Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-12-28

theater, New Orleans, which burned re-
Gently The new playhouse will cost
$500, 000. and seat 5000 persons.
Joseph Hauser, ST., one of the largest
and most prosperous fruit growers in
southwestern Michigan, died at his
home in St. Joseph of paralysis He
was born in Germany May II, 1913
Chairman Hanna has appointed
Perry S. Heath, Charles G. Dawes and
Senator Shoup a committee on the dis
rTibution Of literature as authorized by
the national republican committee.
The postoffice department was mott
! fed that the president of Guatemala
had on the 18th inst. approved the
United STATES and Guatemala parcels
pest convention. It is effective Jan. /
! By a decision Of the Ohio supreme
court the telephones of the Bell COM
pany are held to be taxable at their
rental value, estimated at 1898 each,
/ instead of their actual cost, $40 each.
The Ohio supreme court has dis
missed the Standard Oil bribery cases
on the ground that the information
! does not connect the company with
the attempt at bribery stated in the
complaint.
| In New York Mary Barrett, years
old, who was terribly burned in a Har-
lem tenement fire, died. This COM
pletes the extinction Of the family,
her father, mother and sister having
burned to death in the fire.
Firemen Church, formerly OF Val
paraiso and Laporte, Ind, died in
Fresno, Cal, of a complication of di-
seases, aged IS years. He was
formerly a member Of the firm of Ly-
man Trumbull & Co., Chicago.
Despite the decision of the Illinois
supreme court that the anti-depart-
ment store ordinances are void, the
crusade against these big mercantile
| houses is to be continued by the Cook
County Retail Dealers association.
Chairman AIdrich, Of the senate COM
mittee on finance. announces his inten-
! ton to press the senate currency bill,
which will be reported as a substitute
for the house measure. Democratic
senators are expected to vote for it.
| The passengers in the sleeper on the
| Missouri Pacifc's Omaha and Nebraska
! City passenger train were robbed by
three masked men, who boarded the
train in Kansas City, Kan. They Sc
cured five gold watches and about $100.
The president is said to have signed
the order taking many places out OF
the classified civil service as a COM
promise with spoilsmen in congress
who threatened to withhold the appro-
priation for the civil service commits
sion.
George TemDletOn, negro, shot and
fatally wounded Sanford White, super
intendent of construction at the
Rainey Coke Works, Pa. After White
fell he shot and mortally wounded
Templat0n. White died a few minutes
after being shot.
I News has been received in Washing
ton that the concession Of the Nicara-
guam government to the Cragin-Eyre-
| Grace syndicate is to be cancelled, and
that the Nicaraguan government in
tends to extend the life of the Mari
| time Canal company.
| The state has chartered the APP
Dalachlan National Park association
/ with headquarters at Asheville, n. c..
| It IS for the promotion and mainten-
ance by the United States of a national
! park and forest preserve in and among
the southern Appalachian mountains
! Public advocacy of Great Britain s
side III the south African war by Dr.
z. Benjamin Andrews, superintendent
! of public schools in Chicago, was the
cause of resolutions being introduced
in the city council calling for his resig-
nation or his immediate suspension or
removal.
| At Dallas, Texas. while on trial,
charged with murder and abortion, Dr.
! S. VI. Jenkins was shot and mortally
wounded by a brother of Mary Wheat
! one Of the doctors alleged victims.
John Halligan, brother-in-law of Jen-
! kins, fired at Wheat, missing him
| Both assailants are under arrest
'Fne Michigan grand jury has found
! that the state military board sold, last
July, to the illinois Supply company
Of Chicago, for $10,5G0, absolutely new
clothing, goods and equipments esti-
mated to have tnventoried at S53, 600,
and afterwards repurchased the same
, from Kalamazoo concern identical
with the supply company.
An agreement was entered into be-
tween the building contractors of Chi
cage and the union labor representa-
tiyes yesterday under which any ad-
/ justment arrived at by the joint con-
! ference for the settlement of the diff
ferences in the building trades will be
! binding upon the central bodies of each
a2d their affiliated organizations
! The commercial photographers and
printers of the central west met in
! Chicago to consider means of combat
| ing the present conditions Of the writ
| ing paper market. The sessions were
secret. One Of the members said that
! the price Of paper had been forced up
more than 25 per cent, though the
! 1asjc material is just as cheap as ever
Scarcity of money for speculation,
resulting in decreased values of stocks,
/ caused excitement on the New York
! stock exchange, stocks being offered at
any price. The clearing house offered
| $10,000,000 and lowered the rate to S
per cent, checking the decline. A
newly organized trust company and a
( firm Of bankers and brokers failed.
Their failures being due to a slump in
industrials led to the belief that others
would suffer from the same cause
Money sold for 125 per cent. at one
time. Sales were 1,650,000 shares,
breaking the record. American tobac-