlem, n. Y, and was shot and
killed by his prospective son-in-law
Harry e. Curtis, an employee of the
Goodyear Rubber company.
James NJ. Plat, an old and we'll
known lawyer, died at his home in
New York city from heart failure
He was born in Connecticut rs years
ago, and was educated at Williams col
lege.
Fred T. Swain, president of the
Swain lubricator company, was shot
and fatally wounded at his Office in
Chicago by Henry Vaughn, his former
partner, with whom he had had bust
ness troubles. Vaughn was arrested.
Hugh Bunch of RolIa, Mo-, shot to
death Miss Ida Gallahorn, to whom he
was engaged to be married, and then
committed suicide. Opposition to their
marriage on the part of Miss Gala
horns parents caused the crime.
Senator Teller's amendment fixing a
high tariff on diamonds is regarded
as a blow aimed at the gold bugs.
The Rothschilds are troubled. The
diamond trust is said to net % per
cent. annually.
President Harper, of Chicago in his
address to Indiana university, adj
vised a great Genital university at
Washington. AS educational institu-
tons are now managed, he said, de-
grees are indiscriminately conferred.
Cyrus Powers Leland, auditor of the
Lake Shore, is dead in Cleveland. He
will be buried in Milwaukee Saturday.
where he lived up to 1869. He was a
big, handsome man, very witty, and a
devoted Baptist.
Ethel Daley, tie 5-year-old daughter
of officer John J. Daley of the Des-
PLANES street station, Chicago, while
playing near a washboiler full Of boil
ing water, fell in and was so terribly
scalded that she died a few hours
afterWard.
On the application of George Rutter,
Judge Ewing, in Chicago, has issued
an injunction against the Switch
mems Mutual Aid association restrain
ing it from making an assignment of
any Of its property or from giving
preference to any of its creditors.
The anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill was celebrated at Hart
ford, Conn, by the three famous con-
tinental organizations Of New Eng
land that have made it an annual GUS
tom, the Amoskeag veterans, of Man.
chester, n. H; the Continentals, Of
Worcester, Mass, and the Putnam
PhalanX, of Hartford.
Charles J. Bronson, commonwealth
who has just returned to
KY, from New York and
Washington, denies emphatically the