Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-30

street contrary 10 village ordinance.
BoWl9S has commenced SUIT for 5000
damages against the town.
Sioux City people are TO have d
bridge over the Missouri river between
their city and COYingJOn, Neb., To COLI
meet the Pacific Short Line railway
with the Sioux City stock yards and
terminals.
Henry I. Thurber, the presidents
private secretary. let washington for
BUzZard's Bay. 10 make arrangements
Tor the visit Of the presidential family
and his own family there for the sum
mer months.
The members Of the q. A. K. post,
Larue county, Ky, are making prepar-
atiOnS TO give the old soldiers a grand
reception on their arrival there from
Louisville next September to visit the
birthplace Of Lincoln.
Mrs. Sophia Peterson, of St. Joseph,
Mich, has sued Mrs. Elizabeth Wander
we're for $4,000, alleging SANDER.
Mrs. Vandervere has filed a counter
suit for $4,000, charging Mrs. Peter
son with alternating the affections Of
her husband.
Seneca HaSeltOn of Vermont, who
rendered his resignation to the presi-
dent as United States minister to
Venezuela after charges had been
made against him by Rear-Admiral
Meade, will retire from the diploma tic
service in about three weeks.
Francis l.. B3bcock, a prisoner of the
United States, charged with making
an application for pension under his
brothers name, was found dead in bed
yesterday. Heart disease was the
cause.
Ground was broken at Oshkosh, Wis,
for the building of an electric street
railroad. The franchise is held by the
Central Wisconsin Electric company.
The line is to be a part Of a system to
unite Kaukauna, Appleton. Neenah,
Menasha and Oshkosh.
Pay Director Augustus II. Gilman,
United States navy, died in New York,
Of Bright's disease Of the kidneys. He
was appointed to the navy as a resi-
dent Of Maine. He was made pay
master in 1861, pay inspector in 1871
and pay director in 1879. He was re-
tired i'll 1856.
The Florida house by a unanimous
vote has passed the anti-priZe-fght
bill. The measure has already passed
the senate and now goes to Gov
Mitchell, who will sign it. The meas
ure is a drastic one, it's violation is
punishable by a fine of $1,000 or five
years in the penitentiary.
Robert johnson expected to be ap-
pointed policeman by the new mayor
of Keokuk, Iowa, ON Monday last, but
some one else got the job. Now the
disappointed man brings suit against
against Rev. j. S. Ferguson for $4,000
damages, alleging defamation of char
acter, which lost him the job
Three negroes were lynched in Flor
ida SWampS for asSaulting a white
girl, and it is reported they were put
to death by fiaying alive and burning.
1t is learned from passengers arriy-
ing at Jackson, Miss, from Meridian
that thirty new cases of smallpox
have appeared there.
The strike inaugurated in the Pom
erOy, Ohio, district, May l, to fight
against a reduction of mining rates
from two cents to one and three-fOurth
cents per buShel, is over. The SYRIA
cuSe miners at last succumbed and ac-
copied the reduction and resumed work
yesterday morning.
j. j. Sullivan, Of Warren, Ohio, was
nominated by acclamatiOn to succeed
Lemuel G. Obi, of Youngstown, in the
state senate from the rrumbull and
MahOning district. Resolutions favor
ing sound money, Mckinley for presi-
dent and Foraker for United States
senator were unanimously passed.
Wreckage from the lost steamer
Ohicora is fast coming ashore NORTH Of
Benton Harbor. Six large sacks OF
flour, with which the vessel was
loaded, were found, also two doors
from the cabin, and a sailors hat,
/ which has been identified. Owing to
| the high seas the wrecking parties
/ have not yet gone to the place where 1t
is now believed the hull lies.
Moses Sustine and Abraham Blumen-
berg, doing business at Kalamazoo I'M
der the name of The Peoples OUTFIT
ting company, have tield mortgages
| for over $4,000. The mortgages are
given to julius Chakuffsky, for $4,000;
Isaac Bosewitz, $500; Kalamazoo Ma
tional bank, $1,000; First National
bank, $4,000; and two other creditors,
for less than $500 each. The First Ma
tional bank is a preferred creditor.
! Charles Amos, deputy recorder Of
, An English syndicate known as the
Guelph Cask company has purchased
5000 acres OF hardwood timber land
i'll Michigan, and the Turtle land eX-
tension of the Chicago and West Michi-
gan railroad Will be built to it. \ fac
tory S6Nl49 feet will be erected, and
{ a new town, with hotel, electric light,
! and other imp OyementS, viii be buTIT.
/ The concern will manufacture yeneers
! for European trade, and will employ
| 500 TO 500 men. The new town win be
! named Honor"