Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-01


painter, is dead in New York, aged %.
The Sons of Veterans propose the
of a national military college.
Suit was brought to prevent the col
lection of duties on Porto Rican i'm
ports.
Gov. Tanner has had relapse and
his projected trip to the south is post
poned
Free tuition is to be given 1000 Gu
ban teachers in Harvard Summer
School
Congress may authorize a monument
at Washington in honor of U. 5.
Grant.
Massachusetts House postponed res
olution defending Senator Hoar's
policy.
Republican and democratic legislat-
ors in Kentucky held doublc-headed
session.
John Root of Chicago knocked out
Ed. Denfass of Philadelphia in four
rounds.
The modified subsidy bill will be ia
vorably reported but its passage is
unlikely.
Iowa's revenues for the biennial peri
Cd are $5,018,145 with expenditures Of
$3,742, 697
The new revenue cutter for the great
lakes will be 178 feet long, with 80
feet beam.
A. w. Perry, editor of Perry's Mu
steal Magazine, is dead at Sedalia, Mo,
aged H.
Balls statue of Washington, cost
ing $3.50 900, was dedicated at Law
renee, Mass.
Philadelphians have raised $4,000
in cash for the republican national
convention.
Two ships foundered off the Atlantic
coast near Norfolk, seven II more lives
being lost.
Congressman Overstreet, Lands,
and Crumbacker of Indiana were re-
nominated
H. c. Miner, New York theatrical
manager, died. His estate is valued
at $5,000,000.
The fast mail on the Wisconsin
Central jumped the track near Curtis,
injuring II persons.
The Chinese minister said the United
! States should apply the Monroe doc
trine to Asia.
Dr. d. K Pearsons of Chicago will
give $4,000 to the Congregational Ed
vocational society.
The democratic members of the
Kentucky legislature ratified their
election of Goebel.
The st. Charles college at Grant
Coteau, La, with a valuable library,
burned. Loss $4,000.
The president may appoint Gen
Luke E. Wright of Memphis on the
Philippine commission
Katherine Schlosser, blind since she
was years old, is to make her debut
as pianist in New Yrok.
Warner Miller has abandoned the
scheme to build a line from Milwau-
kee to the gulf of Mexico.
Most army officers oppose the reor-
ganization bill. They fear that merit
will not influence promotions.
The Hepburn canal bill was reported
to the house. 1t declared the Clayton
Bulwer treaty dead letter
Casper Fletcher one of the best
known German merchants in New York
city, died, aged IS years.
Senator Hannas son, Dan r. Hanna
was welded to Mrs. Daisy Gordon
Maud in Chenille, Ohio.
Two thousand Yaqui Indians are
said to be marching on Guaymas, Mex
leo, where there are but 300 soldiers.
Sam Johnson, who was leading low
comedian in Sir Henry Irving's COM
pany for many years, is dead in London.
At Peekskill, n. Y, Mrs. Richard B.
Crane has given 100000 to the Presby-
terrain church mission board of New
York.
At Minneapolis the congregation Of
the Wesley church contributed $23 900
| to pay the balance of the debt on the
church
Reports from Jacksonville, Fla, are to
the effect that the cold weather may
the state
| Leander J. Mccormick, aged 81 years,
| died Of pneumonia in Chicago His
real estate holdings are valued at
Sc, 900, 900.
Olga Nethersole, her manager, and
leading man were arrested in New
York Oh the charge that Sapho is an
indecent play.
Kansas City beat Milwaukee and cap
tured the democratic national conven-
ton. 1t will be held July 4. The vote
was 40 to g.
The United States first class battle
ship Kearsarge was placed in commits
sion at Newport News, Captain w. NJ
Folger in command
William Mcdonald, the young Califor-
mia basso, who has been singing with
the Bostonians for two seasons, is "
ing seriously i'll of paralysis of the
jaw
DIR. Shaler CRANKY Hillyer, the oldest
and best-known Baptist minister in
Georgia, died, aged 81. He had been
preaching 6S yeraS.
Enormous shipments of agriul-
tural machinery are being made to
Russia for the development of the vast
wheat fields of Siberia.
The South Dakota republican state
central committee has fixed May % as
the date and Sioux Falls as the place
for the state convention.
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