Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-10-18

Inc uluIu duuudl Injecting VI luS
Order of Hoo Hoos assembled at
Dallas, Tex. Two thousand mem
beTs are present, coming from all
parts of the United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland and
the little Clevelands returned to their
quiet Princeton home after spending
summer in pleasure and health
seeking at seashore and mountains.
Harry Courtaine, seventy-one years
old, up to ten years ago a favorite
! actor, well known and esteemed both
| in the United States and England, is
! dying in utter restitution in New
| York.
1t is urged, in the annual report Of
Maj. Gen. John R. Brooke, command
! ing the department Of the east, that
| a pressing necessity exists for the
reorganization Of the army on modern
| lines.
Employees of the Terre Haute Elec-
trical Street railway struck. No cars
were started and no electric lights or
power is in service. The men de-
mand increased pay and shorter
hours.
Chief Constructor Philip Hichborn,
U. S. N, has been awarded a diploma
and gold medal for the Franklin life
buoy, Hichborn turret, and models of
war vessels exhibited at the Paris
exposition.
Captain NJ. E. Jones, widely known
in army circles as the man who fired
the first shot at Gettysburg, died at
Wheaton, H. He was born in Poult-
ney, VT, June 5, 1880, and came to
Illinois in 1858.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the American Bicycle COM
pany the treasurer reported a net
profit of $605, 1911 for the year end
ing July, the first year of the COM
pany's existence.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley
arrived from Canton. The president
will remain in Washington until
about the 22d or 23d of the month,
when he will again go to Canton to
remain until after the election.
Colnel Joseph Payson Wright,
assistant surgeon general of the
United States army, died suddenly at
his home in Washington, in the sixty
fourth year Of his age. Interment
was in the national cemetery at Ar
lington.
P. H. Gilhooley, counsel for the
Elizabethport, N. j., Banking COM
pany, announces that William Schrie-
Der, missing clerk of the bank, was
a defaulter to the amount of $108,0
and that the bank directors had made
good the amount of the shortage.
Twenty Cinnamon and Italians have
been arrested at Ell Paso, Tex, charg-
ed with evading the immigration laws
Of the United States. 1t is said hun
dreds have made their way across
the Mexican border AS fast as ap-
pretended they are being deported.
The launching of the monitor Ar
kansas has been set for Nov. 10 at
the Newport News yards. 1t is ex-
pected that the two monitors not
yet launched will be in the water be-
fore the close of the year, so all four
of this type of ship will be afloat be-
fore the year ends.
Charles Wheeler, who resigned as
treasurer of the Colorado and South
ern railroad last April on account of
i'll health, is dead in Denver, Col. He
was connected with the Union Pacific
railway system for twenty-eight
years, occupying the position of
comptroller part of the time.
E. K. Rawson, superintendent of
the naval war records, reports that
the entire work of publication, which
was begun about six years ago, will
be about half completed by the end
of the current year, through the pub
LEGATION of the twelfth and thirteenth
and part of the fourteenth volumes.
Major Seldom Noyes Clark, a widely
known newspaper man, who has been
connected with the Washington
bureau of the New York Tribune for
twenty-five years, died of heart fail
ure. He was an authority on politi-
cal and economic questions. He
served with distinction in the civil
war
A report from Utica, N. Y, says the
Franklin furnace and Clinton iron
ore mines, which have been operated
for the last eighteen months by NJ. A
Hanna & Co. of Cleveland, will soon
shut down. About 400 people will
be thrown out of work. No explain
alton is made as to why the fires
will be drawn.
The supreme court announced that
it would hear oral arguments in the
Chicago drainage canal case on Nov.
II. This suit involves the state of
Missouri against the state Of Illinois
and the Chicago Drainage commits
sion, the contention being that the
| Chicago drainage canal from Lake
Michigan emptying into the Mississ-
ippi river pollutes the drinking
water of the city of st. Louis
A cablegram received from Com
missioner General Peck at Paris
contains an announcement of the
final results obtained by the various
countries in the form of awards at
the Paris exposition. The United
States received 2,475 awards, Ger
many 1926, Great Britain 1927, and
Russia 1,493. The United States
leads not only in the grand total but
also in all grades of awards, from
grand prizes to merely honorable
mention.
There promises to be lively COM