Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-29

last night on the graves OF his wife
and child
James F. Fyfe, engineer for Armour
& Co. Chicago, confessed to making
bogus nickels. The whole district isl
flooded with counterfeits.
A proposition is pending in the Mis-
sissippi legislature TO limit appropria-
tons for negro schools to the school
tax contributed by negroes.
President Mckinley has been tend
cred the professorship of international
law in the new Methodist university
being erected in Washington
In New York Lizzie Walsh, a girl of
IS, years, recovered from a trance. She
was supposed to be dead and her
awakening created sensation.
William Henderson, indicted for
murder in the first degree, was placed
on trial at Canton. The victim was an
aged man who was robbed of $780,
At Lima O., while playing with a
neighbor's dog the 2-year-oId child Of
Noah Brennan was horribly wounded
on the face and head and will die.
Congressman James NJ Miller of
Council Grove was renominated by ac-
clamation by the republican conven-
ton of the fourth Kansas district
The Anglo-American joint high COM
mission may consider proposition to
exchange and Alaskan port for the
right to fortify the Nicaraguan canal.
The Mckenzie bill, providing that
street car franchises shall be submit
ted to vote of the people, was de-
feated in the Ohio house of representa-
tiyes.
Hubbard Latham, one of the found
ers of the city of Sandwich, ILL.,, and a
| California forty-niner, is dead at his
residence in Wilimette, a suburb OF
Chicago.
A coroner's inquest eXonerated
BERTHE Finch, the 16-yearold Austin
ILL.,, boy, who, to protect his mothers
life, shot and killed his frenzed father
George Finch.
Ernest o. Schlapp, member Of the
Winner company, Burlington, Iowa
broke through the ice while hunting
and was drowned.
In Chicago Jennie Patterson was
killed and her sister Maggie fatally in
jured by a locomotive, at the crossing
of the belt railway, at Twenty-nintf
street and Stewart avenue.
The announcement that Julia Arthur
is to leave the stage, for time a
lease-perhaps permanenuy-is If
firmed by her husband, B. z. Chene!
of Boston. sThe cause is illness.
Colonel Thomas McGregor, nintI
cavalry, has been assigned to the com
mand Of the department of Colorado
, during the temporary absence of Brig
adler General Henry c. Merriam.
President H II. Vreeland, of tn
Metropolitan Street railway of New
York, has announced that the Metro
politan has secured a controlling in
terest in the Third avenue line.
The report that Admiral and Mrs
Dewey would go to Europe this sum
mer is denied by Dewey's secretary
Admiral Dewey suffered from an at
tack of indigestion at Savannah Ga.
At Toledo Colonel Henry S. Bunker
a prominent attorney and militar.
man, was found dead in his office witt
, known whether it is murder or suicide
General Jealous B. Tower, Z. S. A
(retired), died at Cohasset Mass, age
81 years He was graduated from tn
military academy in 1S47, and say
active service in the Mexican and ciyi
wars.
In New York Jennie O'Neill Potter
the elocutionist, is gradually growing
worse. For three weeks she has beer
unable to see any of her friends VIII
have called on her at st. Luke's hos
pital.
At Roanoke, Va, Mrs. Clara T. Mer
rill was awarded a verdict of $3.50
damages against G. H. Marshall
Preferred Accident association, for al
legged SANDER
) As q result of the movement recent,
inaugurated in Cleveland against tn
presentation of certain plays, the en-.
| gagement of Mrs. Langtry, who wa
billed to open The Degenerates, ha
been cancelled.
A prairie fire started near HOughtOn
S. D., and spread over large trac
Of country. Thousands of acres Of fin,
range were burned over and severa
farm buildings were destroyed. Tt,
loss is heavy.
Railroads hesitate to push claim:
; against the government for the trans
pOrtation of troops during the war
Lawyers say a suit might reveal the
fact that the roads violated the laws
by making pool
The body of Rev. Thomas K. Beechel
OF Elmira, who died last week, was in
Generated at the Buffalo crematory. Ii
accordance with the oft-expressed wish
Of Mr.. Beecher, no ceremonies what
ever were held.
Miss Maude Adams, in gold, will cc-
cupy prominent station in the PaIais
de lOptique during the Paris exposi-
ton. A gold statue of her, weighing
712 pounds, was cast in a bronze
foundry Of New York.
| War claims filed by church and
| kindred societies for dam9paS Sis