Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-01

81 years Olu.
Johnny Trip of Derby, Conn, into
whose mouth his school teacher forced
red pepper to punish him, is near
death
Senator Plat has declared himself
for Mckinley and Hobart in 1900. He
says Colonel Roosevelt will not be a
candidate.
New York police have been ordered
to enforce the ordinance closing sa-
looms on Sundays and between mid
night and daybreak.
The formal opening of the Clara de
Hirsch Home for Working Girls, for
which the dead baroness gave $4,000,
occurred in New York.
Edward Unger, who, in 1887, muir
dered August Bohle and shipped his
body to Baltimore in trunk has been
released from Sing Sing.
Mayor Van Wyck vetoed plan to
ask state aid for the welcome to Dewey
because he would not appeal to a re-
publican administration.
Five municipal tickets are now in
the field in Wilmington, Del, the Ad-
dicks or union republicans having
made their nominations.
Five hundred Baltimore saloons will
go out of business because the brewers
have decided to discontinue the prac-
tice of paying for licenses.
F. w. Peck, United States commits
sioner to the Paris exposition, is in
Chicago. He has secured additional
space for American exhibits.
Missoula, Mont, health officials
tried to quarantine Northern Pacific
passenger train because smallpox pa
| tient was discovered aboard.
| A plan to make the Palisades a park
and erect a grand monument to Dewey
opposite Grants tomb has been
started by a Jersey commission.
Rev f. L. Eaton has declined the
prohibition nomination for governor of
Iowa, and M. w. Atwood Of Esther
vile has been named in his stead.
In speech in Boston ex-Gov.
Northern of Georgia said the south
will, in time, settle the race problem,
of the north will leave her alone.
Congressman Babcock came from
| Washington to attend the meeting OF
the house state delegation conference
on the next speakership, at Milwau-
! kee.
Levi z. Letter, Baltimore, Md, died
of heart disease. He was a nephew
of L. q Letter of Chicago and Wash
ington and brother of T. Benton Lei
ter of Chicago.
Chicago Episcopalians and Catholics
are alike stirred up over new prayer
book in use there BY the Episcopals,
because it closely resembles that used
by the Catholics.
Queen Lavina Van Westerveldt
Dempsey of New York has been sued
by her brother, John A. Dempsey, for
$1,000, which he says the queen Dor
rowed from him.
Adali won his wrestling match with
Mcmillan and Carkeek in Minneapo-
lis. A very short winter wheat crop
is indicated, due to bad weather and
the Hessian fly.
Opponents Of former Senator Quay
ernor Stone to call a special session OF
the Pennsylvania legislature to elect
United States senator.
At the Tampa, Fla, celebration OF
Victoria's birthday, large portrait OF
the queen was unveiled by the touching
welt at Albany, N. Y.
By a decree of a Chicago court the
Pullman Palace Car company is al
lowed five years in which to dispose
of it's outside holdings, including prop
erty in the town of Pullman
The Rhode Island house of represen-
tatives yesterday defeated an attempt
to repeal the act allowing cities and
towns to exempt manufacturing con-
Germs from taxation for ten years.
| Cleveland is back at Princeton, N.
j., after two weeks fishing near To-
ledo, Ohio. His coming was unexpect-
ed and there was no one to meet him,
Mrs. Cleveland herself being at ball
game.
Rev. DR.. w. H. P. Faunce, pastor
of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church,
New York, is said to be the man
chosen for president of Brown univer-
sity, and it is said that he has &C
cepted.
The New York legislature, which
was called to meet in special session,
listened to Governor Roosevelt's mes
sage recommending the passage of a
franchise tax bill. The bill was
passed.
Col. E. w. Cole of Nashville, Tenn,
one of the best-known of the coal, iron
and railroad capitalists of the south
dropped dead in the Fifth Avenue ho-
tel at New York. He was stricken
with apoplexy.
At Dickens, Tex, a water spout did
much damage, deluging an area of
two square miles. DR.. F. T. Dawson,
of Denver, was caught in the flood
and drowned. Much damage was
done to crops. A tornado passed over
Wise county Tuesday, doing much
damage.
United States Judge P. s.. Grosscup
Of Chicago, who has been i'll at Ash
land, Ohio, for the last five weeks, is
said by his physicians to be safely over
the great part of his troubles. 1t is
believed he will soon recover
The general Presby terrain assembly,
at Minneapolis, rejected proposition
for union of churches of the denomina-
ton in the north and south. The gen.