Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-03-04
DOMESTIC DOINGS.

Pierre IS. d. city bonds have been
invalid.
Disastrous floods have occurred in
the Middlesboro' valley, Kentucky.
Mrs. Eva H. Roseland, wife of New
York artist, committed suicide.
Lyman S. Burnham, one of the lead
ing merchants of Brooklyn is dead.
Again it is reported that Gen. Lee,
United States consul general at Hav
ana, has resigned.
Nearly all the business portion of Mil
bank, S. D. was burned.
a plot to blow up the New Mexico
penitentiary was discovered.
cyclone visited Athens, Ga, causing
considerable damage to property.
President Cleveland issued proclama-
lions establishing thirteen additional
forest reservations.
Chauncey Johnson, one Of the most
noted bank thieves in the country, died
in Sing Sing prison,
The suLreme court of Wisconsin de-
cided that vaccination of school children
Is not obligatory in that state.
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, the New York re-
former, is suffering from nervous col
lapse, the result Of overwork.
At Galveston a silver service from
citizens Of Texas was presented to the
battle-ship named for that state.
Gov. Daniel w Jones of Arkansas has
put himself on record as opposed to the
Anglo-American arbitration treaty.
The republicans of the North Carolina
IF of q
hibiting the making of gold contracts.
Judge Swain of the United States
court for the northern district Of Texas,
declared the Texas antitrust law I'M
constitutional.
Ambassador and Mrs Thomas Bayard
will go to Italy Immediately after Mr..
Bayard receives the degree from Cam
bridge March IL.
The report that DR.. William Steinitz,
the Chessplayer, is dead is untrue. He
is still in a hospital at Moscow suffer-
ing from q serious mental malady.
Mrs Walter Chaplin and Charles Mead,
aged % years, were found dead at Falls
Village. Conn 1t is believed that Mead
killed Mrs. Chaplin and then himself.
The Cornell-Columbia -Pennsylyania
Freshman race has been arranged for
June Goth It will be rowed over the
same course at POUghkeepsie as the
Varsity race
At a recent mass meeting of the I'M
dergratues of Williams College it was
decided to place their athletics in the
hands of a Board of nine to be COM
posed of students, Faculty and alumni.
Chauncey M DepGw has bought for
$4,000 several acres of the old Chaun-
cey estate, at Dobbs Ferry, n. Y, and
expects to erect there a handsome coun-
try home.
A police magistrate in New York has
ordered Commander Booth-Tucker, OF
the Salvation Army, to conduct meet
ings at the armys headquarters in a
more quiet way.
J. de Trafford Blackstone, who is now
in New York, will marry his former
wife. who was known on the stage as
Lillian Osborn, and who secured a di-
vorce from him twenty years ago.
The foods have extended to a wider
area and are now general in western
Maryland Virginia, West Virginia, west
ern Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee
and southern Ohio. The property loss
will be hundreds of thousands of dol
lars.
Peter l.. Garvey. 50 years old, died at
a Chicago hospital after undergoing an
operation for what DR.. w. G. Robertson,
of the institution, diagnosed as lump
jaw DR.. Robertson knows of only one
other case in which a human being was
afflicted with lump Jaw.
A new gymnasium, which was given
to the Southern Baptist Theological
seminary at Louisville, Ky, by Joshua
lowering, Of Baltimore, was dedicated
Miss Serena RhiEelander has given,
under condition, ten New York city
lots, valued at 100000 to ST James
Protestant Episcopal mission in that
city
a decree has been entered in a New
York court declaring void three papers
executed by Mrs. Anita Mccormick
Blain before her marriage to the late
EmmOns Blaine, whereby she placed
her property, valued at about one mil
non dollars in the hands of trustees
Obituary: At London, Blondin Jean
Francois Gravelet, the famous rope
walker 7G-At Colorado Springs, Colo,
Very Reverend Charles Bernard. super
Tor CT 81 Sulpice Order in America. 40.
At Bloomington, H., John w. Whip,
70 At Olney, H., John Wolf-At Ma
pe'Niie, H., DR.. H. c. Daniels.-At New
York Edward J. Hefferman.-At Niles.
Mich, Robert Osler-At Princeton, Ind,
William Snyder 6S.-At Rensselaer,,
Ind. James c. Morgan.-At North Man
chester. Ind., John Churchill, 6S-At
Warsaw, ILL.,, Louis Becker. 6S.-At
Manitowoc. Wis, Adolph Whitman, y.