Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13

fruit of conspiracy, and several ar
rests have been made.
While scuffiing on the footboard of
an engine st Danville. Ill, w. c..
Langdon and w. Lee fell off and were
fatally injured.
An unknown man, pretending III
some cases to be Broker William 4.
Lawrence of New York. and in others
a friend Of that gentleman. is swind-
ling various persons there and else
where out OF small sumS Of money.
Major Cullen Bryant has been r.
tired after thirty years service at his
own request, He is Il nephew Of the
late William Cullen Bryant, the poet
and editor.
The steamer Mackay-Bennett landed
the Commercial Cable company's line
at Pier 4, North river. thus establish
ing direct communication between
New York and Canso, y. S.
Myron r. Kent of Mandan, \. D.,
was arrested in Colorado. charged
with completely in the murder of his
wife and with forgery and embeZzle-
ment.
The educational article, including the
provision prohibiting sectarian appro-
priations for schools, was sent TO third
reading by the constitutional conven-
ton of New York.
Curtis and Cushing were added to
the list of Minnesota towns destroyed
L. nv Of
were buried at Hinckley. Total fire
fatalities in Minnesota exceed 500.
Smoke from forest fires has made
navigation dangerous on Lakes Su-
perior and Michigan. The passenger
steamers Ossifrage and A. w. Cotton
ran ashore.
George Johnson was killed in mine
at Duquoin, Ill, by the explosion Of
a powder can in which a pistol had
been placed and connected with the
cork.
But two favoriteS were victorious in
the mud at Hawthorne-Diggs and
Rico. Motor, Gascon, Queen Bess,
Booze and Wells Street were the other
winners.
Alfred J. COoksley, who without the
forms Of law had pocketed $4,000 left
/ by an uncle who died at Streater, ILL.,,
was captured while on the way to
Montreal.
Fred Isenring alleges he was de-
feated by unfair means in the repub-
lican congressional convention for the
fifth Wisconsin district and will run
as an independent.
Attorney General MolOney has filed
an amended complaint against the
Pullman company and will ask per-
| mission to file quo WarrantO proceed
ings.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, has with
drawn from the republican party be-
cause of it's attitude toward silver and
! will identify himself with the popu-
| lists
A Reading express train ran into u
wagon at Hammonton, n. Y, and
/ killed the two occupants, Charles
Pentz and Guiscppi Iouzella, and their
horse.
Macfarlane Place hotel, owned and
occupied by V. W. Macfarlane of Chi
cago, was burned at Greenville June
ton, Me. Loss $4,000; insured foI
$4,000.
V. L. Markham, nominee of the
Colorado democrats for supreme
Judge, has given notice he will de-
cline to accept. He intends to vote
the republican ticket.
Twelve hundred miners employed by
the Spring Valley Qll.) Coal company
quit work in sympathy with the trap
boys. who want an advance of )
cents day.
Trustees Of the Brotherhood of Lo-
cCmotive Firemen will urge the COM
ing convention to take a firmer STAND
against strikes.
Notwithstanding the doWn-pouring
rain, 5000 men were in the labor day
| procession in Chicago. Horseshoers
secured the prize for fine appearance.
General Schoield has ordered that
Der of vacancies in the army and the
consequent restriction upon recruiting.
no person under the age Of twenty-one
| will be enlisted, except boys as must
clans or to learn music.
Senator Dubois of Idaho, would not
be questioned concerning the action
! of Senator Jones, of Nevada, in leav-
ing the republican party and joining
the populists, except to say that any
! reports concerning a similar move on
his part had no foundation.
Judge Aikens of Sioux Falls, S. D.,
has for the second time refused to
grant Mrs. Phoebe trabella Palmer of
Boston a legal separation from her
/ husband, Elihu A. Palmer, a retail
boot and shoe dealer of Boston. Mrs.
! Palmer charged her husband with
desertion. She is now at Providence,
r. l., living with a sister.
At the democratic state conyeLtio
at Sioux Falls, S. D., W. II. Wilson,
the temporary chairman, created a SEN
satiOn by his references to Senator
Pettigrew, who, he said, was a Ma
poleOn Bonaparte without his courage,
Il Cassius without a Brutus to guide
his dagger, Judas IscariOt with
thirty pieces of silver in his pocket
and without the courage to use a
rope.