Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19

Of trades uniOniStS.
President DebS, Vice President How
ard and Secretary Keliher of the a.
R. u, have been arrested on the
charge of conspiracy in connection
with the Pullman boycott.
A great grandson of the brother OF
Gen. Washington IS dead in Washing
ton. He was graduate of West
Point, was in the confederate army.
and of late in the land office.
4 line from Salt Lake to the coast,
which will furnish an outlet for sew
eral western roads, will be built by
the Mormons on admission of Utah
as a state.
Special Judge Rupe decided Indian
apolis had no valid claim against
the Commercial club for the unex-
pended balance from the Grand Army
encampment.
Government attorneys are said to be
preparing to prosecute Debs on the
| charge of treason. His private papers,
which had been seized, were ordered
returned by Judg Grosscup.
Deputy United States marshals, aid
| ed by regular troous, captured four
| teen men, charged with the destruction
of property in the Chicago stockyards
district.
Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, failed in
| his attempt to induce the Pullman
company to arbitrate. He was accom-
! panied on his mission by Mayor Hop
kins and Erskine NJ. Phelps.
The blockade at the Chicago stock
! yards has been raised, 175 cars of
| stock being brought in and 80 cars
| shipped. Packers expect to at once
resume operations in full.
A Southern Pacific train was wreck
! ed on a trestle near Sacramento by
strikers or their sympathizers. Three
regular soldiers and the engineer were
killed.
djers are said to have plundered
freight cars in the Rock Island yards,
| and a number Of the former have been
! put under arrest.
In an official statement the General
Managers association says the rail
ways are handling the usual number
of trains and that the strike is prac-
tiCally ended
Many cities, including Chicago, are
interested in the outcome of a suit for
infringements of patents brought by
! General Averill against the Barber
Asphalt company.
Professor Atilla, manager of Romu-
lus, who has been challenged by San
dow, was arrested by the United
States authorities in New York on the
! charge of sending scurrilOus letter
to SandOW.
Goddess of Liberty Brown is going
on the road with a lecture, and later
/ will aSSail Wall street. AS to labor
/ day Sept. y Brown says: Il will lead
my men on the capitol steps. The
time will then be ripe to do or to die"
The general merchandise store Of
the Whitebreast fuel company at Ladd
H., was looted by a mob of 1900 nom
| English-Speaking miners and was to-
tally wrecked. The stock was valued
at 10000
Alton Mizener of Coldwater, Mich .,
! living three miles out, killed James
Robinson, aged 70 and buried his
body three feet deep in the barn
/ yard. In the skull were no less than
nine blows.
/ The cruiser Minneapolis sailed from
Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia for
| her government trial trip off the Mas
sachusetts coast. While the actual
speed trial of the cruiser will last but
four hours, the trip will consume seven
days.
Clinton, ILL.,, parties have bought
i 50,00O000 feet of pine and the land
eighteen miles from Chippewa Falls
J 1t was owned by the State Lumber
company, of Milwaukee, in which Ben
Sweet is a stakeholder. The consid-
GRAFTON is $4,000 cash. The land has
an area of $500 acres.
/ At democratic congressional conven,
/ lions in Chicago Mccain and Goldzier
| were renominated and T. e. Ryan
/ anu 6A-CGudlOI NOOudu udmou
/ by reclamation. Noonan's selection
/ was a surprise, as Congressman Dur
borrow expected denomination. Frank
/ LAWYER will run as an independent.
/ On the Antilia from Nassau which
arrived at New York were Capt. Bart
! lett and nine of the crew of the bark
/ Crescent of Boston from New York
/ for Hanava. which went ashore on
Mucarras reef during the night OF
June %, when Is days out, and was
a total loss.
1 James Mccarthy, a teaming con-
tractor of Milwaukee, was shot and
instantly killed at the corner of River
and Martin streets last evening by
Richard Fails, a pugilist and bar
! tender. Boiler" John P.) Walsh,
the third ward saloon keeper, who
was with Mccarthy, was shot in the
right arm. 1t was the result Of an
old feud.
/ BURNING MOUNTAIN OF COAL.