Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-25

herman and paper mill owner Of Nee
nah. Wis, made an assignment. His
liabilities are $1,6OO,O00; assets the
same.
Chicago officials are investigating
the death of Millionaire Ketchum. Mrs.
Wallace, at whose house he dieo, says
they were married and claims his
estate.
The official vote of Ohio shows
that Bushnell, republican, for governor
has 28,1O1 plurality. The republicans
will have five plurality in the legisla-
ture.
Hal T. Lewis, the Georgian who
the Chicago convention, was appointed
a judge of the supreme court Of that
state.
The general Methodist Episcopal
missionary committee, which is meet
ing in Philadelphia, made appropria-
tons for stations in America, Europe,
Asia and Africa
At the white house General Long
street presented to the President
colored man from Atlanta, Andrew
Montgomery, who claims to be 103
years old.
Secretary Alger has issued an order
for the retirement of Lieut. Col Will
lam E. Walters, deputy surgeon-gen-
eTal, under the thirty years service
act.
]. Waldere Kirk, known as the king
Of western dudes" is under arrest in
New York upon charge of shooting
Richard R. Mandelbaum, who is seri-
ously injured.
A claim has been brought before
the land office, embracing seven mil
lions of acres of land in the northwest,
including the cities of ST. Paul and
Minneapolis.
Albert Kneeland, the bigamist who
has II living wives, has been sentenced
at ST. Joseph, Mo, to three years and
six months in the penitentiary. This
is his third term for this offense.
Consul MacBride, at Edinburgh,
says in a report to the state depart
ment that it is claimed in that city
that American frozen beef has a great
sale, but that it is made clandestinely.
A sheriT's jury in Brooklyn gave a
verdict for $4,000 to Mrs. Florence
Van Setback against her father-in
law, Peter Van Setback, for the
alienation of her husbands affections.
Samuel J. Ritchie, arrested for rob-
bing a freight car at Port Morris, n.
j., has been identified by Sheriff Dow
ling as one of the gang which roDDs
the Bradley bank Of Elden, Iowa, of
| $4,000 last February.
Intense interest is being taken in
the coming congressional election to
fill the vacacy in Secretary Lyman J.
Cages home district in Chicago. The
! money question is the chief issue at
stake.
1t is reported that James R. Sove-
| reign vacated the position of general
master workman of the knights Of
Labor in order to be a candidate for
president of the United States, but the
report is denied.
Mrs. Arbuckle, whose husband,
wealthy mlne-owner and politician of
Denver, was killed in New York last
year, will call the police of that city
to account for not unraveling the mys-
terry of his death.
William R. Cremer, an ex-member of
parliament, arrived in New York with
a petition from British workingmen to
United States senators in favor of ar
bitration between the United States
and Great Britain.
The suggestions for the establish
ment in Washington of a great ma
tional university is uaking a more de-
finite form, a number of representative
American women having taken hold of
the project.
Mrs. Jessie Lincoln-Beckwith saw
her husband play a remarkable foot
ball game. She left her fathers home
in Chicago and joined her young hus-
band at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Her father
has not yet relented.
Comercial agent Moore at Weimar
gives an abstract Of a recent lecture
by Professor Won Leiden on the
treatment of consumption. The pro-
fessor advocates the establishment of
state sanitariums.
The German Baptists of Whitney,
Kosciusko and Huntington counties,
Indiana, are organizing and will send
out a compay Of more than 100 fani-
lies in a short time to form a colony
in Pawnee county, Kansas.
Judge Shackelford of the Cole
county (Mo.) circuit court has in
structea the grand jury to investigate
the charges of corruption and bribery
made by the ST. Louis Republic against
lobbyists who were at Jefferson City
during the legislature last winter.
The monster which for three years
has been known as the mystery of
Candlewood Mountain, near New Mil
ford, Conn, turns out to be a flying
machine now nearly completed.
Senator Plat issued a long state
ment defending his party's course in
the recent election and blaming Mr..
Low and his friends for the lack of
an antiTammany union and the con-
seQuent election of Van Wyck
Taxpayers in three of the five
boroughs Of greater New York are op-
posed to the expenditure of the large
sum required to build the underground
and elevated railway in that city rec
commended by the rapid transit COM
mission.