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

HI9fpOnL Morgan becomes Lue rail-
road king of America.
Government receipts are fast over
taking the Expenditures.
America is said to be negotiating Tor
the purchase of Greenland.
Fire in Washington Power house
causes loss of about S800,000
Chicago's STRENGTHENING brigade is
placed in charge of a woman.
Frederic Bancroft, the magician,
died at Charleston, S. c.
At Vicksburg, Miss, DR.. A. J. Phelps,
Grants surgeon general, is dead.
Three lawyers of New York were
arrested on the charge of blackmail.
In New Orleans in one day II new
cases of yellow fever were reported.
Catibini, the Ely, Mimi, murderer,
was sentenced to thirty years in pris-
on. .y,a
National democrats of Massachusetts
nominated William Everett for COVER
nor.
Ironton, Ohio, had fire that caused
loss of several hundred thousand
dollars.
At Alma, Neb, the farmhouse of A.
L. Gordon burned, consuming three
children.
The Bank of Montrose, Col, has
failed. The capital is $4,000; deposits
$177,O 900
Secretary Wilson receives encourag-
ing reports of experiments with sugar
beet seeds,
At Fort Scott, Kan, Judge Simons
yas refused 20 allow a woman to serve
IN the jury.
The interchangeable mileage credit
system will be inaugurated by western
lines Nov. l.
The movement in the Methodist
church for equal representation takes
definite shape.
Gen. Benjamin f. Tracy was nomin-
ated by republicans for mayor of great
er New York.
Star Pointer goes the third quarter
in twenty eight seconds, the fastest
time on record.
Joseph NJ Carey of Wyoming il
elected president of the National Irri-
cation congress.
Mayors and councilmen of the Unit
ed States, Canada and Mexico met at
Columbus, Ohio.
The Monetary commission has ad-
journed TO meet Oct. II, when it's real
work will begin.
It is expected that the steamer Port
land will bring three tons of gold from
Alaska on her next trip.
The committee on resolutions of the
national labor congress makes a re-
port that the strike method is a failure
Poles in a Pennsylvania town engage
In a riot in which half a hundred men
sre injured at least nine fatally.
A strike of the employees of the Chi
cago City Railway company is threat
ened
r. A. Butler, a Santa Fe brakeman
was crushed by the cars near Gales
burg, Ill.
November 1 has been fixed as thu
date for the sale of the Union Pacific
Railroad
Special Agent Green of the genera
land Office reports forest tites still
raging in Wyoming canyons.
Two blocks of stores in the business
district Galesburg, Ill, were de
Btroyed by fire; loss $4,000.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Ode
Fellows adjourned at Springfield, Ill.
to meet next year in Boston.
Iha Of CT Ci,N1t
of Hamilton, Mich, who recently dis
appeared, have been found short.
EX-Policeman John Riedy, default
ing treasurer of the st. Louis Police
Relief association, surrendered.
There is a growing demand at Liver
pool for American corn, and the i'm
ports next year will be very large
The New York court of claims
awarded $500 damages to an limo
c,nt man convicted of burglary.
Owing to an increase in the wage.
o. journeymen, the price of horse
shoes has been advanced in New York
The republicans of New York will
ask Gen. Benjamin Harrison to open
the republican municipal campaign Oct.
Il.
The amendment to the New Jersey
constitution prohibiting the legisla-
ture from allowing gambling was de-
feated
Eugene V. Debs made an address a
the Chicago labor convention, in which
he said strikes don't pay. All strikes
are lost"
Methodist Episcopal clergymen il
New York are considering a PROPOSE
ton to curtail the power of thu
bishops
Raymond Bushrod, colored was
lynched at Hawesville, KY, tor feloni
ously assaulting Maggie Roberts, AGED
IA years.
A man supposed to be B. Anderson
of Chicago fell from West Shore
train near Highland Falls, N. Y. ant
was killed.
Treasury officials confidently predic,
that before the end of the year the re
ceipts of the government will exceed
its expenditures
AT Dayton, Ohio, Adam Holtzmann.
a banker, stabbed and killed Hobert
Reed, a colored waiter. Holtzmann
claims self-defense.
The time of the meeting of the ma
ticnal prison congress at Austin. Tex,
has been postponed to Dec. 2 to on
account Of yellow fever.
M. c. Bergh of Viroqua has been ap-
pointed deputy bank examiner for Wis.