Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-28

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The International Council of Con-
gregational Churches met in Boston.
Charles A. Pillsbury, the Minneapo
lis miller, died Of heart failure, aged
Charles Crandau, Dwight, H., a
pioneer and leading citizen, dropped |
dead.
A. L. Robinson, formerly of Chicago,
is reported to have been drowned in
Colorado.
Missouri bIoodhounds were success
fully used in detecting Eldora Qowa) |
burglars.
Chfcago's autumn festival may be
called off because Of the attitude of
organized labor.
Disastrous earthquakes, lasting a
week, are reported in the vicinity Of
Juneau, Alaska.
Reports from all over Wisconsin
and Illinois indicate an unprecedented
scarcity of servants.
A conference of democratic national
committeeman in Chicago issued an
appeal for party unity.
The National CoIored Baptist con-
vention has selected Richmond, Va, as
the next meeting place.
The headquarters of the democratic
national committee the next cam
paign will be in Chicago.
Bryan, in opening the campaign in
Nebraska, treated Imperialism and
monopoly as the main issues.
A decision in favor Of manufacture
ers of oleomargarine was rendered by
the Michigan supreme court.
Elijah Hall shot and killed his
father, Henry Hall, in Pike county,
KY, for abusing his mother.
Governor Savers of Texas says that
he is in favor Of starting a movement
for the humiliation of trusts.
German Catholics are protesting
against the alleged dissertation Of
churches in the Philippines.
The director Of the mint says he is
unable to coin enough fractional silver
for the demands from small towns.
The Russian government is making
an effort to compete with the United
States for a share of the British cattle
trade.
Alderman A. J. Linck Of Racine has
disappeared from his home and his
relatives fear he has met with foul
play.
Napoleon, a 40O-pound ostrich, acts
as the guardian of a farm in Jackson
vile, Fla, and is greatly feared by
negroes.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows, in session at Detroit, chose
Richmond, Va, as it's next place of
meeting.
The French line steamer La Bre-
tagne, which arrived in New York
from Havre, brought 1,073,610 francs
in specie.
Martin Coons and his nephew, May
| nard Coons, farmers of Stuyvesant,
New York, were killed by the Empire
State express.
0. T. Williams has been appointed
| Judge of the superior court, of Mil
waukee county, to succeed the late
| Judge Sutherland.
Advocates Of the plan to make Chi
cago a deep sea harbor say that great
interest has been created in Europe
over the project.
William J. Bryan and Hon. W.
8ourke Cochran express themselves as
| pleased with the results of the trust
conference at Chicago.
The Bib county, Ga, confederate
veterans have decided to send a rep
! resentative to the reunion of the blue
and gray at Evansville.
Colonel Hughes of Lindsay, has I'M
dertaken 10 raise a regiment Of Canad-
ians for service in the Transvaal
should war break out.
Edward Tuck of New York has
given Dartmouth college 100000 to es-
tablish the Tuck endowment fund" in
memory of his father.
Arthur Goddard is declared insane.
He is the Chippewa Falls young man
who killed James Prather at Dawson
City. He will be sent to an English
asylum.
Twenty-seven persons have been
lodged in Jail charged with having
taken part in the riots at Carterville,
Ill, where seven negro miners were
shot to death.
The British steamer Angalo cleared
wih 168,172 bushels of corn and 160,-
900 bushels of oats. This is the Iarg-
est cargo of grain ever taken from
New Orleans.
Cakes A. Ames, a member Of the
well-known AGnes family and brother
of the late Ex-Governor Oliver Ames,
died at his home in Massachusetts at
the age Of 70.
w. X. Vanderbilt was elected presi-
dent of the New York and Harlem
railroad to succeed Cornelius William
Rockefeller took his place in the Cen
trail directorate.
Cardinal Gibbons had half an hours
conference with the president rela-
tive to the dissertation of Catholic
church property in the Philippines by
our soldiers.
Nearly two hundred United States
senators and congressman are ex-
pected to be Of the party that will
make a tour of the proposed national
park in Minnesota.
The Patte-nmakers' association Of
Philadelphia sent circular letter to
every shop in the city where pattern
makers are employed, demanding
nine-hour work day.
State Auditor Cornell began quo
Warranto proceedings in the Nebraska
supreme court to prevent Gov. Poyn-
ter from acting as head Of the state in