Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-12

capital. 1t will be strictly indepen-
dent.
A beautiful solid silver loving cup
for the United States battleship Ind
lana has come from the Daughters Of
the American Revolution at Lafayette
Ind
1t is alleged that Andrew Olson,
who hastily left his wife in Wausau.
Wis, had another wife in st. Paul.
who had opened correspondence with
the police.
Journeymen stone masOns Of St.
Louis have demanded an increase in
wages from 40 to 80 cents an hour.
The bosses are disposed to grant the
advance.
New Hampton, Iowa, reports that the
jury in the Van Tassel case brought in
verdict Of guilty, and fixed punish
ment at hard labor in the penitentiary
for life
John R. Jones, president of the Men
phis (Tex) National bank, was killed,
and his son, Nat, seriously hurt in a
shooting ARRAY on the street. They
met an enemy.
Irishmen of Creston, Iowa, de-
nounced the Incarceration of Irish
Americans in English prisons and
called upon Congressman Hepburn to
take up the fight.
At Iron River, Wis, John G. Harvey,
who married ayoung lady some time
ago, was arrested for bigamy. 1t is
oil Lo hoe oh
in Canada.
A jury has not yet been secured in
the Lamont murder trial at Superior,
Wis. George Thorpe, a convict at
Waupun, said to have witnessed the
crime, will testify.
Mayor Pingree will go into the up
per Michigan peninsula for a three
weeks stumping tour in the interest
of his candidacy for the republican
nomination for governor.
RESPONSIVENESS signed by fifty per-
sons were received in the Boston legis-
lature against the erection of a statue
of the late Gen. Benjamin F. Butler
in the state house yard.
George Witschner, one of the in
dicted rioters at Tiffin, Ohio, has an
nounced that he will plead guilty
Victor VidOni, leader of the gang, also
indicted, has fed the country.
Charles Carleton Coffin, of Brook
line, Mass, is dead, aged 49, He was
a war correspondent and an engineer,
but is chiefly known for his children's
histories of the Revolution, etc.
A delegation representing the inter-
ests of authors, photographers and
publishers appeared before the house
committee on patents in opposition to
the Treloar copyright bill.
The trial of DR.. P Rhoades, charged
with poisoning Lewis Robinson,
wealthy farmer, has begun at Owens
boro, Ky. Soon after Robinsons death
the doctor married his widow.
DR.. 0. Wilson, postmaster at Wad-
dlngton, Ark, who fled when called
upon by an inspector, has given him
self up and admits a shortage of $275
Relatives made up the amount.
Joseph Bacon, of Fort Atkinson,
Wis, while switching a car containing
his household goods at GAINESVILLE, set
fire to the contents with his lantern.
Two of the horses were saved
Jake Mclaughlin, the alleged muir
derer of two aged farmers. was taken
from Jail at Tecumseh, o. T., by a mob
and strung up three times, but would
confess nothing.
Tramps have become an unbearable
nuisance at Keithsburg, Ill.,, and spe-
cial police have been sworn in to ar
rest every vagrant and put him at
work breaking stone for street paving
Advices from Montana state that
there is fire in the Bozeman tunnel and
the property will probably be totally
destroyed. Passengers and freight
are being transferred over the noun
tain.
Captain Simon Baker, Larry Sea-
man, William Anderson, a cook, and
M. Moguat, of Rockford, Texas, a
passenger, were drowned by the
wrecking of the schooner Willie Ann
off the Florida coast.
In the United States court at Fort
Smith, Ark, sentence of death was
passed upon George Pearce, Webster
Isaacs, John Pearce, Berry Foreman
and Mollie King, and their execution
set for April go
The treasury department has sent
instructions to the commanders of
revenue cutters in Florida waters di-
recting them to use every effort to
intercept two alleged filibustering ex-
petitions.
Three hundred tons of side-armor
for the battle ship Sevastopol were
shipped by the Bethlehem Iron COM
pany to Russia. This is part of the
first order for armor the company has
received from Russia.
The senate committee on foreign
relations has decided to report the
Dingley bill, authorizing the eXter-
mination of fur seals unless England
consents to further arbitration with
out amendment.
At Morton, Mimi, the children of
Carl Bucholz found a grape and can
lister shell that had not been exploded
when shot in field near the ground
where the battle Of Birch Coulee was
fought in 1862
Owing to the activity of game war
dens, fishermen on Lakes Winnebago,
Butte, Des Nortes and Fox and Wolf
rivers, Wis, have suspended opera
lions for two months and all nets
have been removed