Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-01-07


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1t is said that the failure of the
Security Mortgage and Trust COM
pany of Dallas, Texas, will cause a
loss of 81 500, 900 to eastern and for
eign capitalists.
New York-The board of estimates
inserted in the budget for 1897 the
sum Of $4,000 for ceremonies at
tending the dedication of the Grant
monument.
Baltimore ninth annual meet
ing Of the American Economic asso-
citation will begin at Johns Hopkins
university and will continue until
Thursday
Washington-The large furniture
house of julius Lansburg, on New
York avenue, was burned; loss on
lures, 100000.
John McCord of Oberlin, Ohio, died
in the Grand Central railway station in
New York, of heart disease. He was
returning home from visit to relatives
at New Haven, Conn.
Comptroller Eckels in an interview
says the recent bank failures have been
due largely to local causes and that
the general condition Of the national
banks is excellent.
District Attorney Olcott of New
York has written a letter TO the at
torney general asking his advice as to
whether the deputies in his Office are
subject to civil service.
Mrs. Ella Eager, wife Of a locomotive
engineer, committed suicide at New
Haven, Conn, by throwing herself in
front Of her husbands locomotive. The
couple had quarreled.
Total appropriations for the various
branches OF the New York city govern
ment of New York for 1897 foot up
close to $4,000 900, a larger sum than
ever was granted before.
Topeka, Kan.-General Buckner
sent a cask of whisky and $50 to Dud-
ley town for a Christmas present. 1t
was the only township in the union
carried by Palmer and Buckner.
Otto Wasmansdorff, senior partner
in the Chicago banking firm of Was
pended as a result of the failure of the
National bank of Illinois, committed
suicide.
1t is reported that Charles T.
Yerkes, the Chicago street railway
magnate, will make his home in New
York and will have two of his Chi
cago stocks listed on the New York
exchange.
H. G. Henry, the millionaire con-
tractor, has confirmed the report that
he had secured the contract to build
the approaches to the Great Northern
railroad tunnel through the Cascade
mountains.
Judge Myers, at Oskaloosa, Kan,
dismissed the receivership case of the
Atohison, Topeka and Santa Fee Rail-
road company, holding that the alien
land law of Kansas is not applicable
to railroads.
Van Nortwick Bros. bankers at Ba-
tavia, ILL.,, and holders of large property
! interests in several states, made an
assignment, as a result of, the liquida-
tion of the Atlas National Bank of
Chicago
Chicago-Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker
of Wisconsin and her son have been
left a fortune by Captain Lemon of
Washington. They are the wife and
son of Major Tucker, who is now sta
toned at st. Paul.
San Francisco-Informati has
been received announcing the death
at San Salvador of Dr. Albert San
chez, director of the meteorological
and astronomical observatory of the
state of San Salvador.
A letter received at the state de-
partment in Washington from high
authority in the Turkish govern
ment indicates that Emperor William
of Germany and the sultan have
formed an alliance.
After w. J. Bryans Atlanta lecture
Mr.. McBee, his financial hacker, Of
fered to fulfil the contract and pay
the lecturer $4,000 to bind the con-
tract. Mr.. Bryan refused it, and Mr.
McBee did not press it.
Governor Morton has appointed
Col. Ashley w. Cole, his private sec
commission. The salary is $4,000
per year. Colonel Cole was a former
New York newspaper man.
,President-elect Mckinley, in a talk
with Senator Wolc0tt of Colorado told
Mr.. Wolcott that he was earnestly in
favor of carrying out the republican
platforms pledge of attempting to
bring about international bimetallism.
Announcement has been made that
the Erie Railroad company has COM
pleted arrangements for the elevation
of its tracks through Jersey City. The
work, which is to cost $1,0O0,000, will
be completed in about two years.
Westinghouse the question of
general arbitration between the
United States and Great Britain, Mr.
Olney and Sir Julian have made Gne
final draft of the treaty and it is IN
the hands Of Lord Salisbury awaiting
his approval.
V. J. Rothschild of the st. Paul
Winter Carnival associal ion has been
authorized by the executive commit
tee to announce that owing to the
mild weather the association has been
forced to abandon it's plans for an ice
palace this season.
Samuel H. Kerfoot, one of the
pioneers in the real estate business in
Chicago, died of heart disease. He