Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-07

mously nominated Henry George for
| mayor OF greater New York.
In New York Judge Pryor refused
to annul the marriage Of forty-year-
old woman to a nineteen-year- boy
on the ground of hypnorlsm.
Juan Aparacio, a prominent Central
American merchant, with branch
house in New York, was shot by order
of President Barrios of Guatemala.
Colonel S. B. Wiles Of Falls City,
| Neb., who established the first mail
route between the east and west, is
suffering from a stroke Of paralysis.
| Frank taGellin Of Detroit, who shot
and killed his son and neighbor
| named SladeImann, and wounded his
wife and then escaped, has been arrest
ell.
The first consignment of tobacco
from Cuba since General Weyler re-
voked his decree forbidding the export
of that commodity has arrived at New
York.
| Special correspondence from Daw-
son City, the center of the Klondike
mining region, describes the scenes
of revelry that have become character
| istic of the place.
| The president appointed John T.
Dare appraiser of merchandise for the
district of San Francisco, and Joseph
E. Lee collector of customs, district Of
ut. Johns, Fla.
The American Paper company of
Chicago, dealers in printing papers, as
signed. Assets, $4,000; liabilities,
about $4,000. Difficult collections
! caused the failure.
Engineman E. Bennett Mitchell was
killed and fireman John R. Cawley was
| severely hurt by the explosion of a To-
| cCmOtiye on the Northern Central
Railway at Georgetown, Pa.
Chandler Hale, son of United States
Senator Eugene Hale of Maine, and
Miss Rachael Burnside Cameron,
| youngest daughter of ex-United States
Senator Cameron, were married.
Kershero Matusni has been made
first secretary of the Japanese lega-
ton at Washington, and will represent
, his governor during the temporary
absence of Minister Hoshi in Japan.
John Blocker, farmer, VINO lived
near Carroll, Iowa, killed his wife and
five Of his children, fatally wounding
his other child and then committed
suicide
At Birdsboro, Penn, the Serfert roll
ing mill, employing 125 men, resumed,
after an idleness of nine months, with
orders for at least three months of
. steady work.
Lady Henry Somerset will not be
able to attend the conventions of
the world and national w. G. T. U. at
Toronto and Buffalo. She has been
seriously i'll.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland and three
children have returned to Princeton
after spending the summer at Buz-
Yards Bay. Mrs. Cleveland will not
entertain this fall.
In the Luegert murder trial Chi
cago, Mary Siemering, with whom
Luetgert was alleged to be in love, tes-
titled that the accused and his wife
lived happily together.
The coroner's jury at ST. Louis has
decided that Ben Lamar, the Indian
territory politician found dead near a
tough resort, was not murdered but
was killed by having fallen down
stairs.
Sanitary inspector Drummer, in his
last report to the marine hospital serv-
ice from Havana, says the sanitary
condition of that city is at It's worst
and the city is ripe for all epidemic
| diseases.
At Fulton, ILL.,, Judge Gest dissolved
the injunction preventing removal of
Modern Woodman headquarters to
Rock Island. The Woodmen officials
at once hurried the seal and charter
out of town.
The administration has decided to
, withhold from publication for the pres
ent the letter which Minister Wood
ford delivered to the duke of Tetuan
outlining this governments views in
regard to the war in Cuba.
Secretary of the Treasury Gage will
discuss currency revision in his an
nual report. He has pronounced
views which may bring him into con-
t1ict with the monetary commission,
unless they reach an agreement.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
ambassador, will return to Washing
ton from London on October Is. It is
believed that he will try to negotiate
reciprocity treaties between the United
States and the British American col
Onies.
The treasury department has adopt
ed the views of the encouragement
as expressed in his recent opinion
against the collection of 6iscolored
army chaplains, the last to be ap-
pointed being Rev. w. T. Anderson,
> assigned to the tenth cavalry.
A movement is on foot looking to
the sale by TIE full blood Choctaws of
all their RICH. S in the Indian territory
and the removal of the entire tribe to
tract of land in old Mexico. Jacob
Jackson, the oft-defeated candidate for
chief, is to lead the tribe to the new
land.
The democratic city convention
nominated thlse candidates for officers
of greater New York: Mayor, Robert
A. Van Wyck of Manhattan; comp
troller, Bird S. Coler of Brooklyn;
president of council, Jacob Rupert,
Jr., of Manhattan. The German