Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-04-07

J NILES byI dSe, AOCSu virginia
I beauty, died at her home near Chi
cago.
Mayor Rice of Houston, Tex, was
obliged to call on the state militia
in consequence of the street-car
strike riots.
J. Waldere Kirk, the king CT
dudes" was held UP and robbed of
money and jewelry to the value OF
$1,000 at st. Louis.
The leading wire-nail makers have
been successful in making a com
bine" to control three-fourths Of the
worlds output.
Professor Thomas D. Davis, aged
AZ, musical director of Highland
Park College Des Mofles, Iowa, died
at Carlinville, Ill.
Emile lola has agreed to come to
the United States to deliver fifteen
! lectures, for which, it is said he will
receive 1000.
Mr.. Depew will retire as president
of the New York Central and become
chairman of the board of directors Of
! the combined properties.
Both houss of the general assembly
of Iowa have passed a resolution re-
questing Secretary Long to name one
! of the cruisers Des Moines.
It is regarded as certain that Gov
ernor Black of New York will sign
the new primary election law, which
| is Objectionable to the machines of
| both parties.
The government has placed an Or
der with the Hoffmann tannery of
| Wheeling w. Va, for sides of leather
sufficient to make $4,000 sets of heavy
artillery harness.
Governor Budd, of California, has
appointed Rhodes Borden to succeed
Superior Judge Charles w. Slack,
whose resignation was given last Sat
urday, to take effect April 4.
James J. Corbett the pugilist, an
nounced his candidacy for a demo
cratic nomination for congress in New
York city on an anti-Spanish plat
form.
Rev. DR.. John Hall, pastor
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church,
New York, has broken down from
worry over the controversy in tn
congregation as to his pastorate.
The New York Athletic Club locked
it's doors, sang the Star-Spangled
Banner, and, under the influence of
the patriotic spirit, raised $4,000 to
free its clubhouse Of debt.
The Peoples Bank of Philadelphia,
which closed last week, was an
nounced to be short more than $1,000
900. President McManes declared he
personally would pay all depositors.
Adoplh F. Gratz, the new civil SER
vice commissioner, took the oath of
office and entered upon his duties this
afternoon. City Clerk Loeft1er admin
istered the oath to the new official.
States superintendent of Instruc-
ton Skinner of New York in his an
nual report, declares in favor of a
J curfew law, and says it will check
I vicious street education of children.
The postmaster general awarded
the contract for carrying the mails
from Juneu to Weare, Alaska, to B.
G. Richardson, of Seattle, Wash, at
an annual compensation of $4,000.
A statement of Pennsylvania S bank
commissioner says that Richard F.
Lopez and the Guarantors' Finance
Company were indebted to the Peo-
ple's Bank of Philadelphia nearly
! 100000.
At the Newark conference of the
Methodiste church Bishop Daniel A.
Goodsell stopped a member who had
begun the introduction of a sweeping
resolution in favor of Cuban indie
pendence.
Twenty-eight ice companies con-
trolling by lar the greater part OF
the Chicago business, have formed a
trust. A corporation with a capital
Of $3,OOO,O0O will succeed to the bust
ness of the smaller concerns.
William H. Edmonds, founder and
editor of the Southern States Maya
zine, died at Baltimore. He was one
Of the founders of the Manufacturers
Record, ard at one time proprietor OF
the Admission, Ala, Hot Blast.
Cashier William A. Steele of the
Chestnut Street National Bank Of
Philadelphia, of which the late Will
lam M. Singerly was president, has
been arrested on a charge of making
false reports and statements to the
comptroller of the currency.
John DAILY, the Irish patriot and
for ten years a political prisoner in
England, warned Americans in &
speech at Chicago against making g
compact with Great Britain, declaring
British sympathy and help would be
given only to get American dollars.
| Adam Bossert, living in Stanhopt
street, Brooklyn, tried to enter the
| fat of Martin Hans, next door to his
own, probably by mistake, an hour
after midnight. Hearing him at the
window and thinking him a burglar
Hans fired at Bossert and killed him
Members of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers have been mott
fed that those who may desire tc
avail thmselves Of the advantages Oh
the Paris Exposition in 1900 at low
cost to make arrangements with the
association as soon as possible.
The body of Frederick l.. Robinson
and that of woman supposed to be