Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-06-11

Inc people OIL JClnSJOWn, Pa, OBJ
served a second memorial day Sunda,
in respect to those who lost their live
in the food of 1883
W. K. Cochrane, a well-known news
paper man o. St. Paul, was married
TO Miss NaL Foley, daughter OF Thoma!
Foley, the biInaru expert.
Minnie Smith anG Gertie Hegg, eacf
aged IL, while out walking near Tren
ton, Ohio, tell in the Big Miami rive
and were drowned.
DR.. FRANK NJ Hector is dead a
Rochester, Ind, aged 50. He wa!
formerly president OF the Indiana &c
lectlc association.
Mrs. F'itz Henry Mcclure and Burton
j. Hansen, the attorney Oh the Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad hav>
been welded in Chicago.
The celebration OF the centennial Of
the admission OF Tennessee as a STATE
was begun at Nashville. An exposition
will be leld next summer.
1t is now thought many households
disappeared in the st. Louis tornado
A river man thinks many OF the 800
population on them were lost.
Rev. R. S. Wallser, pastor of the
FIRST Baptist church at Belyedere, Ill.
has resigned, TO take effect July /. Ill
health is assigned as the cause.
1t is announced that the Duluth
South Shore and Atlantic railroad will
build a large merchandise dock OF
AIlouz Bay, in West Super II, Wis.
The fourteenth annual convention Of
the National Plumbers Association OF
America was held in Cleveland, Ohio
More than 500 delegates attended.
William Barnes Bement, a million
aire octogenarian CT Philadelphia, and
Miss Mary OsgCod Stearns, of New
York city, were married yesterday.
The National Federation OIL Afro
American Women, organized last July
in Boston, will hold national conven-
tioI in Washington July 70, Il and %
Rev. FL. H. Morrill, rector of the
Church OF the Redeemer, Episcopal, o.
Rockford, ILL.,. has received a call to
Clinton, Iowa, and will probably &C,
cept.
The sentence o. Herr Won KOtze, who
killed Baron Schroeder in a duel grow
been committed to one weeks imprisOn-
ment.
Windrarh, the Chicago murderer, has
been found sane. He was to have been
hanged May Il, but was saved by a re-
prieYe received five minutes ahead OF
the hour.
Princeton, Ind, with 1000 inhabit-
ants, will be without state license sa-
loon by reason of the Nicholson law
There will, however, be an increase in
quart saloons.
The amendment to the Bering sea
treaty made by the senate has been &C
cepted by Great Britain and final rati-
fcations will be exchanged in a day
or two.
The financial concerns of the late
State Treasurer Ramsey, Of Illinois, a
banker of Carlyle, indicated that he
was probably a bankrupt and perhaps
used state funds.
The president has nominated William
Churchill, of New York, to be consul
general at Apia, Samoa, and Davis n.
Burke, of New York, to be consul gen
eral at Tangier, Morocco.
The Bloomington, Ill, board of edu-
cation has ordered a reduction in the
salaries of city teachers, amounting to
about $4,000 a year. Several Of the
best teachers have resigned.
Edwin r. Quimby. of Mount Vernon,
New York, has begun suit for a separa-
ton from his wife, alleging desertion
and neglect. She is Princess Nor
iquita, a gypsy fortune-teller.
w. H. Caradine, Of New Albany,
Wis, has received the contract for
building the new Methodist church in
Marinette for $4,000. The present
building will be torn down.
At Muskegon, Mich, the board of
selected the bid of the Mu~-
dock-Campbell company of Chicago to
build the Hackley Manual Training
school. The figures are $50 900.
The United Presbyterian general as
sembiy, at Aenia, Ohio, pronounced in
favor Of instrumental music, which has
heretofore been excluded from the
churches under it's jurisdiction.
Ten years ago last Tuesday, Presi-
dent Cleveland was married in the
white house. Dr.. Sunderland, who
united the pair, and the cabinet called
and paid their congratulations.
Children playing in the woods near
Rushville, ILL.,, found the body of Mat
thew Haulssler, aged 80, laborer, who
had been missing since Thursday. He
had committed suicide by shooting.
The National Brewers association
met in Philadelphia. President Berg
ner told the executive committee that
the annual sales have increased since
1876 from $S,50O,0OO to $36,O0O,OO0.
Prof. L. L. Diche, of Peary expedition
fame, the Kansas university naturalist.
has left for an extended trip to Alaska.
1t is said he will make preparations for
another trip to the north pole
Michael Robinson, deputy sheriff and
jailer, fled suit foT $4,000 damages at
Petersburg, Ind., against Jaspar n.
Kinman, sheriff OF Pike county, for
alternating the affections of his wife
At Kalamazoo, Mich, Frank B.
Smith of Three Rivers, convicted of
perjury IN the famous Harrison land
suit trial, was sentenced to seven years
and six months If Jackson prison.
The senate committee on the Mica
ragua canal has authorized a favora-