Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-11-03

is now sinking" was married at New
York
The Union Tobacco company of |
America, capitalized at $4,000, 900, I
fled a certificate OF Incorporation /
Win the secretary Of state at Albany. /
The company's capital is composed OF
81, 5000 preferred and sS,OO0,0OO COM
mon stock
large completely equipped modern
government survey boat, the Path
finder, will be launched at the Cres-
cent shipyards, Elizabeth, n. J.,
early in December It is especially
| designed for service in Alaskan and
! Aleutian waters.
! After a session lasting three weeks
| the Episcopal general convention ad-
/ journed. The house Of bishops elected
Rev. DR.. George C. Hall, rector of St.
Johns church, Wilmington, Del,
bishop Of the new missionary jurisdic-
ton OF Kyoto, Japan.
The Illinois supreme court has
sustained the legality Of state pro-
ceedings to compel the Pullman COM
pany to give up many Of its enter
prises, including the village of Pull
man, and stick to the business of
making, leasing and selling cars.
At Washington Courthouse, Ohio,
Hannah West and Abram Huffman
have been bound over to the grand
jury on the charge of numbering Louis
Ball, twelve years ago, by beheading
!, him with razor. The arrest was
!, the result of a deathbed confession
by Mrs. Anna Jeffries.
Dust from the garden of Gethsemane
will be used hereafter in the burial
ceremonies of Apollo Commandery,
No. l, Knights Templar, Chicago. One
hundred pounds of the earth from
Jerusalem came into the custom house
in Chicago, consigned to Eminent Sir
knight James A. Hitchcock
Police Justice Conlin of San Fran
cisco has refused to surrender to the
military authorities Private John
WhitsOn, Of the Tennessee volunteers,
who is charged with assaulting a
woman in her own house. The Judge
said the guard house had no terrors
for such man, and he promised to
make an example of him. Whitson
was convicted.
John Stephenson & Co., Of New York,
the Well-knOwn car building firm,
have been placed in the hands of re-
ceivers, on application of representa-
tives of a majority Of the directors of
the company in proceedings for vol
untary dissolution. The liabilities,
including all the mortgage indebted
ness on real estate, are approximately
100000. The assets may equal the
liabilities.
Catherine Sophia Bertha De Giraud,
an aged French woman, who came to
San Francisco from Vancouver, B. c.,
on the steamship Walla Walla, has
been refused a landing by Commits
sioner Northrup on the ground that
she is liable to become a public
charge. She says that she lost all her
money in British Columbia mining
properties. She claims to be a cousin
of the French consul general in New
York.
The department of state has re-
ceived from the British embassy an
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United States to take part in the
western Australian international min
ing and industrial exposition which is
to be held at Coolgardie beginning
March u and continuing for at least
three months. Special scope will be
afforded for the exhibition of mining
timber and agricultural machinery,
gold-saving appliances, etc.
William H. Brisbane has resigned
as candidate for secretary of state on
the Colorado republican ticket and
Joseph M. Nilsson, the broad silver
republican candidate, has been sub
stituted for him. The fusion between
these two parties is now complete, ex-
cept as to nominations for auditor.
George S. Adams, the republican can
didate, is the choice of the two COM
mitteeS for this office, but John A.
Wayne the silver republican nominee,
has refused up to date to withdraw. 1t
is believed however, that Mr.. Wayne
will finally yield to persuasion and the
fusion be perfected.