Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05

cents an ounce and later declined to
IS 7-8 cents.
German American proprietors OF
nublic ball rooms and picnic parks III
Greater New York have started boom
for the nomination of Registrar Will
lam Sohmer as an auti-reform canol-
date for the mayorality. He is
Tammany man.
Eroch Ingersoll, who is said to De
. sec,,.-G -ousin Of Robert 6. niger
soil. attempted to commit SUICIDE III
;, 80 Bath Beach, Brooklyn,
nv +ak;rg ar ounce Of lauda2Hm. lie
was in a despondent mood on account
of scme trouble.
\ tramp named Peter Bons has peeh
almost positively identified as the man
who brutally assaulted and then muir
6ered pretty Pearl Morrison near
CRYSTAL Falls, Mich. Citizens are
greatly enraged and there is CONSIDER
able talk of lynching.
Judge John w. Barr at Louisville
refused the injunction petitloned by
Deputy United States Marshal Lee
Dudley to prevent DR.. A. D. James, the
new United States marshal, from dls-
charging him. Dudley claimed ne was
protected by civil service.
Ralph Langston, colored, son OF
Professor J. NJ Langston, formerly
United States minister to Liberia, VINO
was arrested on complaint OF Mrs.
Mary Pierson, maid at the Garden
theater, n. Y, for an alleged attempt
to rob her, was discharged.
Hernessy & Cox, of ST. Paul, have
been awarded the contract for putting
| the interior finish on the Milwaukee
postofice building (s262, 91D despite
the strong influence brought to bear on
the supervising architect to have the
work done by a cream city firm.
The Baldwin Locomotive works
booked an order for twenty locomo-
tives for Japan. This, with orders al
ready received, makes a total Of fifty
for that oriental empire. Thirty have
Just been shipped. Officials OF the
wroks say there is practically NJ
serious European competition in this
trade.
The force of car builders of al
grades of labor at the Wisconsin Cen
tral car shops in Stevens Point, viii
be increased by the addition OF Lon
men. The receivers Of the road have
ordered $50 ore cars to be rebuilt anC
twenty-five stock cars to be trans
formed from ordinary to double-decl
cars at once.
The armor producing companie!
having declined to furnish the navy
department the armOr needed for the
three battleships now building at the
price of $500 per ton fixed by congress
Secretary Long has taken the SECOND
step in the line marked out by con
gress and has called upon the ship
building companies themselves to sub
nit proposals.
The first copies of the tariff act il
law form for circulation have beer
received at the document rooms of tn,
senate and house. The law makes {
pamphlet of seventy pages. The mem
bers of the house will have 25, 900, tn,
senators 10000 and the senate com
mittee on finance $4,000.
The handsome Carrara marble
bust of President Mckinley that is t,
be placed in the state capitol at Col
umbus, Ohio, has arrived from Ma.
Japanese officials III Washington de
clare that all talk OF the possibility o
Japan assuming Warlike attitude to
wards the United States is absurd
Recent advices from Peru state tina
the wonderful strikes reported from
the KlOndyke region have been total,
eclipsed by fabulous discoveries o
gold in the South American republic
In an interview NJ. de Morarda say!
that there is no longer any doubt tina
the famous Inca gold fields, which hav,
been considered myths among the in
telligent people of Peru, have at las
been discovered.
In the civil service rules some i'm
portant changes have been made by
President Mckinley Customs house
employees are put in the classified ser
vice and some of the principal official.
are taken out. Removals will not be
made except upon just cause and upo1
filing of written charges. The new or
Ger brings into the classified service
sixty-five hitherto unclassified custom!
offices.
A Boston firm, which had a larg,
Gels; gnment of wool on steamship,
Earr1ving at New York Saturday last
before President Mckinley signed tht
DiEgley tariff bill, has determined t
bring the suit testing the ruling of the
treasury department as to the paymen
of duties. r. E. Langston, colored, sol
of former member of congress from
Virginia, was exonerated by a New
York magistrate of a charge of high
way robbery.
According to gossip, the following
corporations are mentioned as likely
to merge their identity into one colos
sal whole: Standard Oil company
United States Leather companv
American Sugar Refining company
National Lead company, United State:
Rubber company, American Tobacco
company, American Spirits Manu-
featuring company, American Cotton
Gin company New York, Chicago ant
Bay States Gas companies. Tota
capital, s535, 900, 900.
AT Topeka, Kan, A D. Hubbard. who
was convicted of emf ezzling $4,000 as
receiver of the Hamilton Printins
company, was sentenced to three
years IL the penitentiary by Judge Ha
zen. Hubbard was "a prominent law.