Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-10-25

Republican managers in West Vir-
ginia have been treated to a dis
agreeable surprise, Joseph L. Beury,
one of their electors at large having
resigned from the ticket. He also an
nounces that he will vote for Bryan.
Mr.. Beury is a millionaire coal opera
tor and has hundreds of coal miners
in his employ.
Congressman Allen Of Mississippi
says that after March 4, 1901, he will
retire to his cotton plantation near
TupelO, where he was born, to spend
the remainder of his days in the life
of a gentleman farmer. He is in good
health and looks forward to his rest
with keen pleasure.
Henry M. Flagler, the Standard Oil
millionaire, is believed to have politi-
cal aspirations The sudden removal
Of his legal residence to Florida,
where he has been power In politics
for many years, is said to mean that
he will contest for a seat in the senate
when the term of Stephen Russell
Mallory e. Tres ir 1908.
An agent of ex-senator Thomas B.
Reed has visited Oyster Bay, L. l., and
secured an option on a fine piece Of
property adjoining the home of Gov
ernor Roosevelt on Sycamore hill.
The place Mr.. Reed has in view con-
tains several acres and commands a
fine view of the Center island property
Of the SeaWanhake-Co rinthian Yacht
club.
DR.. r. o. DOremus, the veteran
president of the Philharmonic society
Of New York, who recently celebrated
the golden anniversary of his wedding
received upon his election in 1869 a
most noteworthy distinction, the en-
tire society visiting his house inn
mediately after and sereDading him.
No other man in New York has ever
received such scrcnade.
Charles Dudley Warner, who died
suddenly at Hartford, Conn, was one
OF the famous trio who gave Hartford
its literary reputation, and of which
now Mark Twain alone survives. His
first, his most noted, his most charac-
tertistic book Ny Summer in a Car
den (1870), had been previously pub
Hshed as a series Of papers in the
COurant. SO had been Saunterings
Q872) and Backlog Studies (1872). So
were most of his inimitable travel es-
says, such as Baddeck and That Sort
Of Thing (1874 and My Winter on the
Nile and In the Levant (1876). But
Mr.. Warner also did much independ-
ent literary work. American Men of
Letters series (of which seri@s he was
the general editor) is 4 capital piece
Of biography and criticism. His two
novels of New York life, A Little
Journey in the World (1889), and The
Golden House Q894, have also con-
5iderably added to his fame as an all
round man of letters. For many years
ne was editor Of department in Har-
@er's magazine, the department that
was established to succeed George
William Curtis Editors Easy Chair.
The Warner family is one of the old
EST in New England. The first War
Ter in New England appeared in Cam
bridge, Mass, as early as 1882 and was
made a freeman Of Massachusetts in
-634. He removed to Hartford with
hat body Of conscientious settlers for
whom that bay colony was too aristo-
ratio and who established Connect
ut on more democratic grounds. On
ther lines Mr.. Warner descends from
be Hitchcocks, whose name appears.
II through New England history, and
rom Francis Cook, one of the May
over Pilgrims. This ancestor had
larried in Holland bride from the.
Valloon church, so that Mr. Warner
cid descent from the old Dutch re-.
ublicans