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

OICs, y. ", anu HIS Vile anu three
daughters were wounded by unknown
white men. Their house burned
Mrs. Katherine A. Tingley, who has
been elevated to absolute spiritual
power over >theosophists by a conven-
ton at Chicago, announced her cabi-
net
The defense Of Sheriff Martin and
deputies, charged with murder Of
miners at Lattimer, opened. The
court ruled to admit evidence Of riots
preceding the shooting at Lattimer.
The North Carolina railway commits
sion has fixed frst-class passenger
fares on the railroads in the state II
two and a half cents, and second-class
fares at two cents per mile.
New England cotton manufacturers
seek relief from southern competition
by a constitutional amendment con-
ferring upon congress the authority to
regulate the labor Of the country.
A syndicate of American and Eng
fish capitalists, it is stated, will build
a railroad to a point on the Yukon
river, from which the Klondike gold
regions can be easily reached
Ex-Governor John Wesley Hoyt
chairman of the national committee
of the National university, says the
enterprise is making good progress in
all quarters except in the senate.
Chicago capitalists are interested in
a deal for the purchase of 1000, 900
feet Of sugar pine on the klamath
river in northern California. The price
is $1,OOO,O0O.
Prisoners in the Montgomery county
jail, Illinois, have rendered their ser
vices to the governor in the event OF
war They say: 1--WE are willing tC
leave here at once"
The condition of Mrs. William C.
Whitney, who was recently hurt while
going to hunting party at Aiken, S.
c., is regarded as serious. Evidences
of paralysis have set in.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
was reported to the house. It car
ries $44, 749,8 1898, being $8,861, 1870 less
than the appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has suspended the long and short
haul clause of the law for the benefit
of American railroads that are com
peting with the reduced rates of the
Canadian Pacific railroad.
Austin Gollaher, the one surviving
7llo OH of 4
lucky, died at his home near the farm
where the martyred president was
born, near Hogdenville, Ky. He was
SO years old.
Passengers on the steamer City of
Seattle which reached Victoria, B. c.,
say there is a report in the north that
party of seven, with $685. 900 in dust,
were on board the lost steamer Clara
Nevada.
Miss Fannie Collier, from whom
Attorney Frank Collier a few weeks
ago was given a divorce was mar
ried to George Lesch, clerk in a Chi
cago real estate Office, 1874 Dearborn
street.
A bill for a better and more COM
plete civil government in Alaska will
soon be reported to the senate. 1t
will create two additional United
States judges and station them at
points convenient to the gold fields
Mayor Van Wyck refused to speak
to Captain Eulate Of the Spanish
cruiser Vizcaya when the latter for
mally called upon him as the official
head Of the New York city govern
ment.
The United States supreme court
sustained the validity of the Virginia
law holding a common carrier respon-
sible for freight, even when shipped
beyond its own lines, when it accepted
the freight without securing a waiver
from the shipper.
At Prescott, Ariz., a disastrous fire
occurred, resulting in the destruction
of the Johnson house. The twenty
or thirty guests lost nearly everything
and many had narrow escapes. 4
number of persons were seriously
but not fatally injured
AT New Washington, Ohio, a freight
train crashed into a combination
coach at the Northern Ohio railway
c1ossing, breaking the car in two and
dragging it 800 feet. Eight persons
were in the car and all were more or
less injured.
Edward Schultz, Peter Raven, Harry
Wright and William Prendergast, said
by the police to be four of the clever
est confidence men in the country,
were arrested in Chicago charged with
swindling Christian Muster of Daw-
son, Neb., out Of $4,000 in currency
and $4,000 in checks.
Oscar Gardner, the Omaha kid"
knocked out Jack O'<eefe a TTu,a7-
ing, w. Wa, in the eighteenth round.
Rev. Sam Jones, who is an indie
pendent candidate for governor Of
Georgia, announces his platform as
simple, unadulterated unpurchasable,
unbulldOZable manhood"
Sawyer, Manning & Co., dry goods
commission merchants of New York
and Boston, are involved in the failure
OF three mills, for which they were
selling agents. They are the Burling-
ton Wooden company, the Winooski
Worsted company and the Colchester
mills of Colchester, VT, for which re-
celvers were appointed in Boston last
Monday. Sawyer, Manning e Co. are
lndorsers on mill paper for about
81 600. 900.