Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-01-25

York called DR.. Joseph Stolz of Chi
,cago.
Rumor that the Northwestern road
seeks control of the Union Pacific re-
vived.
Mavor Carter Harrison declined the
democratic nomination for governor or
Illinois.
Atlantic steamship companies ad-
vance rates in view of the Paris e1-
position.
Francis P. Owings of Chicago filed
a petition in bankruptcy. Depts'
s5,564,917.
The president nominated Eli Warner
of St, Paul to be surveyor general OF
Minnesota.
Mrs. S. NJ. T. Henry, national evan
eelist of the w. C. T. u, died at Grays-
vile, Tenn.
Henry R. Williams was appointed
general manager of Milwaukee ana
ST.. Paul road.
Testimony in the Molineux trial
showed that prisoner had reason TO De
Jealous of Barnet
German and other gold democrats
will not attend the Baltimore recep-
ton to Bryan.
New York man convicted OF rob-
berry tried to hypnotic the judge, but
got twelve years.
Colonel w. S. B. Hopkins of Wor-
cester, Mass, died at Pinehurst, N. o.
at the age of 63.
DR.. McGiffert is cited to appear be-
fore the New York presbytery Feb. 70
to answer charges.
CAPTAIN Ames claims that $4,000
Americans are enlisted for service IN
the boer army.
President Snow writes to Washing
ton that the Mormon church pro-
hibits polygamy.
Commissioner Carroll reported on
Porto Rico resources and suggested a
territorial government.
Tammany politicians, through
Mcdonald, secured the New York tun-
mel contract for $35, 100000.
Henry Marcus, heir to 100000, IS
held in a New York Jail to answer
his wife's suit for separation.
Governor Longino OF Mississippi IN
his inaugural address recommended a
stringent law against lynching.
The Maryland legislature, though
democratic, defeated resolution ask
| ing Bryan to address that body.
According to ex-senator Edmunds,
tonnage bounty law would cause the
abrogation of thirty-five treaties.
Mrs. H. G. Fuller, wife of the pre-
siding judge Of the South Dakota
supreme court, is dead at Yankton.
Spooner, Payne, and Harrison G.
Otis are suggested for vice president
by Senator Scott of West Virginia.
Angered by the courts decision in a
damage suit James WEIGH tried to
shoot at Judge Lochren in St. Paul.
Fred G. Bonfils, the Denver newspa-
per man who was shot by Lawyer
Anderson, is not expected to recover.
A Columbia (Ga.) bank cashier
called his assistant to his rooms, shot
him and then killed himself; insane.
New York will try to collect taxes
from the National City bank, which
claims Gage agreed none should be
paid.
John J. Kelley, a former policeman,
was shot in a saloon quarrel at Kansas
City by Worth Bailey, bartender, and
died.
| American exports for 1899 were
| 81 ,275, 4S6, 641, breaking the 1898 rec
ord and exceeding imports by s475,-
652,021.
| During the past five years Great
Britain has taken so per cent. of the
agricultural exports from the United
States.
There is a soft coal famine, and in
consequence several manufacturing
concerns in the Schuylkill valley have
shut down.
Mrs. Christina Hirth awoke from a
trance in a st. Louis hospital while the
undertaken was embalming her pre-
paratory for burial.
DR.. A. A. Ames, for three terms
mayor of Minneapolis and once demo-
cratic candidate for governor, has be-
come a republican.
Charles E. Smith, grocer at Sellers
burg, Ind, was frightened to death by
noises he supposed were made by bur-
glars entering his house.
First steps in unions war on woman
labor was taken in Chicago. Manu-
as buffers and polishers.
At Beaumont, Texas, J. S. Harrison,
was kicked on the head by a vicious
horse and his skull fractured Physi-
clans hope for his recovery.
William L. Wallace of Chicago is ap-
pointed special agent of the census bu-
reau in charge of the collection of lum-
Der manufacturing statistics.
Prominent citizens Of Chicago at
tended a meeting held to further the
project for fraternal insurance Or
ganization for colored people.
Letters are being received at demo-
cratic national headquarters from
democratic editors favoring Judge
Augustus Van Wyck for president
The report of the township mutual
insurance company of the town of
Eagan, Dakota county, Mimi, shows a
salary list OF only Sass for one year.
Representative Sherman of New
York, whose name has been mentioned
in connection with the office, has de-
clined the secretaryship of the senate.
Heavy rains, causing a general rise
Of all streams, interfere with the &C
curate observations of the Chicago
drainage canal flow down the Illinois
river.
DR.. G. Amos Warner Of Lincoln,
Neh formerly DrofoCcpr of no1itioa1