Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-07

mails.
Friends of Frank G. LEM, the Am
eIican bicyclist, who was lost in Asia
Minor ten months ago, have organized
a search for him.
General John McNulta has consented
to be a candidate for department com
mander of the Illinois Grand Army of
the Republic.
Nine s0phomores in the University
of Illinois nave been suspended for
the term for Kidnapping members of
the freshman class.
Mrs. Amanda Hamilton, Of Gran
vile, Ind, aged 10, and her mother,
aged 10, were shamefully beaten by
a gang OF white caps.
Louis Stolzenberger, a Cincinnati
saloonkeeper, fatally shot a police Of
ticer and was himself killed by another
policeman.
A petition asking tile impeachment
and removal from the bench Of Judge
Frank Ives was presented in the Min
neSOta Legislature.
4 protest against the federal court
conducting the business OF the whisky
trust, it having been declared unlaW-
full by the state courts, was presented
in the Illinois senate.
The president has sent to the house
q message yetOing the bill TO grant
a pension to Eunice Putnam, the
daughter of John Putnam, who served
in the late war.
Final disposition has been made of
the Ferris wheel 1t Will be located
on the north side in Chicago. A build
ing to be devoted to amusements will
be built around 1T.
The Utah teluiDori1I census com
pleted last year shows that on january
L Salt Lake had a population of A.
$50. This is an increase of 3,l37 cGm-
pared with the federal census of 1890.
The secretary of state has received
the resignation OF Charles 5. Hasal-
tine, of Michigan, as United States
consul at Milan, to take effect ON the
appointment of mis- successor.
The president has denied applica-
tiOnS for pardon III the cases of Lem
uel G. Reeves, sentenced in New Jer-
sey to fine and six mOnth imprison-
ment for forging pension attidayits.
Three distinct earthquake shocks
We're felt at Portland, Ore. The first
shock occurred at 4 Al o'clock and
lasted three seconds. The vibrations
were from north to south.
Secretary Herbert received a tele-
gram announcing that Passed Assist
ant Paymaster James II. Chapman,
attached to the Marblehead, died sud
denly from paralysis of the heart at
the Norfolk naval hospital.
NJ. Calme, WlhO 7>as going ito elope
with his friends wife gave her $l1
for expenses and linen changed his
mind. In an attempt to recover the
money Mime. Calme brought up in a
New York police court.
The court of claims announced judg-
mentS in favor of about hundred
and fifty letter CARRIERS of New York,
Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia and
Memphis for service rendered in eX-
cess Of eight hours a day.
1t is stated THAT Representative
Joseph H. U'Neill, of Boston, wild be
nominated 10y the president to be
assistant treasurer OF United States
at Boston i'll place OF MarGn f.. Ken
nard, whose term expired December
II, 1894.
Gov. Morton, of New York, has COM
muted to imprisonment for life the
sentence Of death passed upon Isaac
White, a st. Regis Indian, who was
convicted in Franklin county, New
York, III january OF murder in the
first degree.
Among the arrivals on the Gaelic
from Honolulu was 4. ID. Walker, of
the schooner Norma, who, is is said,
was notified by The Hawaiian govern
mGnt to leave the islands. AIr. Walker
denies this. stating he left Honolulu
on a business "trip.
Milton \. Taylor, N. D., of Balti-
more, aged 20 years, died in that city
of heart failure. Dr.. Taylor had been
active in political life since 1850. He
took a conspicuous part in the reor-
gani2ation of the democratic party in
Maryland after the civil war.
1ihe Baltimore Centennial association
selected a site for the great exposition
to be held in that city in 1897. Chiffon
Park, the property of the Johns Hop
kinS university, and Patterson park,
belonging to the city, are the places
to be considered.