Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-09
DOMESTIC.

Arthur Zimmerman, the famous
cyclist, is seriously i'll.
Memorial day was more generally
observed than for many years.
Professor S. NJ. Inglis died at a
sanitarium at Kenosha, Wis.
The Mississippi exposition
was formally opened at Omaha
Joe" Choynski has posted a forfeit
of $500 to meet Kid Mccoy June q.
Congressman Elijah A. C'Rising
SUM- Morse is reported to be dying.
Senator Platt is said to favor Col.
Fred. Grant as a candidate for gov
ernor Of New York
Pugilists Jimmy Barry and
Steve" Flanagan have been
matched.
Henry Smith rode 400 ga miles in
twenty-four- hours at a Baltimore
cycle track.
The president has nominated Os-
car S. Straus of New York to be min
lister to Turkey.
Prince Henry of Prussia apologized
to Admiral Dewey for slight to the
. United States.
Bank clearings for May exceeded
those of the same month IN previous
years with one exception.
Congressman Morris was unani-
mOusly renominated by the sixth dis
trict convention at Anokd.
A. B. Dunlap of Dwight, Ill, is
hn let Of Of Of
foundered schooner Jane Grey.
Russia ordered Warships that will
cost s15,O00,000 to be built at the
Cramp shipyard in Philadelphia.
About $4,000, enough to assure the
building of clubhouse, was netted
from the Swedish fair in Chicago.
Thirty-five gold seekers we're
drowned by the sinking Of the
schooner Lady Jane Grey off Cape
| Flattery.
The United States supreme court
granted a motion for the modification
of the Nebraska maximum freight
rate decree.
ProhibitiOnists converting at Peoria,
Ill, yesterday elected William H.
BoIes Of Alma, Marion county, fol
state treasurer.
Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian,
died at the Smith inf1rmary, Temp
kinsviIle, Richmond Borough, after a
weeks Illness.
The tenth district republican con-
gressional convention renominated
Representative George W. Prince
Of Galesburg, Ill.
Mrs. William c. Whitney is slowly
recovering from the effects of the
accident at Aiken, S. c., by which her
spine was injured.
Knights Of Labor denounced
Wheat King Letter and called for
a mass meeting to protest against
corners in food"
The engagement of Miss Clara ST.
tro, daughter of former Mayor Sutro
Of San Francisco, to William J. Eng
lish of Chicago is announced.
Commander Booth-Tucker of the
Salvation Army announced the pur-
chase of a 265-acre farm near Mentor,
O., for a salvation farm colony.
J. G. McCracken, the Pennsylvania
weight-thrower, defeated John Elan
nagan, the champion. He threw the
16-pound hammer 1913 feet inches.
Judge Lumpkin appointed Henry
WellhOuse temporary receiver for the
Moody & Brewster Company, whole
sale dealers in dry goods of Atlanta,
Ga.
1t is denied at the state depart
ment that negotiations are in pro-
gress for a treaty OF alliance be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain.
President Mckinley attended the
decoration day exercises at the Ma
tional Cemetery at Arlington. Sena
tor Thurston Of Nebraska was the
orator
Worthington academy, the Episco-
pal UNCONVENTIONAL college of the
state of Nebraska, situated three
miles from the City of Lincoln, was
destroyed by fire.
both of Milwaukee, went to Hartford,
Wis, to look at some property. While
there Bauer shot Garvin, robbed him
of $3.50 and left him to die in the
woods.
New York dealers announce that
Cuban-made cigars are out of the
market, as a result of the war, but
that there is enough Cuban tobacco in
this country to last a year.
American manufacturers of cleo
trical machinery will have an OPP
portunity to provide electrical ma
chinery valued at s1,000,000 for the
Paris exposition of 1900.
Ex-senator Hill is said to have out
witted Richard Croker by arranging
for the democratic state convention to
be held in August instead Of Septem-
Der, as Mr.. Croker had planned.
Although subjected to the severest
tests, the ships of the navy in Cuban