Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-02-09
DOMESTIC.

Chicago May wheat, 742B@74a4c.
GIber Van lille of Carthage, H.,
died
John =. Weiting, aged IS, died at
Peoria
Mrs. Franlllyn r. Corning is dead at
Peoria, ILL.,
William Donaldson of Minneapolis
died in California.
Rev. Joseph NJ. Madding, aged 70. is
dead at bridgeport, III.
A. T. Kane, formerly Of Chicago, IS
dead at Milwaukee, aged II.
At San Francisco State Senator John
BOggs died of heart disease.
Trusts in prunes, Derby hats and
buggy whips are the latest.
Mrs. Mary Mcintyre, aged 60, was
murdered 10Y robbers at Pana, III.
Senator Quay is still 13 votes short
of election in the senatorial contest.
Twenty women tainted at a crowded
matinee performance in New York.
A Canadian-American reciprocal
compromise on lumber is promised.
The Massachusetts G. A r. gives a
soldiers burial to an eX-cOnfederate.
The ice trust seeks to control the
ice business from Maine to Wisconsin,
A Chicago society girl will establish
a shoe-cleaning parlor exclusively for
women.
Mrs. w. H. Rudolph and two Of her
children were killed by a snowslide at
Apex, Colo.
Iowa men want to build a railroad
TO the Klondike and ask a subsidy
from congress.
Two girls may die as the result of a
maniac running amuck in the streets
of Belleville, n. ].
1t is stated that former President
Harrison is opposed to the national
policy of expansion.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' association takes acton for the
protection of forests.
In New York Mrs. Oliver Sumner
Teal was granted an absolute divorce
from her husband.
In New York 100000 was raised in
one month 10y Hebrews for the pro-
posed Har Sinai hospital.
The funeral of Hon. A. II. Garland
former United States attorney general
took place at Little Rock, Ark.
Fayne Moore is considering a prop
ositiOn to be bailed out o. prison in
New York and go on the stage.
in hn
and southwest after blizzard which
swept from Colorado to Texas.
Col. Asa B. Carey becomes pay
master general, I. S. A., succeeding
Gen. I. II. Stanton, who retires.
Cleveland (Ohio) capitalists think
of building an electrical interurban
line between st. Paul and Saltwater.
At Faribault, Mimi, ex-Sheriff
Charles Wood died at the home of his
son-in-law, ], c. Turner at the age of
81.
Peoria has a company which propos-
es to establish line of motor buses
in opposition to the local street car
system.
An attempt to assassinate c. t. Pen
well, son of G. V. Penwell, one of the
leading coal operators, was made at
Pana, Ill.
Rev, DR.. George E. Reed, president
of Dickson college, has been nominal
ed by Governor Stone as state librarian
of Pennsylvania.
At Rochester, N. Y, Charles P.
Barry's residence and its costly Iur-
niture and rare bric-a-brac were
burned; loss $4,000.
Mrs. William !. Mayer, wife of a
Pittsburg physician, committed sui
eide by jumping into the ocean from
a pier at Atlantic City
1t is announced that the prices Of
anthracite coal will be raised 25c a
ton by the railroads controlling the
output from the mines.
Arrangements were made at Atlanta
for the ninth trienniaI international
Sunday-school convention, which is to
be held there April 81 to %.
Sarah \, ED Hamilton OF Benton
Harbor, Mich, died, aged So years
She was daughter of Theodore Weld,
anti-slavery leader and author
At Chicago the mahogany lumber
yards of ]. c. Raynor and the box