Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22

excellent quality of binding twine and
building and roofing paper can be made
out of the long grass that stretches
away for miles in the kankakee
swamps.
A trust deed for 100000 was filed
in the county recorders office in Chi
cago, executed by Studebaker- Bros,
in favor of he Illinois Trust & Savings
bank to secure an issue of $4,000 900
first mortgage gold bearing bonds. This
will cancel all the Obligations Of the
company.
Frank Lemon and c. E. Mckee,
owners of Lemon Bros circus, have
filed bill of sale transferring to the
United States Printing company of
Cincinnati all the property connected
with the circus and nanageries to Sc
cure claim for $12, 800 for paper used
during the past season
The fifteenth and final day of the
Christian Alliance convention in New
York was one with great results. At
the morning meeting subscription
blanks were passed around the hall and
the morning meeting subscription
secured amounted To $4,000. Rev.
Dwight L. Moody preached in the after
noon.
Mrs. Emma Sawyer White, daughter
of ex-senator Sawyer of Wisconsin and
wife Of Howard w. White, a Journalist
of Syracuse, n. Y, died in Washington.
John r. Williams, aged 60, burgess of
Norristown, Pa, dropped dead yester-
day Mr.. Williams gained a national
reputation as funny man" of the Nor
ristown Herald.
One hundred women are engaged in
selling whisky to the Usage, Otoe,
Ponca and Creek Indians on the border
Of Oklahoma Deputy marshals re-
port it as dangerous for an officer to ap-
pear in that country alone. A party
Of marshals brought in a dozen whisky
sellers from that country today, most
of them Indians.
Several hundred million dollars have
been added to the value of American
products in the last ninety days Wheat
had advanced from 5838 cents to 707s
cents on Oct. 10. Corn, oats, rye, but
ter, eggs, potatoes and other products
have gone up also. The exports from
America alone during the last five
weeks aggregated over 100000 bush
els.
The National Live Stock Exchange
i'll session at Fort Worth, Texas, has
elected these officers: President, w. Fl.
Thompson; secretary, G. A. Baker j;
treasurer, Mr. Doud; vice presidents,
l. Ingerson, Sioux City; E. Mccall
Pittsburg; Joseph Adams, Chicago; A.
D. Evans, East st. Louis: w. E. Skin
ner, Fort Worth; J. R. Slater, Kansas
City; L. d. Perrine, Omaha.
The Salvation ARMY in Evanston has
been strengthened by the addition of a
daughter of H. P. Wightman freight
auditor of the Northwestern railway
and Edwin w. Gray, a Junior in North
western university. Miss Wightman
was so impressed by a presentation of
the work of the army that she removed
her rings and other jewels and signed
the volunteer pledge.
James H. Wyatt, confined in the Jail
at Clinton, ILL.,, for larceny, confessed
ton six years ago, and then cheated the
law of it's prey by hanging himself to
the bars of his cell. George Starkey
and John Brown were convicted of
Gillham's murder, mainly on Wyatts
evidence, and sentenced to thirty years
Imprisonment. SLarkey died in prison
three weeks ago.
Great excitement exists in the east
ern part of Perry county, Okl., and
Payne and Istwnee counties, in the
Usage Indian nation, over the discov-
cry of oil in great quantities. 1t is
leaked out that the standard oil COM
pany has secured leases on thousands
of acres and twenty other companies
have purchased leases consisting of
many thousands of acres. At Cleve-
land a wonderfully rich flow of oil was
found by a farmer who was boring
we'll.