Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-04


wood yard, Chicago. Doctors finally
picked up the ends of the veins and
arteries and the life was saved.
The Presbyterian synod Of Illinois
Thursday adopted resolutions de-
ncuncing Princeton university for al
lowing the use of wine at banquets
and scoring the faculty for permitting
the sale of liquor at Princeton inn.
Pesident Galloway of the Lake
Shore railway says his company will
fight to the end the 2-cent mileage
law recently enacted by the Michigan
legislature He declares that it is
unconstitutional and that he legisla
ture has transcribed its powers.
In New York Justice Beach granted
an injunction against the United
Portable Hosting Engineers union
and it's walking delegate, preventing
| them from boycotting a non-union
man.
In Chicago John I. Malcney, well
known politician, shot and fatally
wounded John P. Harding, democratic
committeeman of the nineteenth
ward. The men were wrangling in
Harding's saloon.
Charles A. Bates brought suit in
New York against J. Pierpont Morgan
& Co. and others to recover So, 900, 900
worth Of stock of the General Elect
ric railway of Chicago, of which he
claims he was defEauded.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Thomas Gold
Alvord died, aged 81. At Crawfords-
vile, Ind, Rev. Matthias Mount Van
Cleave, 81. At Colorado Springs,
Colo, Thomas H. Edsall So. At Web
ster City, Iowa, R. I. Burleson.
| A. G. McAuley, an alleged sWindler
who has been dealing in bicycles at
Chicago and who the police claim has
| through various methods during the
last four years secured nearly $4,000,
has been arrested at Chicago.
arrest at Chicago on the charge of
! having abandoned his wife. Pratt is
! 70 years old, while his wife is but 35.
! Shortly after their marriage Mrs.
Pratt says her husband fed with $28,-
| 900.
for his improvements in photography
and for his work in Illustrating maya
zlne articles, has became insane from
! brOoding over Christian science
The supreme court of Ohio has sus-
| tanned the law creating the state
| beard of medical examination and
registration. Dr. Edison France. hay
ing been arrested for practicing with
out examination for registration, car
ried the case up and lost it.
In Detroit, Mich, DR.. Anderson
Milton Ross of Montreal, a famous
Canadian scientist and physician,
died, aged Go years. During the war
he was employed by President Lin
coin as confidential correspondent in
Canada.
The Baptist University at Sioux
Falls, S. D., from which institution
the pupils all walked out a few days
ago, is in a peculiar position The
trustees refuse to remove the presi-
dent and the students refuse to return
until this is done.
Debs' social democracy has been
! offered a large tract of land in Ten
| nessee, in which there are said to be
many thousand acres, for it's coop
erative colony. This forms part of
the territory through which the road
is to pass and 1000 acres of the land
is now under cultivation.
Judge Powell has dismissed the
| n tnfn I1
men of ex-State Treasurer BARLEY of
Nebraska, on a technicality BARLEY
is now in the pententiary for stealing
$5OO,O00 and the state has nothing
left but an appeal to the supreme
court
Geo. w. Barmore, at one time man
ager of the Knickerbocker Ice Com
pany of New York city shot himself
through the head at Chicago, dying
instantly. No cause for the suicide
is known save temporary insanity.
Francis Pratt, a wealthy hotel pro
prietor of Toronto, Ont, is under
At the New England cotton manu-
facturers' meeting President Search
stated that the cotton goods trade is
PR ctically in the hands of four coun-
tries, whose exports can be stated
thus: Great Britain QS96), 1892 ,331-
900; Germany QS95), $47,742, 900;
France Q895), $28,757,OOO; United
States QS96), $19,S4O, 900.
The Turgis elevator, owned by the
Buffalo Elevator company at Buffalo,
burned. There was in the elevator
10000 bushels of wheat, 10000 of corn
and 100000 of oats. The grain was
valued at s1O6,OOO and insured for
$4,000. The loss on the building and
machinery is 100000; insurance
$4,000.
Ex-Congressman Charles NJ. Wood
man was taken to the detention hos
pital at Chicago suffering from pare
sis. Mr.. Woodman is an old-time
figure in Chicago politics He was
elected to the fifty-fourth congress as
a republican and attained consider
able reputation there as a champion
of Cuba.
The court of appeals, at Albany,
heard arguments ON the appeal of
William Jay Koerner OF New York
city and formerly of Pittsburg, from
his conviction of the crime of murder
in the first degree. Koerner was
convicted for shooting and killing
Rosie Redgate in New York city in
1896.