Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28
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acres.
Senator Burrows says Ayers with |
drawal will bring about harmony in
the party in Michigan. 1t is not
known whether Pingree will run
against Mcmillan for senator.
John G. MESSENGER fell in a fit at the
inquest into the death in New York
OF Joseph Tetonia, then confessed
that he had given naphtha to George
W. Dorney, who poured it on Tetonia.
Gorge W. Bennett, a prominent ner-
chant at Nichols, Ga, was shot there
last night by W. A. McCray. Bennett
gave shelter to McCray's wife, whom
the latter, it is alleged, was abusing.
Rev. R. \. Dolliver made a plea for
the union of the Methodist Episcopal
church and the Methodist church
south in a paper read in the Methodist
ministers meeting in Chicago yester-
day.
Howard Gould's steam yacht Mag
ara, which left May 10 with the own
er, mis- wife and a party Of friends on
a cruise by way of the Azores to the
British isles and northern Europe is
back.
At Tpty, in Worth county, Ca,
while Mrs. J. S. Johnson was in a cot
ton field two negroes approached.
One Of them held her while the other
committed an assault. They are being
pursued.
The Steger & Singer Piano company,
Chicago, has offered its employees a
guaranteed interest of 80 per cent on
their earning capacity. This means
| $4,000 more pay year for $50 factory
workers.
The executive committee Of the Ma
tional Municipal League has accepted
| the invitation of the Ohio state board
of trade to hold the next meeting OF
| the league in Columbus November Is.
16 and II.
Leaders of the different railroad en-
ployes' organizations are considering
plans for the establishment Of en-
ployes' grocery stores at the division
points of the various lines throughout
the country.
G. T. B. Howard, famous for swind-
| ling operations in connection with
European estates, and who was ar
rested at Horton, Mich, was taken
back to the Ohio penitentiary to serve
out his sentence.
Gen. H. V. Boynton, president of the
Chickamauga park commission, an
nounced that the government has pur-
chased another large tract of land or
Missionary ridge to be added to Chick
amauga national park.
Abraham P. T. Elder, manager of the
British-American Publishing company
arrested in New York on a warran'
charging him with using the mails fol-
a scheme to defraud, will be brought
| back to Chicago for trial.
Joseph Deemer Taylor of Cambridge
Ohio, died, aged 60 years. He was
for many years editor and proprietor
Of the Guernsey Times, and served il
the forty-eghth, fiftieth, fifty-frst ant
| fifty-secOnd congresses.
Andrew NJ. Maxwell, a real estate
man of ST. Paul, was drugged to death
and robbed in a saloon at SpoOner
| Wis Maxwell recently bought farm
near Spooner and went there with state
fair horses to stock it.
At Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Henry Oliver
prominent in social circles, died sud
denly after having received Christian
science treatment. Mrs. Oliver refused
to consult a physician until a few
hours before her death.
Minnie Holmes, II years old, 672s
Yale avenue, Chicago, was wayIaid and
robbed Of her tresses while on her way
to school. A negro attacked her al
Sixty-sixth street and Harvard avenue
and snapped Off her braid.
Mrs Grace Doyle, who shot her hus-
band, Richard c. Doyle, at LaSalle
avenue and Indiana street, Chicago
July 2, was found guilty of man
slaughter Her punishment was fixed
at one years imprisonment.
A proclamation has been issued by
President Mckinley calculated TO pre-
vent indiscriminate admission to
Hawaiian registry Of foreign bulk
ships watch will later on become en-
titled to United States registers.
| President Diaz has asked his con-
gress for twenty days leave Of alb
senca to go to Chicago, and proposes
! Lye Ygnacio Mariscal, secretary Of
| foreign relations, to substitute him as
president during his absence.
Secretary and Mrs. Gage left Wash
ingtOn for Arizona. While there the
secretary will make trip to the
grand canyon of the Colorado. They
will return in time to meet the presi-
dent and party in Chicago, Oct. 9.
Paul Johnston, a merchant and di-
rector of the Bank of Macon, Miss,
and Edward Iripplett, a negro, who
was riding with him, were shot and
killed by unknown persons while en-
route from Macon to Singleton, Miss.
Judge B. J. Peters, former chief
justice of Kentucky, aged "a, died at
his home, in Mount Sterling. Judge
Peters was a schoolmate of Jefferson
Davis at Pennsylvania, and was an in
innate friend of John G. Breckenridge
Professor Swfngle of the agricultural
department has gone to California for
the purpose Of giving the fig growers
Of that state who are attempting to
propagate the Smyrna variety of figs
the benefit Of his information of this
subject.
Taylor Cook, under death sentence
at Topeka for murder committed ten
years ago, has petitioned Governor
Stanley to sign the death warrant.
He wrote that he would take his own