Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-04-06
DOMESTIC.

Senator Quay's supporters are ex-
pected to leave him.
Rudyard Kipling's father comes from
England to visit his son.
The biennial sessions bill was killed
in the New York senate.
Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance,
United States army, is dead.
Wages on the New England rail-
roads are materially advanced.
WaI1 street took on a new boom, a
days transactions reaching a million
shares.
A steamer sank in the Mississippi
above Memphis and three people were
drowned.
German Americans met in Chicago
and protested against an Anglo-Amer-
lean alliance.
Mrs E. C. Simmons, of Frederick,
Md, died of injuries received in the
Windsor hotel fire.
Congressman Stevens expects to Sc
cure an appropriation for the improve
ment of Fort Smelling.
The navy department is preparing to
advertise for bids for $4,000 tons Of
armor for new WarShipS.
The central conference of the Ma
tional Sound-Money League had con-
ference in New York.
A gang of murderers and train rob-
bers in Kansas was broken up by a
convict's confession.
The transport Crook arrived with
hn of IN
to Rico and at Santiago.
Edna Ives, aged about IS, who says
she ran away from Chicago, is held
al Detroit by the police.
The will of Joseph Medill, editor of
the Chicago Tribune, bequeaths an
estate valued at $2,00O,OOO.
Governor Tanner has intimated that
he will veto the pawnshop bill passed
by the Illinois legislature.
Four girls were kissed Dy de-
mented man on Broadway, New York,
and three of them tainted.
Mrs. Hermann Olerichs and a party
of society folk spent several hours in
the Tombs prison on a visit
A curled hair and felt factory in Chi
are injured and six are missing
1t is believed that the wreck of the
steamer Portland has been located
north of Cape Cod in deep water
The twelfth New York regiment was
given warm welcome on it's return
from Cuba on the transport Meade.
Anti-Quay men in the Pennsylvania
legislature united their forces and
voted for Congressman John Dalzell.
Governor Gambler of Georgia has
issued orders for the mastering out of
the colored militia companies in the
state.
Harry Oxley testified in the trial of
DR." Nance Guilford at Bridgeport,
Conn, that he took Emma Gill to her
house.
United States Treasurer Roberts ad-
yocates Legislation on conservative
lines to prevent a scarcity of paper
currency.
Members of New Brunswick, New
York, Methodist church have organ
lied bicycle club, with the pastor as
captain.
Coroner FitZpatrick's preparations
for an inquest into the Windsor hotel
fire have been made. More bodies
were found.
The International Power company. |
in which Croker is said to be inter-
ested, has elected Thomas A. Edison,
jr., a director
John Sanderson, a Kansas farmer, |
was hanged by mob near Mayetta |
for shooting at his sweetheart and |
killing her aunt
Only thirteen women in the large
congregation at Calvary Methodist |
church, New York, removed their hats |
at morning service.
The naval board of promotion re-
ported that all the officers advanced TO |
the grade of rear admiral by the per
sonnet act are qualified for promotion |
Mrs. Mary L. Lease of Kansas said |
in an interview in Boston that Arthur
P. German of Maryland would be the |
democratic presidential candidate in |
1900.
Representative F. H. Lattomus of |
Delaware testified at Dover that he
was offered $4,000 by Mark L. Davis
to vote for Addicks for United States
senator.
w. H. Harvey, better known as |
Coin" Harvey, has resigned as gem |
eral manager of the ways and means |
committee of the democratic national |
committee
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