Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-29

preme court as Illegal.
Captain w M. Meredith of Illinois
was appointed chief of bureau of eu-
craving and printing.
The w G. T. u. census shows to-
tai membership of 156, STA gain dur
Ing the year of 15,045.
r. J. O'Brien, a Chicago printer,
was elected president of the Illinois
Federation of Labor.
Notre Dame university at South |
Bend. Ind, suffered the fourth serious
loss by fire within year.
S. M. Carter and A. S. Duckworth |
were arrested near Pana, Ill. on the |
charge of counterfeiting.
Dion Geraldine, a worlds fair engi- |
neer, filed a petition in bankruptcy,
with liabilities of $4,000.
Ohio's official count shows that
Bryan received exactly the number OF
votes he did four years ago.
Twelve men were killed and twelve
wounded during the twenty days deer
hunting season in Wisconsin.
Forty-six Iowa veterans started for
Vicksburg and Shiloh to select sites
for monuments to Iowa soldiers.
Dr. Bob" Acton, the Harvard's
famous football player, died in New
York of an overdose Of morphine.
w. F. Mellick, wealthy cattleman,
became violently insane, the result of
being sandbagged in Chicago.
The widow of General Thomas
Flournoy, an officer of the war of
1912, died in Philadelphia. aged 101.
Two men assaulted and bound a
diamond cutter in Baltimore and
robbed him of $4,000 worth of gems.
The duke of Manchester admits that
he married Miss Zimmerman, and
members of his family are furious.
Lake builders are making arrange
ments to construct ocean-going vessels
of any length in detachable sections.
Official vote in Illinois: Mckinley,
597,965; Bryan, sol, 1915; McKinley's
plurality, $4,000. Yates plurality,
| f,232.
Joseph Murphy, first whip Of the
Meadow Brook Hunt club, was per
haps fatally Injured in run at Mineola,
L. L.
| Dowie, angry at the failure of his
lace makers to land in America, de
nounced the English press in profane
terms.
The census gives New York state a
population of 7,268,012, an increase OF
1,270,159, or 21.01 per cent. in ten
years.
The death of Marcus DAILY may lead
to John D. Rockefeller and w. A
Clark joining forces in the copper min
ing industry.
Senator Jones says Bryan is still
great, but probably will not be a can
didate for the presidency again in the
near future.
The engagement is reported in Bos
ton of Christie Mcdonald and w. w
Jefferson, youngest son of JOSEPH
Jefferson
Dr. Daniel Colt Gilman resigned the
: presidency Of Johns Hopkins univer
cial support.
Hawaii needs 10000 men to work OF
the plantations of the islands The
planters have sent an agent here Il
secure help.
Robbers wrecked bank and stood
off people at Ashley, O., but were
frightened away empty handed by {
telephone bell
The strike of the cotton mill opera
ives in Alamance county, N. c., ha:
been declared off. This is victor.
for the mill owners.
The census gives Missouri a popula
ton of 3,106,665, a gain of only 1906
per cent. Mississippi has 1851 ,27O, {
gain of POOP per cent
President Mckinley told the republi
cans of the ways and means committee
he would not interfere with their plans
to reduce the war tax
Three sisters of the Order Of st
Francis left Syracure, N. Y, fol
Hawaii to devote their lives to th>
lepers at Molokai.
The industrial convention at St
Louis memorialized congress to pass
the Cullom amendment to the inter
state commerce law.
The house ways and means commit
tee is willing to remove the war tax
from kilograms, proprietary articles
and legal documents.
Governor j. G. Beckham of Ken
lucky was married to Miss Jean Haph
ael Fuqua at Greensboro and the cou
pie started for Chicago.
DR.. Kennedy, convicted of the muir
der of Dolly Reynolds at the Grand
Hotel, New York, was granted a new
trial by the court of appeals.
man with his jawbone shot away
his head cut, and an arm broken by
Mexican bandits arrived in st. Louis
to get an aluminium jawbone.
When ]. A. Gary entered the McKin
ley cabinet he had seven unmarried
daughters. Five have since married
and the othe. two are engaged.
The natiola good roads convention
resulted in a permanent organization
with w. +. Moore of Missouri as pres
ident, and headquarters in Chicago.
Joseph H. Marley resigned from the
republican state committee of Maine
Friends think he may succeed Hanna
as chairman of the national commit
! tee.
! UniecG circumstances warrant an eX-
tension OF time it is hardly likely that
the bott,esh!p Kentucky will remain
at Smyrna, Turkey, more than five
days.
! Leonard M. Nash. Princeton fresh.