Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
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cut. Dudley and wife have left for
parts unknown.
There is move to abolish the pass. |
Even employees and big shippers will |
be shut off The St. Paul, Santa Fe,
Union Pacific, Illinois Central. Wa
bash and Rock Island Railroad COM
panies, it is said, are the moving
spirits in the proposed departure.
The forthcoming report Of Land
Commissioner Herman will show the
past year to have been one Of the bust
est in the history Of the office. More
homesteads have been taken and more
cash sales made" said the commits
sioner, than in any one Of the recent
years.
| At the Methodist ministers meeting
in Chicago resolutions were adopted
| expressing gratitude to the president
and secretary of state and trusting
that much good might result from
their efforts in behalf Of religious
| liberty for Protestants in South
America.
The San Francisco Evening Bulle-
tin publishes a story to the effect that
the entire Croker interests, 100000
shares of the stock Of the Southern
and Central Pacific railways, has been
sold to Morris Speyer of New York,
who is supposed to be acting for the
| VanderbiIts.
The agent of the Uintah Indians re-
ports to the secretary of the interior
that he has sent out his police to bring
in any Indians who may have left the
reservation. He adds that the reports
of an invasion of the old hunting
grounds of these Indians IN Colorado is
greatly exaggerated.
The Standard Oil company has filed
its answer to the petition Of the Ne
braska attorney general in the case
brought under the antitrust law TO
restrain the company from transact
ing business in the state. The COM
pany, in its answer, denies that i is
in any sense a trust.
The two Grifins we're moved from
London, KY, to Barbouryille, KY, and
from there, under escort of the state
guards, they were taken to Manchester
There were no demonstrations. The
guards, in accordance with Governor
Bradley's orders, will stay at Man
chester until further orders.
Another strike was inaugurated al
Cramps ship building yards, when 15C
ship joiners laid down their tools
These men have presented demands tC
: the firm asking that nine hours con-
| stitute a days work and the pay be
: thirty cents an hour, instead of a ten
hour day at twenty-seven and a hall
cents per hour.
At the formal opening Of the one
hundred and flfty-third academic yeal
: at Princeton University President Pat
ton announced that 100000 had been
donated for establishing a chair in
political science. The name of the
5 donor was withheld, but popular
: opinion ascribes the gift to former
l President Cleveland.
At a joint conference of representa-
tives of the operators and striking
! miners of the Chicago & Alton sub
! district and state officials Of the United
Mine Workers an agreement was
! reached and the strike, which has af-
, fected over a thousand men since Apri
last is declared off. The agreement
is in the nature of a compromise.
David C. Shafer, promoter of BIZ
cycle races and for years a staunch
supporter of the L. A. W., has, for the
, present at least, cast his fortunes with
the riders of the National Cyclers as
, ISOLATION. This move is a result oil
Skaters difficulty in securing riders
, for the bicycle meet being engineered
by the Arena athletic club, an L. A. w
organization.