Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-01


A slight earthquake shock was felt
in the vicinity Of Vandalia, H. The
vibration was from west to east.
Funeral services were held in New
York over the remains of Rev. DR..
Gresham. . retired rabbi Of Detroit.
EGwa4 i Gibbons and Christian keil-
necker lied in Philadelphia from hi .Ws
near the heart, that were struck wnilo
boxing.
1t is announced that Prince YOshihitO
HarU1 omiya, the heir to the mikado's
The democrat city convention of St.
Louis was turned into a riot and two
tickets were nominated.
Edward Evans, of the firm of Evans
& Giehl, ale brewers, of Rome, N. Y,
is dead. He was 40 years old.
A. J. Riddle, of Baltimore who be-
came one of the pioneer photographers
OF Georgia and Alabama, was buried
st Macon.
A number of street railway compan-
les in New York have been granted
permission to use the underground
trolley
The citizens union will have a non
partisan ticket in the field this fall for
mayor and other officers of greater
Network.
Four members of the Button gang"
who were to have been hanged at
Santa Fe, N. NJ, were respitnd by Pres
ident Mckinley.
The steamer T. F. Cakes, which had
been given up as lost, WIS towed to
New York, after a voyage of 259 days
from Hong Kong.
Martin, Wise & Fitzhugn, cotton
buyers, with offices in this country and
Europe, made deeds of trust at Paris,
Tex. Their liabilities are $1,000,0O0.
The man recently arrested at Valley
Mills, Texas, Joseph Blanther, the San
Francisco murderer for whom a re-
ward of $1,000 is offered, committed
suicide.
The national supreme court says the
antitrust law of 1890 is applicable to
railroads and the traffic agreement Of
the Missouri freight association
is illegal.
The Farmers and Merchants bank,
of Paris, Tex, closed its doors to was
the oldest financial institution in the
State, and had a paid-up capital of
5000, 900
d. ". Gorfrey Hunter, republican,
received sc votes on the ballot at
Frankfort Ky, for United States sena-
tor. Seventy votes are necessary to a
choice.
1t is stated in New York that the
widow of Baron Hnsch, the Hebrew
Dh.lanLhropist, Will give $1,S0O,OOO TO
divers benevolent enterprises in the
United States.
Gen. Harrison, lecturing on cor
noration law. said restrictive legisla-
ton was needed, but it could not be
left to the hodge-podge methods OF
sixty-day legislatures.
At Harrisburg, Rev. DR.. S. c. SWal-
low, editor of the Pennsylvania Metho-
dist. Vas acquitted of criminal libel Ill
making charges against the Soldiers
Orphan School commission.
At BLOOMINGTON, Pa. Mrs. Sarah j.
Brown. who died recently, gave all OF
her fortune of 100000 to Methodist
charities, the church extension society
being the largest beneficiary.
Anr now it is claimed that the ia
bones of civilized people are gradually
becoming attenuate6, chiefly owing to
the prolonged use of knives and forks
When Edicon doesn't have anything
else to do some day, it would be a good
idea for him to invent some new kind
of fannels that wouldn't shrink
Somerville IN. j. Journal
Nelson Nj. Weeks, who was in the
cor lIany of Aimee Smith, a young girl
Of HackeLsack, n. j., who commit
ted suicide in a hotel in New York, sur
rendered himself to a corone" in that
city.
Former Congressman John De Witt
Warner said the sugar schedule of the
Dingley bill no greater protection for
the trust. except in its retaliatory fea-
ture, than the German schedule of the
present law.
James M. Hagar, well-known law
yer and shipbuilder, died at his home,
in Richmond, Me, aged rs years, from
injuries received in being knocked
down by livery team in Boston two
weeks age.
Nineteen business buildings in the
village of Bloomington, Wis, were
burned to the ground. The fire original
in a saloon The town had no fire
apparatus whatever. The loss is about
sc, 900. with slight insurance.
Unexpected opposition to the peace
treaty leads its friends to fear the re-
suit in the senate. Senator Foraker
is understood to be opposed to the COM
pact, and Senator Hanna, it is said, is
giving it only a lukewarm support.
At Orrick a small Mo. village,
y. Rainwater, farmer, shot and killed
his wife, his mother-in-l law, Mrs. Will
lam Artman: his Frotherin-lav, James
Thurman, and his little step-daughter,
Ethel Gentry, and then committed
suicide.
President Mckinley. who invited his
old friend Col. H. G. Otis, Of California.