Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-02

AQOIn6F ITCH vein Oh SOlu ore Is It
ported to have been found in the Isa-
DELLA mine at Cripple Creek.
The Texas railroad commission and
the railroads Of that state have made
a compromise on the question Of rates.
Secretary AIger is said to be sla.ad
for retirement, and the president is
said to have already selected his sue
cessor.
Robbers looted the safe of a Santa
Fe express car of 100000 while the
train was standing at Cherry Vale,
Kan.
Rev. DR.. Charles Dewitt Bridgman,
rector of Holy Trinity Protestant Epis-
copal church, New York, died from
grip.
Attorney Charles B. Stuart is dead
at Lafayette, Ind. He, was president
of the board of trustees of Purdue uni
versiUy.
Latest reports are that the damage
to the southern fruit crop from the re-
cent blizzard was not so great as was
at first supposed.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Trenton, n. j., for the Ameri-
can Cereal company, with a capital
stock of $33,OOO,OOO.
The New York assembly has passed
an ordinance requiring all elevated
roads to run trains every five min
utes, day and night.
Mrs Florence B. Rogers testified IN
New York at the inquest in regard e
the death of her mother, Mrs. Kate
j. Adams, from poison.
| Professor R. w. Wood of the Wis
consin university has discovered q
method of thawing frozen water pipes
| by the use of electricity.
Horace A. Taylor of Wisconsin has
! been confirmed as assistant secre-
tary of the treasury and Colonel Mar
Gus P. Miller as brigadier general.
The Highland Boy mine of Blng-
ham, Utah, has been sold to capitalists
in the Standard Oil Company for {
sum approximating $4,000,O00.
John T. McGraw of West Virginia
has served notice on Senator-elect n
! B. Scott that he will protest the lat
ter's right to a seat in the senate.
The wife of Levi Weinburg, O
Omaha, claims her husband who re
Gently dropped unconscious on thu
street and was buried, was inferred
alive.
The government and the reOrganiza
ton committee of the Central Pacifi
and Western Pacific reached an agree
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full.
John Rathberger, wealthy German
farmer who lived near CarrouCon
Ill, killed his wife and committed
suicide. Mrs. Rathberger had begun
suit for divorce.
Lord Charles BereSfOrd was given
banquet in Chicago, at which h
made a speech, pleading for ever
lasting friendship between BrlCo4I
and America.
The president sent to the senate tn
nomination of Acknowledgement Ola
baugh OF Maryland to be an assOciat
justice OF the supreme court Of tn
District of Columbia.
The manufacturing company which
operates sulphite mills at Madison
and Appleton, Wis, has gone into tn
hands of a receiver. The property
valued at over $1,000,000.
George b. NJ. Harvey, formerly
Chicago reporter and ex-managin
editor of the New York World, ha
bought the North American Review
The price reported is $z25,OO0.
Two contributions to the conscienc
fund were received by the Unitet
States treasury yesterday. One wa
II cents and the other 80 cents il
Canadian fractional currency.
A steamer with 161 bodies Of un
claimed dead the accumulation of TIVE
weeks at the New York mOrgue, wa
unable to reach the city burial grOunt
and returned the bodies to the mOrgue
Mrs. Edith Poppleton, aged 20, 81
pervisOr of nurses at the Baptist hos
pital at St. Louis, died of pneumonia
She was the daughter OF Brigade
General Samuel >. Holabiro, T. S. A
retired.
Admiral Schley has furnished
statement to the senate naval com
mittee in which he declares that Ad
miral Simpsons criticism of his delay
in locating Cervera's feet at Santiago
is unjust.
Agnes Gordon Soutter of New York
widow of James T. Soutter, a wealth,
banker, and the mother-in-law of Rev
Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity church
died of old age. She was in her eighty
fourth year.
Both houses of the North Caroline
legislature have passed new electlor
law, in the form of a constitutional
amendment, which, if adopted, viii
it is estimated, disfranchise $4,000
cOlOred voters.
Francis H. Bawo, head of the New
York great china and glass exporting
house of Bawo &c Dotter, is dead in
Germany, aged o5 years, of apoplexy
! His personal acquaintance throughout
the United States was very large.
-Four of the crew of the Hamburg
American liner Bulgaria have been
landed at Baltimore. They were try
| ing to launch a boat from the dis
| abled steamer during a storm, when
it broke adrift and they were picked
up by the steamship Vittoria. No
thing is known of the fate of the Bull
garia.
FOREIGN.