Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-01-12


and Alton railroad
Grant c. Gillett, the bankrupt Kan
sas eattleman. has settled with his
creditors for $4,000.
The late Calvin Brice's estate is said
to be worth $1,000 600, though he paid
taxes on only 100000.
A number Of Chicago painters, dec
orators and frescoers have formed a
cooperative association.
Col. Moulton of Chicago has been
entrusted with the task of moderniz-
ing Havana's police force.
DIR. Charles T. GuiIlou, formerly
surgeon in the United States navy,
died at New York, aged IS.
The death is announced Of the Mar
quis de Cubas, the Spanish capitalist
and former mayor Of Madrid.
Eight thousand people attended the
inaugural reception given by Gov.
Pingree at the Michigan capitol.
Judge" Sherman, the champion Of
the notorious Allen law, was chosen
speaker of the Illinois assembly.
A deal has been completed for the
/ cOnSOlIudIlOu OI Tic Si6NSldI1u anu
Michigan Telephone companies.
Services were held in the Capitol
at Montpelier, VT, over the body of
| United States Senator Morrill,.
Wayne MacVeagh, former attorney
general and ambassador to Italy, is
dangerously i'll in Washington.
| Austria has announced that she will
/ Of Nncsl1
ington to the rank of an embassy.
The Chicago Metropolitan 81" has
been sold for $6,000,000. Fred P. OIL
colt of New York is the purchaser.
At a meeting of citizens it was
| decided to hold an International ex-
position in San Francisco in 1901.
Major Charles f. Vanderford, pro-
| fessor of the Agricultural University
of Tennessee, is dead at Knoxville.
Helen Gould was thanked by a ris-
ing vote of the New York assembly
for her generosity during the late war.
w. Devices Wood, prominent iron
manufacturer of Pittsburg, died from
the effects of grip. He was 70 years
old.
Philip w. Rhodecap died at Dan
vers, H., aged 70. He had lived there
40 years and was an extensive land
owner.
D. H. Vancil, who was postmaster in
Golden, H., under Cleyeland's, first
administration, died there, aged As
years.
Mrs. Smiley, who married her
cousin and charged him with hypno-
tizing her. got a divorce in Wash
ington.
Archbishop Ireland denies the story
that the pope will not allow him to at
tend the st. Petersburg peace con-
ference.
The carriage factory of J. Courley
& Co., Brooklyn, was burned, and sur
rounding buildings were damaged
Loss 100000.
Major w. S. Hineline, formerly a
resident of Chicago, died at the
soldiers home, Orting, Wash, OF
dropsy, aged 50.
The judges of the New York local
supreme court donned silk gowns and
were considerably fiustered by the eff
feet they created.
Marie McCaffery, of Boston, a 20
year-old girl worth $50, 200, has beer
a second time committed to a reform
school for inebriety.
Negotiations are nearly com
pleted for the equipment of part OF
the st. Louis street railway system
with air motors.
No arrest has yet been made in the
Adams poisoning case in New York
but person is said to be under sus-
picion by the police.
Six men held up a Memphis passen-
ger train at Macomb, Mo-, demolished
the express safe with dynamite anG
escaped with all the cash.
Mildred Vaughan, rich Kentucky
girl who secretly married a barber
at Benton Harbor week ago, is nov
trying to unite the knot.
Mayor Van Wyck's plan to star
work on more bridges over Eas
river was again defeated by the New
York board of aldermen.
The Arbuckles have reduced gran
American Sugar company and sew
eral of the independent refners.
Judge Day at a banquet in Canton
o., stated that Americas isolation fol
better or worse has come to an enc
with Spanish colonial dominion.
At Paulding, o., Charles A. Brewer
ex-postmaster, shot and killed his wife
after which he blew his brains out Do
nestle incompatibiNty was the cause
Schneider, the Pole who on Nov Il
last murdered a German bakers as
sistant by throwing him inside ar
oven, was executed at Newgate, Eng
land.
Legislative caucuses resulted in the
denomination of United States Sena.
tors Burrows in Michigan, Davis il
Minnesota, Hale in Maine and Bate il
Tennessee
D. Pinkney West, one of the best
known detectives of the country, anG
who figured as the hero of the "OlG
Sleuth" novels, died at Baltimore o.
the grip.
Henry Watterson dominates Ad-
miral Dewey and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
for president and vice-president or
the democratic ticket as "a platform
in themselves"
A mob of 1000 people has destroyed
the internal revenue sentry boxes and
stoned the gendarmes around the
Niscemi, Sicily, as a protest against
excessive taxation.