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

a preliminary meeting was held TO
prepare for a national celebration
the establishment OF
ne seat of government at Washington.
The Illinois supreme court decided
hat the understanding between
Treasurer Ramsay and his bondsmen
was Illegal. They must pay 1868, 1888.
Senator Clark gave list Of his ex-
Denditures in the Montana campaign
to s142,6S2. DR.. Treacey
having offered to bTibe Just
ice Hunt
At Maryvil1e, Mo, c. G. Jesse, a |
Frank Griffin, on the streets, April g. |
1898, was sentenced to two years i'm
President Barrows has announced a
gift of $4,000 for Oberlin college from
the estate of William E. Osborn OF
Pittsburg for the endowment Of the
presidents chair.
The physician who has been attend
ing E. J. Phelps, ex-minister to Eng
land, for the first time expressed HIM
self authoritatively that his patient
was out Of danger. =.
Casper Fechteter, a dealer in carriage
materials and one of the best-knoWn
German merchants in New York, is
dead, aged So He conducted store in
Chicago for six years.
The division Of the Woman's Suf-
frage association is expected TO lead to
the formation of a new organization.
The Blake faction criticises Mrs. Gait S
use of the association funds.
Polish residents of Chiacgo say that
there is an organization of people OF
that nationality here and in Europe
ready to fight against Russia in case
of an Anglo-Russian war.
Rev Samuel E. Eliot, secretary of
the American Unitarian association,
has decided to become pastor of the
South Congregational church, Boston,
succeeding DIR. Everett Hale.
Secretary Roots bill to partially re-
organize the army has been sent to
congress. One Of the more important
features is that giving the president
the right to make one-third of the pro-
motions.
No relative or friend visited Molin-
eux in Sing Sing prison. He contin-
ued in his cheerful frame of mind. His
family are preparing to move near
! him. They may rent a cottage near
| the prison.
| William w. Wicker is dead at his
home in Brooklyn, aged 80 years. He
was pioneer in the shipment Of re-
| frigerated goods and sent to England
the first consignment of American
dressed meat.
| At Delaware, Ohio, Solomon Rose
welt, builder of the Baltic and Pacific,
the first steamer to cross the Atlantic,
is dead, aged SO years. He was born
in Alburg, VT, and lived many years
in New York city.
Miss Eleanor Kent, former society
| girl of San Francisco, has resigned
from the Milton Aborn Opera COM
pany, broken contract with the Amer
lean Theater company and sailed for
Europe to study grand opera.
At Springfield, Ohio, R. S. Thomp-
son, state and national chairman of
the reform party, received word of the
death Of his brother in the Fiji is
lands, leaving an immense fortune. He
was killed in an instruction of ma
tives.
At Eldora, n j., the wife and two
sons of Enoch Ward were drowned.
! The boys were playing on the ice,
when they broke through. Their
screams attracted the attention of the
mother, who ran to save them, and all
persisted.
The democratic members Of the Ken
lucky legislature, who have been hold
| ing sessions at Louisville since w. S.
| Taylor, the republican claimant for the
| governorship, barred them from the
state house, have resumed their meet
ings at Frankfort.
Chicago bonds amounting to ST.
| 100000 are to be issued by the city for
the erection Of a plant to utilize the
| drainage canal water power, under
contract with the sanitary trustees.
The city council has passed an ordi
nance to this effect.
At Paris, H., Newton E. knight,
aged 35, is under arrest charged with
the murder Of his brother, S. H., aged
80. He claims the murder was COM
mitted by stranger, who crept up be-
hind him and his brother as they
were repairing fence.
Jean Louis Legare, who surrendered
Sitting Bull and hundreds of his Sioux
to the United States government in
1881 and 1882, is on his way to
Ottawa to push his claims for $13, 400
and interest from the time of it's pres
entation eighteen years ago.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany has completed the purchase Of all
the telegraph lines of the Deseret Tele-
graph company, which has heretofore
belonged to and been operated by the
Mormon church. These lines extend
throughout Utah, Idaho and Nevada
DR.. Leslie E. Kelley, inventor Of the
died at Los Angeles, Cal, of heart fail
ure while being treated by Christian
Science methods by ex-Judge Ewing
Of Chicago. Interment will be at
Dwight, III. His estate is valued at
81 900, OOO
At Kansas City, Mo-, Arthur Girls
som, the poet and editor of a society
paper, has dismissed his $4,000 dam |
age suit against his father-in-law, DR..