Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-10
commissioner, Ed.

Barrett; railroad commissioner, Ed
ward A. Dawson.
With Secretary Ayers retirement
from the war department it is said
General Miles position will be greatly
improved. Both President Mckinley
and Mr. Root, the new secretary, de-
sire harmonious relations with Gen
eral Miles
Miss Eliza Sanford, the last living
daughter Of a revolutionary soldier in
New Jersey, died of old age in the
Mountainside hospital, Mont Clair,
n. J. Miss Sandford had been one
of sixteen on the revolutionary pen
sion rolls and the only one in New
Jersey. She was 81 years old.
| The adjutant general at Havana
! has cabled the police department at
! New York to apprehend L. L. Sloane,
a passenger of the Ward line steamer
Havana, which arrived from Havana.
! Sloane, who was on Hoffman island
under the usual quarantine detention,
is accused Of stealing $1,000 from the
military authorities at Havana.
Litigation extending over fourteen
years and at present affecting claims
estimated at s1O,OOOOOO, has been
brought to a conclusion by decision
rendered by Judge Townsend in the
United States Circuit Court at New
York in favor Of the International
Tooth Crown Company. The decision
upholds the validity of the tooth
crown patent.
G. G.. Anderson of Fulton, Ill, lead
ing a party Of twelve prospectors, has
arrived at Dawson, Alaska, with SEN
sational news regarding copper find
at the headwaters of the White River
in American territory. Anderson and
his companions are said to have found
chunks of pure copper ranging from
the size of a hens egg to pieces
weighing twenty-five pounds.
Jealousy and rage, the latter follow
ing quarrel, led Giovanni Chellino a
Chicago Italian, to shoot his wife Isa-
bella, and himself in their home, 49,
Faquer street, yesterday. Four shots
were fired into the woman's head, and
she died ten minutes later. The hus-
band then fired one shot into his own
head 1t is not thought he can re-
cover.
John w. Farwell. who owns immense
tracts Of land in the Pan Handle in
Texas, yerifies the report that he is
interested in the proposed combina-
ton deal by which the promoters OF
the Consolidated Cattle company ex-
pect to round up 100000 head Of cat
tie on the big ranches of western Texas
and eastern New Mexico for breeding
fattening and marketing.
The senate republican finance com
mittee, which has been in session fol-
some time at Narragansett Pier, R. l.
has completed it's work for the present
and has adjourned, subject to the cal
of Chairman Aldrich. Each member
is to do some individual work a1ons
: certain specified lines, and this is tt
be submitted to the full committee
when it meets again in the fall.
) A cable dispatch from Toxic, Japan
announces that Tayo Morimura, the
pioneer in this country of the business
in Japanese wares, died last Sunday
aged As years. He was graduate o.
: Harvard, proprietor Of large whole
sale Japanese goods house and raw
silk goods house in this city, owner O.
: bank in Toxic, and many times {
millionaire.
United States Senator w. A. Clarl
stated in an interview that in hi:
opinion there is nothing sure abou
VIM. J. Bryan's nomination by thu
democratic party at it's next annua
convention. The senator also saiC
that he is not sure about silver beins
the great issue of the next campaign
though he still calls himself bimetall
list.