Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-01


mittee favors early state and congress
sional conventions.
Senate democrats decided to offer a
free silver substitute for the republl-
can financial bill.
At San Francisco a new government
prison is to be erected Immediately
on Alcatraz island.
Assistant Secretary of State Hill
has been chosen president of Column
bian university.
Baseball magnates have agreed to
drop Baltimore, Washington, Cleve-
land, and Louisville.
Judge Orrin n. Carter announced his
candidacy for republican nomination
for governor in Illinois.
Walter B. Hawley of Lockport, Ill,
formerly. county clerk of Will County,
died at Danville, III.
For the first time since the drainage
canal opening Chicago water supply
was uniformly good"
Governor Roosevelt asked the New
York legislature to spend $60,00O,O0O
in improving the Erie canal.
The Michigan medical board bars
graduates of institutions issuing di-
plomas without attendance.
National guards favor an increase
in the government appropriation Of
from 100000 to $4,000 900.
The steamer Sutton, which ground
ed on Fenwick island shoals, in Della
ware bay, is to be a total loss.
Rev. Father V. Lewandowski died
suddenly in a street car in Milwaukee.
Heart disease was the cause.
After Bryan spoke at Harrisburg,
Pa, democratic state committee in
dorsed him for the presidency.
At Philadelphia Rev. DR.. Henry
! Sharpe, a prominent Presbyterian
clergyman, died, aged So years.
Captain Julius Friedman, million
aire, was found dead in his bed at the
| Palace hotel in San Francisco.
| The Oregon democratic state com
mittee has decided to hold the state
convention in Portland April y.
Professor David E. Hughes, invent
or of the telegraph printing instru-
ment, is dead at London, aged SO.
President Mckinley has decided to
receive Montagu White, diplomatic
agent of the Transvaal Republic.
A call has been issued for the ma
tional convention of the prohibition
party to meet in Chicago June 81.
A new development is promised in
the negotiations for the sale of the
Danish West Indies to the United
States.
William F. Miller, who conducted
the 'get-rich-quick' Franklin syndi,
cate in Brooklyn, has been located in
Canada.
At Petersburg, Va, Albert Hunt o.
Superior, Wis, who shot and killed
John K Parrish Christmas day was
acquitted.
Honolulu is isolated, steamships re-
fusing to call. There are thirty-nine
deaths from the plague, including a
white woman.
Professor ]. T. Johnson, president Of
the Hargrove College, died suddenly
at Ardmore, I. T., of heart disease
| tagged 40 years.
lkCpubilCdu oChaIO1o al OAHU " VI
a unit in favor of the provision in the
senate currency bill to refund the
national debt.
A device has been invented by a
Boston doctor to rob chloroform an
aesthesia of danger by mixing air with
the inhaled drug.
At Fort Scott, Kan, Amos Phillips
the murderer, whose accomplices were
lvnched, has been sentenced to life
imprisonment.
Gotham's latest proposed combine
is a consolidation of all gas, electric
light and traction systems under
Rockefeller control
Mrs. Mary Wright Curwen, dis
tinguished for leadership in promot-
ing the formation of women's clubs
died at Cincinnati.
A poll of the members of congress
indicates an overwhelming majority
favoring the immediate passage of the
! Nicaragua canal bill.
At Denver Guy bennett, aged q
years, a nephew of President Dole OF
Hawaii, attempted suicide by cutting
mis- throat with a knife.
Count Boni de Castellane on his ar
rival in New York from Paris denied
the stories recently circulated of his
losses in stock speculation.
The Barnet e Record company OF
Chicago have secured the contract for
the construction of Connors' syndicate
grain elevators in Montreal.
Captain Frederick Ebersold, former
chief of the Chicago police department,
| died. He had been in the service of
the police department for % years
| Congress will be asked to take con-
troll of the Chicago drainage canal
and convert it into a ship canal to
connect the great lakes and the
| Mississippi.
! Representatives of the cotton knit
goods manufacturers have protested to
| Senator Davis against the ratification
| 81 toe French reciprocity treaty
Brigadier General Thaddeus H.
Stanton, former paymaster general of
the United States army, known as the
lighting paymaster," died at Omaha
Professor Henry \. Hazen, fore
caster of the weather bureau at Wash
ington, died from injuries received in
a bicycle accident. He was so years
old.
Officers of the Wisconsin national
guard, in session at Milwaukee, de-
clared that improvement in marks
manship was of the greatest import
ance.