Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-07

navy yarQS.
A secret service has discovered
new counterfeit 81 treasury note Of the |
series of 1891, check letter D; Bruce, |
register; Roberts, treasurer; portrait, |
Mcpherson.
Mrs. Joseph Lippman of Salt Lake
was instantly killed and eight other
passengers seriously injured by the |
overturning OF a stage coach near
Dwelles, Mont.
Fire at ST. Agnes convent and or
phanage. Sparkhill. n Y, destroyed
nine of the ten building, entailing a
loss of $4,000, and caused the death
of four persons
William A. Harshaw Of Cleveland,
president Of the Harshaw, Fuller &
Goodwin Co., was arrested on a war
rant, charging him with selling adul-
| terated linseed oil.
What was apparently an earthquake
| shock visited Wabash, Ind. There was
loud rumbling proceeding from the
earth and slight motion. The shock
! lasted but a second.
The position Of director general of
! the pan-American exposition has been
formally rendered to William I. Blu
chanan, United States minister to the
Argentine Republic.
Frederick Johnson, farmer at Gill
bert Plains, Mass, shot and killed his
wife and three children, and then com
mitted suicide. No reason can be as
signed for the deed.
The American Bar association met at
Buffalo, N. Y, and Senator Henderson
made an address, pproving the Pres1-
dents Philippine policy. Manderson
was elected president.
Ambassador ChOate has been press
ing the British foreign office for tenn
porary settlement of tie Alaska bound
airy dispute, but no advance has been
made in the negotiations.
Sol H. Bethea, United States district
attorney for northern Illinois, who has
! been i'll at Dixon some time and was
improving, has suffered a relapse and
his condition is serious.
: Seven of the sixteen persons charged
: with participating in the whipping Of
Postmaster Crum at Peck, Fla, have
been arrested Crum gave offense by
employing a negro assistant.
2 The National Manufacturers associa-
= ton has purchased in Shanghai, China,
a building containing 10000 square feet
2 of floor room, and a permanent exhibit
l ton will be established there.
A Cincinnati firm has received an or
der amounting to half million dollars
S from a French company for electric
railway generators to be shipped tC
S France, China and South Africa.
Notice has been given that the OPP
i ton on window glass plants, which ex-
r pires Sept 1, will not be renewed, and
s that the combination which was tC
have been made has been abandoned.
: Two men robbed the Clark IS. D.
: postoffice and were captured after ar
e exchange of shots with the sheriff
They are regarded the authors Of nu
: merous other postoffice robberies in the
n state.
: A. A. Graham, long Lake Michigan
navigator, resident of Chicago, has re
It turned to Seattle from Atlin Alaska
e He is one Of the heaviest American
n operators in that camp, having &C
quired 35 claims.
1t Iowa populists Endorsed Wharton
It Barker of Pennsylvania for presiden
e and Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesot;
for vice president in 1900, and nomi
n mated a state ticket headed icy Charlie
: A. Lloyd for governor.
: Major Edward P Girouard, royal en-
gineer and president Of the Egyptian
y Tot hos al n fro n
e with the Pressed Steel Car company O
J Pittsburg for building and shipment t
Cairo Of 400 steel gondolas.
20 Mrs. Hannah j. Wayne, wife o
~ Major VIM. Wayne, Of Paoli, Cheste
Il county, Pa, was burned to death. He
clothing took fire from a lighted can
die. Mrs. Wayne was a direct descend
ant of Mad" Anthony Wayne
y The interstate commerce commits
sion, in a case involving relative rate
: on export and domestic traffic in grian
II decided that it would not be right TO
railroads to establish permanent!
, lower rates on grain exported.
= abe" Coakley, who is said to have
= been a partner of Jimmy" Hope o
: Manhattan bank robbery fame, was
stabbed in New York. rs assailan
; was William Joyce, a hotel porter
}. Coakley's condition is precarious
= Lieutenant Maceo, son OF the dead
Cuban general, was refused admission
> to public dining room in a Spokane
; hotel on account of his color, when HI
, threatened to kill the waiter and wa!
arrested and fined in police court.
At San Francisco a further stay O.
fifteen days in the case of Mrs Corde
d liza Botkin was granted 10y Judge Cook
j so as to permit the completion of the
bill of exceptions on the appeal which
= is to be taken to the supreme court.
= A costly loving cup of gold is being
Il made for Admiral Dewey in New York
Adrain Iselin, whose wife was Miss
Eleanora O'Donnell, Of Baltimore
offers to improve the streets of New
Rochelle largely at his own expense.
The Toledo committee in charge Of
= Mayor Jones Independent canvass fol
y governor has arranged a trip for the
" mayor over the state, and for this pur-
pose has secured an automobile. With
II :. the candidate will go a speaker and
i singer.
Demelri Friedlander, treasurer of the
United Russian churches Of Chicago
| private banker and agent for the
. Wacker & Birk Brewing company, is
Il missing, and an amount variously esti-
). mated at from $4,000 to 100000 has
i disappeared.
y At Greenville, Ga, the grand jury re-
u 4,