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

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The long distance telephone is said
to be responsible for falling off in
passenger business.
At Feterboro, Ont, John Burke, O..
c., ex-member of parliament, was
drowned in the Ottanbee river.
S. P. Locke, a Well-knoWn business
man Of Memphis, Tenn, walked off a
train in his sleep and was killed.
The steamer Lambert's Point put
in at st. Johns, n. r., with fire in her
cotton cargo. The loss was heavy.
Mrs Elizabeth Ellige, aged SO, is
dead at her home in Breckinbridge, Mo.
She was the mother of twelve child
rem; had 81 grandchildren, 40 great
grandchildren, so great-great- grand
Charles Addison Miller of the bank
ing and brokerage firm Of Miller &
Doubleday, New York, is dead, aged
60 years.
The income from customs Wednes
day alone was $735,567, the highest
figures reached since the new tariff law
went into effect.
children, all living.
Veins of gilsonite in sufficient size
to warrant development are reported
to have been discovered on Willow
creek in Middle park, Colorado.
The class letter of Yale, IA, sent
ceaselessly from member to member
for additions, has Travelled 100000
miles and cost $1,000 in postage.
Frank Early, colored, who shot his
mistress an6 killed his wife, has been
sentenced in Cincinnati, o., to die in
the electric chair April IA, 1898.
L. q. Letter says his son is the
farmers benefactor, enabling the
grain growers to get from 10 to Is
cents more q bushel for their wheat.
Dr. Abbott discussed agnostics and
their chance of salvation again, and
said he did not believe Christ came to-
afford men escape from torment or to
get them into a place of bliss.
Miss Anna Virginia Wells, daughter
of a Washington lawyer and a friend
of the late Miss Herbert, in whose
suicide she took much interest, shot
herself dead.
Thomas w. Seymour, founder of
the Knights and Ladies Of Honor, is
dead at Maplewood, Mo-, as the result
of a paralytic stroke. He was born
in Ireland in 1880.
Actor Nat Goodwin and Broker
Bell played a few games of pool in the
Hoffman House in New York and at
the end Goodwin had lost $500. One
of the games was for $3.50 a side.
Passed Assistant Engineer J. S. Nc
Kean has been ordered to the Norfolk
navy yard. Ensign A. H. Scales has
been ordered to the Cleveland branch
photographic office.
Frank Noyak of Vincton, Ia, fail
ing to get his $4,000 bail bond fixed
by Chief Justice Kline, has been
taken to Anamosa penitentiary.
In New York the Henry H. Bells |
Sons company, manufacturers Of knit |
goods, elder down garments and |
smoking jackets, has assigned; liabil- |
tiles over 100000.
Kenneth Duncan, formerly Metho-
dist minister in Chicago and San Fran !
cisco. has returned to the insane asy-
tim at Agnews, Cal, from which in |
stitution he had escaped,
The large works of the Herring Hall !
Marvin Safe company at Hamilton, o.,
were closed on orders from Judge Neil !
son. who appointed S. D. Fittou re-
ceiver for the company.
The Pensacola pilotboat, Somners !
N. Smith, has been seized by the |
United States government on suspicion
of being a 1ilibustering vessel.
Robbers broke into the house OF
Mrs. S. Kimball, an aged lady, or
Mitchodville, Ia, and injured her so
badly that she will probably die.
Henry o. Havemeyer returned to the
office of the American Sugar RehnnS
company for the first time in several
weeks. He had just recovered from
the effects Of an operation for appen-
dicitis.
The report Of the voluntary none
tary commission is promised soon. IL
will embody recommendations OF MI.
Mckinley. The committee on banking
and currency is not likely to take up
the plan outlined by Secretary Gage.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the Titan
s,aired actress, has determined to
abandon modern plays for the allure
ments of Shakespeare, with now ana
tfen a lapse into Camille" and "trou
Frou."
Corbett has sent Fitzsimmons for
NAL challenge for another fight for the
puglistic championship OF the world
Fitzsimmons says he will take no
notice of the challenge until Corbett
debates Maher.
John r. Martin spent all his money
for gifts to his fellows in a bowery
todging-house in New York and then
committed suicide.
Bishop Cranston preached sen,
sational sermon in the church attended
by President Mckinley, indorsing
Pastor Johnston's sermons.
In San Francisco, a suit to test the
RICH. OF a union to force a non-unioI
man out OF employment has been com,
menced. Fred Hess has sued the
Typographical union for $4,000 dam
ages.
The Geological society Of America
elected John J. Stevenson OF New
York president. One of the council
iorrs is M. E. Wadsworth OF Houghton
Mich.
At Clinton, Ia, Theodore Burtocf
-. T>..o,4;,o p,,rtocb have haan ar