Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-05-04

were found at Sugar Loaf mountain, |
Oregon. Poisoned food may have
caused death.
Preparations are being made at
Charleston, S. c., for entertaining !
10000 visitors at the confederate re-
union in May.
Edward Oswald of Camden, N. j.,
stabbed to death his wife and six
year-old daughter and then cut his
own throat.
Rudyard Kipling has sued G. P. Put
MANS Sons, Doubleday & Mcclure, the
Scribners and Appletons for $4,000
for infringement on copyright.
One hundred small houses were
wrecked in Philadelphia by an explo-
sion of benzol in a chewing gum fac
tory and two men were killed.
Elijah Strickland, negro preacher
was lynched near Palmetto, Ca, for
alleged completely with Samuel Hose
| in the murder of Alfred Crawford.
| Many houseseekers have already
landed in Durango, Col, en- route for
| the Ute reservation, which is to be
thrown open for settlement on May T.
A thousand Toledo carpenters will
strike on May 1 unless their demands
| for 25 cents an hour and eight hours
work is agreed to by the contractors.
| General Harrison, wife and daughter
left for Hot Springs, Va. After two
weeks rest in Virginia, he will go to
New York, sailing for Paris May II.
c. E. Chaplin, young Milwaukee
attorney, aged "a, suicided by taking
morphine. He became respondent
because of poor success in his profess
sion.
At mass meeting held Saturday
evening 100000 was subscribed for a
worlds fair to be held in st. Louis in
commemoration of the Louisiana pur-
chase
On Monday next the wages of car
penters in Denver will be increased 50
cents q day, making the minimum
days wages SO. ABOUT 500 men are
affected
Concessions have been granted by
Mckinley to German corporation for
the construction of a cable to be laid
directly between the United States and
Germany.
DR.. Sem, surgeon general Of the IL
linois national guard, has announced
himself as a candidate for the repub-
lican nomination for governor of Hi
nois next year.
At Canton Attorney James Sterling,
defending Mrs. George, said the muir
, der of Saxton, brother of Mrs. McKin-
: ley, was a public benefaction. Mrs.
! George was acquitted.
| The engagement is announced of
Miss Florence E. Hazard, daughter of
! millionaire grocer, to Prince Won
: Auersperg, who has been studying
medicine in Brooklyn.
An Ohio member of congress who
has discussed the matter with the
: president says the administration will
, not take part in the contest over the
speakership of the house.
The national museum will start two
expeditions on the first of May for an
chronological exploration of Mexico
They are in charge of DR.. ]. N. Rose
and DR.. Walter Hough.
At Terre Haute DR.. Patton the not
ed cancer specialist, is at the point Of
death from the effects of arsenic ant
chloroform poison, which he claims
r was administered by his wife,
The reciprocity negotiations be-
tween the United States and Germany
have been transferred to Berlin
f where Ambassador White is negotiat-
ing directly with the Berlin foreign
office.
Chicago travelling men will organize
/ to prevent salaries being reduced in
the future and to secure, so far as pos.
a sible, a reinstatement of the salaries
paid before the business depression o.
a 1893
The Colorado governor has vetoed
S the bill limiting the practice OF medi-
cine to three schools-allopathic
1 homeopathic and eclectic-and provid-
ing for a board to control the licens-
n ing of physicians.
The American National Red Cross
/ executive committee has formally dis
solved. The report Of the treasurer
shows cash receipts of $90,140 and
disbursements of $S2,724, leaving an
unexpended balance of S7,414.
The jury in the Windsor New York
hotel fire inquest brought in a verdict
that the fire was caused by accident
The police still have 100000 worth OF
unclaimed jewelry and other valuabies
recovered from the fire ruins.
At Cleveland a strange woman kid
mapped the Swear old son of Mrs. H
G. Riggs and no trace Of either boy
or woman has yet been found Mrs.
Riggs divorced husband is believed to
be at the bottom of the affair.
! In Chicago Professor Green, employ
ing the Marconi system of wireless
telegralhy, set his instruments on the
eighth floor CT the Marquette building
and received telegrarhic signals from
the Tribune building, two blocks
away.
Former United States District At
torney Ellery P. Ingham of Philadel-
phia and Deputy Internal Revenue
Collector Samuel B. Downey of Ian
caster, Pa, have been arrested on the
charge Of completely in a plot of al
legged counterfeiters.
A friend of Princeton University
whose name has not been disclosed.
has endowed a new chair to the value
Of 100000, to be called the professor
ship in politics. The first incumbent
| will be chosen at the June meeting of
the board of trustees.