Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-06-04


and return for SO.
DR.. Terrill, who is attending Col.
John Mosby, says that his patient Is
not dying, although Col. Mosby was at
one time very dangerously ILL., He is
now cCnvalescen-.
House committee Oh elections No. L
has decided the Aldrich-Underwood
contest, from the ninth Alabama dis
trict, III favor Of the contestant, who IS
a populist republican.
At Butte, Mont, by a premature eX-
ploslon of a blast in the J. |. c. mine
John Nolan and Peter Connolly were
instantly killed. Nolan was married
and Connolly was single.
In the supreme court an opinion was
rendered by Justice Brown to the effect
that requests made to the United
States in New York are taxable under
the state laws of that state.
Col. H. C. Wood, of the adjutant gen
erals department, has been placed on
the retired list on account of age. His
retirement promotes Lieut.. Col. H. c.
Corbin, stationed at New York.
The contract for the erection Of the
new buildings at the University of Vir-
ginia has been awarded to Charles Il.
Langley & Co., of Richmond. Their
bid is said to be less than 100000.
In Kalamazoo, Mich, Mrs. ]. c. Gro
gin was bitten by tarantula which
came out OF a bunch of bananas and
she became a raving maniac, but hopes
of her recovery are entertained.
NJ Gump was arrested at Omaha,
charged with accepting brides as a
juror to acquit Henry Bolln, Omaha 5
ex-city treasurer, who was convicted Of
stealing $4,000 from the city
One hundred bushels of potatoes tor
a book of poems this is what Clifford
Abbott, a rural poet of Rockford re-
ceived for a copy of his first work. At
their usual price this would be $25.
At Pittsburg, Kan, Rev. Kennedy
Martin, pastor of the African Baptist
church, shot and killed Deacon"
Wright, a pillar of his church, for al
legged intimacy with Martins wIIe.
Nearly all the funds available for
work in the nayy-yards has been eX-
pended, and the employees will be laid
Off on June l Cor a month, when the
new appropriations will be available.
Business men of Baltimore sub
scribed $1380O0 to aid in freeing Johns
Hopkins University from the burden
which the failure Of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad to pay dividends imposed
The new steel bridge spanning the
Kaskaskia river at Old COVington,
near Nashville, H., was dedicated with
imposing ceremonies, a bottle of cream
soda being used in lieu of champagne.
By the explosion of a gasoline stove
on Townsend s.reeT Chicago, a family
of six persons was almost extermin-
ated. Four are dead and a fifth is so
badly burned that death is almost GER
tain.
Members of the Indiana republican
state central committee who are OPP
posed to Chairman Gowdy, have issued
a call for a committee meeting, when
an attempt will be made to depose the
chairman.
At Washburn, Wis, notice Of appeal
to the supreme court was filed in the
case of Nichols Flynn, sentenced to
fourteen years in the penitentiary for
the murder of William Sullivan, at
Iron River
Lieutenant Luther B. Baker, who as
an officer in the government detective
service had charge OF the party which
captured J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin
OF President Lincoln, died in Michigan,
aged sc years.
A Swiss professor has invented a
bicycle on which the rider must sit up
right The pedals are on the forward
wheel The force is trebled. The rider
sits back comfortably, like a man in
reclining chair.
In the United States court judgments
were filed against the Northern Pacific
Railway company and i'll favor of the
Farmers Loan and Trust company,
one for 81 1888, 5000 and the other for
81, 1873, 5O1.3S.
The Guarantee Loan and Trust COM
pany of Seattle made an assignment
yesterday, having made injudicious
loans on Washington property. The
bank was organized in 1887 with
capital OF 100000.
Joshua lowering, of Baltimore, was
nominated for the presidency by the
national prohibition convention and
halle Johnson of Illinois for vice presi-
dent. The convention was anti-free
silver but for woman suffrage.
At Nermillion, S. D., fire almost de-
stroyed Malby's planning mill and scroll
works. The roller mills and electric
light plant were saved by a hard fight.
Loss about 1000. Covered by insur-
ance. The fire was of incendiary
origin.
The house committee on pensions has
authorized favorable report on bill
providing a service pension for all SOL
diers and sailors who served nineCy
days. 1t is estimated that it will add
$30,000,000 a year to pension expendi-
lures.
John Lemley, the student on trial at
Metropolis, ILL.,, for killing Benjamin
Laid at Brooklyn May, admitted the
fact and said he killed Ladd on behalf
of Nora Lesley, aged IA, who, pursued
by Laid, ran to him for protection.
He was put under bonds of $4,000.
At Fond du Lac, Wis, Judge ellison
has sentenced Charles Blanchard, an