Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-20


ferred upon him the title of Monsig-
nor.
The American Federation of Labor
in convention at Louisville, voted
OVID a resolution asking for a de-
artment OF labor in the national cab
net.
Rabbi Leon Harrison, pastor of
Temple Israel, of st. Louis, declined
TO call to Temple Emanuel, of New
York, the leading Jewish synagogue in
the east.
Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., former
note teller of the First National bank
il n. Y, accused of having embez-
zled 100000 from that institution,
was indicted.
bill is to be introduced in the
Illinois legislature to utilize stone
taken out of the drainage canal for
making hard roads. Convict labor is
to be employed.
The Vanderbilt interests have placed
orders for 10000 tons of steel rails at
s26 ton. This breaks up the organ
lied effort of the railroads to force the
price down to $22.
Mrs. H. H. Applin, AIT Washington
boulevard, Chicago, and her guest,
Mrs. Miada M. Hart of Indianapolis,
Ind, was robbed of diamonds, jewelry
and money aggregating $4,000.
Samuel Griffin, colored, one of the
sailors who was On the battleship
Maine when it was blown up, was
shot and killed during quarrel with
Herman Harris in New Jersey.
Joseph Dupuis, noted dwarf, died
at Kankakee, ILL.,, aged SO years. Du
puts was but 43 inches tall and wore
a childs shoe. He had accumulated a
large estate through farming.
The national meeting of the Young
Peoples Union, United Presbyterian
church, has selected Winona, Ind, as
the next meeting place in 1901, to be
held the second week in August.
Wall street was amazed on reading
the schedules of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt's holdings, to learn that he
had so much Brooklyn rapid transit
stock and so little New York Central
stock.
Miss Caroline Moss Thornton
daughter of the Montana copper king
and James Guerrero Oxhard were mar
ried at the home of the brides mother
Mrs. John C. c.. Thornton, in New
York.
Maj. James Converse, widely known
| throughout the southwest, died al
Abiline, Tex, of congestion of the
lungs, aged II years. He built the
| Southern Pacific railroad through
Texas.
The, Iowa state agricultural conven
| ton adopted a resolution favoring the
creation of a national park at the
headwaters of the Mississippi river
r. J. Johnson of Humboldt was elected
president.
The Saxton Block, owned by Mrs
| M. G. Barber, sister of President Nc
Kinley's wife. was destroyed by fire al
Canton. Twenty families who occupied
the houses are homeless. The loss
| will reach 100000.
| y
| building, 263-267 Prospect avenue
Brooklyn, causing loss of 100000
partly covered by insurance. The
building was opened and used by Johr
| Kolle as a concert hall
| Rabbi I. S. Moses, who for eight
years has been pastor of the syna
gogue at Thirty-third street and In
| diana avenue, Chicago, has accepted q
call from the Ahavdt Chosen Congre
cation, of New York city.
Alice O'Donnell, a trained nurse
while visiting Mr.. and Mrs James
Jones of Brooklyn, killed their Is
months-old child, cutting his throat
with razor. She had nursed the
child in infancy. She escaped.
The jury in the case of John Gafford
Montgomery, Ala, charged with the
murder Of Frances Lloyd, brought in
verdict of not guilty. This termi
mates one Of the most celebrated Grim.
inal cases ever tried in Alabama.
In San Francisco William E. Wood
vice-president of the Croker-Wool.
worth National bank, is dead. He
was rs years old and was formerly as
ISOLATED in business with the late
Charles Croker, the railroad magnate.
j. Henry Miller, noted breeder
and turfman, and for many years Sec
rotary of the Kentucky association
and manager of the Western Book
makers association, died from a
stroke of paralysis at his home in Lex
ington.
Mrs. Washington Mclean, Mrs.
Dewey's mother, who died of heart dis
ease, left an estate valued at nearly
$2,OO0,00O She left three children,
Mrs. Dewey, Mrs. Ludlow and John
R. Mclean, editor of the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The corner stone of the administra-
ton building for the South Carolina
interstate and West Indian exposition
was laid with Masonic ceremonies in
the presence of 10000 people at
Charleston by Orlando Sheppard, grand
master of Masons.
At the masS-meeting of the city
vigilance league in New York all the
speakers declared that the fight this
year is against Tammany and that the
city cannot be cleansed until the or
ganization is wiped out. DR.. Park
hurst sent ringing letter declaring
that Croker is ''the only target in the
reform shooting match"
Charles Passow, one Of Chicago's
prominent citizens, died of grief over
the death of his wife more than nine
months ago. He was the senior mem