Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-08

registration this year, as against ,It5
in 1894, 1894 in 1896 and 1925 in 1898,
Maj. Henry J. Hearsey, editor Of the
New Orleans Daily States, and one o.
the best known newspaper writers in
the south, died. He was so years If
age.
Dr.. Vosberg-Rekow, German dele
gate to the Philadelphia export eX-
position. says in a short while the
United States will conquer the worlds
markets.
John w. Yerkes, collector Of internal
revenue for the eighth district OF Ken
lucky, has resigned, to take effect Nov.
l. Yerkes is the republican candidate
for governor.
A story is published III Plttsburg
that the Cartegie Steel company in
tends to invade the sheet steel bust
ness by manufacturing chs i."ouct 1T
the Duquesle works.
Andre Dauchez, Paris, won the gold
medal and 81 500 at the Carnegie art
gallery international exhibition 1T
Pittsburg. Minister WI made the
founders day address.
It is said the United States govern
ment will oppose any effort Germany
may make to establish a coaling sta
ton in Venezuela or any other country
in the western hemisphere.
James Rudy, a few years ago one
of the best known turfmen in the west
and with his brother. Watson Ruddy,
proprietor Of large racing stable, died
at Aurora of typhoid fever, aged SIS.
Benjamin J. Hamm. who gained
fame as the Turkey King" of Chicago
two years ago, and was afterwards
convicted in the federal courts for
using the mails to defraud. is violently
insane.
Many prominent NEWCOMERS, in
Guiding eX-Speaker Reed, Andrew
Carnegie, Bourke Cochran. w. K.
Vanderbilt, and w c. Whitney, will
not be able to vote because they did
not register.
Louis MOfson, 10 years old, tried to
end his life in Chicago because he be-
came convinced that he was homely,
Unattractive and because his sisters
made his facial features the object of
their Tidicule.
General Wilson, chief of engineers of
the army, submits estimates for the
next fiscal year for Notifications
amounting to $5,715,OOO and for river
and harbOr improvements aggregating
$2O,OOO,OO0
Guilty of murder in the second de
gree was the verdict brought in by
the jury of New York before which
Arthur Harris, the negro, has been on
trial for killing Patrolman Robert J.
Thorpe in race riots.
At Bridgeport, ILL.,, Samuel Bucha-
nan hit James PETER with an iron
weight and killed him almost instantly
in a quarrel over politics. PETER was
an aged saddler. Buchanan was
placed under arrest.
Professor Hilprecht, University of
Pennsylvania, returned from Mesopo-
tamia, tells of the discovery Of an
ancient Babylonia library in the TEN
pie of Nippur, which sheds new light
on the worlds history.
Smallpox has broken out on a num-
Der of Indian reservations in the far
west, and it is feared that when the
cold weather sets in the epidemic will
become more widespread and assume
a more malignant form.
The long overdue steamer Robert
Dollar has arrived at Seattle from
Nome with $50 passengers and 81, 000,-
900 in gold dust. The steamer Ohio
arrived from Nome with APT passen-
gers and $250,0O0 in gold dust
President Mckinley attended church
Sunday. Later the president and Mrs
Mckinley and Capt. and Mrs. Nc
Williams went to the country home Of
Mrs. Marie S. Saxton for lunch. Mrs.
SaXton is an aunt of the ladies.
Robbers raided the town of Round
shead, Ohio. They dynamited several
safes, securing small sums. Citizens
aroused by the explosions were shot at
by the robbers. who finally rode away
towards Lima, shooting as they went.
1t is stated that F. H McGuigan.
general superintendent of the Grand
Trunk, will be promoted to the general
management of that system in success
sion to Charles H. Hays, resigned to
accept the presidency Of the Southern
Pacific
Secretary Wilson will ask congress
for authority to build a cable from the
mainland to Tatoosh islands, at the
entrance to Puget sound. Washington,
and then establish a permanent
weather bureau and ship reporting
station there.
The Mennonite Brethren church of
Kansas proposes to go into the bank
ing business The bank is to have a
capital of $4,000 and is to be run
strictly as a money-making institution
TIE stock will be subscribed by mem
bers Of the church.
Fire which started in the building OF
Tarrant & Co.. wholesale druggists.
northwest corner of Warren and
Greenwich streets. New York city,
caused a property loss of S1,3OO,OOO
and the death, it is feared. Of Al per
sons. Several hundred were injured.
The sequel to the finding of the body
of Mrs Charles A. Keffer on a public
road eight miles below Reading. Pa,
shot to death, developed when the
body of her husband was found in a
coal chute. He had killed her and
then committed suicide. Jealousy WIS
the cause.
Gen. D. M. Frost, for fifty years one
of the best known residents Of st.
Louis, is dead, age II. He was born ia
Schenectady county, New York, in
1928; was graduated from West Point
in l S44 and Sarued in the Mexican and