Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-24

Hartford City field are closed.
An Indian territory farmer dug up
pot of old Spanish and American
dollars dated from 1926 to 1872.
Dr. William n. Maxwell of Brook
Ign was elected superintendent Of New
York city schools.
Mayor Graham, Of Lincoln, Neb.
has been arrested on charges of
bribery.
Edna Wallace Hopper has brought
suit at San Francisco and New York
for a divorce from De Wolf Hopper,
the operate star.
The Home Savings bank Of Sioux
City, Iowa, has closed its doors:
$4,000 of school fuQds are lied up.
At Cape May, y. J., Captain Henry
w. Sand, editor Of the Wave, died Of
general debility.
Pu3ilist Choynski will soon return
to Chicago to await a match with
Mccoy.
The temperance committee OF the
Presbyterian church has adopted a
hou1A0u 4CPo- l, Oui-L~IA5 al HSuCIoA
of Princeton Inn.
Captain w. 0. Lavake was shot and
killed in his law Office at Dubuque,
Iowa, by an unknown man, who
fired six bullets into his body.
A freight engine and sixteen cars
were wrecked on the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad at Powers,
Mich, caused by an open switch.
Eugene Saulsy, one of the leaders
of the Young Republicans of Indiana,
has been stricken with total blind
ness.
Jacob Beidler, the millionaire lum-
Der merchant and real estate owner,
died in Chicago. He was born in
Pennsylvania. in 1915
The remains of Mrs. A. P. Plat,
only sister Of General AIger, secre-
| tary of war, arrived in Detroit, &C
compaQied by members of the family
The second trial of Mate Bran, on
the charge of numbering Captain Nash
of the barkentine Herbert Fuller was
begun in Boston.
Report has it that the Standard Oil
company and J. Pierpont Morgan are
behind Joseph Letter in his immense
operations in wheat.
A plan for recognizing the Phila-
delphia, Reading and New England
Railroad company has been presented
to the holders of securities.
The Bank of Abbeville, Ga, closed
its doors, the cashier leaving the
town after having made an assign
ment.
A Bessemer pig-iron pool to con-
troll the market has been formed by
producers in the Cleveland, Mahoning
Valley and Sheboygan iron districts.
The exports of domestic merchan-
disc in February amounted to $685.
312,674, a gain over February, 1897
of about $15,500,0OO.
An extensive exploration of the
geological and Typographical features
of Alaska will be made by the geolog-
ical survey.
| The tramway over Chilkcot pass
Alaska, is reported completed and
freight is being transported from Dyea
to the summit for 7 cents pound
Col. Thomas P. Ochiltree is recover
ing from a long illness in New York
during which he underwent six sur
gical operations.
Lieut. Oswin w. Lowry, United
States navy, in charge of the New
Yolk photographic Office, died in
New York of,pneumonia.
; Adolph S. Lane, for fourteen years
grand secretary OF the knights and
Ladies of Honor of Indiana, died at
Vihcenens, Ind.
William j. Koerner was sentenced to
Imprisonment for lie in New York,
for the murder OF Rose A. Redgate,
his sweetheart.
Rev. X. jackson, a Baptist preacher
of st. Louis, beat his wife into in
sensibility after her repeated refusal
to accompany him to church.
Spring wheat is being sown in Ne
braska. The winter wheat acreage
exceeds by 20 per cent anything in
the history of the state.
Fred Bronstlne, German, living in
Lewis county, Mo, Shot and killed
his wife and then snot himself, in
hlcIng a snght wound. The couple
had domestic differences.
four prisoners broke Jail at Elyria,
ONO. One or them, Joseph FOX, in-
uI-ttd tor murder, returned, saying ms
conscience Il DUBBED him.
Toe Italian government is neg91i IT.
ing with the Lnited States to secure a
DEDUCTION of the tariff on certain &. IT,
cIes OF Italian export
Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, has lost
his fight against the employment of
conyicts on shirt contract, by a de-
cision of the supreme court.
J. c. Bramer, son of a prominent
New York lawyer, is under arrest in
Los Angeles, Cal, on charge of
forgery.
The temperance committee of the
presbyterian general assembly has is
sued a circular advising parents to
be careful i0 selecting institutions for
their boys.
Perry Gardiner enticed Will Rogers
into an unoccupied building at Pulaski.
ILL.,, and beat his brains out with
club. Gardner and Rogers were play
mates, aged 16.