Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-04-21

Fire destroyed the business section
of Oxford Junction, Iowa. Loss,
100000.
Julia Arthur, the actress, has mar
ried Benjamin P. Cheney, Boston
millionaire.
John W. Stetler, a member Of the
Indiana legislature, died at Syracuse,
Ind, aged so.
Henry B. Fierce, secretary of the
commonwealth of Massachusetts for
fifteen years is dead.
Charles A. Robinson has been nomi-
mated for congress by the democrats
Of the sixth Illinois district.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Penn
Plate Glass company at North Irwin,
Pa, last night. Loss S150,000.
Indianapolis has wen in a suit to
test a law limiting street railway
privileges to January /, 1901.
Worshippers in a church Of Polish
Catholic seceders in Buffalo were at
Jesse G. Jones, the Minneapolis
lumberman and ex-county treasurer
committed suicide on the grave of his
wife
The extra session of the Michigan
legislature adjourned without &C
complishing a single object for which
it was called.
Dudley Winston, president of the
civil-service commission of Chicago
died on a railroad train near POUCH
keepsie, n. Y.
Margaret Rey Wilson, a beautiful
adventures from San Francisco and
claimant of the Croker millions,
died in New York.
Ohio republican congressional dis
trict conventions renominated Con-
gresham Charles H. Grosyenor and
Seth W. Brown.
There is an understanding that
Fitzhugh Lee will be gazetted major
general and given command of a di-
vision Of the army of. invasion.
Cotton mills in New Bedford re-
opened after a twelve weeks shut
down, but only small proportion OF
strikers went back to work.
Edward Shannon, who was to have
been hanged at Wheaton, H., has
been granted reprieve till May q
to allow an inquiry as to his sanity.
The body of Frances E. Willard,
To- oc he
cremated. The ashes were buried in
the family plot in the Rose Hill Gene
terry, Chicago.
The New York board of education
will ask the board Of estimate to APP
propriate $16,0O000 for the public
schools. This is $6,OOo,OOO more than
was given last year.
Miss LILLIAN Higgins of Chicago
whose fiance died ten years ago when
they were about to be married, COM
mitted suicide in the white dress
made for the wedding.
John Celia, while intoxicated. shot
and killed Mrs. Henry Carter and
then killed himself at ST. Louis. Celia
was we'll known as a local politician,
and Mrs Carter was the wife Of a
travelling salesman.
Justice Haughton at st. Louis has
decided in favor of the archbishop
the case of Archbishop Kahn versus
Father John T. Tuohy for alleged I'M,
lawful detention of st. Patrick 8
parochial residence.
The entire stock of William Kleen,
manufacturer of office, bank and
saloon fixtures at 119 and 121 avenue
D, New York, and the five-story
building used as a factory, were des-
troyed by fire, loss $4,000.
Receivers have been appointed for
Alfred Dodge & Son, manufacturers of
felt and piano supplies at Dolgeville,
N. Y. The liabilities are said to be
81, $50, 900 and a conservative esti-
mate places the assets at 100000.
At ST. Joseph, Mich, Simon Polka
gon, chief of the once powerful tribe
of Pottawatomie Indians, is danger
ously sick from what is supposed to
be blood poisoning caused by a rusty
nail passing through the palm Of his
hand Two years ago, his tribe re-
ceived sos 900 from the govern
ment for land sold nearly half a
century ago.