Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-27

Advices from Agnes E. Slack, sec
rotary Of the Worlds Woman's Chris
tan Temperance union, state that in
England the railway companies are
promoting temperance organizations
among their workmen
David Overmeyer, the silver cham
pion of Kansas, will doubtless loom up
as candidate for president or vice
PRESIDENT of the silyerites if the silver
wing Of the democracy remains in the
saddle during the next campaign.
Henry Breese, a banker of Nalana-
zoo, Mich, died April 30, leaving Vital
E. Bangs and ROmolo E. Bangs, two
farmers, near Modesto, Cal, each a
fifth interest in a fortune amounting
to between $1,000 900 anu $LU,OOG,O00.
The Holland submarine torpedo
boat was launched at Elizabeth, n. J.
The International Brotherhood Of
Railway Trainmen began a convention
| a. Toronto, Ont, and the Order of Rail
way Telegraphers convened at Peoria,
! Ill.
| The receivers Of the Charter Oak
! Insurance company of Hartford, Conn,
| have declared a final dividend Of 3 IA
per cent, in addition TO dividends Of
Is per cent. declared before. This
company has been in liquidation fifteen
years.
Macedonia Fransto, the 17-year-Old
boy who murdered four persons at
Monclova, Mexico, and then eloped
with the daughter Of a ranchman,
has been captured in the mountains
near Villatdama, State of Tamaulipas.
The girl was with him.
Mark w. Townsend, who was ar
rested in Adams county, Washington,
and brought to Lancaster; Wis, for
trial Oh a charge of numbering his
wife eight years ago, was found guilty
Of manslaughter in the fourth degree
and sentenced to the penitentiary for
three years.
Obituary: At Asheville, n. c., Ju-
Illus Lewis Watson of Houston Texas.
AT Muncie, Ind, Lloyd Wilcox.-At
Sheboygan Falls, Wis, John Mitchell,
79.-At Westchester, Pa, J. Williams
Thorne, 81.-At Vandalia, ILL.,, Judge
Jacob Fouke.-At London, Lord Henry
Edward Somerset, A.
The announcement has been made in
New York that a labor union of that
city, in order to impress upon Tam
many the Importance of recognizing
the Chicago platform in the municipal
election this fall, has invited William
! j. Bryan to speak in Union Square or
labor day, September 6, and that he
has accepted.
The Illinois Battlefield Monument
commission has decided to erect nine
monuments each at Lookout Mountain
and at the north end of Mission Ridge
to the Illinois regiments which par
ticipated in those battles, and a gran
tie monument one hundred feet on
the top of Mission Ridge on the spot
where the confederate General Bragg
had his headquarter.
Edwin Stoddard, an inmate Of the
Trenton, N. j., penitentiary, claims to
have positive knowledge of the eX-
istence of a will made by the late
A. J. Davis, by which the American
Tract society, American Bible society
and American Board of Foreign Mis-
siC ms were each bequeathed $4,000,
and by which $5,000,OO0 was set aside
for a university in Butte.
President Mckinley sent to the SEN
ate a message recommending an appro-
priation for the relief of the starving
Americans in Cuba Several members
of the cabinet are said to be opposed
to the message. In a letter read at
a mass-meeting of Cuban sympathizers
in Washington Senator Chandler de-
clared that the United States should
send ships and troops to Cuba to end
the war.