Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-01


der civil service rules.
At Wichita, Lewis J. Montague, |
of the Paul Gilmore company,
died from lockjaw, the result Of a pis-
toll wound accidentally received in a
stage duel
A general consolidation Of ali gas.
electric light and traction systems of
New York city under the supreme
control of the RockefeHers is said to
De impending.
The president is said to be almost
prepared TO open negotiations with
and Costa Rica in anticipa-
ton of the action of congress on the
pending canal bill
Theodore Bacon, Rochester, \. Y,
died, aged So. He was & prominent
lawyer in western New York and was
an Independent candidate for governor
against Roosevelt.
Colonel Isaac L. ElwOod the barb
wire magnate, gave each of his five
grown children a check for 100000
at breakfast Christmas day, at his
home in DeKalb, III.
In Chicago Thomas Hennessy, man
ager of the st. Louis Radiator Com
pany, jumped to his death from a
third story window. at Mercy hospital,
while temporarily insane.
The war department has issued
regulation regarding army campaign
hats, which reads: The wearing of
these hats in any other than their
legal shape is prohibited"
The Slack Barrel Coopers' Associa-
ton of the United States was or
ganized by fourteen manufacturers Of
slack barrels. Sixty manufacturers
were represented by letter.
The Rev. C. NJ Sheldon, author of
In His Steps, will for one week edit
and publish the Topeka Daily Capital,
an established newspaper, his motto
being, What Would Jesus Do?"
e. E. Slower is said to be still liv-
ing, in Oregon. He was credited with
having confessed on his deathbed to
murder for which William Rose
was executed at Redwood Falls, MINI.
! J. Edgar Walton, the Augusta, Me,
forgar, was arrested as he was at
tempting to escape from the Chicago
National bank. He had nearly 200
blank checks on various banks in his
possession.
| In Omaha Frank A. Sears and
George H. Hess, members of the board
of education, have been held on the
charge of receiving brides in connec-
ton with the letting of contracts for
school work.
| Commissioner Hermann has recon-
mended that two land officers in
Alaska be abolished and one establish
ed. The effect of this will be to place
western Alaska in two districts in
stead of three.
Jefferson Davis StOrts, a well-known
attorney and one of the picturesque
characters of ST. Louis, died of injuries
received by falling from street car.
He was a member of the Missouri
| legislature in 1888.
The Pennsylvania railroad sub
scribed $4,000 toward the $4,000 ,00C
subscription fund being raised for the
ST. Louis worlds fair, to be held in
1903 to commemorate the Louisiana
purchase centennial.
There is a report that as soon as
Webster Davis, assistant secretary OF
the interior, returns from south Africa
he will resign his position and his
friends will announce him a candidate
for the vice presidency.
The Glasgow steamer Ardandhu
! T Io1;
fax, n. S., was sunk in a collision in
Vineyard sound on the Massachus-
etts coast and the chief engineer and
second mate were drowned.
! Watterson Stealey, newspaper
man and a son of o. o. Stealey of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, has been
appointed by Commissioner Peck tc
an important position in the press
bureau of the Paris exposition.
The investigation of the charges OF
bribery preferred against Senator
Clark, of the Montana, has caused the
belief that the committee is disap-
pointed because the accused does not
evince a desire to be heard in his
own behalf.
The steamer Doric, which arrived
from the orient, landed 700 Japanese
at Honolulu. This completed list of
1000 inside of four days. The records
of the immigration bureau at Honolulu
shows that since June Is last 1880
! Japanese have been landed there
The third assistant postmaster gem
eral reports an increase of 1852 per
cent. in the issue of postage stamps the
| last quarter. This means that 5,344,31O
| postage due stamps were issued in
the last four months of last year,
against 3,905,S70 stamps issued in the
SAM length of time in 1898.
! Julius A. Mcneil a non-union en-
ploye, killed Edward A. O'Connor, sec
rotary of the Metal Workers union,
during an assault upon Mcneil as he
was going home from work at Wins
low Bros ornamental iron works,
Chicago. Brass buckles were found
clinched in the dead mans right hand
DR.. William George Young of Grand
Rapids, Mich, and Miss Lora Black
man of Bristol, Wis, were married in
Chicago, enacting the last chapter in
a romance which began in the hospital
at Puerto Rico, where Miss Blackman
vas a trained nurse. Her parents are
wealthy.
Clyde Wallace was held to the fed
eral grand jury in $500 bonds on
the charge of stealing a sack of gold
from the United States subtreasury in
Chicago, in which he was a clerk
He received by mistake $4,000 in gold