Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-07-22
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
AT HOME.

ion of America was held IN Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, July Is to IS.
At Rochester, N. Y, William H.
Gates was arrested, charged with the
murder of his wife.
The First NJ. E. church of New
RochelI, N Y, built over 100 years ago,
was destroyed by fire.
General Mark F. Wentworth, one of
the most prominent men in Maine, died
at Kittery, aged II years.
The visible supply of wheat is 16,6O9,-
900; corn, 15,425,OOO; oats, 6,949, 900;
rye, 2,097 900; barley, sol 900.
Six hundred places in the internal
revenue department are to be taken
cut of the classified service.
John E. Davidson, third Vice-presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, died in Lincoln, Neb.
kid" Baldwin, the once famous
catcher of Cincinnati red Stockings, ex-
pired in an asylum near Cincinnati.
Major z. G. Pangborn, the veteran
newspaper editor of Jersey City, N. j.,
has refused to be minister to Bolivia.
A college for Catholic women is to
be established in Washington under
the auspices of the Catholic university.
President Mckinley and other high
officials attended the funeral of Isham
G. Harris of Tennessee in the senate
chamber
The iron works cotton mills Of Fall
River, Mass, four in number, employ
ing about 5000 hands, under a weekly
pay roll of $4,000, have shut down.
Louis w Hall, attorney for the
Pennsylvania railroad and a member
of the board of visitors at West Point,
died of heart disease at Harrisburg, Pa.
While returning from church, Sam
and Oscar Mehanes, farmers, of Able
marie, Va, were killed by lightning.
They had sought refuge under a tree.
With no apparent reason, there was
rush to buy sugar, and the trust stock
went up many points by leaps and
bounds. Washington" said the
knowing ones.
Forests and orchards of Delaware
county, New York, are being denuded
o. foliage with frightful rapldity by
caterpillars, which closely resemble
gypsy moths.
Justice Chester declared the New
York antitrust laws unconstitutional
and vacated his order appointing a
referee to take testimony in the attor-
ney-general's suit against the coal
trust.
Public announcement was made of
the organization of q society in Brook
Ign to secure the enactment of laws
prohibiting the marriage of diseased
or deformed persons and the killing by
the state of all incurable lunatics,
idiots or deformed children.
Mrs. Elizabeth w. Westcott, widow
of James H. Westcott, and daughter
of the late Judge w. L. F. Warren,
died suddenly at Saratoga. She was a
sister Of Mrs John A. Bryan, of New
York city, and was one of the wealth |
lest women in Saratoga county.
Mrs. Ann Behan of Providence and |
her daughter Annie were adjudged in
sane. Stree a recent visit to Europe, |
in which they spent $4,000 trying to |
get into high life, the delusion has be-
come fixed in their minds that they are |
members of the English nobility.
Miss Dellarifa Grace Richardson, |
heiress to $10,000,000 from the estate
left by her father, Joseph Richardson,
who died in New York, was, according |
to Attorney A. Appel, engaged in wash |
ing the windows of her house when |
Mr.. Appel went to serve a summons on
her.
At Baltimore Elmer C. Davis sue
ceeded in breaking the American
twenty-four hour bicycle record which
was held by Henry Smit4l Davis COW
cred SO miles in the twenty-four
hours, which is just two miles more
than Smiths mountaineering perform
ance
The latest information from the sum-
mer home of Colonel Charles F.
Gre cker, where the Southern Pacific
railway vice president lies FRUSTRATED
from stroke of apcplexy, is to the
effect that Colonel Croker is resting
quietly, with favorable indications of
recovery
The forty-ton fly wheel of a pair of
Corliss compound engines of the Ia
coma railway went to pieces, COM
pletely wrecking the plant and build
ing. causing damage to the extent of
$4,000. The wreck means the total
discontinuance Of all Tacoma's street
car traffic for several days.
e. R. Carter, who pleaded guilty to
tbp CHARGE Of emEalylement of $40 OOO
of the funds of the National Bank of
Commerce, of New York, in January.
1895, and who was serving a term of
six years and six months in the Kings
county penitentiary. was released from
prison, a pardon having been received
from President Mckinley.
The steamer San Juan, from San Jose
de Guatemala, arrived in San Francisco
yesterday and went into quarantine.
The body of a Chinese boy who died on
beard was taken in charge by DR.. Blue,
federal quarantine officer, and post
norton examination held showed that
the lad had died from yellow fever
The vessel will be held in quarantine
five days.
George V. n. Lothrop, ex-minister to
Russia, died at his home in Detroit.
The principal interest in the coal
miners strike is conferred in the plan
to end the struggle by arbitration
There are indications of q coal famine
confronting the country within the
next ten days. Labor orators will &c