Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22

ish consul at San Francisco. The in
quiry was ordered by the English con-
sui, as Mcdonald is a British subject.
/ At San Francisco Major G. ". Ruth
ers denies the charges preferred
against him by Jay G. Holland, a gov
/ eminent detective, who charges the
major with having sold TO the c. B.
/ Rogers company of Jacksonville, Fla,
215,000 pounds of government bacon
for $50 1000
| New York fiagmakers have been as
tonished during the past month by
sudden increase in the demand for the
ensign of the Transvaal Republic.
Manufacturers attributed this fact to
the added enthusiasm and confidence
inspired in boer sympathizers by re-
cent victories.
Speaking of China as a commercial
force, President I've of the University
Of California, in an interview said:
Let them once acquire instruction
from the western world in the metal
arts, and they will be able with their
genius to revolutionize the commerce
of the globe
At Williamsburg Kan, Frank d.
Allen died from an overdose of NOR
phine taken to produce sleep. Mr..
Allen was well-known newspaper
man, having been connected with pa
pers at Chicago. Omaha and Audubon,
Iowa. His father is one Of the wealth.
est stockmen in Iowa.
News has been received by the Luth-
eran Publication Society Of the death
at Monrovia, Liberia. of Mrs. Leanna
T. Simon, wife of Rev. ]. D. Simon
5 and Mrs. Emma D. Beck, wife Of Rev
Will M. Beck, both of whom were do
: ing missionary work at the Mullen
t fberg mission in Africa.
Congressman Lester has been chal-
lenged to fight duel by R. Grant Dali
ton of Omaha, as the most available
: friend of T. B. Hodges, a resident OF
the Transvaal, who recently wrote 6
l letter to the congressman denouncins
D the English. Lester will pay no at
tention to the challenge.
|
entered the home of Mrs. Maria S
. Saxton, an aunt of Mrs Mckinley
Daniel Shaker, brother of Mrs. Sax
ton, was awakened, but was prevented
giving an alarm by revolver thrus
L in his face The robbers escaped will
|, small amount of booty.
D. J. Gilpin Pyle, editor of the Seattl,
. Post-Intelligencer, for many years
editorial writer on the st. Paul Pion
eer-Press and later editor of tn,
u Globe, was married to Mis-
Annie Walker Sanborn, for severa
years associate editor of the Pioneer
: Press, at the home of the bride in st
: Paul.
The French freight steamer, Four
y MEL, which arrived today from Bor
. dauX and Havre, rescued at sea, OF
{ Jan. 80, the captain and crew of thu
{ Italian steamer, Francesca Grasso
bound from Liverpool for Genoa, Goa
laden, in sinking condition. AL
hands, consisting of nineteen men, in
Guiding the Liverpool pilot, were saved
and brought to this port.
Macrum says he resigned because
Hay left him lin position of a Brit
ish consul and not an American con
Y sui" British officials examined ant
4 delayed his correspondence. Ameri-
: cans in the Transvaal sympathize will
f the beers. Congress is likely to in
vestigate the charges which have in
= creased opposition to the Hay-Paunce.
= fote treaty.
t A delegation of about twenty of the
t most prominent owners of lake YES
sells will endeavor to induce congress
to take steps toward the formation
with Canada, of an international com
), mission which shall have charge Of al
r matters affecting the water levels OF
Z. the lakes. The reasons are the com
!, pletion of the Chicago drainage canal
cor ~truction of the 500 power canal
and the proposed building of a dam in
2 Niagara river.