Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-09

will perform the marriage ceremony.
United States Marshals Cannon and
Meehan have arrested Jimmy"
Dumphy, Kit" Carney and Abraham
Abrahomowitz, Of Ashland, on the
charge of furnishing liquor to Indians.
A mass meeting OF the citizens of
Birmingham, Ala, was held, at which
preliminary steps were taken towards
entertaining Admiral Schley, who will
be the guest Of the city Nov. 6 and I.
]. ]. Geraghty, a police operator in
south Chicago, was attacked by
| horde of muskrats in a swamp near the
city. They first killed his dog, then
| they made a vicious onslaught on
him.
| A big excursion down the Chicago
drainage canal, to include governors,
! senators, national representatives and
federal, state and city officials, is
planned by the sanitary district trus-
tees.
At Newborn, n. c., terrific gales,
which blew Tuesday night, drove the
tide higher by two feet than it ever has
been. The city was flooded and small
boats were placed in the streets to al
low passage.
At Dennison, Texas, bandits held UP
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas train,
and, after a murderous assault on the
express messenger, robbed the safe of
$4,000 in money and valuables to the
amount of $4,000.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society has declined to unite with the
Home Missionary Society of the Meth
odist church, the convention deciding
that both could do the most good
working separately.
Sixty men of the Gloucester, Mass,
fishing fleet were lost during the year
just ended, a less number than usual.
They left fifteen windows and twenty
six children. Fifteen vessels valued at
S79,750 were lost.
The gold output for Cripple Greek
district for October was $2,001, 800.
This is the first months production
that has exceeded $4,000. 1t is esti-
mated that the total of the year will
not fall short of S1S,OOO,OO0.
At Weir City, Kas., Gus McArdle, a
bartender, was shot and killed in sa-
loon, and in less than two hours his
supposed murderer, George Wells, a
negro miner, was hanging to a tele-
phone pole, the victim of mob.
The new administration building at
Sing Sing prison, built by convict labor
under Warden Sage, and considered to
| 10 of hon CT IF
the kind in the country, was half de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
On account of his indiscreet utter
ances at a dinner party in London in
regard to the Venezuelan boundary,
the State Department notified Ambas-
sador Choate that he must be more
careful in his utterances in public
At Pittsburg in the county court
Judge White held that an employer has
a right to operate his factory independ-
ent of a union, and that a union has no
right to persuade his apprentices to be-
come members of their organization.
The recent orders assigning Colonel
Samuel G. Sumner to duty with the
British army IN the Transyaal have
been revoked. Captain S. L. Slocum,
eighth cacalry, military attache at vi
emma, has started for the Transvaal.
Assemblyman Allan Benny of Bay
onne, N. j., published letters to Sena-
tor SeWell in which he declared the
Pennsylvania railway refused to give
him a pass because he supported meas
ures distasteful to the railway COM
pany.
Ugo Talbo, the famous tenor singer
and teacher, is dead at Stockton after
an Hines of two weeks. He was a
noted singer in England thirty years
ago, and has prominent relatives there.
He was once an officer in the English
army.
Two hundred employees of the Story
& Clark Piano company, Chicago, went
on a strike, and it is probable that
their action will be followed by the
workmen in several other factories.
Their demand is a higher scale of
wages.
The civil service commission has
made public letter from ex-senator
Edmunds, declaring that the circular
sent out by Ohio republicans, solicit
ing contributions from federal en-
ployes, is in violation of the civil SER
vice law.
At attempt was made to burglarize
the house of Emil Schultz of Mari
nette The door of the house was bat
tered in, but Mrs. Schultz met the bur
glars at the door with about a pound
or red pepper which she threw into
| their faces.
Civil suits for the collection of pen
alties aggregating S4O2,5OO for viola
ton of the anti trust and pooling laws
were begun under the direction of the
attorney general against fifty corpora
lions doing business in Chicago AMI
| Cook county.
At Oakland, Cal, Captain S. Low
berg of New York, one of the best
known navigators in the United States,
fell head-foremost into the hold of the
old condemned steamer Professor
Morse, and fractured his skull. He
will probably die.
At San Francisco Mrs. George Fife,
daughter of the late Nicholas Luning,
has brought suit against George Whit
tel for the sum of S750000, alleging
that at the settlement of her fathers
estate she was not given the full
amount due her.
At San Francisco Charles Hall, for
merly a private in the first ->ebrasga
volunteer regiment, and more recently