Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-08-04

j Black River Falls Wis, were re-
captured, after fight in which one
was seriously shot.
The republican convention Of the
seventh district of Iowa renominated
John A. T. Hull for congress for the
fifth term by reclamation.
Mrs. Johanna Neff Of Williamsburg,
n. Y, in trying to murder her
neighbors, the Delaneys, fatally shot
August Neff, a siX-year-old boy.
Levi z. Letter borrowed $4,000, 900
in Chicago to aid in paying the debts
his son contracted in his famous
wheat deal. He has 100000 left.
Tammany's slate up to date re-
places Justices Daly and Pryor by
Messrs Whalen and Feitner, and
places Grady as Corporation Coun-
sci.
John Murphy & Co. of Baltimore
OBJ, aimed a verdict enjoining New
York firm from selling Roman Catho
lie prayer-books under a stipulated
price.
The navy department has extended
to August % the time for closing
bids for the construction of the
new torpedo boats authorized by the
last congress.
The steamer Philadelphia left
New York for Santiago de Cuba be-
ing the first commercial vessel to
sail from this country for that port
since its capture.
Charles Warren Spalding the bank
defaulter who is serving term in
Joliet penitentiary, was married to
lavished his money.
Lewis Warner, the Massachusetts
bank wrecker arrested in Louisville,
made a full confession Of his embez-
element of $640,0 of the funds of
| two Northampton institutions.
Mrs. John c. Wilmerding, Jr., a
| grandniece of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt, has sued in the courts
for her release from Bloomingdale
insane asylum claiming that she is
| sane.
| E. F. Pope of Illinois saved him
self from death IN an Alaskan conyon
! by making a ladder out Of his sus-
| penders and some twigs and climbing
with it up the SIDE of a cliff 1909
| feet high.
The steamer Humboldt arrived at
| Seattle from st. Michaels. She had
| 112 passengers, 105 of whom are
from Dawson. The purser estimated
! the treasure aboard the ship at
! $2,00O,O0
! Rev. P. F. Jernegan the promoter
| of the gold-from-sea-water scheme
has converted the money of the stock
! holders into bonds and departed fo1
Europe. About $75O,O0O is represented
in the capital stock.
Anthracite coal prices will be adj
yanced steadily during the next few
months, it is expected. The Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western Road
has started by raising it's rate from
! $4.15 to 1915 ton.
The steamship Ardandhu Of the
! Tweedie Line, trading between West
Indian ports and New York, came
up the New York bay with a heavy
! list to starboard and the cargo
! stored in her lower hold, on fire.
In advertising for bids for the con-
struction of the three battleships
authorized by congress a clause will
! be inserted stating that preference
will be given to proposals which
promise the highest rate of speed.
The treasury department began the
delivery of bonds to subscribers to
the war loan Of S200,O0O,O0O. Bonds
have bene allotted to 100000 sub
scribers and those who bid for $500
or less will be the first to receive
bonds.
Rev. Rufus Nutting D. D, one OF
the most prominent educators in
Illinois, died at his home in Carlin-
vile, aged Is years. He was fo1
several years professor of Greek and
Latin in Blackburn University, Car
linville
Ferdinand W. Peck commissioner
general to the Paris exposition, left
Chicago for Washington to take the
oath Of office and receive his Gre
dentals. He will return in a week
to open headquarters and to begin
the active administration Of his new
duties.
/ Col. Theodore Roosevelt is regarded
as being too Independent to suit
Senator Plat as candidate for COVER
nor OF New York Gen. Stewart L
Woodford, former United States min
/ lister to Spain, and Gen. Frederick
! n Grant orc cl1oCac+ad oc Drobo hi q
! candidates.
| Right Reverend Thomas McGovern
bishop of the Harrisburg diocese
died at the episcopal residence in
+ Harrisburg, Pa, after lingering
! illness from a complication of
diseases. Bishop McGovern was one
of the best known and most beloved
| Catholic prolates in the United
| States.
Mrs Frances Guiteau Norton,
author, and a sister of Charles Gui-
! teau, the assassin of President Gar
field has filed suit at St. Joseph
! Mich, for a divorce from her hus-
| band, w. A. Norton, formerly pub
, Usher Of the Ravenswood Illinois
] News. She alleges desertion and
| elopement.
Miss Janet Jennings, the Red Cross
nurse whose care Of the wounded
/ soldiers who came up from Cuba on
; the Seneca saved many a poor fell
lows life, has issued a statement in
| which she says the disgraceful
neglect Of the men was due to sur