Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-19

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Warren B. Mason, formerly of Min
neapolis, was killed by a folding bed
in Chicago.
Rev. J. D. Mentor, of Troy, Mont,
lost his life in a desperate encounter
with a bear.
1t is said Tom Reed will not be a
candidates for speaker as it develops
animOsities.
John Sherman says that if the Ding
ley bill is passed there will be no ex-
ira session.
At Syracuse, N. Y, the Stearns BIZ
cycle company has started up with
1900 men.
Funeral services over the remains of
Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt were held
in New York.
Rev. Allan D. Brown of BrattlebOro
was elected president of Norwich (Vt.)
university.
Great Britain and United States
agreed to a treaty of arbitration in the
Venezuela matter.
a free circulating library for the
blind, the first in the world, will be
opened II New 10TH.
President Mason, OF the defunct
Globe Investment company, Boston, IS
charged with embezZlement.
It is said President Cleveland will
live near Westbury, Long Island, after
he retires to private life next March.
'fSolly" Smith Of California whipped
Willie Smith in London and won the
feather-weight championship of Eng
and.
The grand jury indicted Mayor
Gleason of Long Island City, New
York, for violation of the election
laws.
Miss Frances e. Willard, president
of the Women's Christian Temperance
union, arrived in New York from Eng
land.
Joseph Kulick, John Topaz and Will
liam Lesher, victims of the recent Cen
tralia colliery explosion at Ashland,
Pa, died.
The New York state committee of
the national democratic party (gOld
democrats) decided to continue the or
ganization.
Rev. Dr.. George P. Glover died at
New Hackensack, N. Y. He was one
of the founders of the academy of de-
sign in New York.
Senator PettigreW made a speech at
Sioux Falls, S. D., which was heralded
as the opening of the campaign of
1907 for bimetallism.
A movement has been started at In
1ian4npIic N III a convention nf bIICi-
ness men to suggest a system for re-
vision of the currency.
Morning Sun, il louisa county,
iowa, and China Grove, Rowan county,
North Carolina, will be granted free
delivery for rural districts.
George H. Morrison, the defaulting
Treasurer of Rensselaer, county, New
York, was sentenced to ten years and
five months Imprisonment.
The Lumbermen's association of
Chicago has advanced prices from So
cents to 81 per 1000 and they may
go still higher. Lumber has BEEN on
a steady decline since 1888.
1t is predicted that the republicans
and gold standard advocates will CO.
operate in silver states to prevent the
election of free silver senators.
Capt. William H. Hall, a fruit I'M
porter, who was born in Norfolk, Va,
and David Blakely, general manager
OF Sousa's band, died in New York.
Miss Annie Corbin, youngest daugh-
ter of the late Austin COrbin, the rail-
road president, was married at West
Isllp Long Island, to Hallet Alsop
BorroWe.
South Dakota lawyers hold that as a
result Of the election the state will
have no liquor Jaw, prohibition or
otherwise until the legislature enacts
one in January.
The working time of all shop en-
ployes of the Milwaukee railway is re-
duced from nine hours a day to eight
hours. The reduction affects between
1900 and 5000 men.
AlCnzo j. Whitman, ex-mayor of
Duluth, legislator and prominent citl-
zen of Minnesota, who was convicted
of forgery and sentenced to San Que1-
tin, Cal, was released.
AT luncheon in New York Chair
man Mark A. Hanna, of the repub-
lcan national committee, said the new
national administration would begin its
work untrammelled by pledges.
Hugo NJ. Fiddler, assistant book
keeper of the city controllers Office.
Chicago, blew out his brains in the
city hall building. Financial trou-
bles are assigned as the cause.
Bellefontaine, Ohio, the famous local
option town, which was recently COM
PEELED to discharge it's police force be-
cause of a lack of funds, is now on the
eve of giving up its electric lights.
Charles Phelps Arnold, an actor, said
TO be the SON of an English nobleman,
gave bail in New York for a hearing
on charge of deserving his wife, who
is playing in a New York theater.
j. S. Coxey, of ccmmonweal army
fame, has called a convention to meet
in st. Louis and declare in favor of the
decentralization of both gold and silver
and the substitution of greenbacks.
Thomas Feeley was held without bail
for the grand jury in the Roxbury,
Mass, district court on a charge of
murder in causing the death of George
Fuller, a hotel proprietor, last October
William Hayes and his young wife
were found with their threats cut at
2320 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia The
husband is supposed to have killed his
wife and then to have committed sui
eide