Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12

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Equitable Life Assurance Society are
not entitled to a share Of its surplus.
Three men named Neese, Humphrey,
and Hoffman are under arrest at Terre
Haute, Ind, charged with burning
barn belonging to the Great Coal COM
pany.
The Georgia Saw Mill association,
which embraces lumbermen Of South
Carolina and Florida, met and agreed 20
advance lumber prices so cents to $1.o0
per 1000 feet.
The fourth annual convention OF
the National Em5almers' Association
was held in Chicago, with nearly 1900
delegates present from all parts Of the
United States.
At Bath, Me-, the big steel ship
Edward Sewall was launched from the
yard of her builders, Arthur Sewall q
Co. The vessel is the ninety-eighth
built by the Sewalls.
Judge VIM. E. Day, ex-secretary OF
state, began his official duties as a
Judge Of the United States court by
sitting with Taft and Lurson of the
circuit court of appeals in Cincinnati.
Governor Mount of Indiana, and his
staff, who have come to return Con-
| federate battlefags captured from SOL
diers during the civil war, arrived at
| Dallas, Texas. The ceremony occurred
| Thursday.
| Major George B. Davis was relieved
as chief commissary of subsistence Of
the department of the lakes and Or
dered to report for duty il Washington.
Major w. L. Alexander will succeed
Major Davis.
! In Chicago the Lutheran general
council decided to send missionaries to
Porto Rico, who will found congrega-
lions, build churches and advance the
work of the denomination in every
way possible.
Lack of wind causes the first and
second race between Columbia and
Shamrock to be called off. Columbia
shows her superiority in a good breeze,
while the Shamrock proved the faster
vessel in light wind.
F. J. Miller, ex-lieutenant in the vol
unteer regular service, and ex-lieuten-
ant governor Of Idaho, shot and in
stantly killed Chief Engineer O'Mel-
whey, of the Oregon Short Line, in the
latter's office in Salt Lake City.
The boiler used to run a cider pres;
on the Cutting farm south of Kenton
Ohio let CO. wrecking the building
hurting the engine 800 feet and injur-
civ MI L tn D
! old boy, had his head crushed and vii
die.
The Pennsylvania State League o.
Republican Clubs adopted resolutions
condemning the civil service law as be
} ing in opposition to the free institu
tons of the government and requesting
national and state representative K
have it modified and repealed.
The Mexican government is making
strenuous efforts to get all its forces Il
the field at once and bring the Yapl
Indian war to a speedy termination
J If they do not do so before next April
: when the three months rainy season
sets in, it means that the war will las
all through next summer.
The case of Julia Morrison James 20,
the murder Of Frank Leidenheim 81
was called in the circuit court at Chat
tanoOga, and on application of tnt
states attorney continued until the
January term. The affidavit for con
tinuance gave as the main reason thC
absence of important witnesses.
Louis Westerman lighted his OWL
funeral pyre at the county inirmary
Toledo, by starting a blaze in a hay
stack with his pipe. AS soon the
flames spread he jumped in. He was
burned to death and $500 loss to The
barn and implements was caused be-
fore the flames could be extinguished
Fred H Petiz, a civil engineer, mas
just returned from the immense soda
beds of Dona Ana county, New MeXi.
co, where he surveyed and staked ou
$4,000 acres of soda lands for a Pitts
burg syndicate. The soda is almost
pure and the beds are thirty-fve miles
long, twelve miles wide and sixty feet
deep.
In a decision rendered in the United
States circuit court of appeals yester-
day, Justice Wood severely denounced
the so-called rubb trust, the United
States Rubber company, for what hs
termed it's attempt to take all of the
assets Of the defunct firm Of c. H. Far
so e Co. to the disadvantage of other
creditors
President Mckinley approved the
sentence of Capt. o. M. Carter, corps OF
engineers, United States army, to i'm
Iprisonment for five years, the pay
ment of fine of $4,000 and dismissal
frCm the service. Captain Carter was
placed under Arrest and is now con-
fined in the prison at Governors is
land, n. Y.
L. Katayama, imperial architect VI
Japan, who has been in Pittsburg FOL
some time, placed an order with the
Carnegies for 5000 tons of structural
iron and steel to be used in the build
ing Of q palace for the crown prince 81
Japan at Toxic. The architect says
the palace will be three stories high
with a 400X300 floor base. It will DC
seven years building and il cost
S5,000,00 to S7,000,OO0.