Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-26

TO the national convention from Ala
bama instructed to vote for Wharton
Barker for president.
At Milwaukee Mrs. Emeline NJ. Lud
ington, widow OF the governor, con-
cluded not TO press her suit for $780,
900 against James E. Patton. in which
lie was charged with fraud
Col Alexander 5. Bacon Of New
York in a defense of the seTenty-frst
Regiment intimates that Gov. Roose-
welt wanted to make terms with the
Spaniards at San Juan.
Murat Ralstead, the veteran editor,
confirmed the report that he had ac-
cepted the presidency of what is to be
known as the Halstead College OF
Journalism in Cincinnati
A resolution favoring a water way
from the great lakes to the gulf by
way Of the Chicago drainage canal was
introduced in the trans-Mississippi
commercial convention.
W. S. Taylor denied that he was at
Washington seeking an appointive Of
fee. He said he wanted to be COVER
nor of Kentucky. The supreme court
set his case for April 30.
Two tramps masked with white
handkerchiefs dubbed and robbed two
sisters-Kate and Johanna Sullivan
living near Toledo, killing Johanna
and leaving Kate a maniac.
John and Harvey Jackson, brothers,
accused of killing and burning Cassie
Boon in Chesterfield county, S. c.,
were found guilty of murder and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment.
The duke of Newcastle, leader Of the
ritualistic party in the Anglican
church, said in New York that the
only solution of the Episcopal church
question was disestablishment
The preachers Of Columbia, Pa, pre-
vented the production Of Sapho in that
place The opera house belongs to the
borough and the council refused to
permit its use by the SaphO company.
Professor William NJ. Thrasher, head
of the department of mathematics at
the Northwestern Christian Univer-
sIty and Butler College, Indianapolis.
for forty years, died at Berkeley, Cal.
Four men were killed and two dang
erously wounded at Windber, Pa, as
the result of a row. The man sup
posed to be responsible for the muir
ders was afterward killed by a train.
Near Knoxville, Tenn, 200 quarry
men of the Four Marble Cuarries
struck for the recognition of their
union and uniform scale Of | wages.
Non-union men have been put to
work
General Joseph Wheeler of the
eighth Alabama congressional district
has requested Governor Johnston to
call a special election to fill the vacan-
cy caused by his resignation as a mem
Der of congress.
A court Of commissioners appointed
by President Dole at Honolulu, by au-
thority of President Mckinley, to take
evidence of the losses caused by the
burning of Chinatown has aroused
| general condemnation.
| The special subcommittee of the
| judiciary committee of the house al
Washington has agreed upon a meas
ure giving congress full power to dea-
with trusts and another which amends
! the antitrust law.
| The republican state convention OF
| Vermont pronounced in favor of the
single gold standard, indorsed McKin-
ley's administration and nominated
| uninstructed delegates to the PhiIadel-
| phia convention.
| Chicago labor leaders formulated a
petition to Admiral Dewey, requesting
him to boycott" the grand stand to
be donated by the building CON
tractors council for the official review
of the Dewey day parade.
President H. P, AIbaugh of North
Manchester college, the leading educa-
| tional institution of the German Bap-
| fist denomination in the United States,
has rendered his resignation and the
| trustees have accepted it.
! Gen. John Eaton, for seven years
| president of the American Society OF
Religious Education, has resigned thai
office, and Justice John NJ. Harlan, oil
| the United States supreme court, has
| Oeen elected to succeed him.
| A romance involving a man of g.
and a woman of 25 years was exploited
| in a Chicago court The complainant
was May Mennis, who believed she had
| been married in Milwaukee to the de-
PENDANT, Levi H. Page.
| W. Connors of Buffalo has secured
| elevator and wharfage franchises in
Montreal and will get s1,500,000 Of the
stock free for his services as pro-
mOter
At Amherst, Mass, Miss Mary Field
French, aged IS, a cousin of the late
Eugene Field and for number of
years his guardian died suddenly. She
had the care Of Eugene Field from his
seventh TO his eighteenth year.
Milton Sheets, under sentence of
death for the murder of Augustus
Glessner, broke Jail at Somerset, Pa
He sawed the bars of a window in the
jail and climbed down a spouting to
the yard, walking out unmolested.
State central committees of the
democrats, pOpulists and free silver
republicans met in Lincoln, Neb., and
decided to hold their state nominating
conventions at Lincoln, July II. There
will be fusion between the three