Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-29

! the convicted New I Ork rODD6T, say
that he planned to badger" Barney
| Barnato.
| Senator German, in his speech
against imperialism, said if the standing
army is increased it cannot easily be
reduced.
Ex-Queen Lii of Hawaii sent a
protest to the senate against the ap-
preparation of crown lands by the
! United States.
| American manufacturers may soon
be called on to supply an iron ceme-
! terry, with capacity for $4,000 bodies.
! for Caracas, Venezuela.
The Canadian members of the Anglo
American commission entertained
over hundred guests at an elaborate
dinner at Washington.
William j. Bryan left for Washing
ton with Congressman Sulzer, and
there is talk of the latter for the vice
presidential nomination.
| The Winona normal school investi-
cation began. Much bad blood is
! shown to exist between President
! Shepard and Prof Freeman.
| Rev. Dr. Mckee Brown, rector of
| the Episcopal church of st. Mary the
| Virgin and prominent New York
ritualist, died of pneumonia.
! During a fire in the artillery stables
| at Fort Adams, r. l., gun shed ex-
ploded, killing three privates and
seriously injuring eight others.
| The American federation of labor, in
session at Kansas City, formally
| thanked Governor Tanner of Illinois,
for his action in the Virden strike.
The Ascension Memorial Church in
New York is about to try to make
money by building and managing a
ten-story hotel adjoining its edifice.
The commissioner of the general
| land officer orders the resumption of
dead-and-down timber logging on the
Chippewa reservations in Minnesota.
The remains of ex-senator Calvin
! S. Brice were taken to Lima, O., for
| burial, floral tributes estimated to be
worth $4,000, accompanying the re-
mains.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, on trial in San
! Francisco, charged with the murder
of Mrs. John P. Dunning, of Dover,
! Del, has broken down and is under
the care of physician.
| Two women arrested in st. Cathe-
rine's Catholic church, New York, are
| believed to be the persons who have
picked the pockets of hundreds of
mourners at church funerals.
Senator Nelson has introduced a bill
to pay the chief examiner of pine
lands allowance for actual expenses
and travelling expenses and allow him
also Sc month for the rent of an
office.
| Harlan P. Halsey, author of more
than 600 detective stories under the
pen name of fOld S,euth,' died in
| Brooklyn, where he was prominent
business man and school commits
sioner.
| Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin. one
of the few western democrats in that
body, said that the indications are
that large number of the democratic
senators will vote to ratify the Paris
! peace treaty.
John P. Dunning, husband Of the
| accused of numbering, was sent to
Jail in San Francisco for contempt
of court in refusing to answer GER
tain questions.
Rev. DR.. Daniel Wise died in Engle-
wood n. j., aged So years. He was
the author of over 55 religious works
several of which were known in church
oil nd IF ioi
Gus publications.
The jury in the case of United
States Senator Kenney, on trial at
Wilmington, Del, on a charge of abet-
ting the misrepresentation of First
National bank funds, has disagreed
and been discharged.
Developments in the Chicago case
of Michael Rollinger, charged with
numbering and partly cremating his
wife, tend to show that he disposed of
her in order to get her property and
marry another woman.
Ex-senator Thomas Ward Osborn
died in New York, aged IS years. He
distinction at Gettysburg and Chancel-
louisville and was subsequently United
States senator from Florida.
By vote of S,316 out of 10000
shares, the stockholders of the Ma
tiOnal Revere bank of Boston voted to
go into voluntary liquidation The
first dividend Of so per cent. in liqui-
dation was declared payable Dec. 20.
Ella Lyons and other members of
the w. M. S. of Winnebago City,
Mimi, have petitioned congress ask
ing the prevention of the sale of liz
uOrs at government buildings immi-
grant stations, military posts and
canteens
Louis B. Probasco of Bloomington,
H., died of congestion of the brain at
the home of relatives in st. Louis,
where he was visiting He was aged
%, unmarried, and was one of the
most prominent young business and
society men of Bloomington
Prominent members of Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, hope to induce Rev.
John Watson Qan Maclaren) to ac-.
cept the pastorate, soon to be vacated
by DR.. Lyman Abbott. DR.. Watson is
now pastor of the Seton Park Pres
byterian Church, Liverpool.
The item of 100000 in the urgent
deficiency bill, now before congress, to
be expended at the discretion of the
president, is explained by Senator
Proctor to be intended for the pay
TNf Of