Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-01-12
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Of a syndicate which has purchased
the Edison Electric Lighting com
pany and will try to control all other
lighting companies in New York city
Greater Chicago is in sight Steps
have been taken to secure legislation
to consolidate the city and county
governments and abolish the different
township organizations within the
city limits.
The funeral of the late Senior
Romero, Mexican ambassador, took
place from ST. Matthew's church
Washington, and was attended by
President Mckinley and members of
the cabinet.
The advisory committee of Ply
mouth church, Brooklyn, unanimously
resolved to recommend Rev. n. D.
Hills, D. D., of Chicago to the con-
gregation as the successor to DR..
Lyman Abbott.
At Evansville, Ind, -Iinor Carratt,
Edgar Garner, Elijah Scott, Frank
Curl and William Morris, boys from
10 to II years old, were given a
| for stealing.
John w. Dearborn, mining expert,
said to be we'll known in the far
west, was found dead in a New York
hotel. He was about go years old.
! Dearborn claimed to be the adopted
brother of Chief Justice Fuller.
Daniel La Forte, known by his
Indian name of Te-hes-la, president of
| the Six Nations and principal in
| the case of Onondaga Indians against
John Boyd Thacher in the supreme
court for the recovery of wampum is
dead
1t has been announced that the offer
made some time ago by DR.. D. K.
Pearsons of Chicago to give $4,000
! for the endowment Of Berea (Ky.)
| College, if the trustees would raise
$150,000 by Dec. 81, 1898, has been
made binding by the fulfllment of the
condition.
President Harper of Chicago uni
versity announced that gifts aggregat-
ing S403. 600 has been made to the in
stitution. Martin Ryerson and Mar
shall Field gave lands worth $1,000
and John D. Rockefeller donated
$234,0 900 in cash along with this as he
had promised.
Before Major Marchand left Fash
oda on withdrawing his expedition.
the Sudanese battalion of General
Kitchener's forces presented to him
the banner of the dervish Emir Said
Deghein, against whom Major Mar
chand fought before General Kitche-
ner's expedition arrived.
BY direction of Chief Lees, detectives
at San Francisco are watching all out
| going vessels and trains in the hope OF
capturing Charles A. Beeler, the Wells
Fargo delivery clerk who absconded
| with $4,000 cash belonging to the
Southern Pacific railway company from
San Antonio, Tex, December %.
The reorganized Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints in In
dependence, Mo, the strongest Nor
mon church outside of Utah, has de-
clared strongly by resolution against
seating Congressman-Elect Roberts
of Utah. The members of the church
uphold all the tenets of the Mormon
church except the one in regard to po-
lygamy.
Officers who have been working on
the case of David Rothschild. the
Cincinnati bar fixture manufactures
arrested at New York, charged with
having swindled the Central Ma
tiOnal Bank OF $4,000 by means of
worthless notes, say he has swindled
banks in New York, Cincinnati, Chi
cago and Cleveland out of sums ag-
gregating 100000.
At conference of the regents OF
the California university and mem
bers of several commercial bodies it
was decided that the protection of the
California fruit industry should be
entrusted to the federal government
The immediate cause of the meeting
was the rejection of the consignment
OF fruit from this state by the Ger
man government
According to a dispatch from Han
kau there are alarming reports from
i the upper Yangtzekiang region. Dis
vinces Szechuan. Human and Hupe
The body Of Chinese troops was sent
to attack the rebels, but they are said
to have fed before lie enemy. The
Viceroy has been reinforced by three
gunboats and three thousand men.
The Cleveland Paper company
which was placed in the hands of a
receiver a year and a half ago with
liabilities Of over 100000, has been
absorbed by the Standard Paper and
Bag company. Since Receiver Horr
assumed charge of the property S715
per cent. of the liabilities have been
settled The remaining 1919 per cent.
will be paid Immediately and the re-
ceiyer discharged
At Peoria the Great Western distil-
lery, destroyed by lightning last
June has been remodeled and en-
larged, and has resumed with a
capacity of $4,000 bushels of corn
daily, which means an output of
$4,000 gallons of alcohol every day.
This is the largest distillery in the
world and work has been pushed on
repairing it, owing to the unprece-
denied demand for spirits for smoke
less powder by various foreign gov
ernments
The Sacramento Bee publishes the
details of one of the greatest en-
cheering problems ever originated
in California. 1t is now under con-