Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC MATTERS.

exposition for the first eight days
was Il, 800 persons.
Governor Taylor of Tennessee in
tends to resign in October and return
TO the lecture platform.
Obituary,-At Pittsburg, Judge
Thomas Ewing, 7O.-At Cincinnati,
.ames NJ Hutchins, 70.
Miss Frances and Miss Sarah J. Por-
ter, Sisters, were suffOcated by jllumi-
mating gas in their room in New York.
The amended Raines law did not
have the effect Of closing hotels cafes,
and no New Yorker went thirsty.
A committee of the Florida legisla-
aure reported that the shortage of
state Treasurer Collins amount 70
s5O,981.
Williams, Brown & Co., wholesale
slipping and commission merchants
of San Francisco, have failed. Liza
bilities $60O,OOO
The Philosophical Society cCntem-
plates the erection of a large hotel and
sanitarium on its tract of land near
San Diego, Cal.
TIE Illinois supreme court de-
cided the inheritance tax law, passed
by the legislature two years ago, to
be constitutional.
The final decree of the supreme
court in the famous Modern Woodman
case has been rendered in favor of
locating headquarters of the order at
Fulton, III.
Mrs David Oppenheim of VancOu-
ver B. c., who Jumped from the Allan
tic Express, at Hudson, N. Y, while
deranged, died.
Irish Americans proposes erecting
in New York building to cost $1,000,
900, which Will be home for members
of the race of all creeds.
The International Association of
Machinists in session at Kansas City
elected officers and decided to hold it's
next meeting at Buffalo.
The association of police chiefs of
the United States and Canada met at
Pittsburg and elected T. J. Jansen
of Milwaukee president.
information received in New York
says that one of the victims of the
Paris fire was Miss Maria de Comeau,
formerly of Station Island.
Williams, Brown & Co, wholesale
shipping and commission merchants,
Of San Francisco, have failed. The
liabilities are said to be 100000
Job e. Hedges, private secretary to
the mayor of New York, has been ap-
pointed police magistrate for ten
years at a salary of $1,000 annually.
The beautiful woman whose body
was taken from d park reservoir in
New York has been identified as that
of Mrs. Ethel Maria Riese, of Brooklyn.
After an absence of two years from
the pulpit because Of ill-health Rev.
Dr.. John r. Paxton, the well-known
Presbyterian, preached Sunday in New
York
N-I.iiam Hallett Phillips, we'll
known attorney and clubman of
Washington, was knocked overheard
from a yacht and drowned in the Po-
tom9c river.
I judgment for $50, 800 was entered
in New York against Thomas II.
French the theatrical manager, in
favor Of Samuel French on an account
due on June l, 1896.
The Mallory line steamship Leona,
from New York city to Galveston, took
fire at sea. Thirteen passengers, two
stewards and the butcher of the ship
were burned to death.
A woman named Ira Mayer was
murdered in a resort of i'll repute at
Pine Bluff, Ark A theory of the
murder is that an erring wife was
hillNd by her husband
The supreme council of the Ameri-
car protective association began it's
annual meeting in Washington. Re-
potts show that during the year 312
lodges were established.
Herman Freund, a welI-knOwn mer-
chant of Detroit, committed suicide by
taking poison. He was respondent
over business difficulties. He leaves q
family of ten children.
John kleeman, of Kingston, n. Y,
a war veteran, So years old, was found
dead in his berth on the steamer
James w. Baldwin, at that city. 1t is
thought he may have taken poison.
have not yet decided on a proposition
to the two thousand miners now idle
awaiting an agreement. 1t is under
stood that a reduction viii be insisted
on
The body Of Maria Flood was found
in the Ohio river at Cincinnati. She
was prominent Sister of Charity and
escaped from the Mt Adams convent
over a month ago. She was evidently
demented
The members Of the commission
appointed by President Mckinley to
confer with the heads of European
gov ernments relative to the holding
OF an International bimetallic confer
erce sailed from New York for France
Mrs Cyrus Fillmore, widow of the
brother of eX-PreSident Willard Fill
more, fell from the porch of her
daughters residence at Sturgis, Mich,
and died shortly after from conclusion
Of the brain. She was 50 years of age.
Two masked robbers entered the
residence OF Rev. Joseph Flache, the
Catholic priest at Dyer, Ind, and
ransacked the house. The priest at
tempted to shoot, but his revolver
failed to work and he was roughly
handled
Capt. Joseph King who claimed that
he was 100 years old died at his home