Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-09
DOMESTIC.
ago October wheat 6S1ac.

A six-stOry building in Chicago col
lapsed with deadly results.
Riotous mirth marked Halloween at
the University of Wisconsin.
The government receipts in October
lures.
The Russian cruiser Variag, of a
new type, was launched in Philadel-
phia.
At Wrightsville, N. c., the damage
by Monday nights storm is estimated
at $4,000
The funeral of Gen. Guy V. Henry
took place in New York with imposing
ceremonies.
st. Agnes's R. c. church, burned less
than a year ago, was rededicated in
New York.
A dramatic feature of Bryan's Ne
braska tour was a midnight speech at
| Benkelman.
The five-story building at 39-43 w
Washington street, Chicago, burned
Loss, 1925, 900.
]. D. Sargent of Machias, Me-, was
arrested in Wyoming on a charge OF
numbering his wife.
Richard Croker charged that there
was administration interference with
New York's election.
Fire at Horatio, Ark, destroyed the
business part of the town, entailing
losses estimated at $4,000
Fall River mill operatives have
asked for an increase of 10 per cent. in
wages to take effect Nov. Is.
Vanderbilt, Morgan and other lead
ers are planning a pool to control the
country's railway business.
At New Orleans, La, Charles J. E
Parker, a Chicago sporting man, was
stricken with paralysis and died.
Tammany was charged the cen
trail labor union with offering big
sums to break up the labor party.
Commodore Gerry will test the con-
stitutionality of the passengers bag
gage section Of the Dingley tariff law
DR.. Lyman Abbott, chairman of the
Cuban industrial relief fund, reported
| the people as destitute and helpless as
ever.
A successful test of wireless teleg-
raphy was made between the cruiser
New York at sea and Atlantic High
| lands
On her trial trip the Kentucky at
| tanned a speed of Is 1-3 knots an hour
one knot more than required by the
contract.
President Mckinley attended the
launching of the torpedo boat Shubrick
| at Richmond, and later delivered an
address.
| Charles L. Kurtz, the anti-Hanna re-
publican leader in Ohio, is aiding
John r. Mclean the democratic candi-
date for governor.
| After a cruise in Alaskan waters as
far north as Point Barrow, the United
States revenue cutter Bear, Captain
Jarvis, has returned.
The New York city budget as ap-
proved makes the amount to be raised
by direct taxation in 1900 about $4,000
900 less than in 1899.
Captain Nicoll Ludlow has been re
| lieved with the rank of rear admiral
in the navy, on his own application
after thirty years service.
| Currency reformers regard the great
| demand for gold certificates of the de-
nomination of $50 as an argument for
more elastic currency.
| The fifty-first Iowa volunteers have
been notified that the state would fur
nish transportation from Frisco to
each mans actual home.
| Great Britain, Russia and France
have instructed their ambassadors to
definite sphere in China.
Chairman Dickey Of the national
prohibition committee said he saw
President Mckinley drink four kinds
of wine at a Chicago banquet
| D. H. Mays, democratic candidate
for governor in Florida, has issued a
statement in which he favors the re-
nomination of Bryan in 1900.
Senator Hanna, in an interview,
says: "The issue in 1900 will be full
dinner buckets, protection, an I'M
changed currency and expansion
A new agreement as to Samoa is be-
ing discussed by the United States,
Great Britain and Germany, involving
the retirement Of the latter power.
John D. Crimmins and ex-Mayor
Grant of New York are largely inter
ested in a consolidation of all the troll
ley systems of northern New Jersey.
Vice President Hobart's family an
nounces that he will not resume his
official duties even should he fully e
cover, which is considered very doubt
full.
Two men employed in the Fontanet,
Ind, powder mill burned to death
Their clothes were filled with powder
dust which was ignited by an electric
spark.
At East Liverpool, O., 700 girls in
the biscuit warehouse, dipping and
stamping departments of nearly every
pottery in the city struck for higher
wages.
The democrats Of the xixth Nebraska
are preparing the way for a contest IN
the event of the election of Judge Will
liam Neville, the populist nominee for
congress.
A freight train on the Big Four
crashed through a bridge a mile west
of GuilfOrd, Ind, killing two trainmen
and a couple of negro tramps who were
stealing a ride.
c. B. Orvis, an oil operator of Pitts
burg, was arrested in Chicago, charged
with becoming connected with the for
gerry of the name of E. L. Parker & Co..
of Baltimore.