Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-11
HOME AFFAIRS.
The Ute war is over.


Comptroller Eckels was elected pres
ident of the Commercial National
Bank of Chicago.
Princeton university and the Pres
byterian church are on the point of
open rupture.
Hatcher, the defaulting bank cashier
of Great Falls, Mont, got five years in
the penitentiary.
The Union Pacific railroad was sold
at Omaha to the reorganization COM
nittee for $57, 564, 1885.
William Martin Of Connecticut, had
lis second wife arrested, charged with
abductine his daughter.
Congressman Morris Of Duluth will
introduce a bill to establish postal
savings bank department.
Mrs. Forrest Wynne, of Hillsdale,
N J., was taken to court charged with
trying to bewitch neighbor.
William R. Finch of La Crosse, min
lister to Paraguay and Uruguay, mar
ried Miss Law, also of La Crosse.
A Chicago Methodist minister has
brass band performance in his
church as a feature of the exercises.
The board of directors OF the Penn
sylvania railroad at Philadelphia de-
claTed a semi-annual dividend of 21a
per cent.
The new Astoria Hotel in New York,
said to be the most costly building Of
it's kind ever constructed, was opened
formally.
The postoft1ce department shortly
will advertise for proposals for ocean
mail service between this country and
Jamaica.
Senior Canalejas, Spanish states
man and member of the Cortes, has
arrived to learn for himself the Cuban
situation.
Annie BerIiner got a verdict of
$1,750 for breach of promise against
Jacob Shalin. Both are New York
deaf mutes.
Lower temperature in the yellow
sver districts encourages the hope
that the prevalence of the disease is
near an end.
Representative of Russia, Japan
and the United States will probably
sign treaty for the suspension of
pelagic sealing
Ada Rehan refused salary twice as
large as irving gives to Ellen Terry,
it is said, rather than leave Augustin
Days company.
ne IIIFato UoJnk OF L. q. Baxter at
Burlington, ont, was broken into and
Che safe wrecked by dynamite. About
$4,000 was taken.
The navy department received dis
pa,cu 1T washington announcing the
death OF PaymasUer U. z. Tlnany at
Mare Island, Cal.
EDWARD u. hamilton OF Worcester,
n. T., Killed his vine, babe and him
sell ana mOrtally wounded his two
yG,tr-OlC daughter
The bureau drawer OF Mrs. Alice
Norton, Il guest or the Hotel Barthol-
di III New YORK, was rODued Oh 900
worth Of diamonds.
George Nj. Pullman lett $4,000 year
each TO his sons, the bulk OF his estate
to his daughters and $l,2OO,OOO 1or a
nee manual training school.
Miss Frances u. Willard was re-
elected president OF National Woman's
Christian temperance Union. All
other officers were reelected.
A nine-year-old girl IN Hartford,
Conn, trod on a live electric wire and
was killed. Crowds summoned by
her screams feared to touch her.
Miss Jessie X. Parsons of Yonkers,
n. Y, rich and handsome, killed her
self III hotel because she could find
no work TO satisfy her ambitions
The bank OF ShipsheWan, Ind, was
entered by burglars and the safe
blown open. All the yaIuables and
PAPERS were taken, with $4,000 cash.
The Mills Model House No. l, a fine
hotel in the Bowery section OF New
York, where rates for the rooms are
twenty cents night, received it's first
tenants.
The EsquimauX Lieutenant Peary,
the Arctic explorer, brought to New
York, are in a hospital in that city for
threaCment of bronchial and pulmon-
airy disorders.
MacmOnnie's statue of Bacchante,
which was rejected by the Boston pub
lie library, has been placed on exhibit
ton in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York.
General Thomas L. CIingman, ex-
United States senator, died in the
Morganton, N. c., insane asylum.
Aged, poor and infrm, the state gave
him home there.
The national convention of the w
c. t. o., in session at Buffalo, pledged
support to maintaining the Unions
temple IN Chicago, the affairs of which
have gotten in a tangle
Simeon Duetsch, formerly head of a
firm OF theatrical costume makers of
New York, committed suicide in Bos-
ton by shooting. He was about Al
and leaves a widow and a SON.
A court-martial, of which Brigadier
General Wade will be president, has
boen ordered by General Miles to try
Captain Lowering for assaulting Pri-
yate Hammond at Fort Sheridan.
M. w. Bremen of Globe, Arizona,
committed suicide at hospital. About
ten years ago he took So, 0OO,0 from
his silver mines. Recent business re-
verses were the cause of the suicide.
Colonel John S. Ford, known
throughout Texas as Colonel Rip
Ford, the Indian fighter, died after
months illness. He was 81 years of
age and a native OF South Carolina.
one hundred thousand people looked