Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-11-17
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lngtOn IN connection with the North
ern Pacific.
1t will cost taxpayers $4,000, 600 TO
finish work on the New York canals,
in addition to 100000 already little
better than squandered.
A test case to decide who shall pay
the war-stamp tax on express pack
ages is being hurried through the
courts in New York.
The Nicaragua canal commission has
practically completed its work. Il
will report that the construction OF
the canal is feasible.
The republicans seem certain 10
have majority of about fifteen in the
next national house. They will also
control the senate.
1t is reported in San Francisco that
the Philadelphia and the Yorktown
have been ordered 10 Samoa TO protect
American interests there.
A new Japanese minister TO the
United States, Jutaro Komira, who is
a graduate of Harvard university, has
arrived at San Francisco.
In Great Northern holdup near
Fergus Falls, eight robbers tried for
two hours to open safe, but got only
$40 from the engineer.
A gang of burglars which had
broken into the postoffice at North
Grafton, Mass, was surrounded and
one killed and two captured.
Robert Lowe was shot and fatally
wounded by James Eden, Jr., a drug
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to Portland Jail to escape lynching.
Fire destroyed the Cleveland (Ohio)
Theater. A large audience was listen
ing to election returns when the flames
started, but was dismissed without &C
cident.
The war investigating commission
continued its sessions at Chicago,
hearing large amount of testimony
concerning the faults of Chickamauga
as camp.
The body of a young woman named
Mamie Eversleigh was found drowned
in a bathtub in the fat occupied by
F. H. Woodrow, a young business man
of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Ella Mae Watson, who sued
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$50, 900 for alienation of her husband s
affection, was awarded $1,000 by a
New York jury.
Lieut. F. A Kline has been permit
ted to resign from the marine corps
because he headed a detachment of
men who participated in play in a
Portsmouth IN. h theater.
The Marquise de Merinyille and her
sister, the Baroness Won Zedtwitz,
have given $4,000 to the Catholic uni
versity for the establishment of a
fellowship in the divinity school.
Ministers of Chattanooga, Tenn,
are much incensed because DR.. Con-
nor, of the war investigating commits
sion, charged that they were lax in
promoting morality in their city.
Thirteen Cubans released from Span
ish prisons, which the United States
government undertook to transport
from Gibraltar to Cuba, were landed
in New York in a destitute condition.
In Chicago Orlando D. Hadless, an
eccentric old bachelor, who died re-
Gently, divides among a hundred lit
tie girl waits every year for ninety
nine years the interest on $4,000.
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, former
ly president of Wellesley college and
now connected with the university of
Chicago, was run down by a bicyclist
at Cambridge, Mass, and badly in
jured.
The SiameSe government will re
establish its legation in the United
States. The new minister has al
ready arrived, and will present his
credentials to the president in a few
days.
Four negroes were lynched by a mob
of 100 white men near Phoenix, S. c..
The negroes were charged with being
implicated in the shooting of whites
during the election troubles the day
before.
A committee has been formed in this
country TO cooperate with another
committee in London to provide funds
to transport to this country 10000
members of a religious sect in Rus
STA, known as Russian Quakers, who
have been prosecuted by the Gar
A furious storm prevailed through
out Michigan particularly in the
southwestern part or the state. At
Grand Rapids, and at Decatur, fully ten
inches is reported. The telegraph
service is seriously impaired.
According to dispatches the con-
solidation of the tin plate industry of
the United States is now practically
assured. The Chicago promoters say
the 100000 of capital stock has al
ready been oyer-subscribed.
Ur. Milo B. Ward of Kansas City,
manga, made many criticisms and
charges concerning quartermasters,
doctors and nurses in testimony TO the
war Investigating commission at Chi
cago.
Near Lacon, ILL.,, George Stewart,
colored, was lynched after he had con-
fessed that he had assaulted Miss
Mary O'Brien. young white girl,
whom he attacked at night while on
her way home from store, where she
was employed.
The large factory of the TriGnount
manufacturing company in Roxbury.
Mass, was considerably damaged by
fire last evening, while much of the
valuable machinery was wholly or
partly ruined. The loss, which is
fully covered by insurance will be
about $4,000.