Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-06

-QSlSn CHAMPIONSHIPS
Major General Thomas NJ Anderson
commanding the department of the
axes at Chicago, has been given the
legree Of IL. D. by Mount Of ST.
Mary's college Of Maryland.
John ". Gates of Chicago at
Shawnee, Oklahoma, unhesitatingly
Identified Alexander Jester as the man
who murdered his brother, Gilbert
Gates, twenty-eight years ago.
John r. O'Connor, a Chicago attor- |
ney, has received notice that he is one |
Of four heirs to a $4,000, 900 estate in |
Scotland and is preparing to depart |
for England to claim his heritage.
Mrs. E. D. z. n. Southworth, the
is quite Ill at her residence in
Washington, D. C. Her sickness is
due mainly to the inflrmities of age,
she being now in her eightieth year.
Commander Darlington Booth Of
the Volunteers of America, in an adj
dress declared himself in favor of ex-
pansion policy OF the government. He
said the war with Spain was righteous.
President Mckinley has decided to
abandon his western vacation trip ow-
ing to the condition of Mrs McKin-
leys health. He still intends however,
to attend the Chicago fall festival in
October.
1t is believed that William Yarling
and bride Of Shelbyville, ILL.,, mar
ried Sunday, were drowned. The bug
gy in which they drove away from the
wedding has been found in the river
near there.
Peter Maaygard, member of the
salvation army of Galena, Kan, is I'M
der arrest on suspicion of being Otis
Matthes, who is accused of having shot
State Senator Wall at Staunton, ILL.,,
last August.
Three hundred whist players are
expected in Chicago from all over the
United States for the ninth annual
congress of the American Whist
League, to be held during the week
beginning July 10.
Stephens announces that he will
call a special election in the eighth
congressional district of Missouri
about the first of September, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Richard P. Bland
Gov. Pingree said he was for Nc
Kinley if the president opposed the
murder of innocent Filipinos, opposed
expansion, opposed trusts and disap-
proved the disreputable political
methods of Hanna"
The war department has decided not
to retry the case in which Judge
Simonton of Pennsylvania held that
the canteen at Camp Meade must pay
state license, but will not regard
the case as a precedent.
Joliet's Ill) mayor and city coun-
Gil are in deadlock on the question of
a $500 or 81 900 license for saloons !;
unless an agreement is reached by
July l, 80 saloons will have to close
their licenses expiring.
Recorder Golf of New York City has
| been missing for week, and it is be-
lieved he is an unwilling passenger on
an ocean steamer bound for Europe, as
he was last seen on board the vessel
bidding a friend good-by.
Mrs. Noryal Douglass of San Fran
cisco has received a letter saying her
son, Harry Douglass, with twenty-five
other picked miners from California
who left for Siberia, have persisted
| from privatiOn and cold.
A blue glass telescope to locate the
flash of smokeless powder is an inven-
ton called to the attention of the wal
department. 1t is owned by Profes-
sor r. A. Fessenden Of the Western
university of Pennsylvania.
An ordinance was introduced in the
Chicago council providing for a sys-
tenn Of subterranean ways, arcades anC
tunnels throughout the business dis
tricts. A company with a capital o.
$250,000,000 is said to be behind the
project.
Mayor Harrison has addressed let.
ter to the G. A. R. encampment, hello
this year at Philadelphia, inviting
the organization to make Chicago its
meeting place in 1900. The committee
Of local G. A. R. posts expects to raise
$150,000 for the occasion.
At Lyons, Neb., because the grad
uating class Of the high school per
sisted in wearing overalls at the ex-
ercises, coupled with the fact that
public attendance was the largest
known here, although an admission
fee was charged, the school board has
resigned.
Railway company, held in Cleveland
survey was ordered made of the
route from Tampa, Fla, south to a
terminus on the gulf Of Mexico. Work
will be commenced on the line as soon
as profile maps can be submitted to
| the contractors.
1t is stated that German capitalists
intend to build great smelter in
Shasta county, Cal. During the last
| three years George Bayha, local repre-
sentative Of German syndicate, has
| filed locations on twenty-five copper
claims on Saltwater creek, twenty
miles from Redding.
At Providence, R. l., Miss Rachael
Hicks, who claims to be a travelling
missionary for a Denver woman's COL
lege, was arrested for attempting to
discount note for $4,000, which she
claimed was signed by Helen Gould
and Endorsed by Edwin Gould. The
Goulds deny issuing the note.
Sidney c. Eastman, referee in
bankruptcy at Chicago, who some
weeks ago sent to all referees in the
country a suggestion that conyen-
ton for revising the national bank
y
June rs, announces that the meeting