Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-07-21


dale, Mass, was reelected secretary OF
the National Congregational Council
at Portland Oregon.
Fire at Racine (Wis) Malleable
and Wrought-Iron Works killed three
men, injured number and caused
about 100000 damage.
Tammany threatens to discipline the
street railway companies fund, by
requiring that every passenger must
be provided with a seat.
By an explosion at the works Of
the Latin & Rand Powder company,
at Pompton. \. j., eleven men were
killed and twenty were injured.
The New York canal investigating
committees report now nearly ready,
will say that S10000,CO more will
be required to complete the work
Eleven men lost their lives in
, Cleveland, Ohio, as a result of an ex-
I plosion Of gas in the big waterworks
tunnel being constructed under Lake
Erie.
! A bill providing for a state super
! intendent Of elections for the metro
politan elections district Of New
/ York was introduced IN the senate at
Albany.
The issue of s2OO,000,V 900 OF ponds
for war purposes will be a popular
| loan in every respect. The bouts
will be distributed among 100000 sub
| scribers.
The sum of S2O8,7O0 will be diviled
| amcng the officers and crew of Ad-
miral Simpsons fleet as prize money
for destroying the Spanish squadron
at Santiago.
The subscriptions to the war bond
issue aggregate nearly $3.50 900, 900.
Individual subscriptions will be al
lctted the full amount of the issue,
100000.
Mayor Van Wyck announced his op-
position to appropriations for the
i geological park and the public library
and all institutions controlled by
private societies.
T.: Mrs. I. N. Barber, principal Of the
ST. Paul School of Fine ArIs, COM
mitted suicide at Mendoza, Mimi,
where she was in charge of the sum-
mer art school.
/ Two more western roads, the Alton
and Burlington, gave notice that
they will reduce the passenger rate
between Chicago and Kansas City to
5000, a cut Of two dollars
4 son was born to Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas 4. Edison and within a few
hours came the news of the death OF
Ter, one Of the rough riders.
The reconstruction of the Chicago
school board resulted in the election
of Prof. E. B. Andrews Of Brown
university as superintendent OF the
Chicago public schools.
R. K. Kenney, a Delaware United
States senator, was put on trial on
the charge Of aiding in the embezzle-
ment of 100000 from the First Ma
tional bank of Wilmington.
Mrs. Hattie NJ Pullman. widow o.
i George M. Pullman. has renowned ali
claim to the requests provided for
her in her husbands will and will
take her dover and legal share in the
estate.
Miss josephine Louise Rubsam, who
alleged in a New York court that she
could not live on 500 a week, was
married to Frederick S. Glover, a
New y ORR wool merchant
Mrs. Clara Harper, formerly Of
Alexandria, Va, now Of Brooklyn. n.
y, Is seeking her three children,
whom she believed for years to be
dead but whom she has ascertained
to be living.
Rear-Admiral McNare. who >%,ll
succeed Captain Cooper as sllrprin
? terdent of the naval academy. is the
: first officer of that grade to - ap-
: pointed superintendent since the tine
} Of Admiral Rodgers
! The Illinois state democratic con-
: vention was held at Springfield to
nominate state treasurer, state super
intendent Of instruction and three
trustees Of the state university Bryan
: and free silver were endorsed.
! Italy has sent warshlps to Cartha-
: gena, Colombia, to collect by force
the $250,000 damages awarded by
President Cleveland, as arbitrator, to
! Cerruti, an Italian citizen, for acts
done to him during a Colombian reyo-
luton.
In New York Mrs. Martha Place vas
sentenced to die in the electric chair
during the week beginning Aug. 20
) for the murder Of her stepdayghter.
, The womans stolidity" deserted her
: and she was seized with an agony of
fear
! The American members of the
: Hawaiian commission expect to soil
from San FRANCISCO for Honolulu
: about August l. They are all in IA
! vor Of d territorial form of govern
ment for the islands with a delegate
in congress.
: 1t is estimated that $20,00O,000 in
! gold has been brought out of the
} kIondike to date this year. In the
Tagish district, which is reported ex-
ceedingly rich, New York syndi
:; cate is taking UP all the claims that
! can be bonded.
} News of the tragic death of DR..
! William Beard, the noted mining ex-
pert Of Philadelphia, near the Valdes
! glacier, Alaska, last May, has been re-
ceived. 1t came in a letter from H
o. Hatkins, formerly of New York,
who was with Dr. Beard.
i William Morgan, grandfather Of Miss
Schenck Of Babylon, L. l., who tried
the chain-letter system to raise money
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