Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-06-07

G, alton officials and will be deported. |
Strong expansion sentiment was /
shown at mass-meeting IN Detroit, |
Mich. in connection with the Ameri- !
can Baptist missionary anniversaries. |
Among the nominations sent to the |
senate was that of Brigadier General
Elwell 5. Otis to be made major gen
eral, vice Merritt, who is soon to retire.
The Western Union is said TO be
about to enter the long distance tele-
phone field in opposition TO the Bell
company. which has hurt its business.
The sheriff is empowered to call a
posse comitatus of 1000 citizens to
preserve order in St. Louis, and as
many more will be called as necessary.
All but four of the S34 delegates to
the republican national convention
have been elected. Contests in Ala
bama, Delaware, Tennessee, and
Texas.
Major General Elwell S. Otis is said
TO be slated for head Of tie department
of the lakes, with headquarters in Chi
cago. Army men expect him about
Aug. l.
The four newly elected Methodist
Episcopal bishops, Drs. D. H. Moore,
J. W Hamilton, E. W. Parker and
Frank Wesley Warne, were conse-
Grated.
Judgment against the estate of the
| late Rufus n. Ramsay for $4,000 is
entered by the circuit court Of Clinton
county, H., in a suit brought by the
state.
Gold has been discovered in Sui
phur Lick creek near Elmville, KY.
Assayists of Denver and other cities
have examined and pronounced it
genuine.
In a speech at Clinton, Ia, Lieuten
ant Governor Northcott of Illinois de-
clared himself a receptive candidate
for the republican nomination for vice
president.
Mrs. Annie Meyer, authoress and
prominent in the Woman's congress
at, the worlds fair, went to the Chi
cago bridewell under a sentence for
shoplifting.
A number of Friends from Baltimore
held services in the old Quaker Meet
ing House at York, Pa, the site
which was donated by a son of Will
liam Penn.
Eleven more persons were shot and
many were injured by missiles in
riots provoked by the St. Louis strik-
ers Three of those wounded are
expected to die.
president of the Chicago and Alton
railroad and one of the oldest railroad
chief executives in the United States,
died, aged II years.
Harvard will send two representa-
tives to Paris to the socialists con-
gress next September. They are w.
P. Evarts, 1900, and W. B. Monroe,
Of the graduate school.
A duel to the death was fought by
Emmett Coy and Bonifacio Perez, cow
boys, in Hidalgo county, Tex, at 10O
yards. Winchesters were used. Both
men fell dead in their tracks.
; Kid Mccoy given the decision
over Syracuse Tommy Ryan at the
end of the six-round bout in Chicago
The defeated man hit Referee Malachy
Hogan, who returned the blow.
The labor troubles in Chicago may
= be ended through a proposed plan oil
the Masons' and Builders association
to treat with individual unions, ignor-
ing the building trades council.
President Mckinley has been forced
by the temperance element to abandon,
his support of the army canteen. By
his orders the anti-canteen bill was
reported favOrably to the house.
Mayor Maybury called the Detroit
council in special session and had
street-railway tracks, laid in defiance
Of the mayor, council and the courts
torn IN the day they were laid.
Navy department is arranging for
the fertilization of Dry Tortugas
Pearl harbor, Pango Pango, and
Guam. With these, Alaska, and Cavite
America would dominate the Pacific.
Indiana gold democrats said silver
was not dead, denounced Bryan and
Mckinley and declared they would not
support Bryan on any platform or
any one else on the Chicago plat
form.
August Croft, aged Sc years, and
Miss Kate Putnam, aged So, were mar
ried at South Bloomfield o. The we'd
ding party was large one, but no
one whose age is less than so years
was invited.
An Indictment of murder in the first
degree has been found by the Hudson
county, n. j., grand jury against John
Garrabrandt, the 1S-year-old boy &C
cused of the murder of his chum,
Henry Mass.
The three convicted dynamiters-
pullman, Nolin and Walsh-were
taken to Kingston, there to serve
their sentence of life Imprisonment
The prisoners were handcuffed to-
gether and securely guarded.
The Masters and Builders associa-
ton of Chicago declined to arbItrate by
any plan that does not mean dissolu-
ton Of the Building Trades council.
The evidence produced by labor men
before the grand jury is weak
A bench warrant has been issued for
the arrest of W. S. Taylor, late claim
ant to be governor of Kentucky, found
ed upon an indictment that he was an
accessory before the fact to the murder
| of Governor William GOebe1