Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-16

ILL.,, went to Washington to ask con-
gress for an appropriation of 100000
for new postoffice building.
Colonel Hiram NJ. Bledsoe, COM
mander of the famous Bledsoe battery
during the civil war, died suddenly at
his home near Pleasant Hill, Mo.
Eight Jewish pupils have been re-
CURED TO leave the Catholic convent
and school of the Sacred Heart at
Omaha on alleged religious grounds.
At Washington Agoncillo's col
leagues are without instructions, and
Ralston and Siddons, their legal ad-
visers, have withdrawn from their SER
vice
The British parliament reopened. A
conservative member, in moving the
reply to the queens speech, spoke in
favor Of an alliance with the United
States.
Land Commissioner Hermann denies
that frauds were discovered in connec-
ton with the dead-and-down timber
operations on the Chippewa Indian
reservations.
James n. Holmes, a prospector, has
been found frozen to death on Pike S
peak. He got caught in the blizzard
and q searching party has just found
his body.
The secretary of war has sent to
congress a statement of the militia,
showing a total organized force of
101, 536; total unorganiZed and avail
able, 8,999,825.
At Middlesboro, KY, Mrs. Mary Will
liams, her son Harvey and two small
children were drowned while fording
Clinch river. The river was swollen
by the recent rains.
Moore Bros. of Chicago are reported
to be organizing rival for the federal
steel trust, with a capital Of S400,000,-
| 900. Andrew Carnegie is said to be in
terested in the new combine.
Ex-President Cleveland was asked
| for an expression of opinion on the
battle of Manila and the ratification OF
| the peace treaty, but he declined TIC
say anything on either subject.
The miners at Rendville, Ohio, who
have been on a strike for some months
| have broken away from the united
miners organization and gone to work
at IS cents, 81 cents less than the scale
Dr.. Henry e. Keyes and his wife
were found dead in their bedroom al
the Ardsley Casino, at Ardsley-on-the-
Hudson. They had evidently been as
phyxiated by gas from a stove in the
| room
F. M. Fishback died at Carrollton
| Ill. He was a member of the thirty
seventh general assembly of Illinois
and was one of the 101 who succeeded
in electing General John NJ. Palmer tt
the United States senate.
A desperate attempt was made tC
| hold up the Jackson-IOne stage III
Colorado, but the horses were put to {
gallop and they got beyond the range
of the robbers guns. The robbers are
being pursued by posse and blood
hounds.
At Trenton, n. j., articles of incOr
poration were filed with the secretary
of state by the Electric Boat company
with an authorized capital of $4,000
! 900. The company is empowered tt
| construct and operate steamships an(
other vessels.
Right Reverend John Williams
died of grip, aged 81 years. He wa
bishop of the Protestant Episcopa
| church., diocese of Connecticut, ant
senior member of the house of bishopt
of the Episcopal church in America.
Electricity is to be installed as The
motive power for the Manhattan ele
waited railway at New York, and SIS,
100000 of additional stock will be is
sued to meet the expense. 1t is eX
Qected that the change will save
$1,000,000 a year in operating eX
| penSeS.
! At Kingston, Jamaica, a negro has
been elected legislative representative
for st. Elizabeth over a white candi
date. The principal white and coloret
magistrates and members of the paro
chial board have resigned as a protest
against the vote, and further compli,
cations are feared.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Municipal League has decided tc
| hold the next annual meeting of the
| league at Columbus, O., Nov. Is, 16 and
II. The civic league of Santa Barbara
and the good government league of De-
troit have been admitted to affiliated
membership in the league.
Ed Greer, negro ex-convict, who
has but recently completed a sentence
in the penitentiary for an assault with
intent to rape, is supposed to have
made a similar assault upon a negro
woman two miles east Of Dadeville
Ala, and upon her resisting murdered
her. He is still at large.
Henry G. Morse, a bookkeeper, 81
years old, was seized by the collar
near State and Jackson streets, Chi
cago, by a man wearing police star,
was dragged three blocks and was re-
leased upon payment of SIS. The sup
posed policeman, who had charged
Morse with stealing diamonds, then
ran away.
Charles Roberts, a farmer living in
a house belonging to A. c. barrow,
five miles west of Coffeyville, Kans.,
placed some dynamite in the stove to
thaw it out. 1t exploded, killing Rob-
erts, his wife and child and negro
whose name is unknown. A. c. Oar
row and a negro were badly hurt. The
house was wrecked.
Ex-Governor Altgeld and R. E. Nc
Cahe are made defendants in sniff