Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-27


u plants, has just been formed.
Senator Chandler made formal
complaint to the president against
Civil Service Commissioner Brewer.
President Rossiter says the strike
On the Brooklyn trolley system is viz
tually ended. Cars ran on all lines.
The body of Harry Chadwick, muir
dered near Chester, Conn.,, was found
IN the Connecticut river tied to his
bicycle.
Twenty-Five firemen were injured.
five of whom may die, by the collapse
of a burning hotel building in Mil
waukee, Wis.
A negro was killed at Ishkooda, Ala,
in a fight between striking miners
and men who had been imported to
take their places.
Herr Mumm Won Schwartzenstein.
who will act as ambassador in Ger
many, may reopen negotiations for
reciprocity treaty.
The civil-service rules imposed upon
| Mayor Van Wyck by the state board
require every applicant for office to
pass an examination.
Eastern and southern members will
combine at the democratic national
committees meeting in Chicago in
urging majority rule.
President Mohler, of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation company, was
offered the presidency of the Big Four,
to succeed M. E. ingalls,.
A big combination of iron mills at
Lebanon, Pa, and Reading, Pa,
has been formed, to be con-
trolled by new corporation.
Thomas B. Lynch, assistant general
passenger agent of the Great North
ern, has been appointed general pas
senger agent of the Cotton Belt.
Assistant Acknowledgement Boyd
holds that war revenue stamps may be
affixed to railroad bonds, or to the
mortgage as the bonds are issued.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison declined
to make speech of welcome to the
democratic national committeeman at
their coming meeting in Chicago.
The New York Civil Service Reform
association has held up the salaries OF
525 recent city employees on the ground
that they were illegally appointed.
At Joliet the Scott street plant OF
the American Steel and Wire company
: has started up after shutdown Of
= several weeks and about 700 men are
at work
Tom L. Johnson has called off al
deals for municipal ownership of his
railway lines in Detroit and Governor
= Pingree's adherents admit that they
: are beaten.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago declin.
ed an invitation to address a free sill
yer meeting in that city, and demo
Gratis there are saying he made a fata
mistake.
At Fort Scott, Kas., an injunction
: has been issued restraining unio1
miners from interfering with or boy
: cotting non-union men engaged in the
: southeast Kansas.
Surgeon Eugene Wasdin, U. S. M c..
has been detailed to attend the con
ference for the prevention of venerea
diseases, to be held in Brussels Sep
ten. .er next.
y
containing nearly 100000 feet O.
cypress, owned in La Crosse, Wis.
were burned. Loss S120,0OO, will
SIS 600 insurance.
General D. S. Stanley, acting presi
dent of the Society of the Army O
the Cumberland, announces the mex
annual reunion of the society at De
troit, Sept 1921
A boom is being quietly worked il
California to secure the democratic
presidential nomination for Senator
Stephen n. White. 1t is said to have
, substantial eastern support.
President Kenney, Of the Association
| of National Silver clubs, says he does
not think free silver or anti-imperial
: ism will be raised by the democrat:
as the pr;ncipal issue IN 1900.
| The third annual convention O.
Priests Eucharistic League, which was
/ to have taken place this summer, has
been postponed to Oct. IS and 10 next
/ and will be held at Philadelphia.
Acting Secretary of War Miles di
: rected the remaining battalion Of the
10Th infantry at Camp Meade to go tt
San Francisco to embark for Manila
the 25th on the Ohio and Newport.
Democratic politicians think tina
John R. Mclean of Ohio, if elected gov
| 2rnor of that state, will be a formid
able candidate for the democratic
} presidential nomination next year.
| Frank Almond and Charles D
Vandressen, aged 35 and 40 years
} respectively, were drowned in Pleas
r ant lake, New York. Edward White
who was with them, swan ashore.
| The steamer Dirgo arrived from
c SkagWay, Alaska, with news of a rich
strike on Big Salmon river. A grea
: many DTOspectOrs from Dawson anC
I vicinity We're rushing into the district
The six hundred Cleveland long
? shoremen who went on strike at the
} Erie docks are still out A number
Of vessels loaded with iron ore are tiei
f I'D ct the docks waiting to be unload
l ed
Fire started at Congress street ant
f Broadway, Saratoga, and spread rapid
". At one time the Grand Unior
hotel was in danger. but th" 'reme1
| saved il. The fire originated il
: Charles Leggett's bicycle store ani
was caused by an explosion O.
: laphtha.
: The retirement Of Col. Evan Miles
first infantry, was announced. Lieut.
Col. \. A. Hanback, becomes colonel