Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-09-22

the tattle5hips Oregon and Iowa for
their long voyage to the Pacific coast.
They will be accompanied by four
co liers.
The body of a young woman Gu
up into pieces was found in four
packages discovered in shallow water
by boys playing On a bridge at
Bridgeport, Conn
The naval personnel bill will
taken up by congress early in the
next session, and it is believed that
it viii PASS unless it is opposed by
volunteer officers.
The navy department has decided to
award to the Cramps, the Union Iron
Wo ks and the Newport News Com
pany contracts for the Construction by
each Of enc battleship.
The president has urged a number
CT prominent gentlemen to accept
places On the commission requested
by Secretary Alger to investigate the
conduct of the war.
The body of Naval Cadet Thomas H.
Wheeler, son of Gen. Joseph Wheeler
and who was drowned at Montauk
Point, L. I, arrived at Wheeler, Ala
where it was buried.
The steamer City Of Rome, bearing
Admiral Cervera and other Spaniards
arrived at Portsmouth,, n. H, to take
on board the Spanish prisoners there
and carry them to Spain.
The plan fer a parade in New York
of the troops IN camp at Montauk
Point and those returning from Porto
Rico has been found to be 1mpracti-
cable and has been abandoned.
Henry Sanford, aged seventy-eight
years, vice-president of the Adams
Express company, was married in
New York to Mrs. Olive Burchard, a
widow, aged thirty-fve years.
More than five hundred people per-
ished in a West Indies storm. The
weather bureau at Washington fore
told it's coming, and American war
ships were placed in safe harbors.
The naval promotion board will
recommend that officers who have dis
tinguished themselves in battle be
awarded medals and incr eased pay in
stead of being advanced in numbers.
The m dical department of the army
will es, ab1ish winter hospitals for sick
soldiers. One at Fort Monroe is now
ready to receive the sick and another
l. ri
Yannah.
The dead body of Fred Langsdorff,
aged 40 years, a bookbinder and
spiritualist, was found on the bank
of-the Kaw at a pc at near Armour
dale Kan. He had committed suicide
after taking a dram of morphine and
a dram of prussic acid, in small guam
titles, covering a period Of four days,
then opening the veins of his arm.
Both regular and volunteer troops
will lie sent to Cuba for garrison
duty. 1t is said that the military gov
rift, Brooke and Wade, of the regu-
larry army,
Judge Thomas M. Cooley, widely
known as a jurist and constitutional
lawyer, died at his home, in Ann
ArbOr, Mich, aged seyenty-four years.
He had been failing mentally and
physically for several years.
District Attorney Kenefick and sher-
if Kilwallon prevented the Lavigne-
Ernie fight at Buffalo. The sheriff
even refused to permit a boxing eX-
hibition. This action means that the
Mccoy fight will not take
place in Buffalo.
The United States has replied to "a
, recent note of the Turkish govern
ment declining to accept Turkeys re-
pud alton of the responsibility fer
American losses during the Armenian
troubles.
The discovery in a room occupied
by Mrs. BOtkin in San Francisco Of
a seal thought to have belonged to
the box Of poisoned candy sent to
Dover, Del, has strengthened the evil
dence connecting her with the murder
Of Mrs Dunning and Mrs. Deane.