Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-18
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

the abandonment OF Fort Custer,
Mont.
Mrs. Mack confessed in New York
that Martin Thorn murdered Gull
deAsuppe.
Ernest Sharland, an Englishman,
who had spent $50, 900, killed himself
in New York.
President Clark, of the Union Pa
citic railway, is very i'll at his home
IN ST. Louis.
1t is believed that one more frost
Will END the yellow IeVer epidemic Ia
New Orleans.
The Hotel San Marco, at ST. Angus
tine, Fla, was destroyed by fire which
incendiaries started
The Denver city council passed an
ordinance liking license fee OF $1,000
each tOr dealers in cigarettes.
The president has appointed w.
Godfrey Hunter OF Kentucky minister
to Guatemala and Honduras.
Capitalists in st. Louis are said
TO be planning to obtain control Of the
vast deposits OF asphalt in Utah.
Nineteen persons are believed to
have been drowned from the steamer
Idaho, Wnlcn sank IN Lake Erie.
AT Philadelphia the BALDWIN loco
motive WORKS nave booked 90 orders,
some from r1nIand and Brazil.
ROBERT Delahay OF Kansas City,
travelling auulLor OF the ROCK Island
railroad, died DIT Smith Center, has.
~'he Philadelphia common council
voted TO lease the city's gas works and
aroused puDlc Indignation thereby.
Thomas WlIsOn, residing near Glen
dial, Mont, was snot and killed by
Andrew brown as the result or a quar-
rel.
Chas. Schlegel, sixty years OF age,
who was jealous OF his wife, shot and
killed her in New York and then at
tempted suicide.
Gen. James G. Duane, who was chief
engineer OF the army of the Potomac
during the civil war, died IN New
York
Mrs. Mcconnell, who killed her hus-
band in seIt-defense near Redwood
Falls, was liberated, no Indictment
Icing found.
j. G.. Nolan, a member OF the legiS-
latiVe council Oh Jamaica, who is in
New York, IaVors a reciprocity treaty
With the UnlLed States.
A scheme is on 10 beat Hanna by
having democrats in the ONO legis-
lature vote with some republicans for
Gov. Bushnell Tor senator.
Premier LaurIer OF Canada visited
Washington Will the purpose OF I'M
proving international relations in sew
eral important particulars.
AT Youngstown, ONO, the employees
OF the Andrew Brothers company
blast have been given notice OF IL
per cent. advance in wages.
Walker tearne, one OF The Judges
appointed by the president on The
Egyptian international court, has re-
signed on account OF i'll health.
a Washington dispatch points out
that silver was practically ignored in
The states in which the democrats
made their most important gains.
Delegates to the international seal
conference, representing Russia,
Japan and the United States, signed a
treaty for the protection OF seals.
About December l a delegation OF
HaWaiidns will arrive in Washington
to protest against the annexation OF
the island
At Carson, New, i'll revenge OF an
alleged wrong to his sister, Julian
Gulanan, aged 16, killed Charles
Jones, United States district attorney.
The voice of a singer in Chicago,
one thousand miles away, was heard
over the wires in the American Tele-
phone company's office in New York.
Edward Machin, thirty years old,
died in New York from internal in
JurleS, caused by woman falling on
him while he was dancing with her.
The United Mine workers will ap-
peal to Governor Tanner to prevent
the importation of Cinnamon to Hi
nois to take the places of striking coal
miners.
Ralph Vanhorn, farmer living
near Unadilla, Neb., shot and killed
his fye-year-old son, and then COM
mitted suicide. He was slightly de-
ranged
In Philadelphia Colonel c.. Ross
Smith, many years secretary of the
Commercial Exchange, died. He was
81 years old and served as a union
cavalry officer.
Eugene Lindsay, John A. Merrick
and Richard w. Merrick, Philadelphia
court clerks, were arrested on the
charge of issuing fraudulent certifi-
Gates of naturalization
Three leading life insurance COM
panieS have decided to raise the price
of policies on and after Jan. l next
because obliged to invest money at
less than 4 per cent. for Safety's sake.
The executive committee Of the Ma
tional SoundMoney league met in
New York and issued an address to
the public, stating that international
bimetallism as a world possibility is
dead"
At Alton, ILL.,, the Loyejoy monu-
ment was formally dedicated 1t was
so years ago that LoVejoy was assas-
sinated because of his outspoken and
fiery editorials against the slave
trade.
Edmund S. Holbrook, for many
years a leading attorney of the West,