Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05

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At the time fixed for President |
Faure's departure for Havre, a man
named Legrand fired a revolver from
the staircase of the Care street lazare.
He was arrested. He declared he
wanted to advertise his misery while
the president was passing.
Mrs. Fanny Dessau, who was widely
known in Georgia through her chart
ties died in New York.
Fire destroyed big factory building
in Yonkers and did nearly 100000
worth of damage.
A collection of stamps, valued at So
900. has been stolen from DR.. j. Bruce
Chettenden of New York.
Pasuuelle Dadario was hanged IN
Philadelphia for the murder of Modes
tino MOTTO, aged three years.
Judge Thomas M. Cooley has been
taken to a private sanitarlum. He Is
in a very precarious condition.
Because of the new tariff law. New
York importers have decided to ad-
vance the selling price of crockery.
The Spring House, at Rlchland,
Springs, N. Y, was almost destroyed
by fire. All of the $50 guests escaped
Gen. Lafayette McLaws, one of the
oldest surviving confederate major
generals, died in Savannah, Ga.
A company headed by j. Edwards
Addicks has sent representatives to
the KIondike region of Alaska to take
mart in the hunt for gold.
Former United States Senator James
A. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, died near
Providence Rhode Island, and was
buried at Racine Sunday.
About $500 knee-pants makers en-
ployed in la shops in this city and
Brooklyn struck They had work but
did not get living wages.
At Louisville, Ky. the Avery plow
factory resumed operations after a
three-years' shut down, giving en-
p1oyment to 1000 men.
A lodging house that will cost $780,
900, where working poole can find COM
Portable homes at cheap rates, will
soon be completed in New York.
Half the congregation of Trinity
Evangelical church, Milwaukee, Sc
ceded because the pastor married a
colored man to a white woman.
Backrach & Co., proprietors of a
large department store at Toronto,
have assigned The liabilities amount
to about $4,000 with assets of $50, 900.
The rush to Alaska is so great that
many of the gold seekers will not be
able to reach the Klondike fields this
year on account of a blockade of
travel
Lillian Russell denies that she is
seeking a North Dakota divorce in
order to accumulate fresh husband.
She says she doesn't want to support
another.
Benjamin Simon, a foUrteen-year-
old-boy, who aspired to be a labor
agitator, drowned himself in New York
because he failed to pass a college ex-
animation.
The Metropolitan Electric Company
of Chicago failed. Liabilities, $4,000;
assets, 100000; capital, $4,000 Poor
collections are said to have caused
the assignment.
The Algonquin Wooden Mills COM
pany, of Passaic, N. J., have given
notice that on Aug. l, wages in their
large mills will be increased from 10
to Is per cent.
The AmOskeag Cotton Mills, &C
Manchester, N. H., one of the largest
Industries of the kind in the world,
have been shut down on account Of
lack of profitable work.
Secretary Gage, at a dinner of Bos-
ton business men, made a speech, say
ing that currency reform can only be
secured by the people exercising con-
slant pressure upon congress.
The remarkably cold weather has
played havoc at all the summer resorts.
over coats, crate fires and dancing hav-
ing taken the place of bathing suits.
lce-cream and fishing as amusements.
An English syndicate is buying I'D
the milk routes of New York city. and
is endeavoring to secure the consent of
milk dealers to enter into a combina-
ton somewhat after the scheme of a
trust
Harry A. Rucker, the coiored bar
Der who has been appointed internal
revenue collector for Georgia. will
put colored men in the places of the
white men now in the service of that
office.
Dr.. John Wilson Gibbs of New York
has annouced his marriage at Meriden,
Conn, to Mrs. Mary E. Seaton. The
bride is a niece of Coils P. Hunting
ton, and her first husband amassed i
fortune in California.
Isaac n. Weaver, late secretary c
the Citizens Saving, Loan and Build
ing Association of Pena, ILL.,, has been
arrested, charged with embezzlement.
The amount of the shortage aggregates
$4,000, with more TO follow.
While diving at Coney island G. w.
Enright of New York struck the body
CT a man floating under water. A
search OF the pockets showed that the
body was that of George V. Vrooman
OF Brooklyn, a shipping clerk.
The diet OF the Greater Republic of
Central America has declared Capt. w.
l.. Merry of San Francisco, who was
recently appointed United States min
lister to Costa Rica, Nicaragua and
salvador, persona non grata
1t is believed by some people in
Mexico that bankers in Europe are
forcing down the prices of silver in