Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-20

Assemblyman Butts introduced a res
oiution, in the New York legislature
urging congress to make appropriations
to fortify the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts; to bring the navy up to first
class basis; to complete the Nicaragua
canal; to purchase Cuba, and to form
an alliance with the South American
republics.
E. H. Pearl, of Superior, charged with
embezzlement, has been bound over to
the circuit court. Bail was fixed at
$500. Pearl was originally charged
with the embezzlement of $3.50 from the
insurance firm of Fowler & Manner,
but the first complaints were with
drawn and two new ones filed charg-
ing the embezZlement Of 81, 100.
Capt George Winans, of Waukesha,
Wis, is in Washington, endeavoring to
secure a contract for keeping the upper
Mississippi free from sand bars by
means Of barges sunk in such a way as
70 divert the current and clear the
channel by securing, a device long in
use by lumbermen. The house, river
and harbor committee will give him a
hearing next week.
Obituary: At Warrensburg, Mo-.
Mrs. Eve Stone, one hundred.-At Peru,
Ill, John Connell, seventy.-At Quincy,
H., John Kinkel.-At Charles City,
Iowa, John Mahwa, seventy-one.-At
Peru, Ind, Justice A. w. Dawes, eighty
two.-At Coldwater, Mich, Amos Ste
vens, sixty-six; Mrs. Elizabeth Eldred
ninety three.-At Decatur, Ind, John
Dirkson.
I American wall paper makers entered
the German market, with uneXampled
success this year, but United States
Consul Stephane reports from Anne
burg that after delivery of the goods
signs appeared in many cases that the
papers were not freshly printed and III
/ some instances they soon turned vel
low. He says the unfavorable impress
sion made by these goods in Germany
will not easily be forgotten when offers
are again made.
/ A short time ago Congressman Gam
| BILE introduced a bill to give 100000
acres of arid land in each state where
there was such land, to be used in such
manner as might be fit for irrigation
purposes. The interior department of
ficials in recommendation to public
lands committee, have gone further
and favor giving all the arid lands in
any state or territory unqualifiedly tC
that state, without restriction, for the
! purposes of irrigation.
/ James H. Pollock died at Racine. Jan
81, and left an estate of about $4,000
In 1886 his wife was granted a divorce
Most of the children sided with the
mother. The will of Mr.. Pollock is a
singular document. To all of the chill
dren who sided with the mother al
that time he wills one copy of Millions
Paradise Lost Then the estate is be-
queathed to the other children. An
effort will be made to break the will.
At Butte, Mont, through a woman's
anxiety to earn an imaginary reward
B. H. Covington, alias John Holt, was
arrested and will be taken to Cheyenne
! to answer to the charge Of stealing
cattle in Wyoming. For year he has
been living in hiding with his wife and
child in little cabin in the mountains
But few months ago, in one of his
trips to town, he was seen and identified
by Mrs. E. A Shafer. She thought
there was a reward out for him. His
wife and child were left alone out in
! the mountains.