Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-28

A North Dakota state municipal
league is formed.
Fred S. Thompson has been appoint
ed postmaster at Superior, Wis.
New Orlenas has had nearly 900
yellow-fever cases and 1O3 deaths.
Miss Bessie O'Brien of Springfield,
III, is spoken Of as a new Patti"
An unknown boy well dressed was
killed by train near Racine, Wis.
Alois Thoman, a prominent resident
Of st. Louis, Mo, committed suicide.
The fact that the bimetallic COM
mission has failed is accomplished.
Joe Patchen reduced the four-wheel
sulky record by nearly four seconds.
William Harker, a Bourbon, Ind,
farmer, was thrown from his wagon
and killed
Henry KehI a well-known carriage
manufacturer of Sandwich, H., hanged
himself.
John T. MCGEE of Minneapolis was
appointed to succeed Circuit Judge
Russell.
Fire partially restroyed the plant of
the Diether Lumber company at Fort
Wayne, Ind.
Rumor has it that the public and
parochial schools of New York city
may consolidate.
The president appointed Frank c.
Partridge of Vermont consul-general
at Tangier, Morocco.
Hugh E. Bailey, assistant adjutant
general of Illinois under Gov. Altgeld,
died at Springfield.
David F. Porter, president of the
Hamilton bank, New York, is dead,
aged 80 years.
The west Tennessee insane asylum
at Bolivar mad a narrow escape from
destruction by fire.
M. B. Tucker, an Associated Press
correspondent in Alaska, died OF ex-
haustion on trail.
Mrs. Mary Fox of Niles, Mich, while
attempting to start a fire with kero-
sene, was fatally burned.
Mayor Starkweather of Superior
Wis, will close the saloons unless
licenses are paid when due.
George Young, a farmer, living near
Blue Earth City, Mimi, killed his wife,
Gwo children and himself.
John Kreling, prominent citizen
OF San Francisco, is dead, as the result
of stroke of paralysis.
The failure of an Asheville bank left
the widow and children of BILL Nye,
the humorist, but $40 week.
General Land Commissioner Her
mann refused to reopen the case of
Register Sunderland of Fargo.
All navigation upon the Yukon river
is now closed by an ice blockade. Sew
eraI vessels are frozen in.
The seventeenth annual convention of
the American federation of labor will
meet in Nashville December 13.
zee Gee, Chinese Interpreter at Sc
attic, Wash, has been acquitted OF
smuggling and bribery charges.
Thomas Y. Reynolds, a st. Louis,
Mo, newspaper man, shot and killed
Joseph Kirby during a quarrel.
George M. Pullman, president of the
Pullman Palace Car Company, died
suddenly at his home in Chicago.
Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi has
been reelected commander in chief Of
the Military Order Loyal Legion.
Roswell M. Splitter of Rockford, ILL.,,
has just remarked the woman from
whom he was divorced ten years ago.
Mrs. Mary Johnson's cousins in New
York have contested ker will. Wh1ch
gives $6QO, 900 to Catholic institutions.
The receipts of the postoffice depart
ment for the fiscal year were $685.
462; the expenditures were S94,O77,-
242
Croker declared Tammany would
win BY $4,000 and organized a Wall
street pool with 500, 900 to bet on Van
Wyck.
In a fight for the bantamweight
championship. Peddler Palmer, Eng
zish whipped Dave Sullivan, Bos-
tOnian.
John Mandy, a saloon-keeper of
Oaktown, Iowa, is under arrest on
charge OF having killed William Allen
August d.
Edwin NJ. Walden, boot and shoe
dealer of Loganport, Ind, has made
an assignment; assets, S12,500; liabili-
ties, $4,000.
Edgar A. Miller died of typhus in
the pest-house at San Francisco. No
other case of typbus has been known
on the coast.
Tains on the Chicago & Alton rail
road collided near Mexico, Mo. One
man was killed and four injured
doss, $4,000.
The clerks of The railway mail ser
vice in the last fiscal year handled
1851, $40, $50 pieces of all classes of
mail matter.
President Mckinley will deliver an
address at a banquet in Cincinnati
October so, and will then go to Canton
so cast his vote.
For the first time in many years,
the money to handle the wheat crop
has been furnished by Minnesota and
Dakota bankers.
Joseph Overoy, wanted on a charge