Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-27

/, diana, jail are fearful Of mob violence
and have been provided with tin horns
| by the sheriff, with which to sound an
alarm if an attack is made.
The house committee on military az
fairs has agreed on the army appro-
priation bill. It carries $23,195,9
against the estimates Of $24,229,34l
and an appropriation last year o.
! S24,225,341.
E. J. Baldwin, generally known as
| "Lucky," still adheres to his intention
of going to the Klondike in the spring.
He believes he can find the mother
lode from which, he contends, all the
placer gold is coming.
Harry T. Broos, IS years old, mem
Der of the freshman class Of New York
University, killed himself because ne
feared his companions would outstrip
him in his studies.
twenty-five persons arrived at
Seattle from Dawson City, bringing
gold dust and drafts amounting to
100000. They confirm the report
that the mother lode has been discoV-
cred on EIdorado Greek.
! Mrs. Katie Wytt Of San Diego, Cal,
is one Of the twenty-eight persons in
various parts Of the country who will
become wealthy under the will Of
Giles Bushnell, who was a prosperous
merchant in New York.
AS to railway figures on travel to
Alaska, it is now predicted the bust
! rIi
in the winter general passenger agents
thought 100000 would be a conserva-
tive estimate.
Commissioner Evans of the pension
office will refuse to vacate the order
made by former Commissioner Loeb
rem, reducing the pension of Judge
Charles D. Long of Michigan from
$72 to $50 a month.
The congregation of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church, New York,
unanimously declined to unite with its
pastor, Dr. John Hall, in requesting
the presbytery of New York to dis
solve the pastoral relations between
him and the church.
Mrs. Sophronia Hathaway, one of
the oldest residents of 10 Daviess
county, died at her home in Guilford,
ILL.,, where she had lived since 1928.
She was the widow Of the late Samuel
Hathaway, an active fighter in the
Black Hawk war.
The consolidation of the New York,
American and United States Biscuit
companies, with a capitalization of
S55,OOO,OO0, may be considered an ac-
cOmpllshed fact. The new company
will be known as the United States
Company.
Advices from Major L. Donald Of
Mississippi, now in Cuba on whose in
formation the Mississippi senate passed
strong Cuban resolution, say that
10000 persons have persisted by starvdz
ton in the province OF Santa Clara
alone since Jan. 1, 1897.
There has been introduced in the
New York senate a good roads bill
winch provides for the construction
through each Of the counties of the
state OF a macadam highway. which
snail follow the leading market and
travel routes.
The diplomatic and consular appro-
pr1ation bill which has been repOrted
TO the house by the foreign affairs COM
mlttee, appr0priates $1,729.OOS At
Dawson City, British North America
the heart of the present gold boom .
consulate is proposed on account of the
large influx of Americans into the re-
glons. $4,000 is appropriated for it's
establishment.
., IL looks as if the body OF James
Il. Barry, the millionaire tramp. who
oIed at Paducah, in spite of his renutod
thousands, will fill a pauDer's GRAVE y
u. BLOOD, attorney for Mrs. Berry. saws
she mas no money, and that the under
U"her must file a claim for burial
"saIhSt 8erry's estate, but the under
Uaher demands cash or security.
The foreign commerce of tho T7ri+o
states for 1897 breaks all records in
Folume and values. For the entire
WE'VE months the excess of exnortc
over imports of merchandise amoup+o
70 $oo0,56l 900, and, adding SAT Oo0 mn
net exports # silver, gives grand
600. i u Po'' 'oO0'-
ne hIgln council will likely decroo
tn''' Inc air gun must so. There have
ooon numerous air gun accidents. The
sentiment regarding the killing nf
English sparrows has undergone .
radical change since the small how and
MS air gun have become so annovino
"A New Orleans farmer inherited 500 :
/. Ooo from brother in New York. The
: news turned his mind He came near
killing all the women of the family
with brickbats. Officers had a hard
struggle to subdue him and get him IN
the retreat.
Samuel Henderson, the 15-year-oId
boy Of Philadelphia, who is charged
with the murder of 5-year-old Percy
Lockyar, bruttally hacked the bow to
pieces and before life was extinct
threw him in "Reddy's creek" and
weighted the child down with heavy
stones. The boy stared stolidly at the
magistrate While his father knelt by
his side and wept over and caressed
his boy 1t is thought that scarlet
fever impaired the murderers mind.