Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-08

Der, in retaliation for duties imposed
by Canada.
A live electric wire connected with
a soft soap tube caused the death of
Frank McGill in the carhouse Of the
Paterson, New Jersey railway. The
wire was attached as joke by two
other employees.
At Buffalo Mr.. and Mrs. Kinter and
James C. and Mrs. Saunders, Chris
tan Scientists, who were charged with
being responsible for the death Of
young Roelf Saunders, were ARA gned.
Both women were discharged.
Because of the determined opposi-
ton Of the parishioners of st. Pat
rick's Roman Catholic church in East
ST Louis to the appointment Of Vicar
General Cluse as their rector, Bishop
Jansen will close the church.
Censure for Christian Science
healer was contained in the verdict
handed down by the corOner's jury
in the case of Edna Hole, 4 years old,
who died of diphther1a in Chicago
avenue without medical attendance.
With almost one accord the news
papers in Gen. Joe. Wheeler's congress
sional district have united on a call
| for him to enter the race for governor
and heal the descriptions that now ex-
| list in the democratic party in Ala
| bama.
A large lumber mill and adjoining
structures of Alfred Dickie at Lower
Stewiacke, AZ miles from Halifax,
N. S., were burned. Immense piles
of lumber ready for foreign shipment
are burning, and the total loss will be
very heavy.
At Oberlin, Ohio, Henry Lee is dead
at his home from injuries received on
memorial day. He was one of the
most prominent colored men in Ohio
and was the originator of the appeal to
foreign powers against the treatment
of the colored people in the south.
The San Francisco Call asserts that
large quantities of bogus dollars are
in circulation there, and that the
work of the counterfeiters has been
so we'll done as to almost defy detec-
ton The coins are said to be made
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true weight and ring.
Robert Creighton, quarter-master's
clerk on the transport Sheridan, has
committed suicide by shooting him
self through the temple with revol-
yer. He was a native of New York
aged so, and recently arrived here from
Manila. Dependency, caused by il
health is the supposed cause of his act
Chicago railway officials have re-
ceived notices from the inter state
commerce commission that an investi-
cation of the rates upon export and
domestic traffic in grain and grain
products would be held in Chicago
June r. Three days later the com
missioners will hold a similar hearing
at ST. Louis.
The striking of match by a spec
tator near an oil well three miles east
of Marion, Ind, caused the Oil sur
rounding the we'll to ignite, and the
flames instantly spread, consuming
everything for several squares around
Six men, who were on the tank into
which the oil was pouring, were ter.
ribly burned.
Monsignor COnaty, rector of the
Catholic University, states that Arch
bishop Keane is coming to the United
States with the permission of the
pope, to ask endowments for the uni
versity. There is said to be no foun-
dation for the report that the arch
bishop will succeed Monsignor Conaty
as rector of the university.
Forty people were injured in a real
end collision between Harlem race
track special and a 4Sth street train
on the Lake street elevated road, Chi
cago. 1t is not believed that any OF
the injured will die, the most serious
injuries so far reported being broker
limbs. The motorman on the Harlem
special lost control of his train.
A hand car on the Baltimore anG
Ohio Southwestern railway was struck
by an extra through freight neal
Coolville, Ohio, and was thrown high
in the air, with it's four occupants
section hands Two of them, Will
liam Bashell and Otis Dodd were in
stantly killed. Thomas Flaherty
section foreman, was propably fatally
injured. The other man was severely
injured. Fog prevented the men from
seeing the train in time to escape.