Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-06
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.


Col. Jesse E. Peyton, 'the father of
centennials,' is dead.
Walter w BoStwick, CT Brooklyn.
is organizing patent trust.
Sewing is taught as a science al the
Minnesota state school for girls.
The Sons Of the American Revolu-
ton met in annual convention in CleVe-
land 0.
Washington Gibbons, for years a
prominent Buffalo lawyer and politi-
clan, died in New York.
A 3-year-old girl named Mabel
Vaughn, near Milton, Mo, was bitten
by a rattle snake and died.
Dozens of people are drowned in a
flood in Oklahoma and large amount
of property is destroyed.
Theodore Havemeyer, vice-rresident
of the Amcricon Sugar Refining Com
pany, died in New York.
Seventy-five married inmates Of the
soldiers home are discharged to make
room for unmarried veterans.
President Mckinley and party have
returned to Washington FROM the
Grant celebration in New Yorl;.
There is great opposition at Augusta,
Ga, to the proposed appointment of
colored postmaster for that city.
William Schuttle, a friendIess man
about As years old, died from s.arva-
ton and exposure in New York city.
The employees OF wholesale houses Of
St Paul and Minneapolis will have the
usual weekly half-holiday this summer.
Governor Black, Of New York, will
give a hearing to prominent citizens
who are opposed TO his civil-serVice
bill
state Bank Examiner J. w. Brein-
denthal Of Kansas has taken charge Of
the Bank O. Hutchinson, a private con-
Germ
At Defiance. O., George WaIdfogle,
aged &C., wealthy farmer, was killed
by a vicious horse, which he was try
ing to break.
The family mansion at Green Ridge,
staten Island, ~ Y, owned by Ad
miral Benham United States Navy, re-
tired, WAS burned.
The senatorial contest in Kentucky
ended by the election of w. J. Deboe,
republican, to succeed Senator Black
bum, democrat.
Ed Newcomer, leader OF a noted
band of Oklahoma outlaws, has been
caught and lodged in jail and the band
broken up.
The democratic senators have en-
pioyed experts and will examine the
tariff bill in detail before it is reported
10 t. ~anate.
Senator Nelson's amendment to the
tariff bill abrogating the Hawaiian
treaty promises to cause a lively con-
tests in the senate.
The jury in the case of John F Ken
u"dy, tried as the leader of the Chicago
& Alton robbery at Glendale, Mo, has
failed to agree.
The Central Union Telephone COM
pany has filed a mortgage at Dayton,
o., to the Illinois Trust and Savings
bank for $4,000, 900.
The Central Union Telephone com
pany has filed a mortgage at Dayton,
O., to the Illinois Trust & Savings bank
for IS 900 900
John Ryan is under arrest in New
York on charge of having caused the
death Of Andrew Bovine, who was
knocked down by blow.
William T. Powers, CoIored, con-
demned to die on the gallows May %,
was baptized and received into the
Baptist church at Chicago
American manufacturers have been
invited to send displays to the eleventh
annual exhibition of the German Agri-
cultural society at Hamburg.
First Lieut.. Rufus II. Lane of the
United States Cruiser New York was
married to Miss Gertrude E. Mills at
the home of her parents in Geneva. o.
The discussion between the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution and
the Daughters of the Revolution as to
which society was first founded is still
unsettled.
Gold has been discovered near Ann
Arbor. Mich.
Or Traell Green. an eminent physi-
elan and famous scientist died at
Easton, Pa.
The international Y. NJ. c. A has
decided upon Denver as the next meet
ing place
EX-Mintster Thurston presented to
the senate f"3nce committee long
list Of reas~"s why the treaty Of re-
ciprocity ~.th Hawaii should not be
abrogate5
Cathori'a Vansverth, aged four
years. fell 'w m a Sc9ff0Id thirty foot