Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-10

mated Senator Palmer, of New York,
for president, and Gen. Buckner, Of
Kentucky, for vice president.
Knights of Pythias decided that the
next meeting will be at Indianapolis on
the fourth Tuesday in August, 1898.
F. d. Somerby of Baltimore was
unanimously reelected supreme pres
ident. of the Order of the Iron Hall.
Charles E. Warburton, proprietor of
the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph,
was found dead in bed at Atlantic City,
N. J.
President Cleveland received Ii
Hung Chang, the Chinese envoy, at ex-
Secretary Whitneys residence in New
York.
Candidate SeWall has annouced that
he will remain ON the democratic
ticket.
Terrence Y. POWderly, formerly mas
ter workman Of the Knights of Labor,
has announced his intention to support
Mckinley.
Fire at Cheboygan, Mich, destroyed
a million feet of lumber belonging to
Charlton of Toronto The loss is about
$200000 fully insured.
Rev. DR.. James M BObbitt, leading
member of the North Carolina confer
ence, Methodist Episcopal church
youth, died in Raleigh.
Lieutenant J. w. Benton, quarter
master of the ninth Cavalry at Fort
Robinson, was drowned in the plunge
bath at Hot Springs, S. d.
The Central Traffic Association has
decided to make cheap rates to Canton
to any party of forty or more who
make the pilgrimage.
Miss Laura Millsan, a niece of Will
liam Jennings Bryan, eloped with John
l.. Martin and was married to him at
Jeffersonyille, Ind. Both reside in
Salem, ILL.,
Irvine Clement, leading wool grow
en- Of Van Vert county, O., and his
daughter Mary, were killed in buggy
by a train at Delphos while crossing
the tracks.
Officials of Deadwood, S. D., have
captured a man named Yocum, who,
during a political discussion on the
street, fatally stabbed James Barnes, a
prominent citizen.
Lii Hung Chang enjoyed a trip up the
Hudson to West Point on the dispatch
boat Dolphin, and returned to New
York without landing at West Point,
as had been intended
Alexander R. McIntire, 20 years old,
son of d. G. McIntire, of the Detroit
and Cleveland Steam Navigation COM
pany, committed suicide by shooting
himself with a shotgun.
One hundred street cars have been
taken off the various lines of the West
Chicago Street Railway company dur
ing the last sixty days ON account of
the increasing competition of bicycles.
j. G. Bette aged 80, assaulted his ia
Their, Frederick Bette, agd rs, at Lima,
Ohio, choking and beating him in a
savage manner because of some misun-
derstauding He has been arrested.
The meeting of liquor dealers at
Cleveland resulted in the formation of
the National Wholesale Liquor Deal
ers' association of America. consti-
tuition was adopted and officers select
ed
M. Ripot, formerly prime minister of
France, with his American wife, will re-
main in this country about five weeks.
Receivers were appointed for the
Kings County Elevated Railroad in
Brooklyn.
While weeping over the grave of her
husband in st. BOniface cemetery, Chi
cago, Mrs. Frankisce Alkohser, an aged
woman, fell dead across the mound.
Heart disease aggravated by great grief
was the cause.
The Myke Maru, the first steamer of
the new SeattIe-OrientaI line, the Nip
pom YUKON Kaitha, has arrived at Sc
attic, Wash. The arrival of the steam
er was made the occasion of a great
celebration.
Calvin and George Diehl, brothers,
aged Is and Is years, were drowned in
the canal near Middleton, Pa. They
were swimming, and Calvin was seized
with cramp. George went to his as.
sistance and both were drowned.
In the new oil fields of Tennessee
and southern Kentucky the Standard
Oil company the past week completed
two large storage tanks in the Obey
river, thirty-fiye miles east on the
Queen & Crescent road, which will
hold nearly 10000 barrels.
According to United States Consul
Johnson at Antwerp there is no truth
IN the story which so excited American
meat PACKERS to the effect that broken
down English omnibus horses are
killed and packed at Antwerp as can
ned beef under American labels.
At PinOle, Cal, a $4,000 explosion
inthe nitroglycerine house of the Cal
ifOrnia Powder company wrecked the
building and caused the death Of twelve
workmen-eight Chinese and the fol-
lowing whites: James McNulty, w
w. Crates, James Fritz and NJ. Garcia
The transcontinentaI lines have re-
fused to make a rate of S25 one way
second-class from st. Paul, Minneap-
oils and Duluth to north Pacific coast
points. They have also declined to
make a rate of $3.50 on second-class
continuous passage tickets to Spokane
from the points named above.