Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-19
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A big steamer burned at it's dock in
New York
Lord Vincent won the Pennsylvania
purse at Lexington.
Grover Cleveland has again declared
himself against expansion.
The international commercial con-
gress met in Philadelphia.
indianapolis elections Tuesday gave
the democrats a majority of 1000
At Key West there were % new
cases of yellow fever and one death
The statue to Father Gallitzin, the
prince and priest, was dedicated at
Loretto, Pa.
Secretary of War Root has returned
TO Washington to begin work on his
annual report
Bryan has recovered from his throat
trouble and has resumed his stumping
tour in Iowa.
Ex-Secretary and ex-United States
Senator James Harlan died at his home
in Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Freight business at Chicago is so
enormous that the railroad yards are
threatened with blockade.
DR.. De Costa, one of the chief Op-
ponents Of Dr. Briggs's ordination, has
resigned from the Episcopal ministry.
Mrs. Emma Eliza Simmons, Ke-
nosha Wis, died, aged So She was
tie wife Of z. 7. Simmons, ex-mayor of
Kenosha.
The New Orleans board of health
reports absorbing the United company,
now controls the salt industry of the
country.
Rev w. L. Woodward, a prominent
minister of Oak Harbor, Ohio, COM
mitted suicide after preaching to his
congregation.
At Mojave, Cal, fire almost totally
destroyed the business portion of the
town. One store remains and but one
eating house.
\ conditional agreement has been
made by which daily races will be
sailed between the yachts Columbia
and Shamrock.
Steps have been taken by the Wo-
mems National Industrial League to
raise $4,000 to purchase a home for
Admiral Schley.
Senator Hoar, just returned from
Europe, says he supports the Massa-
chusetts republican platform, expan-
sion plank and all.
Ella Cable and James Ketchum, of
Newburg, New York, lovers half a CEN
tury ago but parte>. by q quarrel, were
reunited and married.
The council of archbishops of the
Catholic church will assemble in
washington. The west will strongly
oppose such a movement.
A strike by 200 boilermakers and
iron workers delayed the construction
of three torpedo-boats needed for SER
vice in the Philippines.
Captain Andrew fainter of Menom-
once, Wis, one of the founders of the
KNAPP Stout & Co. firm, is i'll with
pneumonia at Rice Lake.
J. G. Johnson, chairman of the
democratic national executive COM
mittee, arrived in Chicago to begin
work for next years campaign.
At New Iberia, La, the explosion of
lamp in a drug store caused a fire
which destroyed a large portion of the
business section. Loss 100000
at Columbus, Ohio, Colonel Andrew
Schwarz. a well-known Grand Army
man and for many years proprietor of
the Grand Hotel, died, aged SO years.
General John A. McClearnand is
again seriously i'll at Springfield, and
it is feared he may be again stricken
with paralysis. He is 50 years old.
Edward Atkinson, of Boston, was
swindled out of s100 by man who had
a letter of introduction from A S.
Hewitt, who now confesses the loss of
SIPS.
E. S. Gruesel, superintendent of the
Burlington railroad shops in the town
of Havelock, Neb., committed suicide