Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-23

her teens.
Rev. j. Mueller, pastor of the Unita-
rian church Of Bloomington, Ill, has
reconsidered his resignation and will !
remain. He was called to the pastor
ate Of the Unitarian church Of Pitts |
field, Mass.
LOrain, Ohio, entertained a party Of |
tifty-eight business men, who were
looking over the place with a view
Of investing. All the members Of the |
party are in favor Of anneXing Lorain |
TO Cleveland.
The annual convention of the Ma
tionaI Burial Case aSsocia ton and the
Eastern Burial association met yester-
day at Cleveland, Ohio. 1t is their first
Joint session, and consolidation is con
templated.
The murder Of John Moore by
Charles Stevenson at NoblesyilIe, Ind,
was most cold blOOded. Stevenson eX-
presses no regret, but says he would
do it again. No cause for the shooting
can be learned.
4 conclave of knights Templar, in
Guiding the Marinette, Fond du Lac,
Berlin, Green Bay, Wausua and Ste
vens Point communicates, was held
in Oshkosh. There are about 100
knights in attendance.
The Catholic priest arrested at Niles
and taken to st. Joseph, Mich, pleaded
not guilty to marrying couple with
out license. Frank McNamar, whom
he married, is serving a term at Jack
son prison for bigamy.
! Friends Of Seneca Haselton, minister
! to Venezuela, have little hope that the
request for his resignation will be
withdrawn, reports having been re-
ceived bearing out in part the charges
made by Admiral Meade.
George Daniels, arrested at Clinton,
| Ia. for purchasing Il bicycle with Il
forged check, and on whose person
were found other forged papers, has
| been bound over to the grand jury
under $1,000 and is in jail.
Great damage was done to vine
yards in New York and Pennsylvania
by frost The crops in the west and
northwest escaped serious injury from
the weather; but berries and garden
truck were nearly ruined.
Gen. Coppinger, who has been trans
ferred to the department of the
Platte, arrived at Omaha, and took
charge. Lieutenant ]. y. Dapray,
Of the 23d infantry will probably be
made one Of the generals aids
The supreme court of Ohio has de-
cided the law constitutional which re-
uuires the Fidelity and Casualty com
pany. of New York and similar com
panies, to deposit $4,000 with the
state treasurer to do business in Ohio.
Papers have been filed at Cumber-
! land, Iowa, in a $4,000 damage suit
| in which John Reed, a young mer-
chant. is defendant and Richard Mar
gerel is plaintiff. The suit is for alien
ating the affections of Margerers wife.
/ Chief Hazen of the secret service
! left for Ottawa, Ont, with President
! Cleveland'S warrant making him the
agent of the United States with au-
! thority to bring back to Buffalo, \.
! Y, for trial Mrs NJ. T. Mack. charged
with cOunterfciting.
In the United States court at Du-
buQue, the jury in the case Of Glab
VS.. the Chicago Great Western railroad
disagreed. The suit was for damages
caused by the big lumber fire last
June, it being asserted that locomotive
sparks started the fire.
The Cincinnati chamber of commerce
directed President Glenn to invite John
G.. Carlisle to address thq members on
the subject of sound money when he
makes his western trip. Secretary
cept,
The Fond du Lac Kite Park fair
/ ASSOCIATION has Il fine Of $500 to pay.
/ if it ever conducts races again as Il
member of the American Trotting as
sociation. Secretary II. c. Moore was
found guilty of accepting conditional
/ entries.
Union college, at Schenectady. \. Y,
| the oldest north of New York city and
west of the Hudson river, was first
chartered in 1875. and commencement
week, June 23-27 next will be de-
voted to centennial commemorative
services.
I'LL VI u 11I1ClS, plldS OIldIlGS NbISOD,
Il noted crook, who was arrested at
Dunkirk and brought to Portland, Ind.
/ escaped from Sheriff Finch when
alighting from a train. Finch fired
two shots. Neither took effect Hines
is wanted in Chicago.
The chiefs Of police of the United
+ States and Canada were in session in
Washington. y resolution was adopt
ed that the police departments repre-
scented hereafter neither would demand
nor require payment of any rewards
for arrests made by their officers.
Webster Mott, aged IS, son of State
Senator Frederick W. Mott, and Alex
ander Middleton, Jr., son of the pro-
prietOr of the st. Louis and Carondolet
Express company, were drowned in
the Mississippi river at st. Louis by
the capSizing of their boat.
\ party of New York Central rail
way officials visited Cleveland to in
Spect the monster four-track draw
bridge now being constructed to span
the Harlem river at New York The
swinging draw-bridge will be the
largest in the world. 1t will be 400
feet long and will weigh 5000 tons.
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