Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-04-28
DOMESTIC.

Chicago cash wheat, S1.101S.
Senator Walthill of Mississippi is
dead
Reuben M. Botsford, aged 81, died
at Waukegan.
The Alaska reindeer expedition is a
complete failure.
The strike of the sawmill employees
at Chippewa Falls ended.
Bobby Matthews, the famous
base ball pitcher, is dead.
The Weir Plow company of Mon
mouth, H., has made an assignment.
George Parsons Lathrop died sud
denly from a complication of dis
eases.
Rev. DR.. James H. Mitchell, pastor
of st. Stephens Catholic church,
Brooklyn, is dead.
The Jackson, Mimi, postoffice rob-
hers were indicted and sent to Still
water in one day.
The funeral of William J. Barry, the
Irish comedian, in New York, was the
occasion of great floral display.
The tax will be 81 a barrel on beer
in the new bill for war revenue. A
tax on railroad tickets is suggested.
A grain elevator was burned in
Boston, with 100000 bushels of Lei
ter's wheat. The loss is 100000.
1t is reported that Bettina Girard
has received numerous offers from
theatrical managers and will return to
the stage.
There are indications that the
Standard Oil people and their allies
are planning to obtain control of the
tobacco trust.
The residents of Staten island will
attempt the determination of mosqui-
toes by spraying the swamps with
crude petroleum.
Charles W. Hackett, chairman of
the New York republican state CEN
trail committee, is dead at Utica. He
was 45 years old.
Dawson City has become the capital
of the new Yukon territory, which has
been formed out of part of the north
west territory of Canada.
DR.. H. U. Avery, aged so, commits
sioner of health Of Minneapolis since
1894, was found dead in bed at For
man, n. D., yesterday morning.
Chevalier C. A. Barratoni, president
of the Italian chamber of commerce Of
New York, died at his home in Yon-
kers of apoplexy, aged At years
1t is said that 80 per cent of the
chamber suite manufacturers of the
country have agreed to put their
plants into the proposed combine.
General Hugh J. Campbell whose
vote as a member of the Louisiana
returning board gave the presidential
election of 1876 to R. B. Hayes, is
dead at Yankton, S. D.
Negotiations to consolidate the
Goodrich of Akron, Goodyear of Con-
necticut and Butler Of New Jersey,
the three leading hard rubber com
panies of the country, have been
closed.
DR.. Charles A. Briggs and Prof. Ed
ward Robinson, both of Union semi
nary, have been recommended to
Bishop Potter for ordination as dea-
cons in the Protestant Episcopal
church.
The new wire nail trust has posted
notices at Anderson, Ind, of a cut in
wages of 9 to 80 per cent. The trust
controls Ii plants employing 10000
men, who are organizing for resist
ance.
James E. Watson has been nomin-
ated for congress by the republicans
OF the sixth Indiana district, to sue
coed Henry L. Johnson. The repub-
licans of the tenth Ohio district have
nominated S. J. Morgan.
Weary of a prolonged and hopeless
struggle with i'll health, Luther c.
Farwell, superintendent of Oakwoods
cemetery, Chicago, and the son of the
late Marcus A. Farwell, founder of
the cemetery association, sh, I and
killed himself.
Mrs. J. w. Crist, an aged woman
residing in Beloit, claims she assis-
ted in the escape of Wilkes Booth,
Lincoln assassin, and that he died
natural death in England. She says
that it was Booths accomplice,
Fox, who was killed and burned in a
barn and was thought to be Booth.
Capt. P. H. Ray, U. S. A, who has
been in Alaska all the winter, has re-
turned to rejoin his regiment, which
has been ordered south. He thinks
the spring cleanup of gold will be
about $S,000,00O. Capt. Ray will rec
cmmend to the war department the
sending of troops into the interior of
Alaska and the establishment of
military form of government in the
Yukon.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.