Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-09
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

Harry Mills Cole of Chicago was
found dead in his room, in Smith g
McNell's hotel New York.
Erastus Corning died Of apoplexy,
aged 70 years at Albany n. Y. HIS
charities were numerous.
Ten saloons in Kansas City, Kan,
were raided by the police and S3,ooo
worth of liquor seized.
The August receipts of the govern
ment we're $18,943 POS; expenditures,
s33, 295, 900; deficit, $14, 301, 1875.
The Harris mills IN PROVIDENCE II.
I. started after a shutdown OF TWO
weeks. The mills employ 300 hands.
Walter Wellman is in Christlanla
comforting with DR.. Nansen with rel
erence to a proposed expedition to the
north pole.
A fierce forest fire is raging west OF
Anaconda, Mont, and spreading with
alarming rapidity Over 10000 acres
of timber are already burned.
AT the St. Paul farmers congress
paper was read on Farming from
Business Standpoint, by James j. Hill,
president of the Great Northern rail-
way.
William Sergent, who founded the
great school book trust, died at his
home near Mount Lookout, OHIO,
aged IS.
David H. Ryder Jr, of Accord, Ill
ster county, N. Y, was stung by honey
bees so badly while trying to hive
!,
The &C mptroller of currency is ad-
y;sed of the failure of the First Ma
tional bank at Greensburg, Ind. 1t
had capital of 100000; deposits, July
25, $84, 1000.
At Hoopeston, H., the State Bank OF
Ambia, q town just over the Indiana
state line, is short between $4,000 and
$4,000 Cashier Fred Mcconnell is
missing.
The most prominent italian society
in Cincinnati has cabled to the count
of Turin a letter cOngratulating him
for his recent duel with Prince Henri
of Orleans.
Mrs. NJ Elizabeth Green, one of the
best known newspaper women of
Massachusetts and associate editor of
the Quincy Advertiser, is dead, at the
age of II years.
Robert S. Straine, president and di-
rector Of the United Telegraph COM
pany of Boston, was arrested by an
Inspector from police headquarters on
a charge of embezzling $500.
Two deputy United States nrarshals
are dead, two are seriously injured and
two more missing as a result Of an at
tack on 6, posse of officers by a band
of moonShiners in Pope county, Ark.
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy
sent to Chicago from Galesburg, ILL.,,
thirty-seven trains, containing 1920
cars of freight, which is the largest
nigh S work in the history of the road
A physician has invented a combina-
ton of the vitascore and the miscro-
scope that reveals the presence of
deadly microbes or bacilli in the blooC
and will assist the prevention of dis
case.
The Texas fever, which has for some
time alarmed the cattlemen of south
western Iowa, is reported to be spread
ing. Up to this time the disease has
been confined to Page and Montgomery
counties.
Governor tombstone of Alabama
notified State Examiner Puffy that he
had suspended State and County Tax
Collector Lott of Mobile county. There
is a reputed shortage of from $4,000
to $26.C00
The executive committee of the citi-
zens' union decided to announce, in
the name of the organization, the NOM
nation of Seth Low, president of Co
lumbia college, as its candidate for the
mayor OF greater New York.
John L. Tollant, the San Francisco
banker who became violently insane
while journeying to New York and was
removed to a sanitarium on his arrival
III Chicago from the west Monday, is
reported entirely recovered.
Democratic primaries in South Caro-
lima to name a candidate for a United
States senator to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Senator Earle
nominated MacLurin by considerable
majority over Evans and Irby.
Mrs. Edith Sigler, wife of Frank
Sigler, travelling salesman Of Kansas
City. says she is a descendant of
Stephen Girard, the multi-millionaire
OF Philadelphia, founder of Girard
college and will try to wreck the col
lege and get the money.
Charles H. Bickford of Bowdoin, Me,
who was found guilty at Bath of alb
duction, and more serious crime, of
which Myrtle F. Adams of Bowdoin, Is
years of age, was the victim, was SEN
fenced to serve three years at hard la
Dor in the state prison.
A million dollars a day, at low es-
innate, is the money that is being sent
out by the banks Of Chicago to help
the farmers move the big grain crops
which they have begun to harvest.
Fifteen million dollars is a close APP
prOEinIate for two weeks
AS to his position on the democratic
committee, Mr.. Harrity said: THAT
will be n after for the democratic ma
tional committee itself, which is the
only body authorized to act in the
premises. l will dispute the right of
any state organization to depose me-"
The next farmers congress will be
held in Fort Worth, Tex A resolution
fayoring government ownership of
railroads was overwhelmingly de-