Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-03-24

the Lenlgh valley Railroad company,
is dead at Mauch Chunk, Pa. He was
so years cd.
Mrs. Martha LYDIA Poland Thurston,
wife Of United States Senator Thurs
ton of Nebraska. died from apoplexy
Oh the yacht Anita as it was entering
Sagua barber, Cuba.
Polish Catholics who wish to be in
dependent of bishops in the secular
side Of their parish affairs formed the
synod and DO ese of Chicago, with
Bishop Kozlowski presiding.
The he. ring catch on Lake Michigan
last year was $4,000, 900 pounds,
100000 pounds more than on Lake
E ie, and greatly ex eeding the catch
of any previous year.
New Bedford, NJ ss., cotton mill
strikers, who have been out nine
weeks, are appealing for funds, and
acknowledge defeat ualess thsy can
get financial assistance
Edward Dorsey, an Indianapolis
colored man aged nearly 100, was
married Tuesday 70 widow Of 81. 1t
| is Dorsey's sixth marriage, and lie has
40 children by his other five wives.
Over 100000 head of cattle will starve
to death in California this year unless
the government caa be persuaded to
speedily modify the quarantine lines
against fever.
The Peoples Savings Bank at
Mount Pleasant, Mich, which sus-
pended last October and is now in the
hands of receivers, was robbed Mon
day. The thieves secured $1,000 in
bonds and $500 in cash.
Title Andel son, champion of women
bicycle racers in America, and Lisette,
the most expert Of the fair sex in
Europe, will probably meet in a match
race in Chicago the latter part of
April.
Ex-States Attorney E. S. Bottum
died of Bright's disease in Chicago.
His age was 40 years. Mr.. Bottum
won celebrity by his successful pros
secution Of Prendergast, the assassin
of Carter H. Harrison, Sr.
The Missouri supreme court, in an
opinion by Chief Justice CAN'T, de-
cided that the inheritance tax law
passed by the legislature in 1895 for
the benefit of the state university is
unconstitutional.
Josef Holman, the pianist, met
with an accident recently while on a
bicycle ride, and as a consequence Mr..
Thomas has been compelled to cancel
dates in Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington.
Two negroes are to be sold into
legal slavery at Glasgow, Ky. They
have been committed for vagrancy
and under the state law the county
has advertised their services for sale
during the time of their conviction.
AT Charlton, Iowa, the Christian
Citizenship league has succeeded in
having all the liquor permits taken
away from the drug stores in Chari-
ton. Application was Immediately
made to the court for new permits.
AT Ann Arbor, Mich, an anti-saloon
league, composed principally of stu
dents, is endeayoring to secure the
prohibition of saloons within five
miles Of the university. 1t would drive
all the saloons out of Ann Arbor.
Rev. Samuel G. Bettes, the cowboy
preacher, is going to the Klondike in
a nineteen-fOot canoe, which he is
building at Grand Rapids, Mich. He
will do evangelical work along the
way, and depend upon his collections
for subsistence.
The gambling houses at Sikaguay
have been closed by the citizens,
backed by the military, and The gam
bleTs ordered out of town. The
gamblers are defiant on the latter
proposition.
! A bill restricting the business Of
department stores has been introduced
/ in the New York legislature. It
specifies 25 groups of business and
prohibits dry goods store from con-
Quoting more than one Of them with
out the payment of heavy tax or fee.
+. f. Melnls, who was a member of
the government expedition sent to the
relief of the Jeanette, has been COM
mitted to the insane asylum at Mil
waukee. 1t is said the hardships of
! the expedition were the primary cause
of his insanity.
| Benton Eggers Of Terre Haute,
holds the Indiana marriage record. He
is only g years old, but has been
married for the fourth time He got
divorces from the first two wives, mar
| ried the Thru before his second decree
was granted, and has remarked her
since it was obtained
With the wind blowing forty miles
All hour, a prairie fire has been rag
ing near Cimarron, Kan, sweeping
everything before it. Thousands of
acres of pasture lands have been
| burned, but loss of human life has
not been reported.
Adam Adamcek, a Chicagoan of
Polish birth, celebrates his 115th
birthday. He says his only sickness
for fifty years was an attack of the
grip last week, which he cured in two
days with two quarts Of whiskey. A
daughter 80 years old lives with him.
Jonathan Skene, who was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment in 1889,
when he was 16 years old, has been
pardoned from the Joliet penitentiary
by Governor Tanner. While drunk
Skene killed schoolmaster Mattocks
at Derinda III.
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