Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-06

business block, causing a loss of about
$4,000. The losers are w. F. Glasgow,
L. E. Breckenridge, W. Terney, H. Bor-
cher, J. Hurley, P. Connors.
| All parties in the litigation over the
| Chicago lake front property will sub
NIT briefs and afidavits to Commits
sioner Hermann, Of the general land
office, and the decision will be rem
! dered soon after the papers are re-
ceived
| John S. BARLEY, ez-s ate treasurer Of
! Nebraska, was aTraigned in the Omaha
! police court on a charge Of embezzIing
! $201 100. He pleaded not guilty and
waived examination. He was held
| to answer in the district cour- in SD
900 bail.
4 freight train on the Wheeling &
| Lake Erie railway went through q
. bridge near Warrent0wn, O.. and
! plunged i'm 4 creek. Engineer James
| Garslotter was scalded o death. Fire
man Edward Mum and Brakeman c.
| E. Keyser both sustained broken legs.
The house of represen = ives Of the
Delaware Legislature has appointed a
cCn 90 10 investigate the charge
recently made that certain members
Of the body have attempted ID extort
mercy from persons applying for leg
islation as the price of their favorable
votes.
A boiler explosion at Alderman's
sawmil, in the Kanawha valley, West
Virginia, killed Perry Daevers and
George Conley and injured z. w. Hick-
man, Thomas Hickman, William Bal
ton, VintOn Alderman and John Nc
Cauley. The three former will prob
ably die.
The wrestling match between Ear
mer" Burns and D. S. McLeon will
take place in Davenport, Ia, May 6.
| The match will be for 81 900 a side
and Is and 25 per cent. division of
the receipts, the worlds championship
! title to go with the decision. The
stake money has been deposited.
Walker Fearne, American judge in
the international court in Cairo, Egypt
minister to Greece under President
| CleVeland's first administration. and
chief of department of foreign affairs
at the Chicago worlds fair, is criti-
cally i'll at the home of his daughter, in
New York city.
The dedication of the tomb and
monument Of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in
Riverside Park, New York city. fully
equaled the expectations if it's magnifi-
cence as a ceremony. The number of
men in the land parade was estimated
at 10000. President Mckinley, Gen.
Horace Porter and Mayor Strong made
addresses at the tomb
Ex-Governor Altgeld, whose name
from time to time has been connected
with the Gffairs of the defunct Globe
Savings bank denies that he was in
any way responsible for the irreguIari-
- Cf its management He admits
'2ving Been a borrower from The bank.
but says that it was simply 2 matter Of
business.
General Miles has received the for
nal assent Of the president to his pro-
jacted trip to Turkey and Greece. Gen
Miles will be gone two or three months.
as in addition to making a personal
study Of the military features of tho
contest between the Turks and Greeks,
he proposes to inspect the military es-
adjustments OF the principal European
! powers. The result Of his observations
will be embodied in an official report
to the president.
( Four members Of the desperate Weir
sang in Chicago were captured on in
| formation given by Fred Drenkson.
one Of their palE. Drenkson went to
church two weeks ago and was so i'm
! pressed with the song service that he
! decided to reform. The four persons
! under arrest are Henry Weir, Edward
! Ernst, Mrs. Mary Weir and Charles
| Zimmerman. Fourteen robhories are
| charged to the sang. Some of the
stolen property was recovered.
Count Alphonso Chrostowski a
Polish editor, playwright and exiled
nihilist, is in Columbus, O.. for the pur-
pose of pressing his suit with Miss
Daisy Aldrich, daughter of the presi-
! dent of the Worthingto Street Rail-
way company and a leader in fashion
| able circles. The count met Miss Aid
rich at the worlds fair and a strong
attachment sprang up between them.
! Correspondence has been kept up ever
E~0 '-' = seems. he parents of the
| young lady were not 'et into the secret.
| When they heard of it they at once
! called the wedding off in a public an
nOuncement in the evening papers.