Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-10

Edmund H. Moller, Lincoln, ILL.,,
harnessmaker, was left s750,00O by
his father, who died in Australia.
Ben H. Brainerd, treasurer of the
Illinois state board of agriculture, is
said to be short $4,000 to $4,000.
Henry Clews, in a newspaper article,
declares that the Standard Oil combi-
nation controls affairs in Wall street.
Governor Thomas in his final mes
sage to the Legislature declared
Colorado on the verge of bankruptcy.
Miss Helen Gould is said to have
gone in the mining business in part
nership with NJ Mankuss of Colorado.
Sentiment in congress is growing in
favor of making the term of
representative in congress four years.
Mr.. Cazneau Mcleod, who was sec
rotary to Governors Lee and Mckin-
ney, committed suicide in Richmond:
Va.
| Theodore Roosevelt, vice-president-
elect, was conducted into the mys-
teries of the Masonic order at Oyster
Bay.
Governor Pingree sent a remarkable
farewell message to the Michigan leg
islature. He scored judges and corpor.
atoms
The Delaware legislature was or
ganized under the truce between the
union and regular republicans at
Dover.
Virginia Harris of Rensselaer,, Ind,
sued Benjamin Durham of Onergo, H.,
for $4,000 for breach of promise to
marry.
Hattie Florette Farley, the Daisy
Styles of the Brown from Boston COM
pany, died of diphtheria at Hartford
City, Ind.
A New Haven coroner's jury de-
cided that Mrs. William Rathbun
killed her husband by poison intended
for another.
Peter L. Buhmann was killed at
Norfolk, Neb., by the premature eX-
Iplosion of a mortar used to celebrate
the new year.
Eugene G. Smith, well-known
farmer, was found dead in bed at
Linchburg, Tenn, with his head split
open by an ak.
James F. Harlan, SOL Of Justice Har
Ian of the United States supreme
court, was appointed attorney general
for Porto Rico.
The extensive pattern plant of S
Jarvis, Adams & Co., Pittsburg, burned
The loss is at 100000, and is covered
by insurance.
Lieutenant Colonel H. R. Brinker
hoff has been assigned by the war de
partment to teach military science al
Chicago University.
Edward and Lucius Hitchcock were
killed and three other men badly in
jured by boiler explosion in a saw.
mill at CORTLAND, Ohio.
Hawaiian commercial interests have
sent a lobbyist to Washington to as
sist the congressional delegate in look
ing after insular affairs.
The new city ordinance fixing the
price of gas at rs cents in Chicago
will not be enforced until federal
court passes on question
Almost the entire business portion
of Williamson, W, Va, including two
squares, was wiped out by fire. The
fire caused loss of $4,000.
The United States transport Thyra
has sailed from Portland, Oregon, for
Manila with $50 horses and a cargo
for the army in the Philippines.
The gold production of Oregon fol
1900 amounted to s3,770,O00. The
lumber output of the state for the year
amounted to S9S $780, 900 feet.
Mayor Harrison ordered all bars in
Chicago closed on Sundays. Half the
big hotels and several prominent
saloon-keepers ignored the order.
Miss Margaret Daily, daughter of
the last Marcus DAILY, the Copper
King, was married to Carroll Brown
in her Fifth avenue home, New York.
The cost of running New York is
ruinously extravagant. The total in.
crease in five departments since Mayor
Strong's administration is S23, ,524.
Mrs. Harry D. Johnson, wife of the
superintendent of the Studebaker
wagon works and eldest daughter of
j. M. Studebaker, died at South Bend,
Ind.
Samuel V. r. Hill, general agent of
the Adams Express Company in Phila-
delphia, is dead. Death was due to
pleuro-pneumonia He was SIS years
CID
The war between the sugar and cot
fee trusts has been settled. The Ar.
buckles give up sugar manufacturing
and the Havemeyers leave coffee
alone.
The Republican legislative caucus
IN Pennsylvania assured Quay 124
votes for senator. He needs 127.
Both houses were organized by the
Quay men.
1t is understood that Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, of New York proposes to
add 100000 to the endowment Of
Sweetbriar institute, in Amherst
county, Va.
! William Scott, who lived the last
three years of the eighteenth century.
all Of the nineteenth, and two days of
the twentieth, died, aged 1O3, at Hart
land, H.
General Manager Nudge of the
Santa Fe road announced that his
company would this year spend $780,
600 in the construction of new shops
at Topeka, Kan.
Jack Sterling of Kansas City, live
stock agent for the Missouri Pacific
railway, was found dead in bed at
Wichita, Kan. Heart failure is given