Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-06

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The Very Rev. William Corby OF
Notre Dame, head Of the order Of the
Cross III America, is dead at South
Bend, Ind. He was the chaplain OF
the famous Irish brigade Of the civi
war.
The manufacturing potters Of Tren-
ton, n. j., and the men employed in
the clay department, have agreed
that the II 1-2 per cent. cut maze il
the mems wages in 1894 should be re
stored.
The business portion Of 1Iuchaka-
rock, mining town four miles south
Of Oskaloosa, Ia, was practically de-
stroyed by fire. The fire started in 6
restaurant. There was no water to
fight the flames and fire burned itself
out.
The Bath schooner Arcola, Capt
Weeks, bound to Boston from Ran
dolph, Me-, with cargo of lumber, was
wrecked on Green island, near Port
land, Me. The crew after clinging tc
the rigging for four hours was taken
off.
The oVerturning of a lamp for heat
lEg glue in Whitney's planning mill at
San Bernardino, Cal, caused a fire
which burned property valued at $780,
600. Four of the residences, an Episco-
pal1an church, a skating rink and
hardware store were burned.
A Tacoma dispatch says that floods
have caused damage estimated at ST.
100000 in the northwest during the
last three days. The Northern Pacific,
Canadian Pacific, and Great Northern
tracks are washed out and traffic is al
most suspended
At New Haven, Conn.,, William
James Linton, am engraver, poet and
politician writer, is dead, aged So
years. He was born in London. He
was intimately associated with NJ
AZzini, Garibaldi, Louis Blanco and
other European republicans.
The Wisconsin State Teachers as
ISOLATION adopted resolutions strongly
the semi-centennial cele-
bratiOn next June and providing for
committees to see that the educational
interests of the state are properly
represented in the exercises.
The Missouri experiment station
which has been making experiments
with sugar beets, has given out the re-
suit of it's experiments which demon
strates that it would not be profitable
for the Missouri farmer to raise beets
for sugar purposes.
Mrs Woolsey G. Sterling is dead at
Conn.,, aged 80 years. She
was a prominent abolitionist and her
home at Bridgeport was a station on
the Underground railroad" She
founded the first sanitary society for
soldiers during the Civil war.
In New York Prof. Daniel L. Dowd,
the strong man, died from consump-
ton fastened by an attack of the grip,
aged As years. He was known
the country as a teacher of
athletics, and for his practice inven-
tionS to hang upon the wall.
Patrick Brady, convicted Of embeZzl-
ing $4,000 from Wapello county, Ia,
while OVerseer of the poor and SEN
fenced to one year in the penitentiary,
was pardoned by Governor Drake. He
had served six months and was
bl ought home to the deathbed of his
cEild.
1t is reported that the notorious
Black Jacks gang OF outlaws have
;rosseo the line from Mexico en- route
to Silver City for the purpose OF re-
leasing the Southern Pacific train rob-
bers captured recently near STEMS
Pass. The deputy United States mar
shall is on the look out for the gang
The new plan OF the Kentucky dis
tilIerS and dealers of Bourbon whisky
is for a general pooling OF stocks and
their sale through a central agency.
1t is estimated that thirty-five firms
own 100000 gallonS of the principal
brands, or $4,000 barrels, which is
sufficient to control the market.
At Denver Col, Judge Gilbert B.
Reed, q well-known lawyer, died sud-
denly of neuralgia Of the heart He
was born in Steuben county, N Y, in
1928, was a graduate of the University
of Michigan and was admitted to the
bar at Jackson, Mich, in 1850.
William Orr an6 Miss Lizzie Nelson,
a youthful clipping couple from Glenn's
Ferry, Idaho, have returned to Boise
from Oregon, having been refused a
marriage license at more than twenty
places in Idaho and Oregon owing
10 the tender Yeas of the girl. She
is 16 and he is 20
At the annual meeting CT the North
western Travelling Mems association
in Chicago, the reports of the officers
showed the organization to be in a
f1ourishing condition, with con
stantly growing membership roll
William H. Crihbin was reelected
president.
At Detroit Enmund Traver, a press
man, and his paramOur, Myrtle Gre
mer, we're taken to Emergency hospi
tai, each with a bullet in the temple
Doctors think the young man will
die, Their stories differ, each accus
ing the other Of doing the shootin
after quarrel.
John Philip Sousa's new comic operf
THE Bride-elect" received it's frs
presentation in New Haven and score
an instantaneous success. The seen
of the opera is laid ON the Island O
Capri, in the Bay OF Naples, and tn