Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-05-25

At Cleveland, a movement is said TO
be on foot to institute custer proceed
ings against Mayor John H. Farley,
who was elected April g. The action,
it is said, will be begun under the cor
rupt practices act.
James Tango, a Waterbury (Ct)
bicycle dealer, and well known in
amateur racing circles throughout
Connecticut, had his skull fractured in
a bicycle collision. 1t is thought the
accident will prove fatal
The interstate commerce commission
will begin in New York the most i'm
| portant investigation in its history,
relating to the discriminating rates
| charged by railroads on grain for ex-
port and grain for domestic consump-
ton.
Governor Tanner has appointed Gen
| eral William Clendenin Of Moline a
| bTigadier general in the Illinois ma
tional gard, and assigned him to the
command of the third brigade, to sue
coed General Andrew WEIGH Of Aurora,
resigned.
The Southern Baptist Convention.
in session at Louisville, Ky, selected
| eX-Mayor Robert c. Davidson, Of Bal
timore, to join a delegation Of English
Baptists in personal appeal to the
car in behalf of prosecuted Russian
Baptists.
The body of Mrs. William M. Stay
ner, who disappeared from Milwaukee
eight months ago, was cast up by the
lake at KenOsha. She suicided leav-
ing two small children. Her husband,
a dentist, was in the far west trying
to make a living.
A Wisconsin Central train ran down
a wagon containing four persons at a
crossing at Burlington, Wis, killing
Mrs. G.. initial Of Milwaukee and
August Kleinfeldt, her brother, of
Norway, Wis. Joseph Huenig of
Waterford was fatally injured.
C. J. Glidden Of Lowell and his as
sociates have acquired controlling IN
terest in the Wisconsin Telephone
company, capitalized at S1,20OO00.
This places under one management the
telephone interests in Minnesota, Mich
igan, Wisconsin, North and South Da-
kota
Following advances in wages by the
Minnesota Iron company, the Illinois
Steel company has announced that al
of its concerns advanced the wages OF
10000 men May Is 10 per cent. Al
other Federal and National and all
other steel concerns will likely do the
same.
R. L. Coleman, president Of the
Western Wheel Works Of Chicago, has
renewed his option for the sale of the
bicycle plant to \. G. Spalding. This
ends the opposition to the American
Bicycle Company, which will control
95 per cent. of the bicycle output in
the United States.
The fourth and last Of the $5,OO0,Oqj
treasury warrants paid to Spain for the
Philippine islands was presented at the
National City bank in New York by
an attache OF the French embassy.
Not one dollar Of the $1500O,O00 al
ready paid to Spain has really gone out
Of this country.
Thirty-fOur iron and steel concerns
in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, I'LL
nOis, Minnesota, Alabama and Michi-
gan have formed a combine and in
cOrpOrated under New Jersey laws as
the Republic Steel company. The CAPT
tai stock is $55, 00O,0 and the genera
offices will be in Chicago.
DR.. John T. Greene of Missouri was
elected president of the Baptist theo-
; logical seminary at Louisville, KY
to succeed DR.. Whitsitt, whose resig-
nation was accepted after a long strug-
gle in the southern Baptist convention
DR.. Greene's election is considered 6
victory for the Whitsitt faction.
The secretary of state for the colo
MES, Joseph Chamberlain, replying il
the house of commons yesterday to 6
question put by James Francis Hogan
anti-Parnellite member for the middle
division of Tipperary, who asked fol
information regarding the Anticosti is
land question, explained that the mat
ter was before the courts.
Newspapers, national banks anG
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WIZ the national Dewey home FUND
, committee. The first subscription to-
wards purchasing home for Dewey al
Washington was received from Gen
eral Felix Agnus of the Baltimore
American, and is $250,0O0. The com
mittee in charge of the fund will
issue public address soon.
The United States ambassador, Gen.
Horace Porter, gave a dinner in Paris
at which the invited guests included
Count and Countess De Castellane and
Countess Villars, Count and Countess
Tornielli, Mrs. Astor, Mr.. and Mrs.
Potter Palmer, Prince Cantacuzene
Miss Julia Dent Grant, the duke ot
ARGOS, the newly appointed Spanish
minister to the United States, and tho
duchess Of ARGOS.
FOREIGN.