Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-06

hungary.
President Hill is credited with an
intention to straighten the Great
Northern line between the twin cities
and Duluth.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler and Mrs. Q.
S. Grant met at a reception in New
York and talked reminiscently for a
long time.
Frank Ehret, son Of the New York
millionaire brewer, was secretly mar
ried to Ada Dare, the actress, six
weeks ago.
The citizens union has selected
Theodore Bacon, OF Rochester, TO
head its state ticket in place of Col.
Roosevelt, who declined.
An American company, styled the
Island Of Cuba Real Estate company,
has begun business in Havana. 1t
will deal in country lots.
Miss Louise King Of New York,
who disappeared mysteriously after
entering bath-house at Coney island,
returned home bride.
Jay Cook is said to be at the head
of a combine with S25,0O0,O00 capital
which proposes to buy up all the
large breweries in the United States.
Ex-Governor Robert E. Pattison,
who was nominated for congress a
few days ago by the democrats of the
sixth Pennsylvania district, has de-
clined.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt was nomi-
mated for governor of New York by
the republican convention at Sara
toga. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Woodruff
was renominated.
Gov. Smith, in charge of the Ma
tiOnal Soldiers home near Santa
Monica, Cal, was shot by an inmate
OF the hospital. His wounds are
considered fatal.
DR.. Geo. T. Purves, who was for
merly pastor in Baltimore, is spoken
Of as the successor of the Rev. DR..
John Hall, pastor of Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church in New York.
1t is believed the president will ten
der the post of ambassador to Great
Britain to Representative Hit of
Illinois, chairman of the house COM
mittee on foreign affairs.
DIT" Nancy Guilford, accused of
having caused the death of Emma
Gill, at Bridgeport, Conn, was ar
rested in London, England, shortly
after having left a steamer from
Montreal.
Politics has invaded the signal ser
vice of the army to such an extent
that General Greedy has made vigor-
Gus protest against practices employed
in mastering out companies of the sig
nal corps.
The $8,000,0O0 estate of Charles F.
Croker, the late California railroad
magnate, has been divided The COM
missions of the executors amounted
to $4,000, and $4,000 was paid out
in attorneys fees.
Albert Griff1ths, better known as
Young Griffo,' the pugilist, is
cago police station, where he is being
held pending an examination into his
mental condition.
The Tammany district attorney has
threatened to prosecute Magistrate
Crane, who said in dismissing two
mated III favor of saloonkeepers who
paid for protection.
The preliminary survey of the route
Of the proposed Nicaraguan canal has
been completed and the engineers
have returned to this country and are
going to Washington to make their
report to the canal commissioners.
Special Agent Murray, in charge OF
the Seal islands, reports that during
the past season 1851 skins were Sc
cured. This is a decrease of about
5000 in the number taken in 1897. He
reports a general decrease in the seal
herd
A receiver was asked and obtained
for the New England Loan and Trust
company, because, it was stated, the
company had many bad investments
in western city mortgages, made dur
ing boom" periods. Millions of dol
lars are involved.
Rev. G. E. Morrison, pastor of the
Methodist church at Pan Handle
City, Tex, who has been on trial at
Vernon for a week on the charge of
numbering his wife Oct. 10, 1897, was
found guilty and his punishment af-
fixed at death.
General convention of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church in the United
States will meet in Washington on
October 3. The revision of the con-
StitutiOn and proposed change in
the name of the church will be among
the subjects considered.
Three unknown men, wearing
masks, entered the office of the Hazel
Brewing company in Hazelton, Pa,
overpowered the night Waterman,
and, after tying and gaging him,
broke open the safe with sledge ham
mers, but only secured 1881.
Rev. Thomas E. Green has de-
clined the election to be bishop Of the
Episcopal diocese of Iowa because of
the yelled charges that have been
insinuated against him by some of
those who refused to make unanimous
his election at the recent special con-
vention
There is a project on foot to con-
sOlidate all the leading flour milling
concerns in Milwaukee, Minneapolis,
Duluth, West Superior and New York.
The combined capital of the different
milling companies said to be inter
ested in the move amounts to about
s60,000,000.