Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-15

L He AISc4Llue reciprocity treaty /
failed by default-beaten by Ohio wool |
growers.
Judge William H. Taft was appoint |
ed president of the new Philippine |
commission.
San Francisco is practically chosen
as the place for holding the Corbett- |
Jeffries fight.
Iowa saloons must close. The stay
order Of the supreme court is not of
general effect.
BoothTucker said that God uses
America as connecting link between
the other nations.
The Iowa house Endorsed the pro-
posal to elect United States senators
by popular vote.
William Henry Glider, explorer and
journalist, died at Morristown, n. J.,
at the age of 81.
Dewey told a Brooklyn club that in
Mrs. Dewey he possessed t'the wealth
of the world"
The Iowa house passed a bill raising
the governors salary to $4,000, with
ST. 100 in allowances.
to Frankfort, viewed by thousands of
friends and buried
Ex-Governor Hauser of Montana
said s1,000,0O was spent during the
capital location contest.
Control of practically all the lines
west of Chicago is reported assured to
the great railway syndicate.
A caOata pOrn 70
ported the bill creating a department
Of commerce and industries.
| 1t is said John D. Rockefeller has
decided to retire from presidency of
the Standard Oil company
| Brigham H. Roberts entered a plea
Of not guilty on the charge of polyg-
amy and waived examination.
George Dietrich, formerly of Bloom
ington, Ill, and a friend of Lincoln
died in Seattle, Wash, aged 80.
John Jacobson and George Moehey
! were blown to atoms by the explosion
of dynamite at Iron Mountain, Mich.
At Sioux City o. E. Goodrich has
been acquitted Oh the charge Of muir
dering his partner, John E. Robson.
Philip Link, vice president of the
Star Union Brewing company of Peru,
H., died at his home in La Sale, Ill.
Thomas Waggoner was stabbed to
death at Washington, Ind, by James
Abel in a row over the jilting of Abel.
Arthur Sewell, democratic candidate
for vice president in 1896, says the
United States must hold the Philip
pines.
Miss Elsie c. Fordycc Barker, daugh-
ter of the late DIR. Fordyce Barker, was
married to Murray W. Dodge in New
York.
Receivers have been appointed for
the Charles A Vogeler company, large
dealers in druggists supplies in Balti-
more.
The Anglo-American Automobile
company, with a capital of $75,0OO,-
600. expects an almost complete mon
Opoly.
Both sides claim a victory in the
Duluth mayoralty election, republi-
cans by six votes and democrats by
twelve.
, An actress who carried a British flag
was driven off by Kisses of boer sym
| pathizers.
At Columbus O., the Clark local OPP
J ton bill providing for local option
elections in wards of cities has passed
the house.
General William R. Olmstead, a civil
= war veteran, has taken minor orders
| IF hn 10
! Dame. Ind.
There is talk of uniting the National
: Steel, American Steel Hoop and Amer
lean Tinplate companies. Capital
$14O 900 900
Robert S. Hesler, Marshall county
CID pioneer and former representa-
tive from the Twentieth district, died
at San Antonio, Tex
At Norwich, Conn, fire burned to
the ground the Hopkins & Allyns pis-
, tol shop and partly destroyed several
other buildings. Loss, $4,000
Mrs. Langtry's acceptance by New
York society is said to be due to the
prince of Wales threat of reprisals
against those who should snub her.
Mrs. Deborah S. Cummings, widow
of Joseph E. Cummings, former presi-
dent of Northwestern university, died
in Evanston, of bronchial pneumonia.
Webster Huff, a guard of the Indiana
state penitentiary and a brother of J.
NJ. Huff of the legislature, was shot
and fatally injured in a fight at Odin,
Ind.
At Columbus, O., Miss Anna Wells
received through the mail a handker-
chief filled with poisonous powder.
She inhaled the powder and is now
very i'll.
1t is probable that the conditions of
unrest in China will decide the gov
eminent to send one or more warships
to that country as a precautionary
measure.
1t is stated there are two boer re-
cruiting officers in Chicago, and that
men are being enlisted every day at
! $50 a month and transportation to
south Africa.
Patrick Grow, suspected of being i'm
plicated in the daring Northwest ern
train robbery between Maple Park and
Dekalb on the night of Oct. Is, has
been arrested.
The British government has agreed
TO amendment of the Clayton Bulwer
treaty to permit the construction Of
the Nicaragua canal without asking
compensation.
Sister Mary Courage of Davenport,
Ia, went to Minneapolis to take the
position of assistant Mother Superior