Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
AT HOME.

won two races from Nat Butler.
,Mavor Truelsen Of Duluth, fusion
was reelected.
The wages of miners on the Gogebit
range were Increased
More United States cruisers will Dc
sent to Cuba.
New England has had its worst
snow storm for twenty-five years.
The First National bank, Larimore
n. D., suspended.
Prospects are bright for a war IN
Alaska rates.
Boston's blizzard caused a loss Of
81 100000 and fifteen lives.
Germany has prohibited the impor-
tation of American fresh fruit.
Capt. Ray, U. S. A, on duty IN
Alaska, warns people to keep away.
The removal from New York streets
of the snow which fell in two days
cost the city 1000.
Mrs. Julia C. r. Dorr, the we'll
known author and poet, is critically
i'll in Rutland, Vt.
A. B. Stormer, arrested Tor the
double muIuCI DIT Quinn 3 'OAA' Ao"'
confessed.
Again is it gossiped that Archbishop
Corrigan of New York is to be made
a cardinal.
A man is on trial for murder at
Sioux Falls, S. D., who is suspected
of five murders.
A paper mill at Marinette, Wis, was
wrecked by an EXPLOSION, killing sew
eIal men.
President Mckinley is liable to issue
an order today modifying the clVl
service rules.
Catholics want Mgr. Martinelli tc
issue a pronunciamento regarding
"mixed marriages.
William P. Hall, a millionaire man
ufacturer of Greenwich, Conn, is con
Quoting a revival in Brooklyn.
The total yield of tobacco in the
United States in 1896 is estimated at
403 ,OO4,32O pounds, valued at $24,-
500.
George c. Howard, superintendent
of schools of West Bridgewater
Mass. is under arrest for a self-con
fessed forgery.
Edith Cushing, a student at thu
University of Iowa, was crippled TO
life while being hazed by sophomore
girls.
Rev. DR.. John Hall has withdraw
his resignation as pastor of the fifth
Avenue Presbyterian church at New
York
The schedules in the assignment o
Oscar Hammerstein, the New Yorl
theatrical manager, show liabilities o
S166, 900; assets, $3.50.
The trial of Sheriff Martin and hi
deputies, charged with shooting miner
at Latimer, Pa, began at Wilkes
barre
John Haycock, formerly of st Paul
who was captain Of the first steam
boat on the Mississippi river, died a
Sebeka, Mimi.
The president has nominated George
F. Bowden to be collector of customs
for the district OF Norfolk and Ports
mouth.
The interstate commerce committee
GAS authorized a favorable report Oh
the anti-scalping bill.
Details have been received from
Palikesr, Asia Minor, showing thai
twenty persons were killed and fifty
injured by the recent earthquake a
that place and Brusa.
Charles l.. Draper, on trial for the
murder of Charles l.. Hastings, was
at Jacksonville, H., given life sen
tence
The advocates of the annexation O
Hawaii are confident they will secur
the so votes necessary for the rati
ficatiOn of the treaty.
The governments receipts In Janu
airy, exclusive of the receipts from tn
sal of the Union Pacific railroad
showed a deficit of $7,901,4S4
A reduction has been made in thu
working time in the Chicago, Burling
ton and Quincy shops at Galesburg
H., affecting 1000 men.
MIR. Harrity, the Pennsylvani;
member of the democratic nationa
committee has not been removed b!
Chairman Jones, as reported.
Isaac Clements of Carbonate, H.
has been elected superintendent of thu
soldiers orphans home at Normal tt
succeed ]. H. Magner, resigned.
Loaded to the guards with 240 pas
sengers and 500 tons Of freight, tn
steamer City of Topeka sailed from
Tacoma for Juneau and way ports.
Emmett Rogers, ex-treasurer o
Ridgeley lodge, No. 345, l. o. o. f., o
Kansas City, Mo-, committed suicide
He was short 1890 in his accounts.
Fire destroyed four stores and {
half-doZen offices and smaller build
ings at Somerset, Ky. Loss 100000
insurance, $4,000.
The Military Academy appropriation
bill, as agreed on in committee, car
ries total of $460,14 against est
mates made by the war department o
s640,310.
In his testimony before the Senate
committee Assistant Secretary of tn,
Navy Roosevelt said he had found tn,
civil-service system worked an incon
ceiyable Improvement
Mr.. Dole, the president of tn
Hawaiian republic, was entertained i
Buffalo, n. Y, at banquet last Tues
day evening. He dined with Presiden
Mckinley.
The cornering of wheat by JOSEPH