Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-09-08
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

Mayor van NyCh SI5ASu a AOSC u
tiol fixing the tax rate of New York
city at $201.
A Klondike ship brought $4O0O,OOO
in gold and drafts to Seattle.
Two wings of the populist party in
Idaho have nominated full state
tickets
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Gerhard
have leased a country home in Long
island
At Bristol. England, several ware
houses and other buildings burned;
,oss $3.50, 000.
The president and several members
IF the cabinet will visit the camp a.
Mcutauk, L. |.
The greatest passenger rate war IN
the hist ry of American railroads IS
Just beginning.
Miss Maud Livingstone, fiancee OF
the late Lieut.. Tiffany, is the center
of social interest at Newport.
The five story building Of the A.
Geisel Manufactur ng company in st.
Louis burned: loss, 100000.
At Narragansett Pier, r. l., Miss
Winnie Davis daughter of Jeff Davis,
is seriously i'll with gastritis.
Congressman Walter Reeves has
been renominated by the republicans
Of the eleventh Illinois district.
The mayor of Galveston, Tex, fired
upon riotous strikers. The fire became
general and several men were shot.
Joseph w. Ellington was saved from
drowning in New York bay by sailors
from the battle-ship Massachusetts.
tin whistle was swallowed by
Frank Jacobs, years old, of Chicago.
His physicians despair of his recovery.
ASS slant Surgeon-Genera Sem pre-
diets a typhoid-fever epidemic at
Camp Wikoff if soldiers are kept
uh re.
The nomination of Col TheodCre
Roosevelt as the republican candidate
for governor of New York seems to be
assured.
The public demand for action is
likely to eau the president to order
an immediate investigation of the
army camp horrors.
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United States bank in Santiago. says
business conditions and prospects are
& cd in that city.
Cowb VS. attempted to run Fort
Pierre, S. D., and in the shooting that
tnsued che man was killed and an
ether wounded.
The treasury department of the ma
4 ir,t,-:
bonds TO the amount Of $71,864, 40
among 1898 subscribers.
The North Carolina railway commits
sion has decided that the Southern
Express company must pay for the
revenue stamp on rec5ipts.
The death of King Malietoa may re-
suit il the division of the Samoan Is
lands among the United States, Great
Britain and Germany.
] seph w. ellis, late wholesale
stamp clerk in the Chicago postoffice,
has been arrested charged with steal
ing $4,000 worth OF stamps.
L. T Troutman, secretary of the ST.
Cloud (Minn.) Mutual Building and
Loan associatiC1, embezzled almost
$4,000 of the associations funds.
A board compos d cf officers of high
rank has been appointed to consider
promotions IL the navy for merito"iors
services in the war with Spain.
The union republican state conven-
ton of Delaware nCmInated John H.
Hoffecker for congress and accepted
the other nominees of the regulars.
Admiral Cervera and all the other
Spanish naval prisoners captured at
Santiago have been released and will
be taken home at the expense of the
Spanish government.
Commodore Philip has been d.
tached from the Texas and appointed
to the command of the second squad
ron of the North Atlantic fleet, sue
ceeding Rear-Admiral Schley.
John W. Maynard, who recently died
in Michigan, was the man who sue
ceeded in having the state university
located at AUn Ar5or, where he and
his family donated the land for it,
Albert Du IA. reputed to be a cen
tenar.an, hanged himself in Chicago
TO a rafter in his shanty at 153 Bunk ar
street. The aged man had been a
character in tn vicinity for many
years,
The statements alleged to have been
made by General Mics have stirrel up
the war department. 1t is beliaK ed
that General Miles is endeaVCrlng to
secure an investigation of the conduct
of the war.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, who is under
arrest in San Francisco on the charge
of numbering Mrs. John P. Dunn ng
ing poisoned candy to them, has ma e
statement denying the charges.
The knights of Pythias supreme
lodge, in session at indianapolis, re-
elected John A Hinsey Of Chicago
president of the board of control of
the endowment rank and indorsed his
management of the endowment funds
Captain COncas, one of the pris-
on rs fr I'm Cervera's sunken ships,
wants to go home, but another Span
ish officer has written home that he
would like the war to continue an
other year simply to stay here and be
well treated.
Charl c tt. president of the failed
Rosedale bank, and Editor c. E.
Wright OF the Vicksburg Dispatch
fought duel near Vicksburg. Wright
was slightly wounded at the second
shot, when the chief of police stopped