Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-11

his estate to the north Indiana MethO-
dist conference for an orphans home.
The United States steel corporation
amended it's charter at Trenton, N. j..
and increased the capital to s1,100,
600,
Five young men attempted to elope
with five girl students at Potter col
lege, Bowling Green, KY, but were
foiled.
John Fernan Of Idaho. has been ap
pointed custodian of the Fort Sher-
man abandoned military reservation in
Idaho.
1t is announced that Minister
Loomis' recall is due to the fact that
Venezuelan newspapers are abusing
him severely.
A young English girl earning a
living as a New York model, and q
relative of the duke of Hamilton, is to
be sent back to her home.
Rabbi Frisch died at hoboken from
blood poisoning caused by fever sore
on his upper lip. He picked it with
his finger nail until it burst
The monthly statement of the coin
age shows it to have been Sc, 392,917, as
follows: Gold, $6,182,152; silver, ST.
120,580; minor coins, s90,1S4.
J. Pierpont Morgan sailed for Eu-
rope. He entered the steamship
through the steerage to avoid inter
views with newspaper men.
Colonel John j. Clague, assistant
commissary general, was retired from
active service upon his own applica-
ton, after more than 80 years service.
The secretary Of the treasury bought
100000 worth of the old series of
short-time government bonds, thereby
reducing the bonded debt and surplus
Intimate friend of Benjamin Har-
rison explained how the latter's will
was intended to shield his son from
his creditors rather than to reflect on
him.
DR.. Cyrus Northrop, president of the
University Of Minnesota, will decline
appointment as commissioner to the
national conference of American
states.
Six men robbed the bank at Char
don, O., after overpowering the night
Waterman and citizen. They got
only $125, overlooking $4,000 in
currency.
American league officials announced
their determination to take legal ac-
ton against players who jumped
their contracts and went to the Ma
tional league.
The president has issued an execu-
tive order reserving for reindeer sta
lions two tracts CT land in Alaska, one
on Norton sound and the other on
Unalaklik river
The report of the military court
which investigated the death of
former Cadet Oscar L. Booz failed to
sustain the allegations that he died
from the effects Of hazing.
Charles H. Duell of New York, who
recently resigned as commissioner of
patents, was presented with a magnif-
cent loving cup, for which every en-
ploye Of the patent office subscriber.
A New York court set aside the de-
cision tying up the income of the
Countess de Castellane. The cred
itor of the count must first secure a
judgment before he can interfere with
the income.
Amanda Raney, widow of Major
George w. Raney, founder of the
Jackson, Mich, Patriot, Louisville
Ky, Courier-Journal and Chicago
Daily News, is dead, aged 90, at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Thomas A. Witherspoon, a princi-
pal examiner in the patent Office, and
WILDER B. Simmerman, also Of that of
fee, have been detailed to represent
the patent Office at the Buffalo pan
American exposition.
Representative Long of Kansas saw
the president and thanked him in the
name of the Kansas delegation for the
honor conferred upon General Funston
in his appointment as brigadier gen
eral in the regular army.
The monthly circulation statement
shows that at the close of business
March 80, 1901, the total national bank
circulation was $350,O21,S11, an in
crease for the year of $79,06S,743, and
an increase for the month of STAG
$50.
J. P. Morgan has proposed to Presi-
dent Mckinley that an American syn
dictate buy and complete the Panama
canal. He and his associates own
valuable coa' and gold properties in
Colombia and they would kill the
Nicaragua project.
Charles F. Jones, valet Of millionaire
Rice, for whose murder Lawyer Pat
rick is now being examined in New
York, has made another confession in
which, it is said, he accuses himself
of the murder and forgery of checks
for $250,000. He is said to have de-
clared that Patrick melted both these
crimes
The navy department has sent or
ders to Admiral Remey to proceed
aboard his flagship, the Brooklyn, to
Melbourne, Australia, to take part in
the exercises commemorative Of the
opening of the first federal parliament,
from May 6 to May 8 next 1t is pos
sible that the New York or the Oregon
also may be authorized to take part
Foreign
King Oscar of Sweden and Crown
Prince Gustav have arrived at