Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-03-30


Patrick Walsh, mayor of Augusta,
Ga, and formerly United States SEN
ator, died at his home in that city.
Brewers are buying old bottles at
good prices because of the demands of
the new Cuban and Porto Rican trade.
A discovery of old Russian bound
aries may result in showing the Klon-
dixie to be wholly within the United
States.
Standard Oil attorneys ask the attor-
ney general of Ohio who it was that
offered him 100000 to drop the prose-
cution.
In a tornado which swept over Ala
bama, Mississippi and Arkansas TWEEN
ty-two persons were killed and many
injured.
Commanders of military posts will
wait for explicit orders from the war
department before abolishing the army
canteens.
Cissy Lotus denies a rumor that
she is securing a divorce from Justice
Huntley Mccarthy and will marry
Sam Bernard.
by the United States and Great Brit
ain to prevent collisions on the boun
dairy of Alaska.
John Bigby, who was shot by the
Palmetto mob, died at Atlanta, Ga.
His death makes the fifth victim. Two
others were wounded.
Joseph R. Clark, formerly a Brook
Ign alderman, was placed on trial,
charged with having taken bride Of
$2,10O for his vote.
The pastor of St. Augustine's
Catholic church, Brooklyn, lectured
his congregation for dropping pennies
in the collection.
William H. Oakley, Y years of age,
president of the National Citizens
bank, died from enlargement of the
| heart at New York.
Two men were killed at Laredo,
Texas, in a fight with MeXicans, who
resisted measures taken to stop the
spread of smallpox.
1t is considered certain that the
Windsor hotel fire, New York, was
caused by incen1iarism for the pur
! pose or ROBBERY.
The number of persons known to
have lost their lives in the Windsor
Hotel fire is now sixteen. Forty-six
persons are missing.
Seven members of the party recently
formed in Kansas City to join the rev.
olutionists in Honduras have been ar
rested in Guatemala.
The chairman of the populist ma
tional reorganization committee is
sues a manifesto in support of the
Wharton-Donnelly ticket.
Soft coal dealers of the northwest
met at Milwaukee and agreed to ad-
vance bituminous coal to 1925 ton
as soon as navigation opens.
In New York the counsel for Roland
B. MolineuX has been granted permits
sion to inspect the minutes of the
grand jury that indicted him.
Mrs. Patrick Grady and her seven
children of Sterling, H., have inherit
ed fortune of $1,O0O,OOO by the death
of Dennis McAuley of San Francisco.
The Saltwater city council granted
! Thomas Lowry and G.. G. Goodrich a
street railway franchise to build a To-
cal line and an interurban line to st.
| Paul
Escaping gas put the entire congre-
| cation Of the United Evangelical
! church at Hepburn, Pa, to sleep, and
a number of the members were serious
ly affected.
Senator Penrose, it is reported, will
resign his seat as soon as the Penn
| sylvania legislature adjourns and Gov
ernor Stone will appoint NJ. S. Quay
to the vacancy.
Queen" Lavinia Dempsey, of the
Order of Holland Danes, has received
the decoration of the Order of st.
Catherine of Mt. Sinai from Prince
Guy de Lusignan, of Paris.
Mrs. Martha Place was eIectrocuted
at Sing Sing for the murder of her
step-daughter, Ida Place, being the
first woman in New York to suffer
death in the electric chair.
Plow manufacturers of the United
States are forming a combination. A
stock company, capitalized at $780,
100000 under the laws of New Jersey
will shortly be Incorporated.
At Cincinnati the conference of rab-
bis elected Rev. Dr. Isaac M. Wise of
Cincinnati, president; S. Hecht of Mil
Waukee, treasurer, and G. Deutch of
Cincinnati, recording secretary.
The clash between American and
Canadian miners near the Alaska
boundary has caused uneasinnss in Of
fetal circles in London. The British
ambassador at Washington has pro-
posed provisional boundary line I'M
til permanent arrangement can be
made.
Three women were killed and nearly
two score injured by a fire which
wrecked the Patterson block at Omaha.
The dead are: Mrs Thomas Taylor,
Mrs. A. M. Samuelson and Mrs. Anna
Schamel.
The president has appointed Hugh
R. Belknap of Chicago, Brandon D. |
Slaughter of Nebraska and Captain
Charles Newbold of the district of
Columbia, to be additional paymasters
in the army.
Governor Tanner has made the fol- |
lowing nominations for members of
the state pharmacy board: William
Bodman, Chicago; B. Schwartz, jr., |
Salem; William A. Dyche, Evanston;
Thomas A. Jewett, Oregon.
President Mckinley, President |
Hobart, Senator Hanna and party ar
rived at Jekyl island on visit to ex-