Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05

Neb., formerly of Madison, Wis,
author of several widely read histori-
cal works, is dead.
A tornado demolished Jackson's felt
mill near Paterson, n. j., wrecked
many small buildings and uprooted
hundreds Of trees.
Wall street expects s30,OOO,00O will
find its way into New York banks as a
result of Dewey week and the inter-
national yacht race.
Senator Fred A. Busse Of Chicago
has been elected member Of the state
board OF agriculture, to succeed Will
liam Stewart, resigned.
John Downs, of Danbury, Conn,
cried to his mother that he was going
crazy, then jumped down an eighty
foot we'll and was killed.
Mrs. Susan A Winold Of Massillon,
O., is in New York looking for her two
children, who she says were kidnapped
by her divorced husband.
The comparative statement from
Washington shows the total receipts
for September to be $45, 344 IA; ex-
penditures $37,5.J,372; surplus 1874
TIP.
President Imoden, of a wild cat
bank at Kansas City was convicted OF
forgery and sentenced to prison, after
an extraordinary criminal career.
Justice Gaynor told the Mazet COM
mittee in New York he was offered and
refused $4,000 in stock by the Ramapc
company to become its president.
Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago
and Mayor Aeigenheim of st. Louis
have agreed to enter a corn-husking
match at the Peoria corn carnival.
At San Francisco thirty days further
stay of execution was granted to Mrs
| COrdelia Botkin. The appeal to the
supreme court is not yet perfected.
German Lutheran ministers in con,
ference at Mount Olive, H., have de-
cided that life insurance is sinful be-
cause it is a species Of game Of
chance"
At Pittsburg A. P. Stephenson, {
prominent and wealthy merchant
tried to kill his wife and then com
mitted suicide. Mrs. Stephenson wa:
uninjured.
At John Croma's wedding feast il
Plymouth, Conn, the bride disap
peared, so did the best man, whom
Croma has sued for alternating his
wife's affections.
Olivette Nelson, who came to thi:
country as stoWaway to join he1
sweetheart, Andrew Guttormansen
was married to him in the barge Of
flee at New York.
Designer Fife was relieved from
command of the cup challenger Sham
rock and Shippers Wringe and Hogartf
restored to sail the yacht in her races
for Americas cup.
At Sioux Falls, S. D., a threshin:
engine exploded on the farm of Henr.
Brandt, killing Brandt, and fatally in
juring Fred Lance and seriously burn
ing Robert Smith.
A Virginia girl, wronged unde
promise Of marriage, took poison.
few minutes before death she named
the man. He killed himself befort
officers could get him.
AlIOl -SIASi al OI1SSo oldGCS lIld
according to supreme court decisions
congress cannot control the business
of trusts whose operations are con
fined to one state.
A large five-story brick building il
Hilbert street, Philadelphia, occupies
by the Macy Furniture company am
Reliance Storage e Warehouse com
pany, burned. Loss 100000.
| New York supreme court justice!
testified before the Mazet committee
that judicial Candidates paid from $40,
600 down to the organization to which
they owed their nomination.
An effort will be made at the mex
session of congress to secure an in
ceased appropriation for the nava
militia, and also to place these organi
cations under national control.
William Griffenstein, the founder o
Wichita died at Shawanee, I. T. HI
left Germany as a political exile an(
landed in 1850. He was a well-knowr
Indian trader and frontiersman.
The governments OF the United
States, Great Britain and Germany are
considering claims for losses growing
out Of the bombardment in Samoa by
the British and American naval forces
Senator Wellington resigned the
Craftsmanship of the Maryland repub-
lean committee in a speech in whict
he denounced Gov. Lowdes, republi-
can, who is a candidate for reelection
Rear-Admiral Sampson did not in
vent the system Of superimposed tur-
rets used on the battleships Kearsarge
and Kentucky. The turrets were de-
signed by Lieut.. Joseph Strauss, OF the
navy.
The first of a series of strikes which
| are expected to involve the working
! iron molders in Milwaukee took place
at the Filler & Stowell Foundry. The
grievance is the failure to recognize
| the union.
1t was announced that the Manhat-
tan Oil company has been purchased
! by the Standard Oil company. The
| Manhattan company was the largest
competitor Of the Standard in the
Lima field.
Two men were killed and burned tC
crisp in a fire which destroyed the
varnish factory of Joseph A. Smith &
| Co, at Newark, n. J. It is supposed
that a kettle in the reducing room
| boiled over, and an explosion and
! flames followed.
| An innovation in American news
! paper methods has been made by the
Germania of Milwaukee, which an
nounces that it has employed Dr.
| Duemling of che Lutheran college at