Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-09

wife.
The new wage scale of the Amalga- s
mated Iron and Steel Workers asso- +
citation has gone into effect and a num- !
Der of mills in the Pittsburg district {
which refused to accept it have shut $
down.
William Turner and r. W. Dunlop, !
who confessed to having robbed their
l. Townsend Burden OF Ne"
York. Of $4,000 worth Of jewelry, have
been sentenced to nine years each III
prison.
Bloomington, III, reports curious
ricvcle accident \ lad Of IA mad the
great toe of his left foot cut of oy
the sprocket chain Of a wheel as clean
and smooth as if nipped off by pair
OF shears.
Thomas F. Bayard was presented
with an address by the GainsborOugh
municipal council. Mr.. Bayards Visit
was upOn the occasion OF the laying oL
the memorial stone CT the John ROBIN
son church.
The union green glass bottle factories
in the Pittsburg district and some de-
n9rrments of the union flint glass fac
tories have closed for the annual TWO
months vacation. This anects aoouC
/ 10000 employees.
Mrs William Mckinley has been
sent by General Joseph Terrence the
beautiful gold badge studded Win
diamonds which he has worn for two
/ years as a symbol of his fealty TO the
cause of her husband.
Senior Meron, the new Argentine
minister, and Toru Hoshi, the japanese
minister, were presented to President
Cleveland. Both ministers made ad-
dresses and the president replied IN
suitable terms.
According to Supreme President
EchoIs, of the A. P. A, that organlza-
ton will have no candidate for presl-
dent and will confine it's energies to
: the election of congressman and mem
l bers of state legislatures.
A west bound mail and express train
on the Grand Trunk railway was
ditched near Cornwall (near MOntreaD
- by a broken rail The entire train
- went down an embankment and many
passengers were badly hurt.
Farmers living near Buchanan
!. Mich, complain of grasshoppers, which
= they claim have almost totally de
stroyed their crops. Too much rain is
supposed to have been the cause o
the large number of these pests.
J. C. Williams, eX-president of thu
u defunct bank of Blue Springs, Neb,
has been sentenced 10 the penitentiary
" for three years. He was convicted o
accepting deposits after his institu
ton had become insolvent.
The failure is announced of tn
= newspaper syndicate which contem
plated a string of papers extending
y across the continent, and which hat
secured control of the Kansas Cit.
10 World, with several other journals.
II The gathering of Christian Endeayo
10 societies at Washington this week will
eclipse all other conventions. Seating
IL capacity will be provided for 5000
Endeavorers and preparations are be
q ing made for the entertainment of 100,
IA 900 strangers.
y ces of the Evening Age, at Houston
III killed three persons and severel
0I wounded another. The dead are
Henry Lyons, engineer; Edwin Z
~ Emery, telegraph operator; Miss Matti
- Loeb, stenOgrapher
Is Pending a settlement on the wage
e. scale every mill in the Mahoning val
at
'e Warren, Niles, Girard and StrutherS
lg Ohio, has closed, throwing $500 me
3 temporarily out Of work. The me
II demand $3.50 per ton, while the man
3 ufacturers offer only 81.
y The two Chinese graduates of An
,Arbor will do another year of cOlleg
Ce work, probably at the university Q
l. Chicago. In China they will be mad
oL part of the staff Of one of the hospital
"a managed by the missionaries Of tn
Methodist Episcopal church.
ID A compromise has been effected be
N tween the operators of the Crescen
n Nail mill at Belleville, Ind, and tn
L locked-out employees whereby the mi
will return to work at the former wag
Of scale, but the company does not recog
J. nize the Amalgamated association.
Id A general order has been issued b
at Adjutant General Charles King dis
banding Company L, Third regiment G
l., Eau Claire, Wis. The company ha
N fallen below the standard at inspeC
e ton for the last two years. Its plac
N will be taken by the Sparta company.
For May the net earnings of the Bur
S. lington road show deficit of $3.50, S46
II q decrease of $235, 900 from the sam
20 month of last year, when the defci
g was $15,246. The heaviest part of tn
decrease was in the freight earnings
S. which showed a falling off of S1S0,09C
lg Charles W. Clark, of Butte, Mont
le son of w. A. Clark, the milliOnair
L mine owner, banker and politician, wa
united in marriage with Miss Kath
ID crime G. Rogers of Helena, a youn
stenographer. The groom's father pre-
Of scented him with a check for 100000.
ly w. T. Foster, wealthy prophet 0
st. Joseph, Mo, has challenged tn
/ Gather bureau to a forecasting con
lie test. Foster is willing to make hi
e forecasts for the same periods onl
ic He asks the weather bureau to max
forecasts for the same periods onl.
/ seven days in advance.
-e Officials of the Chicago & Alton rail