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

| defray the expenses OF sending out a |
party from the Lick observatory to OBJ
serve the total eclipse Of the sun May
%. The party viii be headed by AS |
tronomers W. W Carmben and c. D.. |
Perine
Miss Mary Trimble Lawrence. the |
sculptor, whose best-known work is a !
statue of Columbus which stood at the |
head of the court of honor at the Chill
cago worlds fair. was married TO Fran
co.'s Michael Tonetti, also a sculptor of
note.
J. F. Allen of New Orleans recently
bought 100000 admission tickets from
the authorities of the Paris exposi-
ton. He will scatter men in uniform
about the exposition city and through
them dispose of his tickets. which cost
him s15000O
A s50,000,OOO syndicate of which
}. n Huston, ex-treasurer of the
United States, is the head, has taken
up the work Of constructing a canal
across the Bayonne peninsula, from
f New York bay to Newark bay and
thence to South Newark. n J.
The Astoria (Oregon) council passed
an ordinance providing bounty of )
cdhts head for all dead rats delivered
, to the chief of police This action is
Q taken as precautionary measure
against possible appearance of the
+ plague arising from ships coming from
infected ports
August Belmont, head of the syndi-
cate that is backing John D. Mcdonald,
contractor for the New York Rapid
Transit tunnel, has placed an insur-
ance policy for 100000 on Mr..
- McDonald's life to secure Mr.. McDon-
: AIDS hackers in case he should die
within five years.
! When Mrs. Hetty Green, the multi
millionaire, was asked concerning the
> report that her daughter is to marry
, the Duke de la Tore of Spain. she
> Enthusiastically replied: I'D rather
my daughter would marry a good,
wide-awake newspaper reporter than
any duke in the world"
The Rumford medal of the American
Q Academy of Arts and Sciences has been
: awarded to Charles F. Brush of Cleve-
! land. 1t is given for exceptionally val
o. liable researches and developments
h along the lines of heat and light Mi.
Brush won it by the discovery and de-
velOpment OF the electric arc lamp
" The remains of the late Colonel R. B
- Wallace of the 9th infantry arrived
from Fort Huachuca, Ari.. where he
, died, as result of wounds received in
the Philippines The body will lie in
." state at the Auditorium and be buried
with military honors Indications are
- for the largest funeral in the history
Of the state.
"a The Chicago city council has passed
-, the mandatory tunnel ordinance by &
unanimous vote. 1t requires the street
: railway companies to lower La Sale
Washington and Van Buren, street tun-
nels under the Chicago river so as tC
- provide a clear depth of water fol-
= navigation of twenty-one feet low
y water mark.
I Secretary Long has sent instructions
to the contractor who has been en-
y gagged in the construction of a coaling
y station at Dry TOrtugas,, directing
ii him to suspend work until November
~ This action has been taken in compli.
e. ance with the necessity for using Dry
a. TOrtugas island between April l and
II Nov as a quarantine station
State and federal authorities came in
:, conflict at La Crosse when a deputy
United States marshal made a demand
on Sheriff Nelson and Anton o. Black
- Black was postmaster at Holmen. The
pOstOffice department wants Black Or
- charge of embezzling $4,000 postal
- funds. He was first arrested on a
state warrant and the state authorities
will not give him up
- In New York Controller Coler made
~ :, public statement of the city debt or
:, Jan. 80. The gross funded debt was
. 1864 1875 $50; the net, $25S, 312 ,4S4, anG
+ the net bonded debt S25S, 34O,084 There
were then besides outstanding bonds
y of various corporations, now wholly OF
lie partly included in the city of New
L York, amounting to $4,3S5, 391.
Is The smallest book in the world is
Is being made by the Cleveland Printing
and Publishing company. it is of
a. twenty pages, about half the size of a
u postage stamp, and is printed from
lie plates made from type reduced photo
IL graphically, and cannot be read with
&c out a magnifying glass. The matter
is an old religious poem, Thus spake
IS the Wind
) The Collins Comedy company, made
:. up of a party of amateurs from Mil
e waukee and GAINESVILLE, has been playing
S to hard business in western Wisconsin
towns. 1t got stranded at West Salem
r and the baggage was seized by hotel
/ man. Enough money was raised by
IL popular subscription to send two of
Il the young women back to their homes
in Milwaukee,
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