Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02


ing in counterfeit foreign perfumes |
was arrested in Milwaukee by internal !!
revenue officers.
John D. Rockefeller has donated |
| 1926, 900 to Cleveland to construct |
| arches to connect Gordon and Rookie |
Teller parks.
1t is reported that several more men
have been ambushed and killed in the
Baker-White and the Griffin-Philpot
feuds in Kentucky.
Secretary of the Navy Long has or
dered the naval bureau chiefs to begin
at once the preparation of plans for
three new batLIeships.
Forty Cincinnati houses on Epworth
Heights, the Methodist camp meeting
grove, were destroyed by fire. The loss
will reach $4,000.
In New York Henry Heintz has
sued the Havemeyers for S225,0OO,
claimed to be due for services in form
ing the sugar trust.
Wireless telegraphy at sea is to be
tested for the benefit of the navy
department on the warships New
York and Massachusetts,.
Rear Admiral Sampson, commandant
at Charleston navy yard, was given
reception and banquet by the Mas5a
chusetts board Of trade.
The Dawes commission has COM
pleted its enrolment of the Chickasaw
Indians. The enrolment shows 1900
Indians and 1000 freedmen.
Buffalo Bill had sixty miles of
telephone wire strung to keep Gen.
Miles in communication with the out
side world while hunting.
The Central Woman's Temperance
Union have decided to undertake the
: establishment in Columbus, Ohio, of a
home for inebriate women.
At Kansas City Major S. @. Robin
: son, who was chief surgeon of Gen
eral Lawton's division at Santiago, is
seriously i'll with kidney troubles.
New York theatrical agents closed a
l contract with Princess Chimay and
Rigo, the Hungarian gypsy violinist,
for their appearance in New York.
The lombard Italian Grand Opera
: company, which disbanded in Kansas
City was reorganized with Collamarini,
prima donna, as it's financial hacker.
At Three Oaks, Mich, the unwilling
of the Dewey cannon has been post
pOned until next spring, at which time
, it is hoped the admiral will be present.
The Kansas City G Colorado rail
] way has been sold to the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railroad company for
O the amount of it's bonded Indebtedness
1925 900.
o Mrs. Stockwell, wife of a New York
ieweler, was robbed Of jewelry valued
n at $4,000 and $4,000 in money at the
Savoy Hotel in London. The thieves
escaped.
Supt. Metcalf of the money order
q system left for Mexico to complete the
money order agreement recently en-
= tered into with that country, to take
effect Jan. 1.
e The election of William Rockefeller
to the executive committee Of the New
4 York Central is said to mean the alb
sorption by that railway of five New
f England roads.
!. The governor of Idaho has made an
e earnest appeal to President Mckinley
}. not to withdraw the Federal troops
n from that state. He fears the lawless-
n ness of the miners.
The withdrawal from the ticket of
4 Josiah r. Adams, republican candidate
: for judge of the supreme court in
Pennsylvania, it is thought may injure
e the whole ticket.
9 On a wager Of 81, Fischer Nauss-
baum of New York, stood for twelve
Q hours in chalked circle without once
moving his feet from their position
assumed originally.
v John Gruver and Mrs. Mary Sheets,
f each more than seventy years old,
were married at Philippsburg, n. J.
f Children, grandchildren and great
: grandchildren were present.
The fact that Russia has opened TO
2 foreign exploitation the gold lands of
I Siberia is announced in a report to the
state department from United States
, consul Pierce at St. Petersburg
, A tabulation of the students in the
Harvard university shows that this
: year there are 4,067 students attending
: the branches of the university, an in
crease Of 167 over last year.
l EX-Treasurer Frank Parker Of Yer
: non county, Mo, has pleaded guilty to
a shortage Of $4,000 in county funds.
: Sentence was deferred. The bcndsmen
: will have to make the shortage good.
Miss Esther L. Burns, who eloped
{ with H. H. Heidelmann from Waukee-
ney, Texas, became a raving maniac
as the clergyman was about to per-
, form the marriage ceremony in Den
yer.
Herman Hundhausen of Herman
Mo-, who has been on trial for compli-
cation in the murder of Walter F.
Koeller, Sept. 2, in Chicago, was SEN
fenced to twenty years in the peniten-
, tiary.
The medical officers Of the British
| army are using vaccine with great
success as a protection against typhoid
fever. 1t may be adopted by the medi-
cal authorities of the United States
army.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Perry S. Heath in his forthcoming re-
i, port will recommend that congress
shall fx the salaries of assistant post
masters at so per centum Of that Of
postmaSterS.
The Rio Grande river is on boom
and is threatening the builders at Fort
Brown. The department of Texas has
\ made an emergency appropriation to
protect the reservoir against the en-
croachments of water.