Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-07

posed to furnish rapid transit by MAX
ing a second story 20 the structure,
and it is suggested that a bicycle track
surmount that.
In the Massachusetts senate the
house resolution in support Of the
presidents Venezuelan message and
the Monroe doctrine was rejected by a
vote OF Il TO 49,
The steamer Wyanoke, OF the Old
Dominion line, ran into the United
States cruiser Columbia at Newport
News, Va, and sank. All her passen-
gers and crew were rescued.
Ex-Mayor J. Hill Davidson chal-
lenged Mayor Henry T. Duncan to a
duel. Several years ago Duncan de-
feated Davidson for reelection as
mayor OF Lexington, Ky.
The Presbyterian million dollar
memorial fund, the raising If which
was inaugurated by the general assem-
bly, in Pittsburg last year, is now sub
stantially completed.
Bill West, charged with the murder
of United States Marshal Kenny, in the
Indian territory, escaped from jail in
Topeka through an outside confeder-
ate, who sawed a bar.
In Savannah, Ga, much ugly feeling
has been aroused by an interruption OF
the memorial services at the confed-
crate monument by the Chatham light
infantry, negro company
The marriage of Miss Florence Pull
NJ. Pullman, to Frank Orren LoWden,
only son of Mr.. and Mrs. L. o. Lowden,
of Hubbard, Iowa, was solemnlzed in
Chicago.
1t is reported that an effort will be
made to unseat Senator Morgan, Of
Alabama, and that the popuIists have
agreed to vote with the republicans on
the admission of Mr.. Dupont, Of Della
ware.
Lightning struck the residence Of
DR.. E. c. French, at Eau Claire, caus-
ing $4,000 damage. Claude Quinlan
who rushed in to help eXtinguish the
flames, was seriously burned by an eX-
plosion of gas.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that a
gigantic scheme is on foot for the COM
bination of all the street railway COM
panies in Allegheny county, which,
when effected, will have a capitaliza
ton Of nearly $50,000,000.
The firms of Pemberton Brothers
and 3. E. Baker & Co., dealers il
sheepkins and goatskins at Peabody,
Mass, made assignments. The in
debtednesS aggregates 100000 and the
assets about $4,000.
The Lubin prizes for the best essays
on the Agricultural Depression and Its
Remedies, have been awarded. The
first prize to c. F. limerick, of the uni
versity Of Michigan; second to W. A.
Coutts, of the university of Michigan.
Senator Stewart circulated petition
among the senators and representa-
tiVes asking President Kruger to par
don John Hays Hammond, the Amer
lean engineer convicted of treason. 1t
was signed by all to whom it was pre-
scented.
The mass meeting which was ex-
peCted to have great influence upon
Governor Morton in inducing him to
veto the greater New York bill did not
fill Cooper union hall, and practically
disappeared before the resolutions
were introduced.
At Ashland, Wis, Judge Bundy de-
MED a motion for a change of venue
made by the defendants attorney in
the pool insurance cases. Twenty-Five
;,oc, 1nf
ants in these cases. The contest is at
tracing widespread interest.
Carl Feigenbaum was executed in
the state prison at Sing Sing for the
murder of Mrs. Juliana Hoffman,, and
William S. Lawton, his counsel, an
nounced his belief that the man was a
murderer of the Jack the Ripper
type, if, indeed, he was not the author
of the Whitechapel crimes.
In Milwaukee a runaway team at
tached to a hack dashed into a crowd
of children who were emerging from
st. Anthony's church school. Twenty
five of the little ones were Frustrated.
Seven were badly injured, two of them
may die. The latter are Frank
Sckudi and Annie Noldan.
The Chicago Methodist ministers
meeting received through Cardinal
Gibbons a reply from Cardinal Ram
polla to the appeal to the pope in be-
half of the Professionals of Peru, DO
livia and Ecuador, who are laboring
under religious disabilities. Cardinal
Rampolla says the holy see cannot in
terfere.
The town treasurer at Washburn,
Wis, will settle tax cases pending
against Bigelow & Co., and the Key
stone < Ashland Lumber companies. /
The amount Of taxes involved is over
100000 The companies will pay 50
per cent. and hold the rest pending de-
cisions. This permits the companies
to work.
A peculiar and pathetic divorce case
was begun in Duluth, in which Are
belle Levoie a girl of Is, seeks divorce
from Alfred Levoie, aged q, on the
ground of cruelty. She also asks for
alimony for an unborn child She was
married last June, when she was II
years of age, to Leyoie, who is a mill
wright.
Revenue officers have seized the
brewery of Jacob Dobmeier at Grand /
Forks to secure payment of 81 ,O60 due
for revenue taxes. Last fall Dobmeier
was found to be using a larger barrel |
than the revenue stamp used accounted .