Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-19
DOMESTIC.
Chicago April wheat. SIC.

Waukee
At Milwaukee Peck's Sun has ceased
publication.
Archbishop Hennessy's brother con-
tests his will.
Charles Stone. banker, died in New
York, aged 70.
The Hessian fly is ravaging the
wheat fields in the Middle states.
Two New York magistrates favor
the whipping post for wife beaters.
The Maine republican convention
platform pledged support to McKin-
ley.
Creek Indians of the Indian Terri
tory will remove to Minnesota and
Iowa.
Hanna is reported to favor the nom
nation of C. n. Bliss for vice presi-
dent.
The Galena council voted to es-
tablish a municipal electrical lighting
plant.
The Koyokuk district is said to rival
Cape Nome and the KIondike in rich
ness.
Porch climbers robbed 0. w. Potter,
the Chicago millionaire, of $25, 900 in
jewelry.
In Chicago five no-unionists were
attacked and injured by locked-out
unionists.
The Cramps emphatically deny that
they contemplate consolidation with
Carnegie
The senate passed a bill establish
ing a buffalo preserve in New
Mexico.
At Colombus, Ohio, the bank Of Rein
hard & Co., founded in 1868, suspended
business.
Consul General Holloway says the
wealth of Siberian gold fields is over
estimated.
At Foresters Station, Mich, Doom
well Brothers large paper mills
burned.
At Saratoga, n. Y, the Sans Souct
opera-house and the Schaffer building
were burned.
President and Mrs. Mckinley may
go to Poland Springs, Me-, early il
May to rest.
Arbuckle Brothers have advanced
the price of refined sugar cents pei
100 pounds.
General John w Noble, secretary o.
the interior under President Harri
son, is seriously i'll.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler has been men
toned as a democratic candidate fol
the vice-presidency.
Republicans of the second distric
renominated Charles E. Littlefeld o
Maine for congress.
EX-President, Cleveland in his SECOND
lecture declared officerseekers may b,
as good as their critics.
| At New Britain Conn, Samuel |
Bassett, democrat, was elected mayo
by a majority of 341.
About 1000 coal miners in Hopkin.
county, Ky, struck today, demanding
the Indianapolis scale.
Constant weeping over the death o
her husband and daughter made I
| New York woman blind.
| Near Frankfort, Ky, Bud Lecompte
! farmer believed to be insane, shot ant
| killed his brOther-in-Iaw.
1t is estimated that 10000 or abou
of the striking miners in the Pittsburg
! district returned to work.
Gage estimates the surplus for thi!
year at $7O,O0O000, which would enable
| n v0nha1 of tho
David S. Hammond. lessee of the
Plaza and Murray Hill Hotels, New
| York, died at the age of 65.
At Pittsburg Joseph Horne & Co:
immense dry goods store burned. The
loss will be nearly a million.
Three building and loan association.
of Atlanta, Ga, with assets of $4,000,
COO, failed within three days.
Congressman James Cooney ha!
been renominated by the democrats o.
the seventh Missouri district.
John NJ. Egan was elected presiden
of the Central of Georgia railway tc
succeed the late Hugh M. Conner.
Herbert Milligan, a Boston book
keeper, is charged with embezzlins
100000 He lost it in bucket shops.
Bird S. Color, comptroller of New
York, has been publicly put forward as
candidate for mayor Of New York.
Two Fort Dodge girls were sent to g
reform school because they attended
theatrical performances twice a day.
Rev. Walter Delafeld, rector of the
Church of the TRANSPORTATION, Chi
cago, died of neuralgia of the heart
The resignation Of two of the faculty
Of Brown university was announced
They are Professors Lamont and Fagg
EXPresident Grover Cleveland made
two addresses at Princeton University
on The Independence of the Execu-
tive.
c. Q. Hildebrand was nominated for
congress by the republican convention
in the sixth congressional district of
Ohio.
Sapho was produced at Wallack' s
theater, New York. The audience gave
Miss Nethersole an enthusiastic recep-
ton.
David w Caruth, capitalist, former
Police Commissioner and one of the
best known Democrats in st. Louis,
died.
Section men on the Pennsylvania
railroad have received a voluntary ad-
vance in wages from S1.15 to S1.25 a
day.
At Sedalia, Mo-, Leslie O'Rear Mar
shall was nominated for congress by
the seventh district republican con-