Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-03

once served as superintendent OF the
sailors home at Milwaukee.
A. R. Steward, secretary of President
Van Horne of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad company, says there is no
trnth in the published story that Van
Horne will resign the presidency.
According to a decision OF the MIN
nesota supreme court, man VINO
builds O. house on another's lot has no
claim to the house, nor can he enforce
/ a lien against the lot for its value.
The Brooklyn elevated railroad has
been levied on in a suit TO forecloSe
MOI tgage bonds held by the Central
Trust company amounting TO $780,
297.
The battleship Maine has been Or
dered to Havana, but it is announced
by the authorities in Washington that
her visit there is of a friendly char
acteT.
The Canadian government has con-
scented to admit free Of restrictions all
supplies brought into the Klondike
gold region by the United States gov
eminent I6lI6l 6Ap6uIIIOu6.
Professor George Livingstone Robin
son, professor of Old Testament exc
gesis at Knox college, has resigned to
accept a similar position at McCor-
mick Theological seminary, Chicago.
Mrs. Robert Mantell, known on the
stage as Charlotte Behrens, is lying at
the point of death at Port Huron,
Mich, am operation having been per-
formed as a last resort.
Joseph F. HambitZer has been ap-
pointed receiver of the Stonington
Mining company owning 800 acres of
valuable mineral land on the copper
range south of Houghton, Mich.
Associate Justice Henry Billings
Brown of the supreme court OF the
United States is having serious trouble
with his eyes. His sight is failing rap
idly and his physicians have been un-
able to give him relief.
The Title, supposed to be Cuban
| flibuster steamer, foundered off Bar
negat and four of her crew were lost.
| A new whisky trust is reported to
have been organized by nineteen Ken
lucky distilleries.
Leonard j. Wyeth, aged II, who had
for thirty years been partner in the
banking business at Matt0on, H., with
Congressman Joseph G. Cannon is
dead
! Leroy Stevenson of Galesburg, ILL.,,
has brought suit for $4,000 damages
against Charles Burnside, charging
! him with alternating the affections of
! his wife, who recently sued him for di-
vorce.
The bondsmen of former city treas
urer Wesley Hauck of Terre Haute,
! Ind, have made arrangements by
which he is to turn over property
to them to indemnify them for his
shortage, estimated at $4,000.
Rev. c. o. Brown, who was sus-
pended by the Bay conference two
years ago for conduct unbecoming
minister and who afterWard was pas
tor of Chicago church, confessed at
! San Francisco that he was guilty of
some things of which he was accused.
Miss Emma Kelley, the Kansas girl
who recently went to the Klondike to
represent a syndicate of Chicago cap
italists, is now the wife Of James w.
Dcughterty ('FNigger Jim"), the mil
licnai- miner, and in company with
her husband is en- route to the United
States.
Actor Edward J. Radcliffe, recently
convicted at New York of wife beating,
has been held for perjury for declaring
at the recent trial that he had never
been married before. His first wife
has produced in court her marriage
certificate which is alleged to show
that Radcliffe is guilty of perjury and
bigamy.
William Earl Cook, said to be the
oldest living freemason, passed his one
hundred and first birthday at his home
in Portsmouth, R. l. Before he was
seized with paralysis, Jan. IA, he en-
joyed excellent health. Now he is
failing rapidly. He was made a mason
about 1920
Senator Morgan of Alabama, in g
speech in the senate, reiterated his
statement that eX-PIesident Cleveland
at one time favored the annexation of
Hawaii Mr. Cleveland again asserts
positively that he was never in favor
of anneXing Hawaii or recognizing the
belligeTency of the Cubans.
Jacob Him., the ex-cowboy who
killed Otto Diehl Tor cruelty treating
his wife, Hinz's sister, was exonerated
by a coroner's jury in Brooklyn.
George Jones is charged by the wife
of Engineer Burt Gliffin with having
attempted to wreck his train on the
Long Island railroad. Jones had
sworn that she should marry him or
soon be a widow if she welded Griffin.
]. H. Ing am Of New York and
Thomas wilson Of London are in Chi
cago with the purpose of establishing
a dog exchange at Dawson City. They
Will keep a livery OF trained dogs to
hire for packing to the gold fields, and
will also have a dog hospital and a
dog express.
Chicago and Southeastern railroad
employees, who are on a strike because
the company is eight months in arrears
for wages, seized the west-bound ex-
press at Lebanon, Ind, and side
tracked it. Forty through passengers
were on the train, but the strikers
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