Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-15

tended the SdLner1nS Oh CnrlSLldH
Scientists at the mother church in
Boston
Mary Berman, five years OF New
Haven, Conn, was branded three
times by a red-hot iron by two boys,
who escaped.
Ex-senator German picked militar-
ism and trusts as the issues on which
reunited democracy ought to do bat
tie next year.
COMPTROLLER Dawes appointed Ma
tional Bank Examiner E. H. Carroll
as receiver for the Cocheco National
bank of Dover, N. H.
Attorney-General Monnett has
served notice on the sugar trust that
it is doing business Illegally in ONO
and he will prosecute.
The engineering bureau OF the navy
department has completed plans for
large electric power plant for the
Brooklyn navy yard.
Richard Croker, it is said, is being
urged to come home by Tammany
leaders, uneasy over Sheehan's revolt
| and the Mazet committee.
Samuel McKinney's wife told Phila-
delphia police he had killed a man in
Irvington, n. Y, and robbed John
Wendell, of Fifth avenue.
The navy department has directed
the enlistment of go naval appren-
tees. Sixty will be received on the
Richmond at League island.
The late Sam I. Jack in his will re-
quests his widow to marry his brother,
James C. Jack, and also gives the lat
ter all his theatrical interests.
The molders' strike, which has been
on now at Montreal for four weeks:
was settled, the greater part OF the
mems demands being conceded.
President Thomson of the Pennsyl-
vania Railway company and DR.. w. E.
| Moore, permanent clerk of the Pres
byterian general assembly, are dead.
A storm of wind and rain swept over
the north of Iowa. Telegraph and -el-
ephone wires are Frustrated, but as
far as can be learned no one was in
jured.
Three squads of Usage Indian police
and light horsemen eyicted several
hundred intruders from the Usage In
dian reservation. The destruction OF
crops is great.
Mrs. Burke Roche may become Lady
: Fervoy against her will by the ex-
pected decease of her husbands
7 brother, as her divorce has never beer
! recognized in England
The New York grand jury of West
chester county dismissed the three
/ Christian Scientists charged with
causing the death of Mrs. Charlotte
i NJ. Barguet of Mt. Vernon.
1 Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson i:
= of the opinion that the canned mea
e packers have lost by the agitation
over the beef furnished to the arm.
during the war with Spain.
Major R. H. Pratt, superintendent
OF the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa.
said that there were in the school hos
e pital several cases of varioloid, whicl
are under strict quarantine.
: The president has delegated Assist
ant Secretary Cortelyou as secretar
i to the president during the absence G
Secretary Porter, who sailed for Eu
e rope for an indefinite period.
An officer of the Woman's temple d
S Chicago said that 100000 of the $500
900 necessary to retire the temple trus
bonds and secure the legal control {
the building has been provided for.
y DR.. J. P. Greene, president of th
William Jewell college at Liberty, Mo
re who was asked to accept the presiden
cy of the Southern Baptist theologica
r, seminary at Louisville, has declined.
l. e. Hardan, former cashier of tn
bank of Liberty, and prominent ma
l. in Gage county. Nebraska politics an
e society, committed suicide. Loss c
property and drink is assigned as tn
n cause.
$ The persistent rumor that a Goa
combine or trust of all of the chic
k mine owners in Missouri and Kansa
S has been formed to control the en-
tire output Of these two states
! denied.
l. The navy construction board has az
proved the plans for the six neV
% cruisers of the Denver class and tn
n Construction Bureau will proceed
publish the advertisement as soon a
n possible.
II The longest electric railway in tn
world, 153 miles, will be built fror
l. Toledo to Dayton. Work will com
y mence at once. A company with
half million has been organized b
e Lima people.
lie The final details have been arrange
for the laying of the cable between tn
" United States and Germany, the las
step being a satisfactory arrangement
concerning government messages an
II rates Of cable tolls.
4 An explosion of gunpowder, durin
the burning of the general store of Ed
y ward Townsend at Macksburg, Ia
! wrecked the building, burying a mum
Der Of people. Thomas Whitwort
a was killed and several were badly in
: jured.
At Nyack, n. Y, James Wilson an
Jennie Wilson, his wife, who wer
committed to the county Jail to avail
examination on the charge of kid
II mapping Marion Clark, refuse abso
. lutely to be interviewed. The sheriff
will not allow the prisoners to b.
: taken from this county until afte
t their examination on Monday next
Mrs. Belle Marshal Robson, wife o
: R. W. Robson, for % years promi
0 nent and wealthy member of the Chi
caSO board of fra do commit tad Suini6.