Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-19
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC MATTERS.

Cycle company made a general assign
ment.
Three negroes were lynched, one in
Georgia, one in Alabama, one in Miss
issippi.
A party of women is being organized
in New York to go to the Klondyke
gold regions.
Contracts have been awarded for eX
tensive improvements on the Erie
canal, New York.
Wallace Campbell of New York,
known as VALLEY de Forrest" an
actor is dead.
New York contractors are yielding
to the demand of the pantsmakers who
are on a strike.
Collections of tonnage tax during
the last fiscal year exceeded those of
any year since 1884.
Train-wreckers caused the smash-up
of two freights on the Central Rail
road of New Jersey.
IdelIa Powell Banks of Quitman, Ga,
drowned her four-year-old son because
she said he was ugly.
Last month the impOrtations of
sugar at six principal ports aggregat-
ed 178,0O4, 900 pounds.
Residents of Dawson, Ga, stripped
a "peeping Tom," beat him with lashes
and drove him out of town.
The Canadian government has pre-
pared regulations for the government
of the Klondyke gold region.
President Mckinley visited the
Catholic summer school at Plattsburg,
N. Y, and was warmly welcomed.
Miss Dorothy Dodworth of New
York is critically i'll from blood poison
ing, caused by the bite of a mosquito.
Mr.. Preston, director of the mint,
estimates that the worlds gold produc-
ton in 1900 will exceed $300,0O0,000.
Carl S. Neuberger, a well-known
New York merchant, deliberately killed
himself by inhaling Illuminating gas.
Morris Rosenberg of New York ac-
cidentally threw pillow on his eight
months-old daughter and smother9d
her.
Philip Korn, a wealthy coffee planter
Of San Salvador died in Cal The
value of his property is over $5,OOO,-
600.
The citizens union of New York is
forcing into prominence the municipal
ownership of franchise, which it ad-
VOcates.
The government report places the
spring wheat condition at S6.7 which is
higher than the Augusta average for
ten years
The strike at the Fulton Bag and
Cotton Mills, Atlanta, was settled by
an agreement restoring the original
status of workers.
The common council OF Richmond,
Va, has passed a resolution inviting
the G. A. r. to hold it's 1899 encamp-
ment in that city.
Ground was broken in New York for
the rheumatic tube system which is to
connect the postoffce with sub-sta-
lions and other places.
1t was reported to the National Hay
association at Detroit that this year
will see the largest hay crop ever
grown in this country.
Pension Commissioner Evans has
issued a statement showing that there
are nearly one million pensioners on
the rolls of the government.
Inspector George W. Hazen of the
New York district of the secret service.
captured Greek George a counter
feiter of international reputation.
Alderman Mangler of Chicago was
fined $1,000 and sentenced to 80 days in
jail for contempt of court for refusing
&c testify in an alleged bribery case.
Bryan expects to visit Mexico in
October and is preparing a speech in
Spanish on the money question which
he hopes to be able to deliver there.
The American liner ST. Paul has
made new record for the eastward
trip, days, 13 hours and 81 minutes,
lowering her own record As minutes
At Montgomery, Ala, the smallpox
scare is rapidly subsiding. Only 80
cases are at the pest house, 20 of which
are cOnvalescent and being discharged.
Frank Donohue, an Atrial bicyclist,
who fell from a slack rope while Civ
ing an exhibition at a Long Island
resort was killed by an electric shock.
The executive committee appointed
at Indianapolis will appoint a cur
rency commission to formulate a new
financial system and present it to con-
gress
The Peter Adams paper mill in Buck
land. Conn, vas destroyed by fire.
Loss, upwards of $35, 900 The mill
was owned by j. D. Pickles and
brother.
A London dispatch says: The
revival of business and confidence in
the United States is in many ways the
most important features of the finan-
cial situation
Prof. Henry W. Elliott, formerly of
the Smithsonian institution, has writ
ten another letter criticising John W.
Foster for his management of the seal
controversy.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has
issued a statement warming those who
are preparing to go to the Klondyke
gold fields of the privation and danger
they will encounter.
Herbert Willis, a convicted muir
derer at the Massachusetts state pri-
son, and his bcCther, Everett Willis,
were badly wounded N L desperate
fight with prison guards
In the special congressional election
to elect a successor to Judge w. S.
Holman in the fourth TrGiana district
Griffith, (Gem) is elected over Lee