Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-14

being unable to hold logs. High water
is reported on all the upper streams
Thirty-one republican senators have
signed petition to the finance commit
tee praying that if any tariff bill is
considered at the present session the
committee will provide for a duty on
wool
a member Of the foreign affairs COM
mittee Of the house is authority for the
statement that John Hays Hammond
will be pardoned by President Kruger
after serving a short term of imprison-
ment
Representative Wadman, of Illinois
has introduced a resolution providing
that the house of representatives di-
rectly request the president to issue a
proclamation recognizing a state of
war in Cuba.
A washout near Liberty, Neb.,
ditched a Burlington branch freight
train. Engineer Brennan is missing
and it is supposed that he was
drowned. Conductor Wilcox was fat
ally injured.
In canoe-shapeG boat, ten feet in
length, Prussian sailed from the mill
ing district at Niagara through the
hydraulic canal out into the rapids and
over to within 900 feet Of Goat island
then returned.
Claude Falls Wright and Miss Mary
C. L. Leonard were married at Theo-
sophical headquarters, New York, a
mysterious mahatma presiding. The
couple claim to have been married
5000 years ago.
The case of J. H. Wiborg and others
convicted of participating in the Horsa
filibustering expedition, was set for
hearing in the United States supreme
court on the 18th inst.
Three dams on Crooked creek, near
Grantsburg, Wis, have gone out by the
high rise of water, scattering millions
of feet of logs through the woods. The
loss is heavy. The st. CroiX river Is
the highest known in years.
There will be no investigation of the
railroad rebates to the members of the
alleged beef trust by the present fed
eral grand jury in Chicago. The gov
eminent officials decline to give any
reasons for postponement.
Commissioner LamOreauX will make
a trip of inspection of the land offices
in Minnesota, Montana, Idaho, Cali
fornia and Colorado next month in or
der to secure a thorough revision OF
methods throughout the service.
The Franklin sugar refinery at Phil
adelphia, which has been idle for four
or five months, has started again in
full operation. Over 1000 hands are
employed at the refinery, and a major
ity of the old men returned to work.
Homer Judd, Of the Chicago and Fort
Worth Packing company, has been ar
rested at Fort Worth on the charge OF
violating the interstate commerce law
shipping goods without the full weight
on the billing and receiving rebates.
Over $4,000 worth of damage was
done to Ashland, Wis, streets by ter
rife rain storm. Two residences were
struck by lightning and the oil tanks
of the Ashland Lighting company were
torn from their places by the rush of
water.
John w. Peterson and Charles Man
son, Duluth saloonkeepers, have been
held on a charge Of drawing the con-
tents of two kegs of distilled liquor
without destroying the stamps The
offense is a felony, and heavily pun
ishable
The northbound NJ, K. and T. flyer
was struck by the Texas and Pacific
switch engine at Fort Worth. a
sleeper and chair car were smashed
p. c. Hamilton, of Ithaca, and c. H
White, of CIeburne, were very seri-
ously injured.
At Eau Claire Manager Robert c.
Hudson, Of the Frederick Warde com
pany, was severely caned by A. Fore
man. The manager abused the actor
and finally pulled his nose. Actor
Foreman then administered a sound
thrashing.
Secretary Morton's distribution OF
seeds to congressman, and through
them to their constituents, is proving a
but the seeds are piled up at the sew,
eral distributing centers, with little
prospects of being properly handled.
At Sandstone, Mimi, the stone cut
ters in the quarry of the Minneapolis
and Kettle River company, went out
on a strike. Their complaint is thai
the cents foot they receive for cut
ting sheathing for the Minneapolis
reservoir is insufficient. They ask L
cents.
The University of California athletes
will not go east this spring. This con,
clusion was reached when H. B. Tor
rev. the hurdler, told Captain Merwir
that it would be impossible for him tt
accompany the team on it's tour Tor
reg is one of the best point winners il
the team.
John T. Jones, who, after two trials
was convicted of feloniously taking
gold bullion from the Carson mint, was
sentenced at Carson, New, to eight
years in the penitertiary at hard labor
and to pay a. fine of $4,000. The same
sentence has been passed on Heney
the other suspect.
Six firemen were severely injured il
fire which broke cut at Kingston, n
Y, in Fischer's hotel, SO East Strand
This hotel, Rigney's hotel adjoining it
and several barns in the neighborhooG
were burned, as was the dwelling and
store of Herold Bros. The total loss
was over $4,000.
The interest so suddenly developed