Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-20
DOMESTIC.

N6uEi dl GIISud MIA, dStu OF, 10 ucdu
at Allegan, Mich.
Rev. Dr. George Sexton died at ST.
GATHERINGS, Ont.
Three railroad graders were drown
ed in Leech lake.
Mrs. Barney McAuley, the actress, is
dead in New York.
President Forbes of the Burlington
died in Massachusetts.
Rev. DR.. David T. Morrill, died at
Belvidere, H., aged 73.
Western league directors awarded
the ball pennant to Kansas City.
Justice Manley c. Green of the New
York supreme court died at Buffalo.
Myron D. Taylor was appointed
register of the st. Cloud land Office.
Ex-Representative NJ. A Morgan of
Okawyill, Ill, was killed by train.
An attempt is being made to con-
solidate the furniture factories of the
northwest.
President Mckinley delivered a
speech to multitude at the Omaha
exposition.
A carnival in celebration of the dia-
mond jubilee of Macon, Ga, began in
that city.
The Episcopal house of bishops
selected San Francisco as the next
meeting place.
Mrs. Rachael McAuley, secretary OF
the Professional Woman's League,
died at New York.
The annual meeting of the Catholic
Archbishops of the United States was
held in Washington.
William P. Douglass, a Jersey City
lawyer and politician, is believed to
have committed suicide.
Fire did about 100000 damage to
property on the beach front board
walk at Atlantic City.
Joseph Simon, a Hebrew of Ger
man birth, has been elected United
States senator from Oregon.
The Federal Steel company plans
to establish in or near New York a
mammoth ship-building plant.
The private bank of Jacob Denher-
der at iceland, Michigan, was looted.
From $4,000 to $4,000 was taken.
Hiram S. Maxim, the inventor of
machine guns, was arrested in New
York on a charge of bigamy.
A private of the It'll artillery, sta
toned at Fort Slocum, was shot and
killed while trying to desert.
The yellowfever quarantine against
New Orleans is greatly curtailing the
receipts of the railroads there.
William H. Rice, formerly city
treasurer of Chicago, is dead at Los
Angeles. He was born in 1925.
A church society has been formed
in New York whose members are
pledged to take a bath every day.
Admiral John Carson Febiger, u. S.
n, retired, died at Londonderry, near
Easton, Md, in his seventy-eighth
year.
William H. Bush, proprietor of the
Brown Palace Hotel, died at Denver,
the result of an operation for appen-
dicitis.
A strike of stage mechanics in Bos-
ton is said to have been due to two
Baltimoreans who went there to take
work
Edith Easton, actress, killed herself
in New York because she could not
attain a conspicuous place on the
stage.
Thomas w. Cridler, Sd assistant sec
rotary of state, and Miss E. Muriel
Telleschaw were married in New
York.
Seven men were killed and many
others injured in a battle between
striking miners and imported negroes
at Virden, III.
President Mckinley, on his way to
the Omaha exposition, made speeches
on war topics at a number of places
in the west.
Dispatches from Jackson, Miss, in
dictate that yellow fever is widening
its area and that the situation is a
serious one.
The New York board of education
has asked for S24, 10000 for schools
for next year, double this years ap-
preparation.
The republican congressional com
mittee is said to be doubtful of the
republicans controlling the next legis-
lature of New York.
A verdict of $4,000 was awarded
John S. Gray in $4,000 damage suit
against the Metropolitan Street rail-
way in New York.
The formal letter of Augustus Van
Wyck, accepting the democratic nom
ination for governor of New York,
was made public.
John D. Rockefeller, the oil king,
was subjected to a searching inquiry
by Ohio authorities to learn secrets of
the Standard Oil trust.
The fall term Of the supreme court
of the United States began, the just
ices coming together after an ex-
tended summer vacation.
After d conference between Richard
Croker and Senator Murphy it was
announced that a campaign fund of
100000 is to be raised in New York.
News has come Of the finding of
gold quartz at Skaguay, Alaska, going
$1,000 to the ton. The find is located
only short distance from the city.
President and Mrs Mckinley at
tended the funeral in Canton Of Mrs.
Mckinley's brother, George D. Saxon,
who was shot and killed by a woman
DR.. Alexander Cornell, of London,
will probably succeed the late Rev.
DR.. John Hall as pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian church, New
York.
A print cloth combination has been
formed. The production will be cur
tailed for the present, and a number