Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-13
DOMESTIC.

Chicago October wheat, 63Ac; sill
yer, 6OBc.
Mrs. Caroline Miskel Hoyt, the act
ress, is dead.
The battleship Illinois was launched
at Newport News.
In Mississippi and Louisiana yellow
fever is spreading.
The triennial Episcopal council
opened in Washington.
The Tradesmans National Bank of
New York suspended.
Massachusetts democrats Endorsed
the Chicago platform.
The Tradesmen's Bank closed its
doors in New York.
The funeral of the Rev. Dr.. John
Hall took place in New York.
Robert Rennert, a leading hotel
keeper of Baltimore, Is dead.
The big deal for a national to-
bacco trust seems to have collapsed.
DR.. w. F. Mclean died suddenly at
Elyria, Ohio. He was IS years old.
Richard Katsenmayor, the leader of
German society in New York, is dead
James R. Keene is said to have
made 81 100000 in American tobacco.
Several millionaires are likely to
run for congress in New York this
fall.
Prescott E. Longley, a veteran hotel
man of Wisconsin, is dead at James
vile.
Bertha Beilstein, Allegeny, Pa,
killed her mother and then committed
suicide.
Col. Roosevelt paid $1,O05 into New
York City's treasury, his personal tax
for 1898.
The city of Colorado Springs was
visited by fire which did $1,000, 900
damage.
The wooden mills owned by ex-Gov.
Sawyer of New Hampton made as
signments.
A combine of shipbuilders and gun
and armor plate manufacturers is
under way.
Colorado middle-of-the-road popu-
lists nominated Simon Guggenheim
for governor.
The New York court of appeals
decided against the Gould heirs in the
inheritance-taX case.
The United States, Great Britain
and Japan practically control the coal
supply of the world.
Richard Croker is said to have Sc
cured control of the New York state
democratic committee.
Bodies of those who lost their
lives in the Wisconsin forest fires are
beginning to be found.
William L. Dean, treasurer of Vas
sar college, died suddenly of heart
disease, aged 81 years.
Old Nance Guilford was held in a
London court to await requisitiOn
papers from Connecticut.
Rev. Jabez Fox, who was well
known in the west in the anti-slavery
agitation, died at Washington.
A. W. Lyman, well-known news
paper man, who served the Associated
Press in Cuba, died in Brooklyn.
The September report of Wisconsin
national banks shows falling off of
nearly 100000 in deposits since
July.
The forest fires in Colorado and
Wisconsin have been checked by
rains. Light snow also fell in Col
OradO.
Two thousand armed miners are on
guard at Virden, ILL.,, to prevent the
importation of negro miners from
Alabama.
Louis Landerman, of Fond du Lac,
Wis, was accidentally shot while
hunting ducks. 1t is doubtful whether
he will recover.
Coin" Harvey has been made gen.
eral manager of a new ways and
means committee or the national dem
ocratic committee
Miss Edna Smith, an heiress of st.
Paul, Mimi, has been spirited away
from her home and is being held at
La Grange, Ind.
large gathering Of Mormon work
ers in the eastern states WAS begun in
a bower on South mountain, near
Chambersburg, Pa.
merry Il. McDermOtt, assistant pro-
fessor of chemistry at Columbia Uni
versity, New York, committed suicide
because of i'll health.
Jesse James, son of the noted out
law, is said to be involved in a train
robbery in Kansas. He keeps a cigar
stand in Kansas City.
Every vacancy in the medical de-
partment of the navy has been filed.
and there were hundreds of appli-
cants for the positions.
The New York Independents declare
they will nominate Colonel Roose-
welt for governor in spite of his letter
declining their nomination.
Striking miners from Pana, Ill, at
tackled the barracks of negro miners
at Washington, Ind, and by threats
compelled them to leave town.
Ex-Mayor Robert R. Gibbons, one
OF the pioneers of Bureau county and
for many years prominent in politi- |
cal circles, died at Princeton, Ill
Elbridge T. Gerry and Robert Goe-
let have become citizens of Rhode |
Island, it is stated, because they fear |
populistic legislation in New York.
dispatch from Chattanooga says