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

Governor Altgeld has issued his
requisition upon the Governor of In
diana for the extradition of Walter
Lester, who is wanted at Bethany,
Moultrie county, for larceny, and un-
der arrest at Lyon, Green county, In
diana
At Independence, Iowa, in the Fields
bank case the assignee states that
lands and properties scheduled at S74,-
900 did not bring $4,000. Horses
valued at S43, 900 were traded for North
Dakota land at $40 an acre which is
high at S..
At Cedarburg, Wis, a 2-year-old
child o. a farmer named Wegner wan
dered away from her home in the town
Of Trenton, Washington county. A
searching party found the little frozen
body in a swamp after a search last
ing three days.
Lawyers and the community Of di-
v0rcees in Oklahoma are anxious
about the bill before congress making
uniform divorce laws in every state
and territory. Oklahoma City has
sent an attorney to lobby, and other
citizens OF the territory will do the
same.
Representative Mcmahon, of Penn
sylvania has introduced a bill apprO-
priating SIS 900 to procure a site and
erect a peace monument at ApDomat-
tOX Va. The site selected shall be
where General Grant and General Lee
met and agreed upon terms of capitu-
lation
At Superior, Wis, convention of
head of the lake evangelical ministers
was held to discuss the advisability
of forming a permanent organization
with meetings held alternately at Su-
perior and Duluth. About so ministers
were in attendance. Another meeting
will be held at Duluth to perfect an
organization.
Senator Burrows has introduced a
bill to make it illegal for the commits
sioner of patents to reject an aDplica-
ton for patent Oh the ground that the
several features which it combines
have been anticipated in several diff
ferent patents. 1t requires that all
reflections shall be based upon a single
invention embracing a complete an
ticipation of the device applied for
w. II. Bragdon, an electrical engi-
neer and amateur photographer of
Portland took a picture of the con-
denser of an electrical machine with
out using any cathode Or X rays. He
took a perfect picture of an insulated
wire through an inch and three-quar-
ters of solid steel Experiments else
where leave question as to whether
there are such Things as X rays.
At Duluth, Mimi, a trust deed run
ming to the United States Mortgage
and Trust company of New York was
filed by the Commercial Light and
Power company. 1t is for $4,000
and is for the purpose of refunding
the old bonds of the company, paying
it's obligations and providing means for
the extension of the plant.
Commissioner of Pensions Lochren
informed Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood
pension Office in requiring her to re-
fund S25 in a certain claim has been
allowed and the money will be re-
turned to her. Miss Lockwood had
paid back the $25 and then took the
appeal 1t was for the retaining of
this fee asserted to have been illegally
paid to her that the report was circu-
lated that she would be disbarred
from practice before the pension office
but the action of the commissioner
shows that there was nothing of an
illegal character about the transac
ton.
VIM. J. Doerr, one of the Chicago
aldermen of the city, was taken to the
police station. The alderman was
covered with mud, his nose bleeding,
his face scratched and ragged frag-
ments of what had been his coat were
dangling from his shoulders. Doerr
began his rampage by running into
a trolley car with a buggy. Then he
climbed on the car and tried to
thresh the motor man. The conductor
came to the rescue and DOerr tried
tried to shoot him. They fought all
over the car and finally a policeman
dragged the alderman into the street.
This suited the alderman and he
fought the policeman on the car
tracks and in the cutters. When
more policemen came he tried them
as we'll. He was thumped, battered
and rolled in the mud but he could
not be pacified. Nothing suited him
Finally he was dragged to the station