Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-15

jured while tobogganing at Grand
Mere, Canada.
The torpedo destroyer Farragut
proves to be the fastest vessel in the
American navy.
Richard Mansfield scored a great
success in Chicago with his play Cy-
rano de Bergerac.
The ways and means committee in
congress proposes to reduce the war
taxes at once.
Mrs. Howard Minghom of Ohio was
elected president of the National Non
Partisan W. c. T. Z.
Joseph Jefferson has decided TO rest
this winter and will not return to the
stage before next spring.
Max J. Lasar Of New York, has paid
$4,000 to the government, settling the
diamond smuggling case.
Negotiations for a general con-
solidation OF all the street railroads in
st. Louis are in progress.
Blind Chaplain Milburn surprised
the senate by praying for SPANS
quttA IcSeHl anu DOy Ming.
Savings banks in the metropolis are
said to be about to reduce their rate
of interest from to 31a per cent.
DR.. Arthur Beaumont, a dentist,
from Alabama, committed suicide in
New York because of unpaid bills
Department estimates for 1900 are
$3.50, 400, 493 in excess of those for 1899,
largely for army, navy and pensions.
Frank Jay Gould, youngest son of
Jay Gould, became of age and will
receive his inheritance of S10,000,000.
Hawaiian commission reported and
submitted bills providing for the es-
tablishment of the islands as a terri
tory.
Water rates in New York will be
increased 10 per cent. on Jan. 1.
This will add $55O,OOO to the city rev.
enue
DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews, superia-
tendent of Chicago's public schools,
resigned, but afterward concluded to
stay.
Detroit, Mich, was isolated by the
heavy snowstorm, which completely
wrecked it's telegraph and telephone
service.
Francisco Di Franchi, who was shot
at San Francisco is said to have been
an agent of the murderous La Malta
society,"
Jane Cakebread, who held the Lon
don record for convictions of drunken
ness-three hundred or so--died at the
age of 81.
Thurlow Weed Barness suit for
$1,000,000 against the American-China
Development company may be settled
out of court.
The weeks receipts of the Chicago
Jewish bazaar amounted to 100000.
The dance at the auditorium alone
Melted $31, 900.
The value Of American imports into
Che Foo, China, in 1897, were almost
ten times greater than those from
Great Britain.
1t has been discovered that the
mysterious donor OF $250,0OO to the
library u the university Oh New York
was He.em Gould.
Several labor unions at the conven-
ion of the Federation Of Labor will
try to pass resolutions excluding wo-
men as wage-earners.
James MCGEE, president of the New
York Produce exchange, was found
dead in bed. He was about 20 years
old and very wealthy.
Miss Martha Washington Beckel.
daughter of Joseph tBeckel of New
| York, became the bride of Baron Burk-
ard Won Muenchhausen.
Senator Plat is opposed to Joseph
H. Choate for ambassador because
Mr.. Ckoate once made witty speech
in describing a boss"
Defaulting Teller Boggs testified in
Delaware that he had aided Senator
Kenney to draw bank funds when the
| latter had no money on deposit.
Peoria, H., men have purchased a
1,1SO acre beet sugar farm at Hamlet,
Ind. Beets testing 22.9 per cent.
sugar were grown on it last year.
President Iglesias, of Costa Rica, is
a little man, which is appropriate to
| the size of his country. The republic
comprises only 1900 square miles.
Grant c. Gillett, the absconding
Kansas cattle man, is reported to have
raised 100000 in cash from banks all
over the country before his flight
The United States cruiser New
| York arrived at Havana. This is the
first American warship in the harbor
since the blowing up of the Maine
Squire Donohue, of Wilkesbarre, be-
! lieving the law too mild for confirmed
wife-beaters, thrashed one in court.
Most republican congressman prais-
ed the message, but the chairman of
| the house committee on currency was
as satirical as any of the democrats
At Versailles, Ky, 100 girls, inmates
of the Cleveland female orphan home
! were poisoned from drinking water
! that had been standing in lead pipes
EX-Judge VIM. H. Robertson, whose
! appointment as collector of the port oil
! New York caused the Garfeld-Conk1-
ing political split, died at Ketonah
! N. Y.
Secretary Cages report showed that
our exports for 1898 exceeded those of
any year in our history, and that our
trade balance was larger than ever
| before.