Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-30

lied at Pine Bluff, Ark, of typhoid II
malaria He was born forty-one years :
ago in New York
Mrs. Dewey transferred that home to
the admiral's son. A relative of the
family says the only object was to pro-
vide for a proper succession to the
property.
E. L. West, a former assistant super
intendent of railway mail service N
the sixth division, has been appointed |
to succeed the late L. L. Troy as super |
intendent.
At Missouri City Ernest Clevenger |
Allen and Della Clevenger at a religi-
Gus meeting, has been sentenced to be
hanged Jan. 5.
At Kansas City Leonard B. Imboden,
formerly of Fort Worth, Tex, who was
found guilty of conducting a wildcat
bank, has been sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment.
President John Mitchell of the
United Mine Workers of America an
nounces that he may order a strike af-
| fecting about 10000 coal miners in
| Pennsylvania.
The movement for the purpose Of
purchasing house for Rear-Admiral
Schley was given a considerable i'm
petus at meeting of the general COM
mittee in Washington.
In a collision at Wilmington, Del,
between the Colonial Express on the
Pennsylvania railroad and an express
train on the Atlantic Coast Line, four
persons were injured.
President GomperS of the American
Federation of Labor testified before the
Industrial Commission and defended
the boycott as legal and proper Wea-
pom for the workingman.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, who has been sick
with quinsy, is improving, but slowly,
and her physician now says it is i'm
possible to tell when she will be able
to resume her role in Zaza.
Opposition of republican congress
men to the house rules and the luke
warmth of some republican senators
make gold standard legislation at the
coming session problematical.
. At Kansas City the Catholic church has
disapproved of the charity ball which
{ it was proposed to hold on Thanksgiv-
ing evening for the benefit of the news
boys fund, and it has been abandoned
President Gompers of the American
, Federation of Labor says working
men have had no cause of complaint as
to trusts, but it is too early to say
f whether they are benefited by them OF
not.
: Major Henry Clay Mcdowell, one Il
5 the best-knoWn citizens Of Kentucky
died after a long illness, of heart trOu
BILE. He served with distinction in The
civil war on the staff of General Rose
Grams.
Mrs Evangeline O'Neill of Chicago
l was arrested at the Windsor hotel
Montreal, on a charge of fraud, in
l volving the possession of diamonds
D precious stones and jewelry valued a
$4,000.
: There are rumors that in the even
of the death of Senator-elect NJ. L
Hayward of Nebraska, w. J. Bryan
: will be appointed by Governor Poyn
> ter to serve as senator until the legisla
ture meets.
: AS result of meeting of the ma
3 tional democratic executive committe
in Chicago, it is probable that anti
q trusts and anti-imperialism will b
kept at the front as the democratic is
sues in 1900.
Six men-Brooks Coleman, al
q American, and five Italians, names uI
, known-were killed and four others in
4 jured in a collision on the st. Paul
Minneapolis and Omaha railroad 2
miles from Sioux Falls.
O At meeting of the Utah democrati
state committee, the proposition tina
a petition be gotten up requesting tina
. Congressman Roberts be unseated wa
>, defeated. But one member was in ia
o vor of the proposition.
Emil n. Boaz, American manager o
:, the Hamburg American line, receive,
a cable dispatch saying that the Pa
tria, which was abandoned on fire, ha
arrived at Dover in tow of the com
pany's steamer Anset.
At Americas, Ga, the city council, D.
a majority Of two, has upheld n
mayor in the case Of the Christian sci
entists sentenced for refusing to b
: vaccinated and the cases have beef
taken to the superior court.
Robert J. Knox, alleged to be one o
the Whiteman gang of swindlers, ha
been held in New York until the ar
{ rival from Albany of requisition pa
% pers which will give him into the Gus
tody Of the Pittsburg police.
At Wagner, l. T., the st. Charlie
: hotel and six other buildings were de
stroyed by fire. One guest, a For
Smith travelling man named Whiteside
. was burned to death. Two others
y names unknown, are missing.
Colonel Richard L. Flournoy, a ma
tive Of Virginia, a confederate office
Il under General R. E. Lee and a resi-
! dent of st. Paul, Mimi, for nearly
: thirty years, died at his home there O.
heart trouble, aged SO years.
y The United States supreme court re
:, fused to grant writ Of certiorari il
7 the proceedings again Joseph Wilkins
a dealer in oleomargarine, and his
c clerk, Howard Butler, for removing the
d labels OF oieumargarine packages.
< The commissioner of internal rev
enue has decided that an executor Oh
trustee should not pay the legacy taxes
v on life interests or interests for a given
e time annually. The whole tax on such
interests must be paid at one time.
D Secretary T. F. Lovejoy of the Car