Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-21

state that number of fatal and other
accidents to gold hunters who were
crossing the passes have occurred
A life-size statue of Commodoa=
Vanderbilt which has been given to
Vanderbilt university by residents Of
Nashville, was formally presented.
John C. Sheehan, the Tammany
leader, predicts that the municipal
ticket nominated by his organization
will win by fifty thousand plurality
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables has
been barred out of the girls high
school OF Philadelphia as a book for
the pupils on the ground that it is i'm
pure
New York importers will petition
congress to modify the penalties in
the Dingley tariff bill for under
estimating the value of imported
goods.
In the United States supreme court
the attorney general Of California
moved to advance the case Of W. H.
T Durrant, who is under sentence
of death
DR.. John Guiteras, the government
expert, has declared that four positive
cases Of yellow fever exist at Calves
ton, Tex, and an exodus from that
city has begun.
Arrangements have been completed
in New York for large expedition to
| pa1i Tyio icI, +In
| try for the purpose of opening it to
| American settlers.
| The New York park commissioners
have approved plans for a park at
Fordham, in which will be placed the
cottage in which Edgar Allan Poe
wrote The Raven.
DR.. Evans, the dentist of royalty,
who made a fortune in Paris, will give
millions to found educational and
! charitable institutions in several
American cities.
| Two men and a woman, arrested
for looting the home of Francis H.
Scott in Orange, n. j., say they spent
a day in the house packing valuables,
! including Worth gowns.
The announcement is made in New
York that Dr. Thomas W. Evans, the
noted American dentist of Paris, con-
templates establishing great dental
university in Philadelphia.
John F. Maloney, who has returned
from Dawson City, says that on Alex
ander McDonald's claim, near Daw-
son, one man shoveled in $4,000 of
! gold in about twelve hours
The United States would not sur
render Evangelina Cisneros, who es-
capped from prison in Havana, or her
rescuers, if a demand should be made
by the Spanish government.
Secretary Gage, Senator Mason,
Mayor Carter H. Harrison and others
made speeches at the celebration of
Illinois and Chicago day at the Ten
nessee centennial exposition.
Justice Field is to retire from the
national supreme court bench in De-
cember, to be succeeded by Attorney
General McKenna, which will occa-
sion several cabinet changes.
Baron Kanopsky, young Brazilian
|
York by inhaIing gas, but was rescued
by Chas. Dana Gibson, the artist, to
whom he wrote a farewell letter.
Conferences held in Cincinnati be-
tween members of the societies of
Sons of the Revolution and Sons of
the American Revolution led to steps
which will probably result in union
of the two societies.
Uneasiness is felt in European
financial circles regarding the out
election, and the resumption of gold
shipments to America has changed
the outlook Of the money market.
The American flag was draped with
Grape and government by injunction
denounced by labor organizations in
| Lynn, Mass, where clergyman
preached a funeral sermon for the
| twenty-four men shot at Lattimer, Pa.
Randolph Guggenheimer, who was
born in Lynchburg, Va, and who
voted for President Mckinley last fall,
has been nominated by Tammany for
president of the council to succeed
| Colonel Rupert, who withdrew from
the ticket.
On December 1 the interstate COM
MERGE commission will give hear
ing to the representatives of rail
roads which ask for an extension of
the time in which they must be
equipped with automatic couplers and
train brakes