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

from Washington to Augusta, Me.
! Walker Blaine's body will also prob
ably be removed
The Indianapolis water supply has
+ become so contaminated that it is unfit
Tor use, and proceedings have been in
f. stituted against the American Straw
board company for permitting refuse
( 10 enter White river.
+ Captain Joseph Phillips Of the Buff
falo, n. i, ticebcat Hutchinson, was
shot ami perhaps fatally wounded by
Emmett Bown, sailor and ex-freman,
who had sought reinstatement i'll the
fire department.
Postmaster Ross of Cripple Creek
Col, has forwarded his resignation TO
the department at Washington.
Charges against the administration of
his office were filed by Po6totiice IN
. spector McMeicEien.
A tramp turned VI in the Racine
court Wnom d manufacturer recognized.
: Two years ago he was worth $4,000
and conducted one OF the largest hotels
II Pennsylvania By a decision of The
. supreme court ne 1851 all.
Emma 1Iorekel was shot and killed
at Chelsea, Mich, by her fance, Fred
/ Hydlof, who was jealous because she
had been escorted home by another
man. Hydloff theI. attempted suicide,
but failed to kill himself.
Representatives of twenty-five indie
pendent telephone companies have
formed in Pittsburg to fight the Bell
company In Muskegon rival com
pany has nearly enough telephones sub
scribed to organize an exchange.
Philip Oppenheim, who was ordered
by the Sacramento, Cal, superior court
10 turn over to T. M. Yates, as re-
ceiVer, 100000 which he held as
trustee for his mother, has disappeared
and is supposed 10 be in Toronto.
In La Crosse the Norwegian Evang
Clical Lutheran synod of America has
coD,4nenced an eight days session. 1t
meets once in three years and has a
membership of 100000 142 ministers
and $50 lay delegates are there.
Phil Armour and his two sons are
acquitted by the Chicago board of
trade, the charge being manipulation
of grain receipts. The directors sus-
pended A. I. Valentine, manager of the
Armour elevators FOR twenty years.
Edward and Benjamin Postal. aged
16 and is, were drowned in the tloquet
river about twenty miles north of Du-
i luth. They had been hunting and
fishing and their punt overturned.
Benjamin lost his life trying to save
/ his brother.
c. S. Blackman of Juneau, one of the
contesting republican national dele
gates from Alaska, who has arrived n
Seattle, says his delegation has no
particular choice for president He
| says: 'All we ask is a candidate who
will do something for the pressing
needs of Alaska"
Ex-Consul John L. Waller has asked
his Kansas negro friends to support
him for recorder of deeds of the Dis
trict Of Columbia should Major McKin:
ley become president. He claims the
place as compensation for his suffering
in French hands.
ii seated as delegate in the ST. Louis
convention he would vote for Mckinley
on the first ballot. There are said to
be thirteen other New York delegates
who will not give MOI ton even a COM
plimentary vote.
The Ottawa. H., street railway sys-
TEN, which was abandoned nearly two
years ago by the General Electric COM
pany, has been purchased by J. Ne
MILAN Smith of South Bend, Ind, VINO
has been granted a franchise to oper-I
ate it and an electric light and power
plant.
The general deficiency bill will not
reason of Mr. Cleveland's objections
to the items for the payment Of French
Spoliation claims. It will, however,
be permitted to become a law without
action by the president.
The state of Texas has made appu-
cation 10 the department of state at
WASHINGTON for the original declaration
of independence adopted by the dele
gates who met at Washington, Texas,
in 1886 and began the long struggle
with Mexico which led to the independ-
ence of the lone star republic.
William F. Harrity. chairman of the
national democratic committee, re-
ceived $1,000 from the Chicago local
committee, leaving $4,000 to be paid
Mr.. Harrity says he believes an ami
cable adjustment of the silver issue
will be reached in the Chicago conven-
ton.
Sheriffs have captured at Appleton
Junction the two desper ADDE'S who have
been blowing safes and robbing post
offices in northern Michigan, Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota for several months
past. One of the men is supposed to
be 'Reddy Baldwin, noted Cleveland
craftsman. They made a violent re-
SiStance
David Belasco is suing n. K. Fair
banks. Of Chicago for S65,O00 for his
services and expenses in training Mrs.
Leslie Carter for tho stage, which, he
alleges, occupied his entire time from
July, 1889, to November, 1890. Fair
banks claims he has loaned Belasco
$4,000.
The family of Rev. Crosby H
Wheeler, of Warren, Me-, and Mrs.
Mary f. Gates, OF Chicago, mission
aries at KharpCot, are returning to this