Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-05-27
KILOGRAMS In BRIEF.
MATTERS DOMESTIC.


of trust.
The verascope pictures of the Cor
bett- Fitzsimmons fight will be barred
from Canada.
The nonpartisan school board ticket
was elected at st. Louis, the woman's
nominee being defeated.
The United States government build
ing at the Tennessee centennial expo
sition was formally opened.
Governor Griggs of New Jersey We
toed So bills that were passed by the
recent legislature of that state.
One hundred looms in the Bingham
department of the York cotton mills,
at Biddeford, Me, were started.
The Endrick Wooden company of
Great harrington, Mass, has assigned.
Assets $91, 900; liabilities, $4,000.
Joseph J. O'Donoghue, well-known
wealthy coffee operator, is seriously
Ill at his residence in New York.
Ghouls have stolen the body of the
late Millionaire William S. Laid from
The Fountain House, the largest
summer house on Delavan Lake, Wis
consin was entirely destroyed by fire.
The United Brethren general con-
ference, in session at Toledo Iowa, de-
cidcl not to adopt a proposed new
marriage ceremony.
A split in the Kentucky senate
caused the formation of two rival
houses, but the trouble was bridged
over by a compromise.
Frank Miller has been convicted at
Columbus, Ohio, of murder in the first
degree for killing Mrs. Saluda Miller,
the wife of his employer.
Mrs. ]. N. Grouse of Chicago was
elected president of the Woman"s
Baptist Home Mission society, which
has been meeting in Pittsburg.
Col John Tracey, superintendent of
charities for the District of Columbia,
ard brother of eX-Congressman Tracey
of New York, died of Bright's disease:
Adolph L. Luetgert of Chicago was
arrested on the charge of numbering
his wife. He is alleged to have de-
stroyed her body by using chemicals.
H. M. Carr, general agent of the Mil
waukee and Michigan Fast Freight
Line, died suddenly of heart disease
at Milwaukee. He was 81 years of
age.
The decision reached to allow street
cars to run on Sunday in the future
in Toronto, Ontario, has sent up
Toronto street railway stock per
cent.
In the Massachusetts house an order,
providing for an investigation of the
sO-called trusts by a special commits
sion was defeated by a vote of sc to
100.
A monument, erected by Charles
Broadway Rouss, of New York, to the
confederate dead in that city, was
dedicated at Mount Hope Cemetery
Saturday
The supreme court pronounced a
special act constitutional which was
passed in Ohio in 1896, extending the
term of the mayor of Cincinnati to
July l, 1897.
The ScOtch-Irish congress which
was to have been held in Detroit June
1918, has been postponed. 1t is not
probable that the congress will be
held until fall.
In the Aldridge building New York
city VIM. B. Van AIKEN a blind man,
attempted to shoot ex-senator J. r.
Mcpherson of New Jersey but was
prevented.
A war of determination against SYM
pathetic strikes in the building trades
has been declared by a combination OF
Chicago contractors. employers and
other business men.
Albert w. King, a 19-year-old mes
senger of the Boylston National bank
OF Boston, is missing, together with
about $4,000 in cash and a $4,000
United States certificate.
The first public test of the aero
graph, an instrument by which photo
graphs may be instantaneously trans
mitted by wire, was given at Cleveland
and proved successful.
The committee to receive the mem
bers of the Christian Endeavor society
who are to attend the convention in
San Francisco will consist of 900 mem
bers, led by a staff of 35.
Twelve thousand New York tailors
went on strike and twenty-five thou
sand other clothing makers are ex-
pected to go out in a general strike
for increased pay and better hours.
Mrs. F. w Cochran of Yonkers, n.
Y, has presented to the Y. NJ. c. A.
Of the Sheffield Scientific school, Yale
university, a house and lot on College
street for which $4,000 was paid
The Everett cotton mills, at Law
renee Mass, began running on fifty
two and ne-half hour per week sched-
ule. During the past few months
hey have been running forty-five
hours
The United Brethren General Con-
ference, in session at Toledo. Iowa,
had an animated debate on the use
of toborco by ministers and on theater-
goins. card-playine and otbo- muse
mentS
Mrs. ferdinand Garesch of ST. Louis
received . telegram stating that her
great niece, Miss Maueune lie Clerq.
Is years old. was among rn"sn burned
t" death in the Charl,y .,4,+ar nolo-
caust a. pa1:,
ChaIleS Morse, postmaster at War
wick, Mass. has committed suicide
Business troubles and the circulation