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

in big passenger pool was favorably
considered by the eastern lines and
committee is working to get the west
ern roads into the combination.
At Newport, r. l., Charles A. Sieg-
fried, medical inspector in the United
States navy, in charge of the naval
hospital at Coasters Harbor island,
died Of pneumonia, aged so years.
The house committee on foreign af-
fairs has entered upon the considera-
ton Of a bill for the reformation of the
consular service by promotion and
continuous service for consular officers.
At Cincinnati the professors Of the
university will Immediately quit if
| President Aver insists that all mem
bers of the faculty should resign and
he accept such designations as he may
| select.
| A feud between two Kentuckians led
to shooting in Frankfort hotel and
the killing of three persons and the
wounding of five. The verdict of the
coroner's jury is that Col. Colson killed
the three men.
EX-President Cleveland, Commodore
Benedict and Captain Bob Evans ar
rived at the Murphy's Island Gun
clubhouse at Fairfax, S. c., from
South island, at which place the shoot
ing was not so good.
| Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman has re-
signed as vice president of the Moody
Bible Institute as the result of con-
troversy as to who should write the
official life of the dead evangelist
himself or Will R. Moody.
General George Henry Sharpe OF
Kingston, N. Y, died in New York, of
shock following an operation, aged
72. He was present as member of
General Grants staff when General
Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
Minister Leishman, at Berne, Swift
erland, has cabled the state depart
ment that the Swiss government has
revoked a former decision and gives
general authorization for the importa-
ton of American dried and fresh
meats
The board of naval bureau chiefs has
decided against the use of double tur-
rets for the new battleships; they also
ask permission of congress to eliminate
from these ships the sheathing which
is at present feature in the new con-
struction.
Lieutenant Samuel Howard, the
pilot and last of the officers and crew
of Ericsson's Monitor during her
memorable engagement with the con-
federate ironclad Merrimac, died in
Washington from conclusion of the
brain, aged 70 years.
A post-mortem examination of the
body of Charles Seeberger, the cleo
trician, who was shot at Brunswick
Nd, by Conductor Jerome Swartley
and died, revealed the fact that Seeber-
ger lived sixty hours with a bullet hole
through the center of his heart.
The senate confirmed the following
nominations: r. W. McMade OF
Pennsylvania, consul to Canton, China
T. j. Henderson of Illinois, a member
of the board of Ordnance and FORTH
cations; E. S. Warner of st. Paul, sur
veyor general of Minnesota.
1t is said by member of the foreign
relations committee that an under
standing exists between the United
States and Great Britain, under which
this government can proceed with the
construction of the Nicaraguan canal
without reference to the provisions of
the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
By the terms of the will Of the late
Dorman B. Eaton, several large be-
quests are made for educational and
charitable purposes. Columbia and
Harvard universities receive 500 600
each, the New York Skin and Cancer
hospital gets $4,000, and the Society
4. for the suppression of Vice s25, 1000