Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-16

teQLral racine railroad 10 the govern
n.e1-t IN January 1 will be SIS, 1852 ,087.
delegation from the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indian nations in Indian
territory is in Washington to look af-
ter legislation in the interests Of those
tribes.
Paul Alexander tombstone, the mind
reader, now at Kansas City, says he is
going to take trip around the world
bIindfolded and at the same time try
to beat the record for globe trotters.
A member If the firm of J. Pierpont
Morgan & Co. has admitted the truth
ton Of the wire industry throughout
the country.
Judge Dunno of the circuit court
at Chicago appointed James A. Russell
receiver for the Illinois branches Of
the Supreme Council Catholic knights
and Ladies Of America.
Secretary Gage transmitted to con-
gress the estimates Of the appropri-
ations required for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1899 amounting to $462,-
647,885.
Judge McClelland, who represented
the twelfth Indiana district in congress
from 1889 to 1893, has been stricken
with paralysis at his home in Auburn
! and his death is expected.
At Vincennes, Ind. Rev. T. J. Keith
has absolutely refused a pension from
the government and has made full
restitution of all the money received
by him. amounting to S495.86.
| Two men were arrested charged
with attempting to blackmail Eugenio
| TeiXeira, a Brazilian don of great
wealth, who recently became a resident
of New York City.
The annual report of James H. Ec-
kels, comptroller of the currency,
| shows that on October 81 there were
3,617 national banks in active opera
ton, with capital stock of $500 ,230 ,295.
|. The members of the Louisiana
| health board who were appointed by
Governor Foster, resigned as a result
| of public dissatisfaction with their
| course in the recent yellow fever cpl
| demic.
| In the United States circuit court at
Chicago Judge Grosscup denied the
motion of Charles A. Bates of New
York for the appointment of a receiver
for the General Electric Street Rail-
way company.
Miss Maggie Kirkpatrick of PhiIadel-
phia, has been reported missing. She
is said to have about $4,000 in govern
ment bonds on her person, which she
persisted in carrying around with her
because she does not trust banks.
John j. Garland, Jr., 26 years old,
state representative elect from the
ninth Massachusetts district, and
| treasurer of a Boston theater, was ar
rested as a self confessed embezzler of
$l,212, the property of Frank Dunn,
proprietor of the theater.
The Olympic theater at New Orleans,
formerly the famous Olympic Athletic
club, where the Corbett-Sullivan and
other notable contests occurred some
years ago, was destroyed by fire to-
gether with nine other buildings. The
loss is estimated at$70 900; insurance
100000
Sergeant John Coghlan of Co. A,
first regiment, United States infantry,
shot himself through the head in his
quarters at the Preside, San Francisco,
in the presence of his captain, L. P.
Brant. COghlan died instantly. He
had been drinking heavily.
The federal court at Seattle, Wash,
awarded CASTOR jacob and Charles
Buff, passengers who started to Alaska
last September on the steamer Eugene,
$500 damages each against the owners
of the steamer for their failure to land
them at Dawson.
Mrs Gertie Clark, a concert hall
! singer, better known as Gertie West.
committed suicide at Cincinnati by TAX
ing carbolic acid She was married a
few months ago to Joseph Clark, a
sign painter Their martial life was
not happy.
A receiver was appointed for the
firm of Andrews & Piper, attorneys
and real estate dealers at Chicago.
Andrews & Piper were large holders of
suburban property and promoters of
the village of Berwyn. Liabilities
about $4,000; assets, $4,000
John w. Sims committed suicide by
shooting himself at San Francisco. He
left note saying that he had killed
his wife at Caldwell, N c., June 20.
| 1895, and that he had been sent to the
Morgantown insane asylum shortly
| afterward.
! Sallie Jackson, young woman en-
ployed as domestic in a prominent
family in ST. Louis, gave birth to
! child. Seized with remorse, she al
most severed the child's head from its
! body with a butcher knife. She was
removed to the hospital and later died.
Samuel Jacobs, a Cleveland liquor
dealer, has been arrected on a grand
larceny Indictment found in New York.
lie is charged with being implicated
IN gold brick swindle whereby M.
Bernstein of Cleveland was relieved of
$4,000 in New York a few weeks ago.
At Lincoln, Neb., ex-Auditor Eugene
Moore, convicted of embezzling and
under sentence of eight years in the
penitentiary, has been released from
Jail pending the hearing of his case in
the upper court on an order from the
supreme court, which approved his
bail bond.
The interstate commerce commits
SIGN has decided to extend for two