Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-24

lDuuSIIy III LISoi1hiN'
The seventeenth Council Union OF
American Hebrew Congregations met
in Cincinnati, with 300 delegates and
many visitors present.
A. B. Abbott, telephone expert, says
the principle of wireless telegraphy
may possibly be used for communlca-
lions from mind to mind.
The Kelly Nail and Iron company Of
Ironton, O., has declared a so per cent.
semiannual dividend. This makes
220 per cent. in eighteen months.
General Leonard F. Ross died in
Galesburg, Ill, aged II years. He
was a hero Of two wars, having enter
ed the Mexican war at an early age.
Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., who plead
ed guilty at New York last week to
stealing 100000 from the First Ma
tional Bank, was sentenced to IL years.
Representative Boutell repeated the
statement that Chicago must lower
her tunnels before the river and har-
Dor committee will do anything for the
river.
Rupert Schefbauer, chief electrician
of the Sterling Arc Lamp company,
| 218 West Twenty-siXth street, New
York, was instantly killed by cleo
tricity.
Two men charged with horse-steal-
ing were taken to Lafayette, Ind. They
were arrested at Grenehill after a
desperate encounter with a posse Of
citizens.
The Michigan legislature asked to
relieve Van Buren, county of its local
option law. Another bill requires
sleeping and buffet cars to pay $500
| license.
Recent United States senators
chosen were: B. R. Tilman, South Car
DINA; E. w. Carmack, Tennessee, M,
S. Quay, Pennsylvania, S. l.. Cullom,
Illinois.
Senator Chandler attributes his de-
feat to the influence Of the Boston and
Maine railroad and is expected to
make war on it in New Hampshire
politics.
Elijah w Blaisdell, one of the foun-
ders of the republican party and said
to be the first man to propose Abra-
ham Lincoln for the presidency, is
dead at Rockford.
At Buffalo, N. Y, Mary Spitzman
and Clara Meyers, servants, were
burned to death in fire that destroy,
ed the fifth floor Of the Buckingham
apartment house.
The river and harbor bill carries
about $60,O00,000, two-thirds of which
will be expended in the seventeen
states represented by the river and
harbor committee.
News was received from Washing
ton Of the death of Dr. Benjamin
Brown of Chicago, who was prominent
both as physician and politician.
He was &C years old.
Five persons were injured by a
falling elevator in the Warren Sprin-
ger building in Clinton street, Chicago.
One was killed and eleven injured in
the saem building previously.
Mrs. John White, for love of whom
Miss Katherine Gorham committed
suicide ten days ago at Winchendon,
Mass, was taken to a private sanitar-
ium in BrattlebOrO, Vermont
Major Nat Burbank of tie New
Orleans Picayune, widely known as q
dramatic critic and as the author of
the humorous column of that paper,
died suddenly in a street car
Capt. N. H. Fraser of Union Spring s,
Ala, offered $500 reward for the re-
turn of his son, Bass Fraser, WHO il
supposed to have been kidnapped re-
Gently from school in Atlanta
Six men broke into Carpenter G
Jacobus' Bank, at South Lyons,
Mich, and blew open the safe. They
were discovered, but after an ex-
change of shots escaped on a handcar.
w. H. Redman, speaker of the Iowa
house in 1888, died suddenly at his
home in Newton. He was a member
of the Loyal Legion and served with
distinction in the war of the rebellion.
Seyante Anderson, a Swede, shot
and killed his wife and probably
fatally wounded his mother and s.
year-old boy, at their home in Jamaica
Plains, Mass. He then killed himself.
Marvin Kuhns, a desperate, who
ESCAPED from the Ohio penitentiary.
and a companion were captured by a
posse at Greenhill, Ind, after a fight
in which Kuhns was shot in the cheek.
Rowland B. Mahany, republican, of
Buffalo, n. Y, has served formal notice
on Representative Ryan, democrat,
that his election as a member of the
fifty-seventh congress will be con
tested.
1t is reported that Addison C. Harris
of indianapolis, who is now minister
to Austria. will be the new attorney
general in McKinley's cabinet. Mr..
Harris recently resigned the Austrian
mission.
President H. F. Whitcom of the Wis
consin Central Railroad company de-
MED that there is any truth in the
story that another ocean to ocean rail-
way scheme is being worked, SO far as
his line is concerned.
Chicago city council has adopted the
report of the street railway commits.
sion and directed that the bill be in.
PRODUCED in the legislature. The re,
port provides for municipal owner.
ship Of traction lines.
AS an undertaken started to prepare
the body of Miss Schaefer, a New
York school teacher, for burial she
sat up and spoke, and, restored from
coma by heroic measures. is now in
private hospital, doing very we'll.
Eugene H. Perdue, for many years
president and business manager of