Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30

Aaron J. Jones of Indiana was elect
I'd master of the National Grange.
Secretary Gage favors the establish
ment of a national bank in Cuba.
Active negotiations are in progress
to secure tariff concessions from Brazil.
British troops at Halifax, n. S., are
to go and fight the burghers.
Carnegie bought a railway in Cuba
and the richest manganese mine in the |
world.
Georgians made it warm for a man
who started a white-and-b black Sunday
school.
James McManes, former leader Of
Philadelphia republicans, died, aged rs
years.
movement is inaugurated to pre-
sent Generals Lee and Wheeler with
swords.
Comiskey of st. Paul says he will To-
cate an American league baseball team
in Chicago.
An animated row is on in the insur-
ance order of the knights and Ladies
of Honor.
1t develops that the affair at Fort
Ringgold, Texas, was only a drunken
border row.
Samuel Lee, a colored eX-congress-
man, was arrested for stealing an en-
PITY chicken coop.
The Nebraska attorney general be-
gan suit against the Standard Oil
company as trust.
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph
company has been incorporated with
$1O,00O,000 capital.
Iowa is to have seventyfve-mile
electric street railway-from Des
Moines to Creston.
Frederick G. Hills of Sioux City died
from eating poisoned food prepared by
a servants mistake.
At st. Louis the grand jury returned
true bills against Mrs. Henrietta BAN
berger, the midwife.
The Yankton Is. d. Savings bank
closed on account of the defalcation OF
the county treasurer.
Russell of Missouri and Carson q
Wisconsin are candidates for sergeant
alarms of the house.
Luther B. Fry, Pasadena, Cal, died
of heart disease. Mr.. Fry was for years
in business in Chicago.
Rear-Admiral B. G. Cromwell has
been ordered to duty as president 0.
the naval retiring board.
Rev. DR.. Richard Storrs, pastor of the
Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, has
resigned because of failing health.
Samuel Morgan, private of the tenth
infantry, was hot and killed while at
tempting to desert from Fort Cook.
: The bodies of s. Cinnamon buried il
Chicago cemeteries are to be eXhumet
and taken back to China for burial
Hamlin Garland, the author, AM
Miss Zuleme Taft, sister of dorado
Taft, were married at Hanover, Kan.
Dewey said he knows of no place tina
would suit him better to spend May
than Chicago He has been invited
The Illinois supreme court has de
cided that the Illinois flag law i
class legislation and unconstitutional
The 400 men employed at the I'LL
nois Sugar Refining company's work
: have struck against a reduction o
wages.
S Efingham Maynard, head of tn
book publishing house of Maynard
0 Merrill e Co., died at Saratoga Springs
Ny.
Illinois monuments in Chickamaug
National park were dedicated
Speeches were made by Tanner an
Cullom.
The death of Edgar Straus, violin
: cellist we'll known in America, Europ
) and Australia, is reported from Rasa
dena, Cal.
: Bubonic plague patients who wer
+ brought to New YORK on the steame
J. w. Taylor from Santos, Brazil, ar
: reported better.
: The National Window Glass Jobbers
association was formed and will ope
n rate in conjunction with the trust re
:, Gently formed
e. Berry Wall, once king of tn
a dudes" filed a petition in bankruptc
s at New York. Liabilities, 1884; as
|, sets, nothing.
The Philadelphia mint will soon be
: gin striking the Lafayette dollar
authorized by congress in aid of tn
n monument
George Zirbes, a well-known con
O tractor of Racine, Wis, died from tn
: effects of a stroke of paralysis. He wa
born in Racine in 1S4S.
The Chilean congress has approve
: tt renewal of the Chilean claims com
+ mission according to the convention
@ with the United States.
The Western Baseball association i
n being organized, with leading Iowa
}, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and Col
: oradO towns as members.
At Philadelphia a new trial has bee,
denied former United States Distric
: Attorney Ellery P. Ingham and his as
= sistant, Harvey X. hewitt.
A tidal wave yesterday swept ava,
$50 feet of the wharf at Bear Harbor
f Cal. Charles Ward and Christophe
Jones, labOrers, were drowned.
By the Pollak-Virag rapid automati
. telegraph messages were telegraphet
: from Chicago to Milwaukee and bacl
. at the rate of $4,000 words an hour.
: In the fight between Kansas Cit.
v and Chicago Eor the live stock SHOW
! next autumn, the latter won. Tht
l premium list will represent $4,000.
5 w. D. Jacobs and Ed Harrison, VIII;
D were out prospecting, are believed u
have been lost IN recent severe snow
storm, which prevailed IN Wyoming
Archibald Lionel Bethune, second
son Of the Earl of LindSey, will sooI