Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-06-18

during which they lave Deen DdnuIeu
about from one court to another, the
so-called Plankinton bank cases at Mil
waukee were nolled.
Ex-Congressman A c. Thompson,
of Ohio, manager of Major Mckinley at
St. Louis. declared that Major McKin-
ley's platform will be for single gold
standard Of currency.
Lote Wilson Of Adams county Wis
consin. who beat his infant child to
death because its crying annoyed him,
has been sentenced to five and a half
years in the penitentiary.
Jesse Fleming, street commissioner
at Ottumwa, Iowa, suffered the loss Of
both eyes by premature blast of giant
powder A few years ago a railroad
train cut off one of MS legs.
The seventeenth state convention of
the Roman Catholic Protective AssOci-
alton of Iowa began at Davenport. The
reports show an increase of PA in the
membership during the year.
Vincent G. Cromwell Of Lexington.
KY. and DR.. Anne MacFarland Of
Jacksonville, Ill, were married at
Jacksonville. The bride was formerly
physician at Oaklawn Retreat.
I Chairman Dingley, of the house ways
and means committee, prepared an
elaborate report on the probability OF
Japan becoming a formidable indus
trial rival of the United States.
At Waterloo, Iowa, devastation is be-
ing wrought by army worms. In some
places whole fields have been destroyed
and have been plowed under. The
worms have even attacked blue grass
pastures.
An agreement has been made be
tween this government and Mexico fol
daily international registered mail
pouch exchange between st. Louis, Mo.
and the city of Mexico, to go into Oper
alton July /.
Mrs Olive Bradley Gray of Chicago
, and her son, Charles Gray, are claim
ants for the estate OF the late million
aire, Rush Y Gray of Duluth. Mrs
, Gray says she was married to the de
ceased in 1878.
Axel S. Ellis has been confirmed a
, postmaster at Sioux Falls, S. D.
Simon Jarnik, a laborer injured il
; the employ of the ManitowOc wis.
+ Coal company, has been awarded dam
ages of So, 500.
A chemical analysis of the stomach
= of Miss Mayne Worrall the wealth.
young English woman who died sud
denly at the Palace hotel, San Fran
q cisco, last Saturday, has failed to dis
close the presence of poison.
, Gov Morton appointed the min
c greater New York commissioners who
with the six named III the law, wi
draft a charter for the consolidate
q cities. The commission complete con
sists of eleven republicans and fou
4 democrats
: Mrs. H. C. Rogers, wife of a phys
clan of Rockville, Ind, while descend
ing a cellar stairway, fell. A lamp sh
q was carrying broke and set fire to tn
4 house, and she was suffocated. Tn
Y fire was eXtinguished in time to say
a young child.
9 At Peoria, H., William G. White an
0 Miss Mary Bigham, both of Peoria, an
William Fogarty Of Lincoln and Mis-
Lucille Ryan of Peoria were married
At Racine, Wis, Samuel c. Wardma
. and Miss Josephine Jackson wei
- united in marriage
The property of the Hygia Sprin
:, company was sold at Waukesha, Wis
4 by Special Master F. NJ. HOyt to H.
Beardsley of Kansas City for $4,000
NJ. Jarvis, holder of the mortgag
g against the company.
: Residents of Clinton, Iowa. and tn
county have voted to issue bonds fC
$3.50 to build a new courthouse
Mrs. Sarah Walker, 60 years of ag,
. was burning brush near Jeffersonvill,
Ind, when her clothing became is
nited, and she was cremated.
The Crystal Glen Stone Crushin
= company Of Warsaw, Ill, extensiv
producers of macadam. has close
3 down. The wooden mills at the sam
g place, one of the largest manufacture
. of wOOlens in the west, has also shU
down for an indefinite period.
The fiume at the waterwOrks in Bi
Rapids, Mich, washed out, undermi1
! ing the principal main and shuttin
off the city's supply. All the mills an
factories on the race are closed in COZ
sequence and the place will be withor
r, fire protection for three days.
- Charles Bowling. formerly assistar