Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-31

enquirer, acting through Z. Z. StlVerS, |
his business manager.
Governor Bushnell will go to Boston !
10 present a handsome silver service |
to the gunboat Marietta on behalf OF
the citizens of the Ohio town. The gun
boat was named in honor of Marietta,
the oldest Ohio settlement.
The barn on the New York estate OF
Horace Greeley was partly burned, and
Rev. Frank VI. C1endenIn, son-in-law
Of Mr.. Greeley, charges that it and the
Church Of Westchester, Of which he 5
rector, were set on fire.
One of the issues in the presidential
campaign next year will be President
McKinley's leniency toward Captain
Carter, who was convicted by court
martial of appropriating to his own use
81, 100000 Of government money.
Owing to the constantly increasing
price Of meat ard the falling off Of
| trade in consequence the st. Louis
butchers are organizing to fight the So
called beef trust, which, they say, is
responsible for the higher prices.
In Chicago the bonds, Of Daniel
Coughlin, charged with jury bribing,
and at present fugitive, and those of
his alleged co-conspirator, William
Armstrong, have been declared for
| feited. Armstrong is in custody.
The fifteenth annual convention Of
the Daughters Of SIT. George, one Of the
! best-known benevolent societies of Wo-
men in the world, was opened at Pitts
! burg with about 60 delegates from all
parts Of the United States and Canada.
The chairman OF the committee on
! invitation of the G. A. R. encampment
which convenes Sept. at Philadelphia,
received President McKinley's accept
ance of the invitation to review the
parade and attend the banquet Sept. ).
The GOODNESS between the Afro
American council and Booker T. Wash
ingtCn because the latter did not at
tend the sessions of the council has
resulted in Mrs. Washington's name
being stricken from the council rolls
Physicians do not generally indorse
the recent findings Of the Marine hos
pital commission as to the causes of
yellow fever. Drs. Reed and Carroll
are preparing a report along quite diff
ferent lines which will be awaited with
interest.
The date has finally been set for the
reburia1 of the bodies of the followers
of John Brown, who met death with
the intrepid leader at Harper's Ferry,
Va, in 1859. the ceremony will take
place Aug. %, at p. NJ, at North Elba,
N. Y.
1t is proposed that a special session
Of the North Dakota legislature be held
to Appropriate $4,000 to bring the
troops of the state home from San
Francisco the legislators raising the
amount by returning their "per diem"
to the state.
Baron Won Herman, agricultural ex-
pert of the German embassy, is just
back from a two-mOnths' visit to Ger
many. He states that there is every
indication that the meat controversy
with the United States will soon be
satisfactorily settled.
Two hundred men of the first Geor-
gia infantry were sent to Darien to
suppress an incipient riot and bring a
negro charged with assault upon a
young girl. The crime was committed
several months ago, and recently the
negro tried to kill the girl.
Clayton C. Mason, a nephew of Sena-
tor Mason Of Illinois, died in Wash
ington from an overdose of morphine
taken Approximately, presumably TO
ease pain due to kidney trouble. Mason
was an employee at the capitol. His
widow is resident of Chicago.
Miss Viola Horlocker who is under
a $4,000 bond, chaged with having
| attempted to take the life of Mrs.
Charles A. Morey at Hastings, Neb., by
sending her a box of poisoned candy
on April 10 last, is now in an insane
asylum at Jacksonville Ill
! The steamship City Of ColUnoIa has
/ been abandoned at sea, in a water
| logged condition, and the crew OF
| thirty-eight men was left in Honolulu.
! The City OF Columbia sailed from San
Francisco Aug. II for Hongkong, with
a cargo Of scrap iron. No lives were
lost.
Dr. Charles Forster Smith, professor
of Greek and classical philology in the
! University OF Wisconsin, and head OF
the graduate department Of the insti-
tuition, was badly injured by being
thrown from his bicycle while going
down steep hill at Mt. Horeb. He
will recover.
Oryille P. Curran western manager
for the Equitable Life Insurance COM
pany and reputed to be worth about
100000, was made defendant in a
breach of promise suit brought in a
Chicago court by Mrs. Virginia L.
Willard. Damages to the amount of
S25, 900 are asked
Captain Francis w. Dickins, for some
time assistant chief and acting chief Of
the bureau of navigation, navy depart |
ment, is ABOUT to be detached from this |
post, and, after brief rest, will take
command Of the battle ship Indiana,
succeeding Captain H. C. Taylor, who !!
has asked to be relieved.
All last night a crowd of indignant |
citizens beseiged the Jail at Falls City, |
Neb., hoping to secure short Wilson, |
who is under arrest for an assault up
on the 7-year-old daughter Of a prom |
inent merchant. If the citizens sue
ceed in oyerpowering the sheriff's
posse there will be a lynching.
Mrs. Eva A. Ingersoll, widow of Col
onel Ingersoll, has filed a bond as ad-
mlnistratriX Of the estate of her hus-