Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-01-26

UUU III ueDLS.
General Wheeler will appear before
the house committee on judiciary and
contend that he is entitled to hold his
seat in congress.
At Kokomo, Ind, the residence Of
Charles Null was wrecked by a natural
gas explosion and three women badly
burned, one fatally.
Nicola Tesla claims to have dis
covered a method of curing the bacllA
of all diseases by the use of millions of
volts OF electricity.
The National Woman's Suffrage
association has sent out protest |
against the seating Of Congressman
elect Robert, of Utah.
The Baptist ministers Of Boston |
have passed resolutions approving |
Gen. Miles sensible bearing during
the Eagan controversy.
Three men were arrested at St.
Joseph Mo, charged with completely
in the Great Northern train robbery in
Minnesota last November.
Aguinaldo's agent made public the
memorandum setting forth the Fill
pinos claim to recognition which Sec
reary Hay refused to receive.
Major Jed Hotchkiss, Stonewall
Jackson's celebrated engineer, died at
his home in Staunton, Va, of grip,
complicated with meningitis.
Senator German of Maryland is one
of the incorporators of the New York
AutO-Truck company, which was
chartered at Trenton, n. ].
A bid of $4,000 for a seat on the
New York stock exchange was made
/ yesterday. This is $500 less than the
! record price, made in 1881.
| A fifteen-year-old boy was taken to
an insane asylum suffering with the
! hallucination that he was. the Saviour
and could walk on water.
Miss Florence Maud Shrady, a
cousin of Mrs Edwin Gould, eloped
with young man who was opposed
by her family in New York.
DR.. Alfred Kayne took his three
year-old child away from his wife,
Attalie Claire, an opera singer, by a
sensational Kidnapping in New York.
In the republican legislative caucus
in Delaware J. Edward Addicks did
not show his expected strength for
nomination for United States senator.
Chauncey NJ. Coutant, a well-known
carriage manufacturer. blew out his
brains while suffering from an at
tack of temporary insanity, caused by
grip.
The steamship City of Macon landed
at Savannah nine men from the the
schooner aloha, of Bath, Me-, which
was abandoned at sea in a sinking
condition.
Preliminary figures place the bal
ance of trade in favor of the United
States for the year 1898 at 1921, 26O, 535,
which is an increase of $264,146,710
over 1897
Joliet has an $50 p. m. chrfew law.
Parents or guardians who Willfully
neglect their duty may be fined not
less than SIS nor more than 5000 for
each Offense.
The California legislature has ap-
pointed a committee to investigate
charges of bribery against young U.
S. Grant in connection with the sena-
torial contest.
baccO cOmpany's plant at st. Louis has
been sold to the American Tobacco
, company. The price is said to be not
for from $2,500,000.
A proposed conference between
mine-w workers and operators at Pitts
burg was postponed by request of the
miners, who have not concluded their
annual convention.
Receivers have been appointed for
d. Holiday & Co., wholesale dry
goods dealers at Baltimore The as
sets are said to be $432 900 an the
liabilities $4,000.
Mrs. Mary Butterfeld Sanderson,
the Battle Creek woman accused OF
numbering her husband by feeding
him ground glass, has been bound
over TO the circuit court.
In San Francisco, Lucky" Baldwin
has decided to erect an eight-stOry
tireproof building on the property oc-
cupied by the old Baldwin hotel. The
building will cost $3,000,000
George w. Dent died at oakland,
Cal, aged 70 years. He was a broth
er-in-law of General u S. Grant and
uncle of U. S. Grant, Jr., now candi-
date for United States senator.
There are persistent rumors in
Washington that Secretary AIger will
retire from the cabinet, and that the
president is embarrassed by the ad-
verse comments on the SECRETARY.
At Battle Creek, Mich, Professor
| G. H. Bell, teacher in the Seventh
Day Adventist college, known among
Adventists all over the United States.
was killed by kick from his horse.
! Rev. a. D. Hendrickson died at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, aged 81. Since Dec.
/, when he was stricken with ap-
poplexy he has been unable to take
food and had lived entirely on water
The late Representative Dingley
| was given a state funeral in Wash
ington, impressive services being held
at the capitol, attended by both houses
of congress and the president and cab
met
The trustees of Cornell will appoint
I. F. Crane. present dean of the fac
ulty of arts and sciences, to perform
the duties of President ]. G. Schur-
man, during his absence in the Philip !
pines.
The National Colonization Aid So |
ciety has been chartered in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, to form a Western |
COLONY where Deoroac from Tho ca, . !