Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-02

building was driven down in Chicago. !
1t is an immense ffty-foot pile, was
stood on end, and a two-ton pile |
driver drove it from Chicago down to !
the silurian limestone seventy-five
feet below the street.
Stehil & Co., one of the leading silk
firms in the Zurich market, has de-
cided to establish a branch factory in
this country, because of the high rates
of duty on silk fabrics under the
Dingley tariff law. Patterson will
probably be the location.
Chin Pom Ye, Korean minister at
Washington, explains that he did not
attend the funeral Of the late Mr.. Sob
because the latter signed the decree
diyorcing the queen from the king OF
Korea. He also objected to the Gre
nation of Mr.. Soh's remains.
Archbishop Ireland OF St. Paul
was mustered into the Grand Army Of
the Republic at Buffalo. The official
button was presented to the archbishop
by Corporal Tanner. Con8ratulatory
addresses were made by Gen. O. 0.
Howard, Past Commander LAWYER and
others.
At Baxter, Ark, Ed Williams, color
ed, was killed and burned up in his
home. About a month ago, Williams
committed an outrage on a colored
woman, and then sent word to the dep
uty sheriff, residing here, that he
would kill him if he undertook to
arrest him.
James Christie is dead. He was con-
nected with Marine bank in the early
days of Milwaukee. His end comes at
his bachelor quarters in a London
club. He was a nephew of George
Smith, accounted the second richest
man in the world, and many years ago
an associate of Milwaukee bankers.
A committee of ten members Of the
Society of Friends of Illinois, Iowa and
indiana have arrived in Texas They
were appointed to come out west and
secure location for large colony OF
quakers. I'm the old States said he,
land is so dear that we cannot find
homes for our young people as they
grow UP and marry"
The sugar trust has begun to perSe-
cute dealers in Dutch sugars, it is said,
and the Dutch government has protest
ed to the United States government
Mrs. Angel, who sued the Gould es-
tate, claiming to be the widow of Jay
Gould, confessed in a despatch to
| George Gould, that her claim was
false.
AT the seventh annual convention Of
the Kelley league in Minneapolis, the
| delegates present represented nearly
400 local leagues with a membership Of
men who have been redeemed from
alcoholism by the Aeeley treatment
exceeding $4,000, while the grand total
number Of pei sons cured reaches $685.
| 600. Percentage Of lapses among mem
bers Of Kelley leagues, 10. Mayor
Robert Pratt, of Minneapolis, extended
a welcome and ex-mayor W. H. Eustis
| spoke.
A case of a sons affection for a
father has come to light in the navy
department at Washington. John
Casson and his son Schley Casson, are
clerks in the oflce of Secretary
Long at salaries until recently of $1,000
each. The work Of the young man at
tracted attention and he was notified of
promotion, with 81, 400 salary. Young
Casson refused to accept, saying that
his father had been longer in the ser
! vice. At the young mans own request
the promotion was transferred to the
| father.
! At the French hospital in San Fran
cisco, a young farmer sustained a
compound fracture of the cervical YER
zebra, an injury nearly always fatal,
which prevented the moving of his
head in any direction. The arch. of
the third vertebra and portion Of the
second vertebra were removed The
patient rests on an inclined plane.
The weight of his body acts as a coun-
ter-extension of the weight applied to
an extension apparatus which is at
tached TO the head and the patient is
virtually suspended by the neck until
he shall be restored to health.
Lake county, Ind, near Crown Point
had a diamond jubilee Thursday. 1t
was so years old, and the old settlers
who were there when it was organized
in 1887 took part in the celebration.
Mr.. Bartlett Woods, who has the honor
OF being the only living man who
signed the Squatters' union i'll 1887,
told many strange stories Of their
hardships in early life. He stated that
he could well remember the days when
Chicago was not in existence. In
those days it was Fort Dearborn. Scion
Robinson was the first white settler.
He came in 1884, when the county was
nothing but a wilderness. Robinson
then went back east, where he became
associate editor with Horace Greedy on
the New York Tribune. He lived to
the ripe old age of SO years.
The Northwestern Beet Sugar COM
pany is the name of corporation, cap
ltal stock $750,000, the plant to be To-
Gated at Mcmillan, Wis, One hundred
thousand acres of land in Jackson and
Clark counties, adjacent to Mcmillan,
have been acquired by the company
and the whole 1000 ,0O0acres will be put
under cultivation as soon as
possible The company itself will
manage 10000 acres. The western
stockholders are mostly wealthy lum-
bermen, Mr.. Boynton being president
and 0. Halmo of La Crosse, the secre-
tary. Mr.. Boynton says: Our plant