Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-23


Army. who has been i'll near AsburE
Park, n. j., is out of danger.
1t is announced that Senator Marion
Butler Of North Carolina, chairman Of
the populist national committee, Will
take the stump for Mckinley.
Sub-ContractorJ c. Rodgers declares
that the rapid-transit delay il New
York is due to John B. McDonald's
failure to execute final contracts.
At Columbus, Ohio F. NJ. Renick Of
Falling Springs, ". Va, leaped from
the roof of the statehouse and was
dashed to death so feet below.
Terrell, mureder Of Express Mess
enger Lane, received visit in
the Columbus co. jail from the girl
for whom he committed the robbery.
General Randall, commander OF the
department of Alaska, estimates that
fully 1000 persons will be made des-
titute at Nome at the close of nayiga-
ton.
Candidate Woolley Of the prohibition
party will take the stump as soon as
he RECEIVERS the use of his dislocated
shoulder. The country is to be widely
toured.
George Ferguson, who superintendent
the burial Of 5000 bodies in the Kings
county, n. Y, potter field, has him
self been buried there. He was 6S
years old
B. F. Mamreoy, at one time private
secretary to William H. Seward, died
suddenly at him home in New York
aged 49, He was a Russian, born n
Jerusalem.
The Bank of Kingfsher, Oklahoma
has been closed. Assets are $4,000
and liabilities $4,000, including q
claim Of $4,000 by the county
treasurer.
The navy department has decided tC
reject all the bids for armor plate, but
it is said that this does not indicate
the governments purpose to build &
plant of it own.
A new telegraph company, to CONS
into the field as a rival Of the Western
Union and Postal concerns, was
launched by the Chicago Board o.
Trade members.
The pamphlet issued by the Treasury
Department shows that during the last
quarter century the greater revenue
save that raised by the war tax. was
recorded in 1882.
Mayor Frederick e. Prime, an engin
the civil war and chief engineer il
Grants Mississippi campaign, is dea(
at Litchffeld. Conn.
Coils P. Huntington, president Of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, died al
Pine Knot Camp, on Racquette lake
in the Adirondacks, New York state
of heart disease, aged 70 years.
John Hogan, formerly a battalion
chief Of the Jersey City fire depart
ment cut his Wife's throat and then
his own. Both are in a precarious
condition. The man was jealous.
An omnibus containing 25 persons
who were returning from funeral
was struck by train at Slatlngton
Pa, and II of the party were killed
and several others fatally wounded.
At New Kensington, Pa, almost thu
entire plant Of the Pittsburg Reduc-
ton company's aluminium works was
destroyed by tornado; loss $100,000
Frank Johnston, the engineer, was ia
tally -4-.ured.
The abductOrs of Hazel Patterson Of
Ken0sha, were captured and the child
was restored TO its mother. The at
tempt was made by relatives to get
possession of the child, who is heir tc
q large estate.
The new Hamburg American liner
Deutschland, made the fastest hourly
average ever attained by a passenger
steamer. 1t crossed from Sandy Hook
TO Plymouth in five days, eleven hours
and forty-five minutes.
At San Francisco, Mrs. Nettie R
Craven has again suffered defeat III
her battle for the millions Of the late
Senator James G. Fair. A decision
rendered by Judge Trout holds mat
she is not the widow of Fair.
George H. Curtiss, senior member
Of the wholesale dry goods firm OF
Curtiss & Warren, of Chicago, is dead.
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business in Chicago since 1886. A
widow and two children, both of whom
are grown, survive The children are
Edward X. Curtiss and Elizabeth F.
Curtiss.
Dwight H. Bill. aged 81, died at
Bridgeport, Conn, at the residence o.
his brother, DR.. c. H. Bill, after long
i11n0cc n0oNo~nJ
emigrant agent of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railroad.
The two Union Pacific train robbers
killed in Kansas are believed to be
James and Tom Jones, Missouri ami
Texas desperadoes. There is a reward
of $4,000 in Missouri and $500 in Texas
for the brothers. dead or alive.
The largest amount of gold ever
shipped in a day from this country to
Europe has been ordered for shipment
The amount is over SS,00O,000 and is
the first payment on the English war
bonds subscribed for in this country
Gov. Roosevelt announced that nc
would ask Mayor Van Wyck to answer
charges against him OF malfeasance IN
Office in connection with ice-trus5
scandal, and then decide the question
of appointing q commissioner to take
evidence.
The California deadlock between the
wine makers and wine growers ended
by the breaking up Of the growers
combine. Grapes are selling for S13
and S14 ton, instead of SIS and $40.
the prices fixed by the defunct growers
association.