Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-05
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Brooklyn.
The call for the next annual meet
ing of the farmers national congress
was issued by President B. F. Clay |
ton, of Indianola, Iowa, and Secretary |
John M. Stahl, of Chicago. The meet
ing will be held at Indianapolis, Ind,
from November 10 to November 10.
The mangled bodies of Levi Becker,
a young farmer, and Mr.. King, of
Brooklyn, were found on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad tracks near York, Pa, !
yesterday. They had been killed by
the train.
Judge Royal Tyler, aged eightyfour
years, died at BrattIeboro,' Vt. He
was a son Of the late Chief Justice
Royal Tyler, of The Vermont supreme
court, who was famous as the author
of The Contrast, the first American
play.
Major Henry Ward, well-known
Colorado newspaper man, died OF
pneumonia at Denver. He was born
in Evansville, N. Y, in 1871. While
a prisoner at Libby he was brevetted
MAJOR Tor gallant services.
Father Gutierrez, a Mexican priest,
has found in a New York art store a
picture of the Virgin Mary and her
| child, believed to have teen painted by
a Mexican artist over three hundred
years ago.
A report has reached New York from
! Cleveland that a syndicate has been
organized 10 purchase the franchises
Of street railways in European cities
with the intention of operating them
according to American ideas.
Rev Myron w. Adams, Phi. D., for
the past seven years professor of Greek
in Atlanta university, has received
and accepted an appointment as dean
of the faculty in the same institution.
Dr. Adams was graduated from Dart
mouth in 1881.
Harper Brothers, the publishers,
have incorporated as a stock COM
pany under the title of Harper G
Brothers. The capital stock is $1,000
600. The directors are Horatio R.
Harper, James Harper and Henry
Sleeper Harper.
Greek Catholic church in Minneapolis
the only one of its faith between Chi
cago and the Pacific coast. Now a
large school and seminary have been
added. The funds for its erection
came from Russia. Teachers are on
the way from Russia.
The annual conference Of bishops of
ic+ oh. in
burg and will last two weeks. Fifteen
of the eighteen bishops comprising the
board are present. The sessions are
with closed doors. TCday's session is
devoted to the work of the fall con-
ference and arranging dates for spring
conferences.
Isaac H. LionberSer of st. Louis,
has been appointed assistant attorney
general of the United States for the
interior department. He succeeds
William A. Little, of Georgia, who re-
Gently resigned to become a candidate
, for the office of justice of the supreme
court of Georgia.
The joint select committee created
at the last session of congress to in
yestigate the report upon the question
of the use of alcohol free of tax in the
manufacturers and arts. has prepared
:. series interrogatories which will be
attributed throughout the country to
such parties as are thought to be in
= terested in the question.
Obituary: At Bloomington, Ill.
/ Gen ral Morton G.. Hunter, 71.-At st
e Louis, Judge Charles Speck. AT Lon
t don, Sir Albert Abdullah Sassoon, K.
C. S. Sat Omaha, Judge Elmer S
r Dunday, 66.-At Harrisburg, Pa, A
2 Boyd Hamilton, Sat Toronto, Ont.
Rev. Father libra. AT Vandalia, Ill.
: Mrs. j. D. Perine, 56.-At BelOit
Wis, f. S. Fenton, Sat- Philadel-
/ phia, Jacob T. Davis. At Lynn, Mass.
/ Owen Dame.-At NelsCnville, n. Y.
7 Mrs. Martha Squires, 102.-At New
: York, Henry H. Morange.-At Polo
H., Henry D. Barber, 41-At Elk
Point, S. d., Walter w. Fawcett AT
I Marengo, H., Mrs. F. w. Rebock
formerly of Chicago 41.-At Beloit, F.
S. Fenton, a veteran in the civil wal
and prominent in free masonry, aged
: Sat Philadelphia, Jacob q. Davis,
California pioneer of 1849 and identi-
, fed with some large financial deals
At Lynn, Mass, Owen Dame, cashier OF
the First National Bank. He was 63
years old. He was the son of Jona-
than Dame, for twenty years cashier
, of the Dover, N. H., National Bank,
. and a grandson Of Judge Richard
Dame of Rochester, N. Y. He mar
ried the sister of Professor Maria
Mitchell, the famous astronomer.