Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-24

did not leak a drop. A systematic Ell
fort will now be made to locate the
Norman wreck.
Miss Marion Wheeler, daughter OF
Jerome B. Wheeler, the well-hnown
banker and millionaire mining man Of
New York city, was married at Mani
tou, Col, to H. S. Cable, the president
of Pixies Peak Cog Wheel railroad and
son of President R. R. Cable Of the
Rock Island.
William G. Porter, Jr., the former
cashier Of the Bank of Kansas City,
which failed February last, was ar
rested on two warrants charging him
with receiving deposits when the bank
was in a failing condition and he knew
it was ins0lvent.
That delay is excus&ble when
cauesd by strikers intinlidating those
who would take their places is the de-
cisjon of the United States circuit
court at St. Paul. A shipment OF coal
could not be unloaded within the time
specified in the contract and damages
were asked.
Miss Ida Buchanan, aged 20, COM
mitted suicide by shooting herself at
Hannibal, Mo. She was engaged to be
married and her lover was in the house
at the time. She left a note saying
that her health was poor and that she
did not wish to become a burden to
anyone.
The formal notification to Gen.
John NJ Palmer and Gen. Simon B.
Buckner of their nominations by the
Indianapolis convention for president
and vice president, respectively, took
place. The speeches of notification
were made by Senator Gallery and Col.
John R. Fellows.
The dispensary investigation has
begun in South Carolina. Governor
Evans was the first witness. All he
knew, beyond heresay evidence, was
that w. T. Mixson, a son Of Commits
sioner MiXGon, had cotton $2,698 COM
mission from the Live Oak Distillery
company of Cincinnati.
Mrs Rose Hawthorne Lathrop,
Nathaniel Hawthorne's daughter, who
is living apart from her husband,
George Parsons Lathr0p. has decided
to devote her life to nursing cancer
patients. She is hunting quarters in
a Boston slum. The pair correspond,
but re objected to this new enter
prise.
County Treasurer Blosser, who is
just retiring from office at GaIlipolis,
O., is about $4,000 short. The treas
urer claims that package containing
$4,000 was stolen from his office last
week. He says that the parcel was
left carelessly on his table willie he
went down town on a business err
rand
Cardinal Gibbons fulfilled a promise
he made some time ago that if the
Baltimores again won the pennant he
would see a game. He paid the eX-
penses of the team to St. Charles col
lege, where losaI talent Dieced out the
champions who divided into two
teams. The faculty Their dined the
ball players.
Lieutenant Ben Reed, of the Chicago
police force has refused 81 100000 for
Cripple Creek mining property in
which he is interested with three other
Chicagoans, not police officers, and
three prominent residents of Colorado.
They invested their few dollars when
Cripple Greek was less than a dot on
government maps.
At Miller, ind, Paul's flying ma
chine is ready for a final launch today.
Placed ON a high trestle it will en-
deavor to soar through space. The
scientists are forced to hold it down
in spite of the heavy ballast Q40
pounds). At Portland a stock COM
pany is formed to build Rev. J. S. AK
tells machine. 1t carries a gas engine.
If the fight in Newport harbor be-
tween the battleship Massachusetts and
the torpedo boat Cushing had been 4
real one, the big $3,OO0,00O fighting ma
chine would be en- the bottom Of Mar
ragansett bay. Twice the little Cush-
ing evaded the searchIights of the bat
tleship and reached the point where a
torpedo could have been successfully
delivered.
The republicans of Philadelphia
made the following congressional nom
nations: First district, Henry H.
Bingham; second, Robert Adams, Jr.;
j. Frederick Halterman; fourth, James
Rankin Young; fifth, Alfred c. Harmer
Representative Reyburn of the fourth
district was supported by Senator
Quay, with the result thai Young re
ceived the nomination.
The Indiana state board of health
has caught the microbe fever. Under
them the slate and slate pencil of yore
will go. Instead must be used paper
pads and lead pencils. The woodwork
of the schools must be scrubbed with
disinfectants each day. Open water
buckets for thinking are forbidden.
The water must be drawn from a fau-
Get. There is a good deal of protest.
The city hall bell for Milwaukee is
about to be cast. 1t will weigh $4,000
pounds when it is finished, and will,
with the exception of one in Montreal,
be the largest bell in America. The
diameter at the mouth VIII be 101 IL
inches, the height about the same.
Materials used will be Lake Superior
copper and the best East India tin.
The proportion in which these two
metals will be used is one of the Sc
crets of the bell makers.
1t is thought 100000 visited the
opening of the new store of Seigel
& Cooper in New York There were
10 policemen On duty Most of the
men who cot first into the store raced