Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-01-19


an, who managed Calvin ,. Brice's
political campaigns, died.
At Danville, Ill, Albert Beard shot
and killed S. W. Van Cleaye of Boards
town during an alteration.
At West Branch, Mich, an entire
block Of the business portion of this
town was destroyed by fire.
For 154 days ships rescued crew
lived On a rat ridden island, with wild
birds eggs and meat for food.
Ex-Congressman John NJ. Kean,
republican, will succeed James Smith,
Jr., as senator from New Jersey.
In San Francisco, Judge Cook
granted a stay of proceedings for>one
week in the case Of Mrs. Botkin.
burglars broke into the main build
ing OF the Iowa state university ana
blew up the safe with dynamite.
August Bretano, Oldest OF the broth
ers who conduct publishing bust
ness, has broken down in health.
An agreement between American
and Canadian lumbermen will be
sought at the Washington conference.
MIR. Mcintyre is at Duluth trying to
get the flour mills OF that city and
West Superior into the proposed trust.
DR.. B. F. Sibley died at Decatur, ILL.,,
aged 73 years. He was chief surgeon
OF the old twenty-frst Illinois reg
iment.
The California senatorial contest
promises to remain deadlock. May
or Phelan of San Francisco leads with
"a votes.
Four crooks, held for shooting an
officer at Columbus, Neb., dynamited
the Jail. The attempt to obtain liber-
ty failed.
Hiram Walker, capitalists, founder
of Walkervilie, Ont, situated oppo-
site Detroit, and of the great dis
tillery which bears his name, died
in Detroit, aged 81.
st. Louis has been chosen as the
place to hold the fair in 1903 in cele-
Louisiana purchase.
Charlemagne Tower of Pennsylvania
was nominated ambassador to Russia
and Addison c. Harris of Indiana
minister to Austria-Hungary.
Rev. DR.. George Mcclellan Fiske of
Providence, r. l., has been called to
become rector of the ritualistic church
of st. Mary the Virgin, in New York.
Four trainmen were killed and two
injured, one perhaps fatally, in a
wreck on the Knoxville & Ohio branch
of the Southern railway. Loss, $780,
900.
The crew of ten men of the British
bark Glenhuntley, long given up for
lost, have been heard from in New
York and are on their way to Liver
pool.
Thirteen persons were killed and
more than thirty injured by a collision
of trains on the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road at West Dunellen, near Bound
Brook, n. j.
Maryan de Zeremba, said to be a
Polish count, who married a daughter
of a Millionaire last August, was ar
rested i'm New York On a charge of lar
ceny preferred by Catholic priest.
Auglique Ravel, the star of the
famous Ravel family, French panto-
mimists, and last survivor of the
family, is dead in New York aged IS
years.
The acting controller of the treasury
decides that governors of states will
not be reimbursed for expenses in
Cured in organizing volunteer regi-
ments.
Gen. Roosevelt is said to haye de-
cided upon John N. Partridge, of
Brooklyn, for superintendent Of pub
lie works
AS a result of eating pork from a
hog afflicted with trichinae, Rika Kel-
herman, daughter of a Nebraska farm
er, is dead and nine others are dan
gerously i'll.
Frank Challoner, prominent re-
publican and a member of the board
of regents of Wisconsin University
for the last five years, died at Oshkosh,
aged 46 years.
Frank Chandler, son of IL. H.
Chandler, we'll known dry goods
merchant of Galena and southern Wis
consin, died at Dodgeville. His age
was 81 years.
In the Brooklyn Gun Club tourna-
ment, in level competition at live
birds, Lewis Harrison of Minneapolis
and Benjamin Waters of New York
tied for first honors.
Joseph Pearson Gill, a well-known
civil engineer. is dead at New York of
apoplexy, aged 70 years. Mr.. Gill
wrote number of works and articles
on scientific subjects.
Mrs. Martha Place Of Brooklyn, I'M
der sentence of death for the murder
of her step-daughter, has been refused
new trial She will be the first wo-
man electTocuted in that state
The General Electric Company of
Minneapolis was Incorporated at
Trenton, N. j., and it is believed to be
a step toward the consolidation of
electric light and street railway com
panies throughout the country.
Edward Bain's will, disposing of an
estate valued at over s5,000,0O0 was
admitted to PROBATE at Kenosha His
wife gets the homestead and $500, 900
in cash, and the remainder, with the
exception Of a few small requests. goes
to their two dauohtarc