Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-16
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"IiIiuS " COMPROMISE Ou Tue ldIll
bill, but house members are firm for
the Wilson measure.
prrs:de..l Cleveland has approved
the act compelling the Rock Island
to establish stations in Ok
lahoma.
Charles Hendrickson and Charles
young men Of Batavia, III.
were drowned in Fox River whine
rowing.
Misses Bernie Mayer and Barnhar:.
spending their outing at st. Joseph.
were drowned in Lake Michigan while
bathing.
Chares Keyndrick, of Chicago, found
his wife dying in a hospital at Louis
vile, Ky, but she refused to retuEn
with him.
DR.. E. J. White, of Urbana, has re
of charities because he does not agree
with Governor Altgeld.
Seven members Of a family at Gel
vein, Iowa, were poisoned by sum-
mer drink. Three are dead and the
others may die
NOn-union workmen in South Omaha
were escorted to the packing-hOuses
by deputies armed with carriage
wheel spOkeS.
Reports from many places in the
hottest day Of the year. Many per-
sons were Frustrated.
Judge Bellinger, at Portland, Or, de-
cided that it is not unlawful to sell
liquor IT, Indians having allotted lands,
because they are full-fedged Ameri-
can citizens.
Action of the Milwaukee common
council in taking preliminary steps to
municipal ownership of street railway
lines is meeting with popular indorse-
ment-
The steamer Park Bluff, with 400
excursionists aboard, struck a rock
in the Mississippi off Keokuk and
sank. Owing to the low water all
were enabled to reach shore.
John H. Galway, Of Michigan, and
George Winans, Of Wisconsin, were
appointed supervisors of steam vessels
for the eighth and fifth districts re-
spectively.
President Cleveland's administration
a popular vote for senator defeated in
the North Carolina democratic conven,
ton.
At the national convention of col
ored voters leagues in New Castle, Pa.
measures looking to the social and
political advancement of the race will
be considered.
Eight of the men who resorted to un-
lawful tactics in the labor troubles at
Paterson, n. j., were given sentences
ranging from three months to six
years.
Florence Kelley, Illinois state fac
tory inspector, recommends prohibit
ing the manufacture of clothing in
tenement-houses on account Of small
poX.
Republicans of the eleventh Illinois
ulSIIlCI Will u1ttI dI otlCdIOl, nus ~,
to select a candidate for congress in
place of the late Captain Fullerton. c.
c.. Strawn has withdrawn from the
race.
General James B. Weaver, the popu-
list candidate, was Endorsed by the
democratic congressional convention at
Council Bluffs, which declared for
free coinage and arbitration of labor
disputes.
An autopsy on the body of Nine.
Osborne of New York, a once noted
opera singer, shows that she died of
starvation. She had been deserted by
her husband and evicted from her
rooms.
Policeman John Rollins of Philadel-
phia, formerly on the New York force,
and known as the broadway giant
6 feet II inches tall and weighing
go pOunds-has been stricken with
paralysis.
Carban Hill, a mining village near
Coal City, ILL.,, is in the hands Of a
mob of several hundred dissatisfied
Italian miners, who have threatened
to destroy all the mining property
within reach, should the other miners
persist in working.
The meeting of the first American
conventions of the Priests Eucf artistic
League. which numbers $4,000 mem
beers, including six cardinals, sixty
bishops and a large number of other
church diguitaries, is in progress at
South Bend, Ind
AS means of forcing A. NJ. Van
Auken, now in Detroit jail, to admit
his identity, steps have been taken
to inquire into his sanity. He has al
ready been fully identified by num-
Der Of relatives, but persists in deny
ing that he knows them.
Serious riots have begun at the south
Omaha packing houses. Men who
wish to work are daily assaulted by
strikers who are armed and completely
surround the houses. Two hundred
police have been asked for by the
packing house managers.
Anton Schurman, La Sale, Ill.
miner, resisted an attempt to arrest
his father and was killed by deputies.
one Of whom was wounded by Mrs.
Schurman. A bayonet charge by the
militia was necessary TO disperse the
mob.