Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-15


superior of the Paulist priests, died in
New York
The Indiana labor commission has
started a movement for arbitration of
the coal-nliners' strike.
The Elks in annual session at Min
neapolis selected New Orleans as the
next years meeting place.
Miss Louise Imogen Quincy, poet and
boycotted pOstmistress at Auburndale,
Mass, resigned her office
The total tax valuation of New York
city is: For real estate, $1,787, 1856, 791;
for personal property, 1881, 449, O65.
John w. Milestone, late secretary Of
the Cincinnati city waterworks depart
ment, has been indicted for embezzling
100000
The engagement of Miss Frances
Hayes, daughter of the ex-president to
Ensign Harry E. Smith, U. S. n, is an
nounced.
w. w. Rockhill, former assistant
secretary of state, is said to have
been decided upon for minister to
Greece.
Fire destroyed one of the docks of
the Youghioghney, New York & Lee
high Coal company, West Superior;
loss, $4,000.
President Andrews of Brown uni
versity says that France and England
would follow American initiative in
bimetallism.
Four people were fatally injured and
eighteen or twenty others more or less
injured in a street car wreck on the
Forbes street line, Pittsburg.
George R. Bidwell, the new collec-
tor Of the port of New York, started
as a bicycle salesman and now has an
important business of his own.
John H. Barker, n negro, was cleo
trCcuted in Sing Sing for wife murder.
The autopsy revealed positive proof of
the mans insanity.
Fire in Chicago destroyed 80 freight
cars loaded with valuable merchan-
disc on the Alton road and damaged
the steamer Cheming.
Prof. Lawrence Gronland of Seattle
has been chosen as one of the three
commissioners who will find site for
Debs' cooperative colony.
Senator McLaurin and Ex-senator
Irby almost came to blows at a pri-
mary meeting at Sumter, S. c., where
both made political speeches.
Henry b. Stone, eX-president of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail
road, was killed by an explosion Of
fireworks at Nonquitt, Mass.
DR.. f. G. Mohr of New York, who
was married in Baltimore, is suing DR..
Stevens of New York, charging him
with alternating his wife's affections
The tin plate operatives Identified
with the Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers have secured
an advance of 8 "a per cent. in wages.
Erastus Brown, colored, who is ac-
cused of felonious assault, was secreted
in the woods at Villa Ridge, Mo-, by
men, who thus prevented a lynching.
Wagons bearing advocates of free
silver, it was said, will leave Nebraska
and work their way to Wall street,
disseminating White-metal literature
Francis, son of United States Sena-
tor Mcmillan, was secretly married
last November to Miss Lewis, of New
Haven, and the marriage is just an
nOunced.
Intense neat prev; leu IN many cities
Of the country, notably in Wheeling,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, ST.
Louis, Chicago, Cleveland and Nil
waukee.
Constance Noolyapzio vboCo ro+Ioo,-
R. Shelton Mackenzie, was famous as
an author and critic in both England
and America, married a negro IN
Philadelphia.
The New York tax commissioners
fled their report with the Board of
Aldermen, showing figures calling for
a 2.05 taN~rate this year, a reduction
of 3 points from 1896.
John Reynolds for thirty years pub
Usher Of the Odd Fellows Talisman,
and one of the best-known Odd Fellows
in the United States, is dead at his
home in Indianapolis.
Col. ]. w. S. Ridley, for years iden-
tilted with the farming and stock in
terests of the south, and one time
called the mule king Of the south,
died at Nashville, Tenn, aged 10.
The regular republicans in New York
assert that if necessary to defeat Seth
Low, the citizens union candidate for
the mayorality nomination, they will
support Mayor Strong for reelection.
In order to carry on the fight for
life, the parents of Theodore Durrant
will place his photographs on sale.
The photographs will show Durrant in
prison garb taking his daily exercises.
Rev. George Desh0n, who was a class
mate of General Grant at West Point,
succeed the late Rev. Augustine F.
Hewitt.
Governor Mount paroled Benjamin
r. Musgrave, who was sentenced to
becomes a superior Of the Paulist Or
der Of Catholic priests in New York to
state prison from Terre Haunte for
ten years for swindling a life insur-
ance company. The prisoner is dying
of consumption.
Mrs. John Bradbury, the wife of a
Los Angeles millionaire, and H. Rus
sell Ward, the married man with
whom she elOped, were arrested at the
instance Of the San Francisco Society
for the Prevention of Vice.
DR.. Harvey B. Dale, who was super
intendent of the Oshkosh city schools
for ten years and mayor of Oshkosh
for five years and a member OF the
state board Of university regents