Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-16

The Old Dominion liner jamestown
entered New York harbor with fire
in her hold. which was soon extin-
guished.
Miss Carolina Hazard of Peacedale,
r. l., has been elected president OF
Wellesley college to succeed Mrs. Julia
Irvine.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has declared the regular quarter
ly dividend of IA per cent, payable
April IA.
Winter strawberries from Florlua
are of the most delicious flavor and
sell at from 60 to Is cents quart IN
Chicago.
Ex-Gov. Merriam announces his in
tention as to the $4,000 appointments
to be made by him as head of the cen
sus bureau.
DR.. Emil G. Hirsch says there is a
lack of intelligent system in the work
of the public schools and that innova-
tons are fads.
The state department lets it be
known that this government will
neither dlu uOI IIy W sup LnS spun
alton of China.
The United Electric, Park Steel and
American Brick companies were incor-
porated in New Jersey, with a total
capital CT $4O,000,OO0.
Diseased horse flesh is being turned
into sausage and "corned beef at a
factory near New York. There is no
law to cover the case.
Four hundred New York city Meth
odist ministers applauded paper read
by one of their number, denying the
infallibility of the Bible.
Monroe Leland Hayward was nomi-
mated by the republican caucus Of the
Nebraska legislature to succeed United
States Senator William V. Allen.
In New York Fayne Moore, the
form worker of the badge game, will
probably go free because of the alb
sence of Witness Martin Mabon.
Carl Schurz was guest of honor at
a dinner given in celebration of his
SEVENTEEN birthday by the German So
cial Scientific Society of New York.
Congressman Sulzer of New York is
confident that he will succeed Bailey
as democratic leader in the house and
will be nominated for vice president
The appropriations made by the
fifty-fifth congress, aggregated S1,566,
890,O16, of which $4S2 1888 repre-
sents the cost of the war with Spain.
Four hundred inmates of Cleve-
~ H
on account of a case of smallpox
which was discovered in the building.
A policeman is now suspected OF
having been the murderer of Under
taker Henry Knaus, who was found
dead in his New York shop ten days
ago.
All naval officers who are promoted
under the new personnel act will be
required to stand an examination as
to their qualifications, professional and
physical.
The Utah legislative committee sub
mitted majority and minority reports
regarding the charges of bribery which
were brought against senatorial can
didates.
William NJ Clemishire has been ar
rested, charged with conspiracy in
smuggling into this country several
Chinese two of whom were caught in
Baltimore.
BY a decision Of the United States
court of appeals at Cincinnati the
liberals of the United Brethren church
are given the title to a large amount
Of property.
J. Pierpont Morgan denies the ste y
that he has secured the assent of the
consolidation of all the great eastern
coal interests.
Speaker Reed refused to sign the
salary warrants of congressman who
served in the army in the war with
Spain and they received no pay during
the last session.
A company has been organized in
| Chicago to make engines to
compress air to operate them
selves to make more compressed air
and more engines.
1t is rumored in Harrisburg, Pa,
that Senator Quay will withdraw from
the senatorial contest and that Col
onel Geoge F. Huff of Greensburg will
be chosen his successor.
An employee of cable car company
received a shock of 1000 volts in try
ing to fix a switchboard. He will re-
cover, though his flesh was made black
and his clothing torn off.
The president signed the omnibus
claims bill appropriating S3,100,000 for
! the payment of the French spoliation
| claims and claims for property de-
! stroyed during the civil war.
The Cody trial for alleged blackmail
against the Gould family was contin-
ued at Albany with testimony regard
ing letters written by the defendant.
Mrs. Cody was found guilty.
Italy asks the United States to sup
port her in Selling Chinese territory,
but the United States declines. Italys
action is regarded as a formal recog-
milton of our new position in interna-
tional affairs
The secretary of the treasury has re-
ceived from Superintendent Pritchett
of the coast and geodetic survey a pro-
test against the arrest of two of his
officials for pickpockets at the New Or
leans maroi gras.
Josephine, the eldest daughter of
Rudyard Kipling, the author, died Of
pneumonia at the home of a friend of
the family in New York, while her IA