Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-21

Women cannot vote in New Jersey.
SO rules the supreme court
Franklin G. Holbrook has been ap-
pointed postmaster of Minneapolis.
The Virginia republicans VIII make
no nominations for congress this fall
D. L. Hardness, dairy and food COM
missioner OF Wisconsin, died at his
home in Berlin of blood-poisoning.
Two men were instantly killed and
two fatally injured by a boiler ex-
plOsion near Linneus, Mo.
Thieves near Clinton, Ia. stole 1000
pounds of butter from a creamery, and
nothing seems safe.
George Peabody WetmOre was
elected United States senator by the
Rhode Island legislature.
Republican senators are organizing
for another fight against the sugar
schedule in the tariff bill.
The coal miners of southern Illinois
md the Pittsburg district may reject
the compromise.
A proposed Chicago ordinance fixes
a bond of $500 for sellers of cigar
cites.
According to the Yale class book the
cost of an education at the New Ha-
ven college is increasing each year.
The Wisconsin Central railroad gave
an outing to Chicago newspaper men
at Phantom Lake, Wis.
At the Bloomington convention the
two associations of bankers in Illinois
were consolidated in one society.
Ex-Priest J. V. Mcnamara was ac-
quilted at Liberty, Mo, Of the charge
of slandering priests and nuns.
DIR. Wheeler, city physician of Ra-
cine, Wis, has refused to vaccinate
the poor of that place free of charge.
Stewart II. Moore, steamboat in
spector at Chicago, refuses TO resign,
and will be Ousted July l.
The administrative features of the
Mckinley bill may be retained in or
der to expedite tariff legislation.
At Vassar a class of seventy-one was
graduated. Special degrees were con-
ferred upon ten candidates.
Mrs. Rudiger, of Omaha, who killed
Baron" Reiser in public square last
fall, has been acquitted.
Superintendent Byrnes' efforts to en-
force the Sunday law in New York
resulted in 1856 arrests.
The Chicago Edison company re-
Of in
business.
ErastuS Wiman was placed on trial
for forgery in New York. He has re-
tanned five eminent lawyers as counsel.
James L. Houghteling, of Chicago,
has been appointed executor of the
will of the late Senator Stockbridge
COXeyites are fOiIed in two attempts
to seize Northern Pacific passenger
trains at Bismarck, n. D.
The Union League club of Chicago
has dropped the name of Congressman
Breckenridge. The latter made no de-
Tense.
Four members of a Sunday boating
party, two men and two girls, were
drowned in reservoir 3D." near Brews-
terS, n Y, by the capsizing of a boat
To check the tendency to lower
prices, Wisconsin paper manufacture
ers have decided to close their mills
two days a week.
Twenty-Five graduates of Lake For
est university received diplomas at
40 SiN V
exercises.
Three rioters were killed and a
fourth was mOrtally wounded in a bat
tie with deputy sheritfs near Union
town, Pa.
Four thousand miners are gathered
in HoratiO, Pa, to prevent nOn-union
men from New York going to work
for the Berwind-White company.
Trial of Mrs. Adolph Schroeder on
the charge of poisoning her husband
was begun before Judge Gibson at
Manitowoc, Wis.
The American yachts Visitor and
Leroy Brooks, seized for violating Ca
madam fishing laws, have been re-
leased on bond.
Rev. Mr.. Williams, of Shell Lake,
Wis, attempted to assault a 9-year-old
girl He fled to the woods and the
sheriff and a posse are in pursuit
John Letter and wife, wealthy resi-
dents of st Adams township, Illinois,
are charged with having starved a
paralytic son to death
0 Ulcers were elected by the supreme
council of the Royal Arcanum, in ses-
sion at Detroit. c. w. Hazard, of
MononGahela, Pa, was chosen regent.
An immense audience listened to
speeches by Owens and Settle at Lex
ington, Ky. After scoring Breckin-
ridge each speaker asSailed the other.
Representatives of the knights of
labor, farmers alliance, federation of
labor and railroad brotherhoods met
at st. Louis to consider a plan for
closer union.
The democrats in charge of the tariff
bill, it is announced, will make
changes in the income-tax feature
which will win the support of sena-
tors now opposing it.
President Havemeyer. of the sugar
trust testified before the senate COM
mittee and makes public some inter
esting facts regarding the trusts con-
tributiOnS to camDaign funds