Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-01-05

ilitude of English penmanship
The latest trust is a consolidation
OF the three great thread manufactur-
ing concerns which practically control
the thread business in this country.
These concerns are George A. Clark
e Bros, the Clark Mile-End Spool Cot
ton Company and the Coats Thread
Company.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was dining
with Rudyard Kipling when the news
of the signing of the peace treaty be-
was announced Aldrich read the dis
patch aloud and added: .'Ah, Kipling,
what's that you used to say about the
sun never setting on the British fag?'
Jerry Murphy, a well known miner
of Calumet, Mich, sold his big st.
Bernard, Barney to a Klondike
party eighteen months ago. The dog
was taken to Dawson City and per-
formed good service. Barney" has just
reappeared at Murphy's home in Cal
umet How he succeeded in returning
from Alaska is a mystery.
A secret melting Of sewer-pipe manu-
| facturers was held at Akron, O., in the
! interest Of the proposed new trust with
| $30,000,000 capital. The purpose was
| to arrange for the purchase of Akron
works. Indications now favor sue
cessful termination of the conference.
| Akron manufacturers have blocked the
deal heretofore.
All of the roads west of Chicago
| have agreed to allow reduced rates
for the following meetings: Imple-
ment Dealers association, Omaha,
Neb., Jan. 3-5; Dairymen's associa-
ton, Galesburg, Ill, Jan. 1912; Ag-
ricultural society, st. Paul, Mimi,
Jan. 1912, and meeting of the Ma
tiona1 association of Builders, Mil
waukee, Feb. ITO.
Judson w. Lyons, registrar of the
| treasury, whose signature appears on
every piece of paper currency now
] being issued by TIE United States, is a
| tall, robust colored man, with high
| forehead and square jaws. His ap-
pOintment as registrar is understood
to have been made by way of re-
ward for swinging the Georgia vote to
Mr.. Mckinley at st. Louis.
Paul Dwight Moody, son Of the
famous evangelist is in many ways
! the counterpart of his venerable
father. This is especially the case in
regard to personal appearance and
| department. The resemblance also
holds good as to his effectiveness of
| language and earnestness. Father
and son save been conducting meet
ings in .enVer.
Augustus W. Peters, president of the
Borough of Manhattan, died suddenly
at his home in New York of heart
disease. He was for many years pres
ident of the Consolidated exchange,
and chairman of the Tammany execu-
tive committee. Mr.. Peters was a
prominent Mason. He was born at
st. Johns, n. B., and was 81 years OF
age.
Twenty-four out of SO Japanese la
borers brought to San Francisco by
the steamer Alice Blanchard from
Cliperton Dec. 16 appealed to Wash
|
missioner of immigration, who re-
fused permission to land on the ground
that they were assisted immigrants
Acting Commissioner Larned has re-
versed the decision of North and the
Japanese will be permitted to land
Official notice has been received by
.Maj.-Gen. Merriam at San Francisco
the command of the department oi
!, California. 1t is expected that Gen
Shafter will take charge about the 10tl
of next month. Gen. Merriam has no
yet been assigned. He may go north
again to the department of the Colum.
bia. The impression prevails, how
ever, that he will go to Denver to com
mand the department of Colorado ant
that the department of California ant
the Columbia will be combined under
Shafter.
Work on the battleship Ohio ha.
been commenced at the Union Iro1
Works in San Francisco. The Ohio
will be the largest ship ever built or
the coast and one of the three larges
ever built for the American navy
She will have a displacement of 800
tons Her dimensions will be as fol
lows: Length, 33S feet; breadth, Z:
feet, inches; dTaught, % feet,
inches. She will be twenty feet Ion
ger than the Wisconsin and forty fee
longer than the Oregon. She will have
a greater displacement than the Wis
consin by 1000 tons and 1000 more
than the Oregon. The Ohio's contrac
speed is two knots faster than the
Wisconsin and three knots faster thar
the Oregon.
An exceedingly clever little adver-
tisement has just been gotten out by
the rock Island company. 1t is in
the shape of a small piece of statuary
representing traveller with book in
hand standing before a map of the
Rock Island road in the attitude OF
figuring out his trip. The design is
from life. Some time ago a we'll
, known Chicago artist, while waiting
for train in the depot at Ogden
Utah, noticed travelling man stand
ing before wall map of the Rock
Island road studying out his route
The artist made sketch of the man
and map and sent it to General Pas
senger Agent Sebastian, who was SC
struck With the picture that he i'm
mediately adopted it as trade mark
for the road. Several thousand OF
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