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

vices and a special sermon. Ten
thousand sir knights are there, in
Guiding 400 Marylanders.
Robert Fitzsimmons filed a suit
against the Gilsey house, New York,
for $4,000 damages. J. H. Breslin,
the proprietor, refused to serve the
fighter a meal a few days ago.
The situation at Leech lake i'm
proves. A satisfactory council was
held, at which Flat Mouth and other
chiefs promised to do all they could
toward bringing the hostiles to terms.
The Ohio centennial which is plan
ned for on an elaborate scale for 1903
is to be turned into a national ex-
hibitiOn and centennial anniversary
Of the purchase of the Louisiana tract
Governor Lord of Oregon has ap-
pointed a committee of citizens of
Portland to collect funds for the pur-
chase Of a sword to be presented to
Captain Clark of the battleship Ore
gon.
The charges Of corruption made by
Tammany against Gen. Charles H. T.
Coils, who was commissioner Of pub
lie works of New York under Mayor
Strong have been dismissed by the
grand jury.
Rev. DR.. Charles A. Briggs, whose
criticisms Of the Bible led to his
separation from the Presbyterian
church, preached his first sermon in
Brooklyn as minister of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church.
The trustees Of the Catholic uni
versity held their annual meeting.
! Three new scholarships will be es-
tablished, with endowments aggregat-
ing $4,000. DR.. Shanahan was elected
professor Of dogmatic theology.
James E. Boyd, assistant attorney
| general, has rendered an opinion in
which he holds that the refund check
given passengers on railroad trains
who pay cash in excess of the regular
fare, is not subject to the stamp tax.
The published specials that 10000
inter-married whites had been ordered
off the reservations Of the five civil
lied tribes in Indian Territory is
| denied at the interior department on
positive advices received from the
territory.
Charles G. Dawes, comptroller of
the currency and treasurer of the fund
to be raised by voluntary contribu-
lions of the school children of the
| United States to erect a monument in
Paris to General Lafayette, is receiv-
| ing encouraging reports from all sec
lions.
Howard Gould and Actress Kathe-
rine Clemmons were secretly married
at New York. The groom may lose
| S5,000000, as under the provisions of
his fathers will his share Of the es-
tate will be cut in half unless a ma
jority Of the executors consent to the
marriage.
The immigration bureau has infor-
nation that two steamships with 1000
Italian immigrants on board are soon
due to arrive at New Orleans, but as
| that city is quarantined the immigra-
ton bureau will send a force of in
spectors to Pensacola, where they
will be landed.
George d. Saxon, Mrs. McKinleys
brother, who was murdered in Ohio,
was engaged to marry Mrs. Mary E.
Parks Of New York city and two
other women. Canton people say that
guilty or not guilty, no jury there will
convict Mrs. George of Saxton's MUIR
der. Mrs. George broke down in
court She was held for trial
An unequivocal denial was made of
the story originating at the recent an
nual encampment of the G. A r. at
Cincinnati, that 1.-The commissioner of
pensions had called his chiefs to-
gether and Instructed them to dis
regard totally every application based
on deafness and rheumatism in the
adjudication of claims for pensions. -