Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-11-10

aided the Chicago detectives in es-
tablishing a belief that prisoner now
held there on charges of polygamy
murdered a Wheeling woman three
years ago.
General Wood found that trans
port about to leave Santiago with
sick soldiers lacked proper delicacies
and medical supplies. Hereafter he
will personally inspect every transport
before it sails.
Thomas l. Kidd, George Zentner and
Michael TToiber, accused Of conspiracy
to injure the business of the Paine
Lumber Company during the recent
woodworkers' strike at Oshkosh, has
been acquitted.
A s1,150,OOO mortgage on the Co
lumbus Memorial building at Chicago
was filed for record. 1t bears on its
face S574.50 in United States internal
revenue stamps required under the
present war tax.
Captain Fenwick Y. Hedley of Bun
ker Hill, H., was married at st. Louis
to Ella Brown, for the love Of whom
Captain Hedley killed Mayor John R.
Richards, also Of Bunker Hill, in
June, 1897.
Green Lake county will vote on the
county seat question. Berlin wants
to get tue courthouse away from Dart
ford. The latter place has had the
county seat for 40 years and is CEN
trally located.
The Marquise de Merinville (for-
merly Miss Mary Gwendoline Cald-
welD presented $4,000 to the Catholic
University at Washington to estab-
lish a scholarship in the Caldwell
Hall of Divinity.
Rev. Mr.. Mach and F. 3. Bemis,
of Pittsville are lost in the woods near
that city. They were out hunting
deer and were separated from their
relatives and friends. A party is out
searching for them.
A Chicago woman says she believes
her husband was murdered in the
Yukon territory, because she has re-
ceived conflicting stories regarding
him in anonymous communications
mailed in the gold fields.
A contest is in progress in New
York over the will of Mrs. Anne Maria
Winters, aged "a years, who be-
queathed between one and two mil
lion dollars to her third husband,
who is thirty-fve years old.
The United States supreme court
has announced its decision sustaining
the constitutionality of the New
York law taxing foreign corporations
doing business in the state, accord
ing to the capital employed.
The lockout of 600 employees of the
Denver breweries ended, the diff
ferences between the brewers as
ISOLATION and the brewery workmen's
union having been adjusted. Conces-
sions were made by both sides.
Evidence that the trust among the
manufacturers of envelopes has be-
come a fact has reached the sta
tionery trade in the form of circulars
quoting an advance averaging %
per cent. in all grades of envelopes.
John F. Philips, treasurer of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail-
born in Brattleboro, VT, July IA, 1887,
and had been connected with the
Rock Island road for thirty years.
The newest gold rush is taking
place in the state of Washington on
the Colville reservation. A pay streak
over "a feet thick has been struck and
the ore is running $500 per ton. One
firm is taking out $4,000 per day.
James Mullen of Geneva, N. Y, was
killed and James Ryan of New York,
was badly wounded in a saloon row
among horse jockeys. The shooting
was done by Charles Moon at Newark,
O., who became implicated in the
quarrel.
Marshal O'Connor's request that
Indian Commissioner Jones charge
against him in connection with the
recent Indian war be investigated was
granted by the attorney general
United States District Attorney Evans
defends tbs marshal.
Private Herbert Fairfield of the LIST
| Wisconsin, who came to Milwaukee
with the regiment Saturday last, died
at the emergency hospital of typhoid
fever. He was member of the hos
pital corps and enlisted with the
Whitewater company.
The supreme court Of North Caro-
lima has taken a hand in the uprising
OF the whites against the negro voter!
by the assurance of warrants for thu
arrnCt of democrats charcoal with nm
lawful intimidation and threats t
kill negro office-hOlder.
Phil Armour, the big Chicago CAPT
talist, was caught short on a big ri
deal. Ribs jumped from S5.12 t.
S6.75 per 10 pounds since Friday an
: Armour had to make a settlement OF
100000 pounds at the latter figure
He is out about $4,000.
The Jesse James, JT., case in whic
/ the son of the noted outlaw figures a
5 accused of train robbery, has becom
= the one great issue in the politics G
t Kansas City. The faction who faV
ors him says that the whole matter
Y a case of malicious prosecution.
e Rapid increase in the business c
S the Siberian railroad is shown in
: report to the state department fro1
Moscow that it has been alread
@ found necessary to send a commits
r sion along the road to determine som
d means of increasing its traffic caps
: bilties.
All arrangements have been pei
e fected for the immediate extension {