Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-06

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increased its capital stock from 80
100000 100000.
Seven men are supposed to nave
been lost from schooner Maumee
Valley in Lake Erie.
Mrs. Mary f. Lease is to begin pro-
ceedings for divorce from Charles
Lease Of Wichita, Kas.
Martin Maginins, appointed senator
from Montana to succeed Clark, has
gone to claim his seat.
The Presbyterians that voted in ia
vor of revising the creed numbered
1876, against 46 opposed.
John Mayville, hypochondriac OF De
Pere. Wis, was driven insane by the
excessive use of nostrums.
The ship subsidy bill is likely to meet
opposition in the house, but its friends
think it will go through.
The Standard Oil company is said to
have obtained concession III
Roumania for 100000.
The county board of Oshkosh adopt
ed a memorial to the legislature ask
ing it to prohibit football.
Carl Moore was accidentally shot
and killed by Frank Hostetter While
! hunting near Arcoal. III.
| President Mckinley and other pub
lie men telegraphed condolences to
the family of Senator Davis.
| Judge Kohler sentenced five of the
Akron rioters, four for indefinite
periods and one for one year.
The trotting stallion Axtel sold at
auction in New York for $14,7O0 to
Fred Morgan and w. P. Ijams.
Senator Pettigrew, it is said, will
take revenge on Hanna by talking the
shipping-subsidy bill to death.
The idea of Tom" Platt of New
York becoming secretary of the treas
ury is ridiculed in New York.
The Indian supreme court decided
that owners of gas wells have a right
to pump the product to Chicago.
Andrew Carnegie in an address at
the Montefiore home, New York,
praised Jews for their charity.
Right Rev. Charles E. Hale, bishop
of Cairo, is critically i'll in Cairo.
Death is expected at any time.
The official count shows that the
proposition to hold a constitutional
convention in Iowa is defeated.
Charles H. Hoyt's will cuts off his
relatives and gives most of his prop
erty to his partner, Frank Mckee.
John T. Morgan the only candidate
for United States senator before the
Alabama legislature, was elected.
George w. Wilson, commissioner OF
internal revenue, died at Washington
D. c., of Bright's disease, aged 81.
Colonel R. L. Meade has been or
dered to command the marines sta
toned at the navy yard, New York.
The Dole and anti-Dole factions il
Hawaii are accusing each other o.
aiding the independents to victory.
The extensive cement plant of Will
/ lam Krause & Sons at Martins Greek
| Pa, burned. Loss 100000; insured.
The Tiffin wooden mills, the larges
manufacturing establishment in Tif1in
O., were ruined by fire. Loss $4,000
The agricultural department has es
tablished at Washington a laboratory
: for testing all sorts of road materials.
At GAINESVILLE Judge DunWiddle
: granted a divorce to Laura Wood from
r Alfred Wood of Green county by de
t fault.
In admitting Dowie's lacemaker
Secretary Gage declared their calm!
to be a new industry in the United
States
The Union Pacific railway will pa.
81 900 reward for train robbers, deat
, Or alive, and placed armed guards OF
trains
The governor Of Colorado may cal
out the state cavalry to drive gu
l district.
Paterson is gloomy over the closins
of the great Rogers locomotive works
which the aged proprietor is tired o
running.
The highest man in civil service
examination at Racine proved to be
patient escaped from an insane
asylum.
The yard of the Red Cypress Lum
Der company, Kansas City, was de
strOyed by fire; loss of $4,000, covered
by insurance.
:, The Red Cypress Lumber company!
yard in Kansas City, Mo, was de
, stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000, covered
by insurance.
: President Mckinley, the members O
the cabinet and Secretary Cortelyou
attended the Union League banuue1
in Philadelphia.
Mrs Samuel Stevenson, sister Of
Or" Dowie. died of pneumonia an6
was buried at sea. She refused medi
ical attention.
William j. Bryan, while in Chicago
said he would soon he heard from on
the proposition to reorganiZe the
democratic party.
| Miss Antoinette Finck, a New York
heiress, broke her engagement to wed
Baron Won Stechow because he would
not live in America.
!, Four sleepers and buffet car were
derailed on the ST. Paul road at Lost
Nation, Ia. The passengers escaped
with slight injuries.
One of the guns used in the attack
and defense of Charleston. S. c..
harbor during the civil war has been
loaned to that city.
Four Laplanders passed through
Chicago on their way home from
Alaska, where they have been herding
for the government.
The Venezuelan government has re-
ceived from Germany 10000 Mauser
rifles and 100000 cartridges. saws a
! dispatch from Caracas.