Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-17

At a meeting Of prominent republic
cans at San Diego, steps were taken
10 promote the candidacy OF .. S.
Grant for the United States senate
from California
Indian Head, one Of the most notable
features Of the Palisades and which
was located just above Fort Lee, New
York, was destroyed. The work was
done to supply stone for road max
ing.
Lorenzo Barnes was hanged at East
Cambridge, Mass. He murdered John
Dean, a farmer, - years old, who
lived between Maynard and Acton,
on Dec. II.
Edward Z. Coombs. formerly a
coroner Of Brooklyn, is Oh trial or
the charge Of manufacturing mys-
terious cases e death for the sake
OF fees.
The c0urt-martiaI Of Capt. o. NJ.
Garter, in progress al New York, has
decided that an army officer has no
private rights and that his papers are
at all times open to the wish of the
government
Canada is said to be strongly OPP
posed to the propositions OF the
United States concerning reciprocal
agreements in Alaska and the North
west Territory.
The Canadian-Atlantic Steamship
line has chartered a number of steam
ers in Cleveland to build Up big trade
on the great lakes eastward to Parry
sound.
Frank G. Lacey and Joseph Short
are dead and two companions are in
critical condition at Moose Lake,
Montana, from the effects of drinking
wood alcohol
1t is stated that another strike of
Illinois coal miners is probable as a
result Of the cut in wages by the
Big Muddy Coal company of Carriers
vile.
Every man employed in the canal
work between Utica and Rome n. Y,
quit work. There are about 1000 of
them. They demand that the pay OF
laborers be increased from 1919 cents
to IS cents an hour.
Newman Miller, secretary of the
study department Of
the extension division Of the Univer-
stty of Chicago, has resigned to be-
come proprietor Of the Albion Recor-
der, at Albion, Mich
George S. Cralle, a notorious pen
sion swindler, has been taken to To-
peka, Kansas, for trial, after being
arrested at Holton. He is wanted in
Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and other
states.
J. G. Cox, one of the younger board
of trade operators and known among
his associates as the little plungar."
has been taken to the detention hospi-
tai, in Chicago, and will be tried for
his sanity.
The Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern have cut the rates to
Seattle to $40, to meet the Soo's slash
from ST Paul. The rate war for the
Klondike business is now at it's
height.
William Harris, one of the two
negroes who attempted to rob the
store of Mrs Caroline Middleton, in
McDonoughville, opposite New
Orleans, was probably lynched, though
no trace of his body can be found.
Henry Leveson Of Chicago, has
lifted two ten-pound dumb bells from
his side to arms length above his
head $500 times in two hours and
forty-nine minutes, beating the rec
Nd urhi
hours
Trouble is brewing again in the
northern coal district of Colorado.
The trust hats ordered a shutdown of
the mines, and the men threaten to
indefinitely shut down the entire dis
| trict unless some agreement is reached
at once.
Secret Service officers and Deputy
! United States Marshals have arrested
at De Soto, Mo-, Joseph Cature, Will
lam Sutton and William Maffitt
on a charge of making counterfeit
money.
Justice Russell in the SUPP eme court
Of New York decided that where judg-
ment is confessed by an insolvent
corporation for the purpose of ia
voring some particular creditor, and
the proceedings are kept secret, the
! judgment is invalid.
John F. Armstrong, a mining man
well known throughout the Lake Su-
perior region, while temporarily in
sane, walked to one Of the Lake Su-
perior Mining company's shafts at
Ishpeming and jumped into the open
ing, falling 444 feet.
General William Booth of the sal
walton army and party, including
Commander BoothTucker, Consul
Booth-Tucker, Commissioner Alex
ander Lincoln, Colonel John Lawley,
Brigadier Alice Lewis and Adjutant
Deverell, left San Francisco for the
north, on their way east.
In SomervilIe county, Texas, Harvey
Lane, farmer, was killed by Henry
Burklow, farm hand, the latter
severing Lanes head from the body
with an AK. The only witness to
the tragedy was the eight-year-old
daughter Of Lane. Burklow has been
arrested
The Chicago friends of the late
George w. G. Ferris are much per
picked over the news from Pittsburg
that the ashes Of the inventor of the
Ferris wheel are held by the under
taker pending the payment of the
| funeral eXDenses