Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-07-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

August Becker, the Chicago wife
murderer, was sentenced to be hanged
Oct. 3.
of gastritis July II on board the steamer
Ella, from Cuba. He was 50 years old.
William K. Vanderbilt says the New
York Central and allied companies are
not planning to obtain control of other
lines of railroad in order to make a
through line from the Atlantic to the
Pacific.
Dewey will arrive at Triest July Is.
The mangled body of Howard H.
Craig, sergeant of the 10th company
Of the Z. S. V. signal corps, was found
on railroad track near jamestown,
n. D., with strong indications of muir
der.
At the session of the Young Peoples
Christian Union at Lynn, Mass,
Henry n. Fowler of Cleveland was
reelected president. Resolutions
calling on congress to refuse a seat to
Congressman-elect Roberts were de-
feated.
In Cherborg more arrests were
made owing to the police station being
beSeiged by a party of marines who
demanded the release of their COM
rades who had been arrested for dis
orderly conduct. Windows of the
station were broken.
At Gainesville, Ga, ST Smith, the
Habersham county farmer who killed
William Bell, a commercial traveller
from Atlanta several months ago, was
shot to death in Jail. Unknown men
gained entrance by ruse, covered the
sheriff with guns and shot Smith.
The New York weekly bank state
ment shows: Reserves increased S.
$4,000; loans decreased S17,181 900;
specie decreased $4,000; legal tenders
increased S2,325,0O deposits de-
creased $15,273, 600 The banks hold
SIC, 699, 600 in excess of legal require
mentS.
The Filipino junta will be moved
| from Hong Kong to the island OF
Labuan, British colony on the north
east coast of Borneo, as the American
| officials have watched the junta sc
closely at Hong Kong that it found il
impossible to supply the insurgents
with arms.
At Buffalo the International Long
shoremen's convention adjourned
after electing the following officers
| President, Danile J. Keefe, Chicago;
| first vice president John Walsh, Cleve-
land; second Henry Daragan, Duluth
| third, James Dunno, Duluth; secre-
| tary and. treasurer, H. c. Barter, De-
| troit.
| Otis cables: Twenty inches of rain
in July, attended by typhoons, made
| landing from the transports i'm
possible. At Negros it was impos-
sible to unload the sixth infantry until
the last day or two. The California
is now loading. The Colorado troops
North Dakotas and Wyomings go next
week"
The following details of the death OF
the czarowitch appear in the official
messenger: THE czarowitch went for
a ride On his benzine motor July 10
from Abbas Tuman. He went very
fast for two versts then turned. A
pleasant woman passing noticed as he
turned the machine that he slackened
pace and was splitting blood. He
stopped and alighted, swaying as he
did so. The woman ran up and sup
ported him and bathed his temples
and mouth. Death then supervened
peacefully and painlessly."
At Lincoln, H., Roy Sutton, aged
20, who served in the army during the
Spanish war, went driving with his
sweetheart Lena Elmere, aged IS. At
midnight Sutton returned alone with a
bullet wound just below the heart,
from the effects Of which he will prob
ably die. He said he shot himself
A search revealed the body Of Miss
Elmere lying in pool Of blood, with
two bullet wounds in the body and the
revolver lying near. She had evidently
died without struggle. The girls
parents objected to the young soldiers
attentions and forbade him her