Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27
DOMESTIC.

Senator Proctor was reelected by
the Vermont legislature.
Edward j. Henley, the actor, died at
Lake Placid, in the Adirondacks.
Edwin Gould will move to New York
city and enter the social swim.
At Pittsburg the German National
bank has closed, but is believed to be
solvent.
The Cleveland council has reduced
street car fares to cents, seven for a
quarter.
Abner Mckinley's name, proposed at
the Union League club, New York was
withdrawn.
The receipts from internal revenue
taxation for September amounted to
S-I,713,389
In New York Mrs. Maud Cruikshank
is suing DR.. William J. Cruikshank
for divorce.
The Church of Di ciples of Christ
began a national convention at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
The steamship Roanoke arrived at
Seattle from st. Michaels with 49,
100000 in gold.
R. w. McClaughry Of Joliet was
elected president of the national
prison congress.
The number of American vessels en-
gagged in foreign trade in 1898 is the
lowest since 1892.
Commander Darlington Booth is
organizing a non-sectarian league of
Christian workers.
Richard Smith, whose nose was
abnormally large, had it reduced by
New York surgeons.
The New York board Of health will
institute criminal prosecutions in Or
der to abate The smoke nuisance.
Miss Reubina Walworth, Vassar
graduate, who volunteered as a nurse
at Camp Montauk, died Of typhoid
fever
James w. Glendenin, a millionaire
coal merchant of New York, was kill
ed by runaway horse in Central
park.
A New York magistrate has
rendered a decision under which lodg-
ers in lodging houses may register as
VOuers.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt began a
speech-making tour of New York
state in the interest of his candidacy
for governor.
The degree of doctor Of laws was
formally bestowed upon President Nc
Kinley by the authorities of the Uni
yersity OF Chicago.
Frost occurred at Jackson, Miss,
and it is hoped that this may mark
the decline of yellow fever in that
state and Louisiana.
The peoples party paper, of which
Thomas E. Watson was editor, has
suspended publication at Atlanta on
account of $4,000 labor lien.
Admiral Dewey expects to arrive in
san Francisco Dec. s. He is coming
home to look after his mining in
terests on the Pacific coast.
Baby Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sd, and
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney are cred
tied with reuniting Cornelius Wander
bilt ST., aid his son Cornelius.
Chicago capitalists are said to be
planning to build ship canal be-
tween the Bay of Denoquet, on Lake
Michigan, and Lake Superior
A dispatch from Jackson, Miss, says
that Yazoo City and Meridian have
been added to the list of towns in that
state having cases of yellow fever.
William P. Murray killed his insane
wife ana himself in New York after
writing a letter explaining that he did
it solely to end her earthly troubles.
A new record for exports has been
established, the calendar year 1898
showing the largest expectations in
the history of our foreign commerce.
Mail Carrier John O'Keefe is under
arrest at Valparaiso, Ind, charged
with stealing valuable letters, one
sent as a decoy, being found in his
pocket.
Fire at Merrill, Wis, destroyed the
powerhouse of the Merrill Lighting
and Railway company and the Scott
Lumber Company's mill. Loss,
$4,000
The Brooklyn school board has ap-
pealed to the courts to obtain from
the greater city s1,6O0,OOO which is
claimed % be due under a proper ap-
portionment.
The much-talked-Of combina ton of
the plug tobacco manufacturers of the
country under the protection of the
American Tobacco Company is said to
have fallen through.
Attorneys of the ' 1rden Coal COM
pany are trying to blame Governor
Tanner for the killing of nine men at
that town as the result of the strike
among coal miners there.
Friends of a bridal couple in New
burg, n. Y, tied tinpans and other
noise-making. articles to their car
riage, producing a runaway which
nearly caused their death.
Dr.. George H. Rice has been freed
of the charge Of numbering his wife
at Salem, H., the jury, under in
structions from the judge, returning
a verdict of not guilty.
While attempting to swing Off an
engine at Michigan City, Ind, Switch
man Henry Ebert lost his balance,
fell under the wheels and his head
was severed from the body.
The returns received by the treas
ury bureau Of navigation show that
the documented American shipping on
June 80, 1898, comprised 22,7O5 YES
sells, of 4,749,73S gross tons.
The grand jury returned an indict-
ment against Jesse James, Jr., son of