Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-14

Kinley charges against Gen. Elwell S.
Otis.
Mrs. Grace Hammil, of Pleasantville,
n. J., kidnapped her sister, Grace
North, eleven years old, heiress to
10000.
John D. Rockefeller has contributed
$250,000 to the S2,O00,000 endowment
fund now being raised for Brown uni
rersity
Bishop Henry Niles Pierce of the do
cese of Arkansas died at Fayetteville.
Ark, after an illness of ten days, aged
~ years.
Commissioner of Navigation Cham
berlain thinks the United States should
adopt Europe's plan of substituting
vessels.
James Kneeland, a wealthy resident
and former banker of Milwaukee, died
from a stroke Of apoplexy. He was SO
years old.
Colonel David Henry McComas, Lam
sing, Mich, military man and politi-
clan, died suddenly of heart disease,
aged "a years.
Sept II Cornelius Vanderbilt died
in New York of paralysis, aged Sc. He
leaves widow, five children and
colossal fortune.
Abe Dreyfus, aged 80 years, said to
be a cousin of Alfred Dreyfus of
France, is dead in Joplin, Mo-, of ty-
phoid malaria.
In Chicago August Jernberg, real es-
tate dealer, confessed bankruptcy,
placing his liabilities at 1,433, 1877,
without assets.
It has been definitely decided to hold
a congress of agricuIturists in Chi
cago during the progress of the fall
! festival next month.
The boiler in Chapman & Sargent's
Bowl factory, at Copemish, Mich, ex-
ploded, killing three men and fatally
injuring four others.
Governor Bushnell, in behalf of the
citizens of Marietta, presented a silver
service to the gunboat Marietta at the
| CharlestOWn navy yard.
Prince Cantacuzene, Count Speran-
sky of Russia, who is to marry Miss
Julia Dent Grant at Newport Sept. %,
| arrived at New YORK.
The United States cruiser Detroit has
been ordered to Venezuela, where
American interests are reported to be
menaced by revolution.
black Hawk, the most noted of the
chiefs of the Wisconsin Winnebago In
dams, died IN the town of Brockway,
Wis, aged 80 years.
The steel steamer Douglas Houghton.
the largest ship on the lakes, was run
down by it's cOnsort, the Fritz, and
sunk in ST. Mary's river.
w. J. Bryan, who will speak in forty
Kentucky cities in twenty days, has
asked candidate Goebel to conduct his
campaign on free-silver lines.
John H. Lutz, the crank who threat
ened to kill J. Pierpont Morgan unless
he got $4,000, is still in the insane
pavilion of Bellevue hospital.
Rev. William Moffat, D. D., LII. D.,
Due West, S. c., for twenty-eight years
president Of Erskine college (Associ-
ated Reformed Presbyterian, is dead.
Judge Baldwin, of the Connecticut
supreme court, declared in an address
that it was wrong for doctors in cases
of mortal disease to seek to prOlong
life.
Mark Twain has engaged rooms at
the Princeton Inn, n. j., and expects
to spend the fall and winter there. He
may make Princeton his permanent
| home.
The american Tobacco company will
hereafter buy leaf direct from Wiscon-
sin farmers and will erect a big depot
in Madison for sorting and storing it's
purchases.
A mammoth excursion, with Presi-
dent Mckinley as guest, to the pro-
posed national park in northern Min
nesota, Sept. 20 to Oct 7, is arranged
in Chicago.
John Y. McKane, the former politi-
cal boss of Gravesend, L. l., who served
term in Sing Sing for election frauds
| died at his home at Sheepshead Bay
He was So years old.
At Darien, Ga, nine negroes were
convicted of rioting. One was ac-
quilted and the jury disagreed as to
another, woman. This makes IA
convicted in two days
J. Frank Oldfeld, of Howard county,
Maryland, a United States postoffice
inspector, has been dismissed from the
service for alleged offensive PARTISAN
ship and neglect of duty.
News has been received of tragedy
at Latta, S. c., where the 6-year-old
daughter of Dr. r. A. Bass accident
ally shot and killed her little brother,
4 months old, with a rife.
Patti Louise Grayson, the youngest
Of the Grayson sisters, died at Calves
ton, Texas. At the time Of her death
she was under engagement to go to
New York and play all winter.
Father Charles Brady, a Catholic
priest and Miss Addie Gwynn of Quin-
cy, H., were married in St. Louis
Miss GWynn recently nursed Father
Brady during a serious illness.
The records at the office Of the New
Jersey secretary Of state show that 125
companies were incorporated during
August, which is falling off of about
one-half from the record Of July
The Wilder guards, a crack military
organization of Tennessee, every mem
Der of which was volunteer in the
Spanish-American war, has volun-
teered to go to the Philippines or
wherever the president may see fit to
send the command.
Two Chesapeake and Ohio passenger
trains ran together in collision near