Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-11-10

going to San Francisco to launch the
battleship Wisconsin.
The fight between Dial Hawkins and
Jack Downey before the New York
Athletic club was declared off owing
to a financial disagreement.
Joseph Herbert, once drummer boy
in Napoleon's army, died at the home
in Chicago at the age of 101 years. He
came to Chicago 10 years ago.
Miss Mabel Gordon, youngest daugh-
ter Of Gen. W. w. Gordon, was mar
ried at Savannah to Rowland Leigh,
son of Lord Leigh Of England.
Elmer Andrus, farmer living near
Chetek, was poisoned by eating a
piece of wild parsnip. Doctors have
no hope for his recovery.
Mrs. Amelia Sonnabend, a first
cousin of Prince Hohenlohe, the chan
cellor of the German empire, COM
mitted suicide at Detroit.
Rev. E. %. Young, an old-time
preacher among the Chippewa In
dams, died of old age at Battle Creek,
Mich He was born in 1914.
The operation of Porto Rican tele-
graph lines is expected to shed light
on the subject of government owner
ship of railroads and telegraph.
The Sd Wisconsin regiment, just
returned from Porto Rico, has been
furloughed until Dec. 81. They will
then probably be mustered out.
| Three students were so severely in
jured in a class fight at the Michigan
Agricultural college at Lansing that
they had to be taken to hospital.
| The monument erected to the mem
DRY of Richard Morris Hunt, the
famous architect, has been unveiled
in New York with simple ceremonies.
Soldiers of the 1st Alabama regi-
ment hung in effigy Rev. O. P. Fitz-
simmons, their chaplain, because ne
had opposed their being mustered out.
The Methodist bishops announce
that they will shortly make an appeal
for a twentieth century fund" of
$40, 900, 900, to be used in church work.
Charles A. SchOtt, chief of the COM
putation division of the coast and
geodetic survey, has been awarded the
Wilde prize by the Academy of
France.
Colonel James c. Biddle, who was a
member of General Meade's staff and
served with distinction in the civil
war, died at his home in Philadelphia,
aged So.
Michael Doty, under arrest for
polygamy in Chicago, has been identi-
fed as Jacob Adolph Huff of Wheel
ing, w. Va, suspected of wife murder
in 1895.
The war investigating sub-commis-
sion at Lexington, KY, heard some
spicy testimony about faults at Chick
amauga camp from officers who served
| there.
The schooner Capron, Capt. Ander-
son, of Racine, went on the beach at
| Sturgeon Bay and will prove total
| loss. Her crew is in destitute circum-
| stances.
! The highbinder Chinese society in
! San Francisco has threatened with
death those who are engaged in stamp
| ing out the trade in slave girls in
that city.
F. c.. Hamen and John r. West,
two well known business men of West
| Superior, were drowned near Ely,
Mimi, while hunting. Their bodies
were recovered.
Commissioner Peck has secured s.
900 additional feet of space in the
Paris exposition, making total OF
10000 feet additional set apart for the
United States.
J. K Mertz, assistant adjutant gen
eral G. A R, department Of Mime
sofa, and one of the best known G. A
R. men in the northwest, dropped
dead in Minneapolis.
Senator Hoar, in political speech
at Worcester, Mass, made a protest
against any absorption Of Spanish ter
ritory as a departure from American
aims and purposes.
Stringent quarantine measures ar
about to be enforced in New York tt
prevent the entrance Of buboni
plague which has broken out il
Vienna, Austria.
The villa of Mr.. Royal Phelps Car
ron, at Newport, R. l., caught fire an
the household had narrow escapes
Valuable hunting trophies were rune
by smoke and water.
Adam Hammer, while te;aporaril
insane at Beaver Dam, Wis, shot an
: wounded nine men before he was aim
self shot in the shoulder to prevent hi
doing further injury.
David A. Wells, the economist VIII
a was reported dying, is in no imme
: date danger. He is 70 years old an
recently took cold, which aggravate
his debilitated condition.
The war Investigating commissio
reached Washington, having ended il
southern trip by hearing spicy te:
timOny about Chickamauga Camp {
Knoxville and Lexington.
d The Third Avenue Railroad compan
Of New York decided to abandon cab
: traction as a means Of propelling i
street cars and to substitute the III
s foreground electric system.
The naval bureau favors Workir
d on the Colon until it is shown whetht
or not she can be raised. 1t wou
: raise the Reona Mercedes and abal
don the Vizcaya and Oquendo.
Il Shipments of grain by the Err
canal from the opening of navigate
= to date totals 20,S44,7S5 bushels,
i against 21,940,1S0 bushels last We;
and 32,146,3S5 bushels in 1896.
h H. Rockwood-Hewitt widely know