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

tlesiduary estate, amounting to over
s., 900 000
The mid-road populist conference ad-
iourned after appointing the following
executive committee: A. A. Gunley,
Louisiana; Colorado Peak, Georgia;
Ignatius Donnelly, Minnesota; Abe
Steinerberger, Kansas, and L. c. Bate
man, Maine.
An affadivit by Mrs. Susan J. Fill
more, Of Oakland, Cal, in support OF
the suit of Mrs. Sarah Ann Angel of
Michigan to prove that the latter was
the real wife of the late Jay Gould
! has been filed in the supreme court in
New York.
The secretary of the treasury has
Issued regulations carrying into effect
the act of congress approved Feb. 10,
| 1893, ana known as the Tarsney act
! This act authorizes the secretary to
obtain plans and specifications for
public buildings by competition be-
tween architects.
United States government detectives
| have made four more arrests in New
York in connection with the counter
| feiting of 100000 worth of Costa
Rican bank notes, which, it is said
were to help a revolutionary move
ment in that country.
Letters from ex-P1esident Cleveland
and VIM. J. Bryan were read at a
patriotic celebration by the Tammany
society. Speeches were made by eX-
Congressman Henry st. George Tucker
| of Virginia, James D. Richardson OF
| Tennessee and others.
The gold democrats of Iowa nomi-
mated the following ticket: Governor,
John Clogget, Mason City; lieutenant
governor, S. H. Mallory, Chariten;
judge of the supreme court, W. I. Babb,
Mount Pleasant; railroad commission
er, Peter A. Day, Iowa City; superin-
| tendent of public instruction, J. 3.
knoepfier, Lansing.
An 1nterurban electric car, bound for
| Saginaw from Bay City, Mich, crashed
| through the open draw of a high iron
bridge and the seven passengers were
carried down into the river Mrs Will
lam McClelland and three children
were drowned. The other three pas
sengers were men, and were seriously
injured, but will recover.
George Snyder of Waukesha at
tempted suicide by shooting himself in
the stomach with a shotgun. Members
of the family notified the sheriff that
Snyder was dead, and an undertaken
was sent out and a cOroner's jury i'm
panelled. On arriving at the farm he
was found sitting up and able to con-
verse, but was gradually failing.
San Francisco United States Circuit
court Judge w. w. Morrow rendered
decision in the famous Blythe case
which was in the nature of a surprise.
He ordered a decree entered in favor
of the English Blythes, as prayed for
in their cross complaint, by default,
and in his findings ma lie several rul-
ings which are in direct conflict with
those of the state courts. Under this
ruling it is probably that Mrs. Florence
Blythe Hinckley will lose the property
for which she has fought SO hard.
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations reported a resolution author
iZing the president to take such
measures as he may deem necessary to
obtain indemnity from the Spanish
government tor the wrongs and in
juries suffered by August Bolten and
Gustav Richlieu, naturalized American
citizens, by reason of their wrong
full arrest by Spanish authorities at
Santiago de Cuba in the year 1885"
The resolution further authorizes the
president "to employ such means or
exercise such power as may be neces-
sary."