Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-05-18

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missions $4,000.
President and Mrs. Mckinley left for
Hot Springs, Va, where they will stay
a week or ten days.
Seventy-five cents was fixed as the
maximum price of gas by the New
York municipal council.
The United States will retaliate upon
Germany if the anti-American beef
bill passes the reichstag.
Mrs. Anne E. George delivered her
first lecture at Steubenyille. Fifteen
persons paid to hear her.
Two patients in New York hospl-
tai had portions Of their juglar veins
removed and will recover.
Building on several new town sites
n the Ute lands, Colorado, is going
forward with all possible speed.
Saloon men are making an effort to
prevent the enforcement of Chatta-
nooga's law requiring them to close at
10 p. m.
1t is expected that the new building
of the department of justice in Wash
ington will be completed by July /,
1901.
Mrs. c.. H. Curtis, wife of Dr.. Cur
! It's. died at Kingston, Ont. She was
formerly the widow of DR.. E. H. Her
sey of Chicago.
The Epworth league has invited
Hugh Price Hughes, the English pull
pit orator, to it's convention at Indian
apolis July 20-23.
The new steamer Havana beat all
records from Havana to New York,
coming 1900 miles in two days and
twenty hours.
Drake university, Iowa, is agitated
over the heresy of Prof. Morgan, who
holds the chair of biblical lang Iages
and literature.
Mcintyre insists that the Pillsbury-
Washburn and Washburn-Cros com
panies have become members Of the
great flour trust.
James F. McNellis, Kansas City
fireman, was killed by live electric
wires while trying to save a com
paniOn at fire.
} Four hundred and eighty farmers
T from Nebraska are teaching theil
: bretheren in Illinois how to cultivate
the sugar beet.
A Nebraska girl killed herself be-
cause she had an incurable disease
7 and her betrothed committed : ,icidt
in the death chamber.
! Frank Atkins Lord Of Moorhead
} Mimi, is one of the three debater
; chosen to represent Yale in the con
test with Harvard.
: Under the guns of the cruiser Chi
z cagO, the sultan Of Morocco paid tn
citizens there.
= The advance guard of the unite'
e confederate veterans reunion, includ
: ing COMMUNICATIVE Chief C-rdon, ar
rived in Charleston, S. c..
: Alfred Vanderbilt, son of Corneliu
4 Vanderbilt, is to start on a tri
= Ground the world after graduatin
: from Yale next month.
Masked burglars blew open the SAT
n of the Bavarian Brewing Company il
e Wilmington, Del, securing abou
200 in money and checks.
Hugh Mcconnell formerly a promi
nent stone manufacturer of Clevelan
s and New York, dropped dead at tn
S Kankakee insane Asylum.
s At the chief of police convention a
g Chattanooga bloodhounds ran down
cClored man for the amusement of tn
officers to show how it was done.
: Treasury officials are carefully con
i | eli Low To oil icrro
S ton for Il years as the only method c
e stopping the coming of paupers.
The Chinese legation has submitte
t formal protest to the state depart
\ ment against the enforcement of tn
s Chinese exclusion act in Cuba.
f Acknowledgement Monnett Of Obi
t has named Charles B. Squires as tn
! man who offered him a bribe in con
nection with Standard Oil litigation.
h Mrs. Marie Conde Rogers, who be
s fore her marriage gained notoriety b
S the attentions of Ensign Stone, die
f in New York after the birth Of twins
e w. E. C'Pope") Gooding, for year
e a prominent Minnesota democrat AM
f Minneapolis baseball magnate, com
, mitted suicide at Walla Walla, Wash
$ Duluth street railway strikers blev
+ a car from the track with dynamite
There were fifteen passengers in tn
car at the time and some Of them wer
hurt.
A Great Northern bridge near Yves
Superior collapsed, letting an or,
train into the river. The enginee
was killed and the fireman seriousl,
hurt.
: A New York state man, who was d.
vorced in North Dakota and remarriet
/ was convicted of bigamy, the New
York courts holding Dakota divorces t.
be invalid.
Secretary Gage exonerates the
bureau of engraving and printing
against which President Gompers o
= the American Federation Of Labor
preferred charges.
, William R. Brown Of Omaha, tn,
best known Mason in Nebraska, sho
: and killed himself Financial troubl,
was the cause. He had been secretar!
| of the Nebraska grand lodge for 2,
years.
| Secretary Of the Navy Long has re
ceived letter from the minister o
) marine of Germany thanking him fol
| r 6n n~ia lnl h.