Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02
DOMESTIC.

Chicago october wheat, 69c.
President Mckinley will go home to
vote.
Returning KlonGikers nearly starved
on a steamer.
The W. c. T. y. resolves against the
Philippine war.
A Chicago man confesses to having
fOrty-two wives.
Freight and passenger rates are to
be advanced Nov. 1.
Choynski whipped Dick Moore Of St.
Paul in three rounds.
Debs threatens the revival of the
American Railway union.
The box car famine is becoming seri-
Gus in southern California.
Senator Lindsay of Kentucky will be
candidate for reelection.
The Catholic church troubles at East
St. Louis were settled by the Vatican.
Martin White, chief of police of
Omaha, died suddenly Of heart failure.
Maj. Eustace Jameson, NJ. P, may be
the next challenger for Americas cup.
The new torpedo boat Dahlgren
broke the record, running 81 miles an
hour.
President Mckinley designated
Thursday, Nov. 80, as a day of thanks
giving.
The United States troops will be
withdrawn from the Occur d'Alenes
Nov l.
In gold and silver combined the
United States leads the world in pro-
duction.
Miss Helen Gould, accompanied by
her brother, George, was the guest of
the Omaha.
Charles a. Dibble, Chicago died of
pneumonia. He was born in SYRIA
cuse in 1912.
Col. r. w. Huntington, marine
corps, has been retired, to take effect
Jan. 10 next.
The Universalists voted in favor of a
conference looking toward union with
the Unitarians.
W. ]. Bryan addressed six audiences
on the first of his twelve days of cam
paigning in Nebraska.
William Atone of Manhattan and
Mrs. Lena Schapiero of Brooklyn were
killed by trolley cars.
John S. Crosby is TO remain on the
independent labor ticket for supreme
court judge in New York.
United States Senator Mallory of
Florida, and a member of the indust-
rial commission, is i'll.
the desirability of having q Cuban ex-
hibit at the Paris exposition.
A Yale undergraduate and a young
woman were sentenced to Jail for kiss
ing publicly in New Haven.
The president is overwhelmed with
applications for appointments to the
military and naval academies.
The recall Of R. Wildman, United
States consult at Rongkong, for
cause" is said to be imminent.
w. J. Bryan will devote the ensuing
two weeks to speechmakiDg in Ne
braslla. He is in excellent health.
The inauguration of President Ben
jamin Ide Wheeler, as president Of the
University OF California took place.
William J. Bryan closed his Ohio
tour. He and Mrs. Bryan saw pick
pockets at work and caused their ar
rest.
The surgeon-general Of the navy, in
his annual report, advocates an in
crease in the medical corps of the
navy.
1t is said that a number of English
men are going to put up a big paper
mill in the neighborhood of Niagara
Falls.
In New York Gen. John H. Bailey
was sued by his wife for a separation
and maintenance on the ground of de-
sertiOn.
John R. Mclean gave $1,000 to the
fund raised in 1895 to help William
out of his financial diff
culties.
Notwithstanding the heavy war ex-
penses, the October surplus of the
United States treasury is increasing
$4,000, 5000.
G. H. Christian of Minneapolis, who
sold out his holdings to the flour trust,
will re-enter the business and put up
a new mill
The Michigan telephone company
has finished laying its cable across the
straits of Mackinac. The system
works perfectly.
An insurrection has broken out at
Panama, and martial law has been