Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-10
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| for SlUU,LOU the painting b4eSoing the
Bread. II Will De pl esentcd to the
! art gallery OF The Carnegie library
at PIttsburg.
The board Of directors OF the Ma
| tional + ederatlOn o. Musical Clubs
las decided 10 nod the next general
meeting in St. Louis in the spring
Of 1899.
A receiver was appointed for the w.
f. Swords Lumber company of
/ Bridgeport, Conn. The liabilities are
said to he $4,000 and tne assets
! $780, 600.
Carl Linback WIS killed by Willie
/ Giantz in prizefght at West Bend,
Wis. Both Contestants were school
boys and the fight had been arranged
to settle dispute.
w. L. McNall, who claims to be a
son of Webb McNall, the Kansas in
surance commissioner, attempted to
! commit suicide at lola, Kan, and is
lying at the point of death.
! Bishop John H. Vincent of the
Methodist Episcopal church, has ap-
pealed to the state temperance union
to start a crusade against the chew
ing-gum habit.
Archbishop Kahn has signif1ed his
intention of serving as one of the
vice presidents of the meeting to re-
ceive General Booth of the Salvation
army on his visit to St. Louis.
Mrs. Armour of Chicago, mother of
A. V. Armour, Chicago, now cruising
on his yacht, died at Charleston, S. c.
She had been i'll for some time, and
went south to recuperate.
Two masked men tortured Louis A.
Stanwood, an old recluse near Har-
vey, Ok, until he gave UP all his
money, and also robbed two other
residents of the neighborhood.
Rev. Martin Gesaner is in Cana
dian convent, having left his church
at Elizabeth N. j., to avoid receiving
a purse containing $4,000 in gold in
honor of his twenty-fifth anniversary
as a priest
Foster M. Voorhees,, president of the
state senate, has been sworn in as
acting governor of New Jersey, to
succeed John W. Griggs, who re-
signed to become attorney general OF
the United States.
| Crosse Point, H., had a fierce fire
which at one time threatened to de-
stroy the village and did do S35,OaU
damage. Selke & Miller's green
houses were destroyed and several
persons were hurt.
Mrs. Minnie Wallace Walkup Ket-
cham of Chicago has won in her fight
with relatives of her husband, the late
John B. Ketcham, over the latter's
will. Mrs. Ketcham remains sole
executrix and the Toledo heirs retire
from the field.
Speaker Reed and other republican
leaders have determined that the de
feat of the Teller resolution shall com
plete the record of the session on the
currency issue. No comprehensive
bills for currency revision will be
considered.
The body of Frank S. Wright, who
killed himself in Chicago, when ar
rested on a charge of embezZlement
has been claimed by his young widow
who lives at Dixon. Wright had beer
married a few weeks ago to Miss Mae
Smith, 20 years old and a belle O
Dixon.
At Minneapolis Judge Elliott de-
clined to grant a new trial to AlC
George A. Durham, convicted of sol
letting bride. Unless the supreme
court overrules this decision Durham
will have to serve a term in the peni
tertiary.
A Louisville, KY, grand jury re
turned indictments against 1856 saloon
keepers and Others who have had slo
machines in their places of business
resolution calling on the presi
dent to compel peace in Cuba will b.
introduced by Senator Mason.
1t is the general belief in Ottawa
that the recent agreement between
Messrs. Mckenzie and Mann and the
government to build railroad. to the
Yukon may be ratified by the com
mons, but that the senate will never
confirm it.
Samuel Jackson, a colored banjo
player, who was recently arraigned
at New York for assault and who
pleaded guilty and asked to be SEN
fenced at once, was identified as a
man who is wanted in Charleston,
c., for the murder Of a wealthy citizen
of that place two years ago.
Ell PaSO mining men are excited ovel
a ehenomenally itch silver deposit
On the line of the Rio Grande, Sierra
MAdrie d Pacific railroad in ole
Mexico, about 100 miles from Ell Paso
Samples assayed $4,000 ounces OF
silver to the ton.
At Fort Scott, Kas., Charles Robin
son, alias Black Eye" who was
charged with roUbIng banks and post
offices in Missouri, broke Jail with
George w. Finche, under a life sen.
tence, and six other prisoners. They
assaulted the jailer and took hi:
keys and gun
Senator Carter has prepared and in.
trouuced a bill to amend an act pro
vidIng a civil COVE. nment Tor Alaska
1t leaves the duties of the governor
substantially as under the existing
law and lodges extensive powers il
the courts. The bill establishes one
judicial district for Alaska
The bicycle manufacturers of Canada
have asked the government for a
specific duty of SO on each bicycle i'm