Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-06-14

The city council practically defeated
track elevation for an indefinite
period.
A Kansas City man has invented
machine to pick chickens by electrical
fans.
A Colorado woman's influence may
prevent the reelection of Senator
Wolcott.
Exercises were held at the Georgia
capitol in honor of Jefferson Davis
birthday,
Rockefeller ordered 20 whalebacks
to remain idle to force up iron ore
freights.
w. S. Taylor announced that he
cannot he a candidate for governor OF
Kentucky.
Negotiations for the settlement OF the
ST. Louis street car strike make no
progress.
Columbia University received an
anonymous gift of 100000 for Y. NJ.
C. A. hall.
William Waldorf Astor and Bradley
Martin filed remuneration Of American
citizenship.
Dewey says men Of wide influence
first urged him to seek the presidential
nomination.
Shootings, assaults, and riots Of the
usual type continue to occur in the st
Louis strike.
Boston's famous elm was blown
down in a gale and carried off by
relic hunters.
Western railroads probably will
make a one cent a mile rate for G. A.
R. encampment.
A new company in Detroit seeking a
street railway franchise offers 10
rides for % cents.
Cornelius Vanderblt's estate aD-
praised at $49,926,S65 will pay $780,
268 inheritance tax.
Maryland democratic convention
ignored the Chicago platform and did
not instruct for Bryan.
A federal grand jury has been en-
paneled at Milwaukee to investigate
wholesale pension IIduuS'
Ex-senator Mitchell said he would
not accept the democratic nomination
| for governor of Wisconsin.
A nouseboat, a novelty in Chicago,
leaves the city bound for New Orleans
over the inland river route.
Marshall Field was elected direc-
tor CT the Chicago & Northwestern
road to succeed John I. Blair.
Senate refused to confirm W. D.
Bynum as a general appraiser at New
York because he is a gold democrat
Contractors at Kenosha dug up the
hulk Of the schooner C. 7. Hutchin-
sen, which figured in the wheat riots
Governor Savers of Texas has Or
dered militia to San Augustine county
% suppress a feud between four fami-
lies.
San Francisco Chinese ask fer an
injunction against health board tC
rest1lin imposition of plague restric-
tons
President Mckinley pardoned JEFF
Harrison, who is serving a life term
at Anamosa for train and coach rob
be-ies
a committee investigating the in
migration bureau ct New York charges
bribery, brutality, and indignitias tc
women.
| Congress appropriated 1888 tc pay
w. l.. Orr of Chicago fer services as
engineer with Admiral Porter during
the rebellion.
TIE ways ard means comm ttee
VI meet before the reassembl:cg OF
congress to consider a reduction OF
war taxes.
Fire destroyed Virginia, MINI; loss,
100000. There were also fires in De-
catur, Racine, Byron, H., an Rich
mond, Va.
The fight between Fitzsimmons and
Ruhlin has been Indefinitely postponed
owing to the injuries to the former 5
! left hand.
The average expenditures at Yale
for the year was: Freshman, $3.50;
sophomore, $SOS; junior, $2l2; and
senior. $1,000
| Fifty prominent citizens OF ST. Louis
united in requesting Governor
stephens to send troCrs to protect life
end property.
Edwards A. Park, emeritus profess
CT CT sacred rhetoric in Anover Theo-
logical seminary, is dead at Andover,
Mass, aged 81.
RumOr prevails that General Wheeler
may be given the post commander Of
the department of the lakes should Otis
refuse the place.
Colonel Jack Chinn, in an interview
in New York, declares that w. S.
Taylor will be brought back to Ken
lucky and hanged.
John w. Kern of indianapolis was
nominated by the democrats for gov
ernor. Bryan was Endorsed and the Is
to l issue ignored
Delivers boom for vice president is
gaining strength. Roosevelt declared
unequ;Vccally that he would not ac-
cept the nomination.
The house judiciary committee IA