Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-09-15
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

dead during row between the Two
factions of the silver republican party
of Colorado.
Orders have been issued for the
LOO Spanish prisoners on Seavey's is
land to prepare to leave for Spain on
the City of Rome.
The volunteers will ultimately be
concentrated in Lexington, KY, Mid
diet 1wn, Pa, Jacksonville, Fla, and
Admission, Ala.
The Memphis Grain Elevator and
company and the Eagle
mills were burned. Total loss, $242,-
600; insurance, $4,000.
Fully 100000 people witnessed the
parade and the battle Of flowers Of the
annual fete given under the auspices
of the Floral association at Saratoga,
N. Y.
The gunboat Siren was in collision
with a British steamship in Hampton
Roads and was badly injured. She
was beached to prevent her from sink
ing.
The American Indies company was
formed in New York with a capital
stock of $1S,O00,00O. It's object is to
develop the resources of Cuba and
Porto Rico.
Secretary Alger has directed an in
quiry to be made in the case Of Pri-
waite Hugh Barrett, Of the eighth in
fantry, who died a. Montauk Point
from alleged neglect.
IN rafI1col tO rnooivn
Red Cross supplies American troops
may be sent to Havana to take the
place of the Spaniards sooner than
had been planned.
The secretary Of state does not
credit reports from Hong Kong that
German warships are preparing to
cake possession of one or more of the
Philippine islands.
Brigadier General William Ludlow
and Brigadier General G. S. Sumner
have been promoted to the grade of
major general fer distinguished ser
vices at Santiago.
The National association Of Post
office clerks in convention at Detroit
elected Thomas Donnelly of Brooklyn
president. Memphis was selected as
the next place Of meeting.
Sister EdmuNda, mother superior Of
the convent of Notre Dame at Hokah,
Mimi, and the oldest sister Of the or
der of Notre Dame In the United
States, died suddenly, aged IA.
John 7. Kingston, Jr., an eX-state
senator OF Wisconsin and prominent
lawyer of Ashland, Wis, died IN Porto
Rico where he went as private in the
second regiment of Wisconsin volun-
teers.
John GarCmeyer, baker, of Milwau-
kee, rode through the open draw of the
East Wa,er street bridge and sank to
his death in the waters of Milwaukee
river. He was rs years old and I'M
MARI. ed.
Charles Brown, right fielder Of the
All-Chicago baseball team, an anna
&eur organization, died from the effects
of an injury received while playing
with his team at West Chicago labor
day.
Wharton Barker the Philadelphia
fnalcier and editor, was named FIR
president in 1900 by the populists at
Cincinnati and Ignatius D0nnelly of
MIME tia was nominated for vice
president.
United States Senator Kenny Of Del
aware has again been indicted by a
federal grand jury on the charge of
having aided Cashier Boggs to en-
bezzle about $4,000 from a national
bank iQ Dover, Del.
Commissioner Scott has instructed
internal revenue collectors not to de-
mand the payment of the extra so per
cent. from persons who failed to make
sworn returns under the terms of the
war revenue act.
Mayor Van Wyck has requested the
president to allow the volunteer and
regular regiments to mobilize in New
York before being disbanded or dis
tributed fer the purpose of celebrat-
ing a peace jubilee.
In New York, three workmen were
burned to death in a fire in Max
Steiner Bros. whiskey house. The
fire started by the explosion of a bar
rel of spirits of alcohol. The dead are
William Witt, Rudolph Schoenberg
and a man known as Paul"
Scores of men at work on the new
bridge of the New York and Ottawa
railroad at Hogansburg, n Y, were
hurled into the St. Lawrence river by
the breaking of the spans. Eighteen
Of the men were killed, several will
die and a number is unaccounted for.
At a meeting of the corporation of
Brown university, Providence, R. l..
the resignation of President E. Ben
jamin Andrews was accepted DR.. Ben
jamin Clark was chosen to succeed
him. Andrews has accepted the super
intendency Of the Chicago public
schools.
Carl Sheldon was nominated for
congress by the twelfth district re-
publicans of Michigan by a vote Of SO
to %. The Stephenson men will prob
ably hold separate convention based
on irregularities in electing a chair
man Of the first convention. The mat
ter may go to the courts.
The five men arrested after the fight
between armed bodies Of men repre-
senting the two factions of the silver
republicans of Colorado for posses sion
of the opera house in Colorado Springs
have been released, there being no
evidence to show that any one of them
fired the shot which killed Charles E.
Harris Of Denver