Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-22

deaths from the plague in San
Francisco during the summer.
Lord Strathcona, Canadian high
commissioner, will sail in a few days
for England to resume his duties.
Students at the Kearney, Neb.,
Military Academy are in revolt and
are backed by members Of the faculty.
The proposed canon of the Episco-
pal church forbids marriage Of di-
vorced persons by Episcopal minis
tiers.
A bent piston rod caused the return
Of the monitor Monterey to Hong
Kong soon after she had started for
Canton.
Mrs. Stanford is said to oppose
views held by President Jordon of
Stanford University who may be
forced out.
The allotment of lands to Kiowas
and Commanches in Indian Territory
is nearly completed and whites are
ready to enter.
Very Reverend John E. Barry,
vicar general of the Catholic diocese
of Manchester, N. H, was killed by
cable car in New York.
Major Rafael Echeverria, surgeon,
| U. S. v, has been honorably dis
charged from the army, his services
being no longer required
| Lieutenant Colonel Russell B. Har-
rison, inspector general, U. S. ", has
been honorably discharged from the
service of the United States.
A San Francisco newspaper COM
menting on report of quarantine of
ficer says there has not been an
authenticated case of plague in the
city.
The National Woman's Christian
Temperance union is called to meet
in it's 9th annual convention at Wash
ington, D. c., Nov. 3Oth, to continue
in session until December Z.
The Kentucky state board of assess
ment and valuation fixed the tax val
uation of whisky at $40 a barrel in
stead of ST, which has been the as
sessment for several years past.
The population of the state of
Michigan as announced officially by
the census bureau is 2,420,9S2, as
against 2,O93,S99 in 1890 This is an
increase of 1927, O93 or 1876 per cent
Secretary Long has appointed
Cyrus G. Wells, of Illinois, his private
secretary temporarily at salary of
$2,250, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the recent death Of L. H. Finney,
Jr
Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the
bureau of naval equipment, recon-
mended a new survey of the great
lakes declaring commerce of the in
land seas a country's foremost bust
ness.
DR.. w. R. Harper, PRECEDENT of the
University of Chicago, <anied that he
had written a letter to Baron De Cour-
berlin, of Paris, in an effort to bring
the Olympian games Of 1904 to Chi
cago.
In a fight over the business affairs
connected with the operation of a
store at Bonita, La, P. S. Bachelor
killed his partner, J. A. Williams and
F. F. Welbourn. All three were
prominent citizens.
Thomas Hubbard Caswen, pioneer
of 1S4S, who was prominently identi-
fed with the early history of the
state and the most exalted Mason in
point Of rank in the world, died at
his residence, in San Francisco
Majors Valery Harvard, William G.
Gorgas and J. R. Kean, surgeons,
have been detailed to represent the
medical department of the army at the
Pan-American Medical Congress to
meet in the city Of Havana, December
26-29
Max J. Lasar, the diamond Snug
gler, pleaded guilty in the United
States court, at Buffalo. He was
fined $500 and sent to the Erie County
Jail for six months. The smuggled
diamonds were sold a few days ago
for $4,000.
Joseph S, Hill, Henry o. Pixley and
Alexander Colt, three students of the
University of California, have been
selected to help George Putnam and
F. w. Edmonds, engineers of the
coast and geodetic survey, to chart
viz h1i1pplnC oil SlltpSldSO.
In the supreme court argument was
heard in the Chicago drainage canal
case. The proceeding is instituted on
the part of the state of Missouri to
secure permanent injunction against
the use of the canal, for the protec-
ton of the water of ST. Louis.
William Haywood, United States
collector of internal revenue of
Honolulu, who arrived at San Fran
cisco on the steamer China, has
wired his resignation to Washing
ton. 1t is said he will represent Ha-
waiian business interests at the ma
tional capital
There arrived in New York on the
Atlantic transport steamship Min
nehaha, Mrs. Louis Irving Seymour,
widow of Major Seymour, commander
of the railway pioneer volunteer regi-
ment, who lost his life in south
Africa while leading a forlorn hope.
| F. w. Vaille, director general of
posts of the Philippine islands, in his
annual report to the postmaster gen.
eral shows a surplus of S19,62S to the
| credit Of the Philippine postal service.
The revenue to June 80 last was
S117,S46, and the expenditures $685.
22O.
The Anchor line, which maintains
two steamship services from the port
of New York, one to Glasgow, via
Neville, and the other to Genoa,