Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-24

called upon to check the spread OF a
mysterious contagious disease near
Bloomington.
The Northern Transportation COM
pany, it is rutnored, is to have two new
steamships like the Northwest and
Northland.
Two drunken harvest hands resisted
arrest by Marshal Ferguson Of Elkton,
s. D.. and the Marshal killed one in |
self-defense.
Lieutenant Colonel Egbert B. Savage, |
thirteenth infantry, has been retired
on his own application after thirty
years service.
Ex-Gov. Altgeld, referring to Rich
ard Croker, said: 'The democratic
party is not asking corruDtionists to
join it's ranks
Lars Artrup of Menominee Mich,
and Harold Artrup Of Fisher, Mich,
have been left 100000 10y the death Of
an uncle in Norway.
The Retail Butchers association Of
New York has asked all dealers to
raise the price of meat three cents to
meet trust advances.
Misses Gertio and Hilda Fleisch-
mann of Harrisburg and Franklin
Hassler were killed at railroad cross
ing near Wernersville, Pa.
The Marsden company Of Philadel
phia proposes to erect a plant at
Peoria, ILL.,, costing $4,000 for the
manufacture Of cellulose.
Mrs. P. S. Grosscup, wife of United
States circuit judge Grosscup of Chi
cago, is dying at the home of her hus-
bands father, near Ashland, o.
Congressman Foss denies that the
kaiser said the German-American
would prevent aggression upon the
fatherland by the United States.
The miners employed 10y the Cantrall
Coal company at Cantrall, ILL.,, have
struck because the pit boss, Peter
Bechen, is Objectionable to them.
William O'Conor of La Sale, Ill,
has become insane because of the acc1-
dental death of his Brother His
mother is Frustrated and cannot live.
The secretary of the interior has be-
gun to grant permits under the new
Alaskan code to persons and firms to
sell firearms to the natives of Alaska.
| Advances were announced in Chicago
restaurants on the prices of steaks and
chops This is in response to the ad-
yances in prices recently made 10y
| packers.
The anti-imperialist league of Bos-
ton demands that Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines Zoe given self-govern-
! home.
Rev. DR.. D. S. Tappan, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at Ports
mouth, O., has been elected to the
presidency of the Miami university at
Oxford, O.
Judge Carroll Cook of San Francisco
granted fifteen days further stay of ex-
ecution to Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, the
convicted murderess of Mrs. John P.
Dunning.
The newsboys of greater New York,
unanimously adopted resolutions de-
nouncing the course recently followed
by the Sun in it's controversy with
union printers.
An attempt was made to blow up a
Westbound car on Clark avenue in
Cleveland. One passenger was aboard.
No one was injured. The car was
little damaged.
A twostory wooden building in the
yards of the Boston fireproof brick
company in South Boston was destroy
ed by fire. Loss estimated at between
$1,000 and $4,000.
Fire in the Cleveland stone COM
pany's plant at Berea, O., destroyed a
number of buildings filled with mach
inery and lumber. The loss is $780,
900, insurance unknown.
The body of Martin H. Holland &c,
a Portland (MeD druggist, who had
been missing for some days, was found
in the Portland bay. He had been
afflicted with mental trouble
Reports to the effect that a combin-
alton of the leading cigar manufacture
ers in Key West, Tampa and Havana is
| being Organized are current in the to-
bacco trade in New York.
President E. P. Ripley Of the Santa
Fe Railway company says the Santa
Fe will surely be in San Francisco on
| or before Jan. 1 next. The headquar-
ters will remain in Los Angeles
Minister Powell reports to the state
department that the Haitian minister
for foreign affairs formally expressed
regret at the forcible arr st of a Hal
tian in the American legation.
| Prof. George Hench, of Ann Arbor,
Mich, who was injured by fall from a
| bicycle at Franconia, n H, and who
was brought to Boston city hospital,
suffering from afractured skull, is dead.
Albert Harmon a well-known must
clan Of Chicago, was drowned in Otter
lake, British Columbia, last May. Mr..
Harmon was so years old and started
for the klondike last fall with his fam
lily.
Mrs John NJ. Russell Mrs Earl Will
son and Mrs. S. A. Wilson, while driv-
ing at Flint, Mich, were thrown out of
| their buggy. Mrs. Earl Wilson died in
fifteen minutes and Mrs. Russell may
die.
Fire destroyed the Big Four Build
ing at Talladega, Ga. All the records
of the Grand Lodge, knights Of
Pythias, were burned, as was the
armory of the local military company.
Loss, 100000
Joseph Brunock, railroad man, has
brought suit against President Trum-
bull OF the Colorado & Southern rail-