Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-09-29

Justice GaynOr is spoken OF Dy
Brooklyn democrats as a candidate
for governor.
S. Dow Elwood, president of the
Wayne County Savings bank, is
dead at Detroit.
DR.. Henry Otto Clauss, wealthy
New York physician, committed sui
eide by shooting.
Gov. Black is confident Of his re-
nomination in n. Y, and says he is
going to fight for it.
Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston,
the novelist and lecturer, is reported
as dying at Baltimore.
The Navy Department will recon-
mend armor made by the Krupp pro-
| cess for the new battleships.
General Merriam declares that there
is no suitable camping ground for
American troops in Hawaii.
It is said that Senator Kyle Of
South Dakota has renowned popu-
lism and become a republican.
West Superior and Duluth cele-
b1ated the opening of the F'osston
branch of the Great Northern.
Rev. DR.. John Hall, pastor of Fifth
| Avenue Presbyterian church, in
New York city, died in Ireland.
All but eight of the Spanish pris-
oners captured at Santiago have been
shipped from Santiago to Spain.
| Senator Faulkner of West Virginia
| takes Senator Gray's place on the
| Canadian-American commission.
The infant daughter of Comman-
der and Consul BoothTucker of the
Salvation army died at New York.
Colonel John Hay, ex-ambassador
to Great Britain and secretary of state
that is to be, arrived at New York.
Captain c. A. Worden, 7th Infan-
| try died at Denver yesterday from
the effects Of exposure at Santiago.
Rev. DR.. John C. Eccleston, rector
of st. Johns Protestant Episcopal
| church, Staten island, has resigned.
The Botna Valley State bank at
Hastings, Iowa, was robbed of $2,O75.
Dynamite was used to open the safe.
| The first Mimi. district populist
convention nominated Milo White,
the democratic nominee, for congress.
| Miss Josephine Savin, daughter of
a wealthy New York banker, was
married to a Russian count at Sara
toga.
A package of jewelry valued at $10,-
600, belonging to Pugilist Jim Cor
bett, is missing from an Asbury Park
hotel.
Negro domin alton is said to be i'm
minent in Georgia through coalition
of the populists with colored republic
cans.
The Royal Order of Scotland, COM
posed of thirty-third degree Masons,
held it's annual meeting in Cincin-
natl.
The name of Robert A. Van Wyck
is being prominently mentioned to
head the democratic state ticket in
N. Y.
Moses S. Kucker, an old resident
and former merchant of Waukegan,
died from paralysis. He was II
years old.
Rev. Dr. Parkhurst declared that he
would not vote for Roosevelt if the
report of his trucking" to flatt
was true.
Nearly one-siXth of General Law
tons force at Santiago, Cuba, is sick,
bat the number of deaths reported is
not great.
Gold democrats controlled the state
convention at Bridgeport, Conn.,, and
nominated Daniel Nash Morgan for
governor.
Colorado prohibitionists declared
for free silver and nominated a state
ticket headed by Rev. c. B. Spencer
for governor.
Lieutenant General Schofield, re-
tined, has declined to serve on the
commission to investigate the War
Department.
The postoffice department has is
sued an order authorizing postmas-
tiers to issue money orders payable at
their own Offices.
The first application of the law
placing New York city elections I'M
der state control is being awaited
with great interest.
John G. Collins, the artist, who at
tempted suicide in New York be-
cause of poverty, has been dis
charged from custody.
A dispatch from st. Louis says
that the deal for the consolidation Of
all plug tobacco factories in this
country has been renewed.
The Red Cross smuggled supplies
into Cuba for the starving, thus
checkmating the Spanish authorities
who exacted an extortionate duty.
A committee of prominent educa-
tors has been appointed by the
national council of education to con-
siGer fully the feasibility Of a
national university.
The session of the West Wisconsin
Methodist conference was enlivened
by the reading of letters written by a
member who was scheming for an
appointment.
Governor Tanner OF Illinois has
refused the request of w. c. 7. U.
! women to allow the battleship Hi
nois to be baptized with water in
stead Of champagne.
The apparent Identification of the
Bridgeport Comm murder mystery
as Marion Grace Perkins, of Middle
| bore, Mass, was disturbed by the
return of Miss Perkins to her home.
! Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Sem,