Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-05-18

eral Of the navy, to succeed Edwin
Stewart, retired. Kenny is now gen.
eral sLorekeeper in New York city.
Governor Roosevelt has approved
and mace public the findings Of a
board OF inquiry which convicted four
leading officers Of the seventy-f1rst
regiment OF cowardice at Santiago.
Friends of Archbishop Ireland are
displeased at the bitter attack which |
has been made upon him in France.
Il is suggested that his sympathy with
Americanism is the cause Of the at
tack.
1t is reported in Cleveland, Ohio,
that a railroad trust is forming by
which the Baltimore and Ohio, Penn
syIvania and Vanderbilt roads will
control all lines between the east and
Chicago.
In the case Of Ellsworth P. De
! France, convicted in Nebraska in 1898
| of highway robbery Of a mail mes
| senger and sentenced for life, the pres
! idert has committed the sentence to
| fifteen years.
The majority Of congressman in
Washington are opposed to an extra
session Of congress They say they will
not be ready to legislate on financial
or the Philippine question before the
regular session.
Mrs. Joseph Wallace, mother of
Edna Wallace Hopper, the actress, has
| purchased Southern Farm, near San
Leandro, in Alameda county, Cal, and
the place will be transformed into
fruit farm and country home.
Consul General Lincoln at Antwerp
regards it as a fact worth reporting
to the State Department that during
the last quarter more than $4,000
worth of rice from the East was eX
ported from Antwerp to Cuban ports.
Ia the case of Chester w. Cross, who
in 1896 was convicted of embezzling
the funds Of the Palmer National
Bank Of Palmer Mass, and sentenced
to imprisonment for five years, the
president has refused to extend Gle
mency.
The Texas senate yesterday passed
: finally it's antitrust bill When orig
inally introduced the bill was identi-
? fed with the Arkansas law. 1t has
, been materially amended, however,
and is decidedly more drastic in its
provisions.
5 At st. Louis Mrs. Edwin F. Uhl
: Of Grand Rapids, Mich, was re-elect-
: ed president for the ensuing two years
Of the National Federation of Music
: Clubs. Cleveland was elected as the
city to hold the next biennial conven-
ton.
Harvard defeated Yale in a debate
J, on the question, Resolved, that the
S present method Of electing United
States senators is preferable to the
method of election by popular vote
: Harvard had the affirmative.
e Notices were posted at the South
S Chicago and Joliet mills of the Illinois
Steel company announcing an increase
d in wages Common labor will be ad
: vanced from 1872 to Is cents an hour
: anu all the other hands, except the
tonnage men will be increased in pro
S portion.
p AS the New York grand jury failed
g to reindict Roland 3. MolineuX, who
was charged with the murder of Mrs
e Kate J. Adams, he was discharged
n but was Immediately arrested on the
t charge of assaulting Harry Cornish
with intent to kill by sending hin
l. cyanide of mercury.
q H. G.. Curtis, of the insular commits
e sion, has returned to Washington, af
ter his visit with the other member
1t Of the commission to Porto Rico. Mr.
a Curtis stopped in Cuba, and report
e that he found large majority of tn
responsible people Of that island advo
/ eating annexation.
: Supt. J. J. Stranahan, Of the gov
If eminent fish hatchery at Put-in-Bay
has forwarded a report of a remarka
d BILE tidal wave which took place Their,
: on Friday. The water rose fully 2
e inches, and after it receded fishinE
boats were left high and dry on tn,
o beach. Steamboat men were unable
e to account for the phenomenon.
: Whether alum in baking powder i!
dangerous to health was the question
: before the pure food" commission a
y Chicago Tuesday. A. S. Mitchell
d chief chemist of the dairy ana 1000
5. commission CT the state of Wisconsin
S stated that the presence Of alum il
d baking powder should not be permitted
: unless the public was made aware O.
|. the fact by labels on the cans.
V The Utah state board Of pardons
. pardoned Harry Hayes, who was serv,
e ing a life sentence in the Utah peni-
e Tertiary for the murder Of Albert
Hayes, Alfred Nelson and Andrew
t Johnson at Pelican Point, Utah, in
e 1895. About two months ago the wife
r of one George H. Wright notified the
Y chief Of police at Buffalo that Wright
was guilty Of the crime. His where
= abouts are unknown.
i In Chicago George H. Hayden, form
V erly state bank examiner, was found
D guilty of misconduct in office, the
charge being that he withheld the re-
: port of his examination of the Globe
Savings bank from January s, 1897,
until March 10, 1897, knowing all the
r time that the affairs of the bank were
in a shaky condition. The bank failed
2 April 5, 1897.