Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-17


to death beneath rock at a mining
shaft near Benton, Wis.
A shortage of $4,000 has been dis
covered in the accounts Of former
Treasurer Ferd Trepp of the Elmwood
Cemetery company of Memphis.
farmer Glass, who fired into char
~ ari party near Milan, Mo-, killing
Roy Fear, has been sentenced to serve
five months in jail and fined $500.
George P. Tucker, coal miner of
Crescent, W. Va, shot and killed his
wife and William McAllister, whom
ne surprised together at his home.
The whaLeback steamer Christopher
Columbus has not been sold to the
Goodrich line, though negotiations are
pending.
The government will ask post
ponement of the sale Of the Kansas
Pacific railway, hoping to secure bet
ter terms.
The government has found a way to
get around the treaty forbidding the
United States to build war vessels on
the great lakes.
A big deal by which every brewery
in Cleveland will pass into the hands
Of a syndicate OF eastern capitalists
has just been completed.
In an alteration at ScOttsburg,
Ind, over an account John Pounds of
Underwood was stabbed by James M.
Montgomery.
John Y. McKane's friends have
asked Gov. Black to pardon him a
few hours before the expiration of his
term to save his citizenship.
A syndicate of New Workers has OBJ
tanned a concession to control for 25
years the expectation and importation
OF live stock fl ON and to the republic
OF Honduras.
The funeral of Rev. DR.. William
Mast Brodbeck, who was soon to have
become pastor of Fist Methodist Epis
copal church, Baltimore, took place in
Boston.
The question of restricting indis-
criminate kissing among young folks
continues to be discussed by promi-
nent society people and others in
! Atlanta, Ga.
! DR.. Emma Sutro- Merritt, daughter
of ex-Mayor Adolph Sutro of San
Francisco, has been appointed his
guardian, he having been adjudged
mentally incompetent.
! Rear Admiral Sicard, who is sick,
has been temporarily relieved of the
command Of the north Atlantic
squadron and Captain Sampson put in
charge Of the squadron.
Ambassador White has cabled the
state department that fresh American
fruits not infected are freley admitted
to Germany. Importation Of live
plants is prohibited.
It is not believed that two-thil DIS ma
jority can be secured in the senate
for the Hawaiian annexation treaty,
which will probably be abandoned for
a resolution.
The state department is advised that
Germany is disseminating against
American hams and that exces sive
freight charges are imposed on Ameri-
can lumber
The state department. authorizes the
statement that no new instructions
have been sent to Minister Woodford
at Madrid in regard to the termination
of the war in Cuba.
The Pennsylvania supreme court
contiI med the finding of the Montgom-
cry County Court condemning to death
Chas. o. Kaiser for the murder of his
wife at Norristown.
Dupuy de Lone, Spanish minister
writing a letter containing a scurril-
Gus reference to President Mckinley.
The minister has resigned.
The annual meeting of the League
OF American Wheelmen began with
sessions devoted to the good roads
movement The old officers were re-
elected.
d. S. H. Sampson, suspected of
causing the death Of Bessie Neff at
Sampson, O., has been removed to the
county Jail at LaurelvilIe, to prevent
lynching.
A judge Of the circuit court of De-
troit decided against the Michigan
Central in Gov. Ping. ee's suit to COM
pei the company to send him a 1000
mile ticket for $40.
| John d. Rockefeller has presented
land worth $25,0UO to the city OF
Cleveland for park purposes. This is
the second git Of the kind he has
made to the city.
The members of Green street, Chi
cago, Congregational chuI Oh voted to
retain their pastor, Rev. Charles O..
Brown, who recently made public con-
fession of his wrong doing.
At Dayton, Ohio Alfred Bradley, vice
president OF the Bradley Cordage and
Irvine company, whose factory was de-
stroyed by fire, died from heart disease
brought on by the excitement.
Colonel A. c. Babcock, an old resi-
dent Of Chicago and Illinois, and act
lively identified in a business and polit-
zeal way with the history of the
state, is dangerously Ill.
Archibald McLaren of Cleveland. O.,
is under ar est on the charge of ap-
ptoprlating to his own use $3.50 be-
longing to the Order of Scottish clans