Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-02-24
NEWS OF THE WORLD.


R. G. Bacon & Co., hardware dealers
at Toledo, o., have failed for $4,000.
Charges of forgery and corruption
are made against Milwaukee alder
men.
Miss Frances E. Willard, president
of the w. c. T. u, is dead in New
York.
The Alaska steamer Clara Nevada
was burned, with the loss of forty
lives.
Sadie Martinez, the actress, is dan
gerously i'll with pneumonia at New
York.
James Stevenson, a Boston real es-
tate dealer, died at Old Point Comfort,
Virginia.
Dr. Daniel B. Collins of st. Peter,
one of the leading physicians of Min
nesota, is dead.
The Illinois senate concurred in the
house joint resolution favoring the
annexation of Hawaii.
Fire at Sterling, H., caused damage
to the rooms of the Y. NJ. G. A. to the
extent of $1,000.
Justice Buck Of the Minnesota state
supreme court announced that he will
not be a candidate for reelection.
H. H. Chandler, a mining man well
known throughout the northwest,
dropped dead at Great Falls, Mont.
The Rev. DR.. John Hall says the dis
sension in the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terrain church, New York, is healed.
Right Rev. John Richardson Sci
wyn, master of Selwyn college, Cam
bridge, since 1898, died at Pau, France
Municipal elections were held
throughout Pennsylvania. The re-
publicans were generally successful.
The steamer Gaelic has arrived at
san Francisco with $997920 worth of
opium, the duty on which is $11O,S8O.
Dependency over the loss of his
fortune caused Carl Bualtl, a German
farmer near Sterling, H., to kill him
self
Twenty or thirty fishermen are
thought to have been drowned on Lake
Erie near Buffalo, or are adrift on the
ice.
charles Dean, half-breed Chinese
at San Francisco, murdered Pit Sing.
Chinese girl, with a highbinder's
knife.
The exports of domestic merchan-
else in January amounted to $780,
524, an increase of $14,00O,0OO over
January, 1897.
Two officials of the bank of Edge
mont, S. D., one of the Cradle prom
critics, were arrested, larceny of notes
being the charge
A blizzard ragged on Che Alaskan
coast and from II to q persons are
reported to have lost their lives in it
fury.
Joseph w. Babcock of Wisconsin has
been reelected chairman of the repub- |
hcan congressional campaign commit |
tee.
More witnesses in the Martin trial |
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, testified that dep
uties shot strikers who were running
away at Lattimer.
Rev. c. o. Brown, the minister of
confessions, was dropped from the |
membership of the Chicago Congre- !
gational association.
conrad Behrens, the well-known |
basso, formerly with the Walter Dam
rosch Opera company, died at New |
York, aged 63.
1t is believed that Joseph Letter
has arranged to move his entire stock |
of wheat from Chicago to the Allan |
tic scaboard.
An adverse report was made on Sen |
ator Aliens amendment to the diplo-
matte appropriation bill recognizing |
the belligerency of Cuba
The regents of the University of
California have decided to establish |!
a college of commerce as one of the |
departments at the university
The house committee reported ad-
yersely on the bill authorizing the |
erection of buildings for religious
worship on military reservations
H. H. Kohlsaat, owner of two Chica- |
go newspapers, and C. T. Yerkes, |
owner of one, are bitterly assailing
each others character and credit
Delegates representing every textile |
union in New England met at Boston |
and recommended a general strike in !
all cotton mills
Colonel w H Stevenson of Bridge
port, Conn, has joined the Salvation |
al my and signalized the fact by pre-
senting it with a check for $4,000.
A subcommittee has been appointe
by the banking committee of the ma
tional house of representatives to pre-
pare currency reform measue
The New York senate has passed the
house resolution censuring United
States Senator Murphy because he
voted for the Teller silver resolution.
The latest estimate of the number
OF lives lost by the Maine disaster at
Cuba places the number of dead at 25S.
The cause Of the disaster is still I'M
known
Luther G. Billings, pay director in
the navy, has been found guilty of
fnlsehood and scandalous conduct by
a court martial and sentenced to dis
missal from the navy.
Charles Francis Winthrop of New
York died in Paris at the age of 70.
Jacob Stage, one of the first set
TIERS in northern Indiana, dropped
dead at Ligonier.
Representative Sulzer of New York
mas introduced a resolution in the
mouse setting apart the birthdays Of