Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-22

cagO got uD and threw a brick through
a neighbours window. He was fined
SO in court.
Cleveland, Ohio, street car lines ere
tied up by a strike Of motormen and
conductors, who want their union
recognized.
ODea, coach Of the Harvard crew,
has resigned. His connection with
the crew has not been as pleasant as it
might have been.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion began in Chicago a hearing on
alleged discrimination in export
freight rates on grain.
Tammany hall has assumed charge
of the undertaking to buy the lakes
of Killarney and make the historic
spot a national Irish park.
IF it takes whiskey to save my
life, III die said Marion J. Smith Of
Chicago. He kept his word and
died early the next morning.
The industrial commission has ap-
rented subcommissions to Investigate
agricultural conditions in the north
west and the mining industries.
In New Jersey Justice Beach has de-
cided that a divorced husband need
not continue to pay alimony Ter
having been in Jail for non-payment.
Fire at Perrysville, Ind, destroyed
the elevator containing 5000 bushels
of corn, the Chicago and Eastern rail-
way station and several freight cars.
DR.. George J. Helmer, a we'll
known New York osteopath, is said to
have cured appendicitis in squeez-
ing the appendix by muscular action.
Edward Erell, who engraved the
counterfeit Bank of England notes cir
culated by Austin Bidwell, died in
Bellevue hospital, New York, Of star
Walton.
At runaway marriage at Cincin-
natl, O., the groom paid the parson
with a forged check, was arrested, and
the bride and bridesmaid walked home
II miles.
Militiamen who have returned from
the scene of the feud in Clay county,
KY, say that all the Bankers will be
killed, if possible, by the Howards
and Whites.
In New York the dismembered body
of a man was found off Bay Ridge,
constituting what is thought to be an
other murder mystery like the Gulden-
suppe case.
Mrs. Tom Baker, widow of the man
killed in the feud at Manchester, KY,
declared she had prayed that her I'M
born child might be a boy to ayenge
his fathers death.
The business part Of Chama, n NJ,
has been swept by fire. The Den
yer & Rio Grande depot and round
house and half a dozen business
blocks were burned.
Vessel traffic at Fairport, O., was
men went out on a strike. The men
demand an increase Of wages from Is
to 20 cents an hour.
Maj. Gen. Anderson, commanding
the department of the lake, was mus
tered out of the volunteer service,
and assumed the rank or brigadier
general, which he held before the
opening of the war with Spain.
A cablegram has been received at
London from Buenos Ayres, stating
that the Norwegian ship Saratoga,
Capt. Bache, which sailed from Pen
sacOla on March Is, for Puerto Bel
granO, is ashore and a total wreck.
1t is announced that the gum trust
is now an actuality. The company
has been organized and the stock all
underwritten. The company has a
capital stock of $9,OOO,0OO. Of this,
one-third is per cent. cumulative
preferred.
The motor carriage business of F.
E. & F. 0. Stanley has been bought
out by John Brisbane Walker and A
n. Barber of New York. 1t is not I'M
| likely that he business may be trans
| ferred to Irvington-on-th the Hudson at
some future time.
At the conclusion Of lie negotia-
tions of Franc0-American recipro-
city treaty the French ambassador, M
| Cambon, will go abroad for the sum
mer. This is likely to renew specula-
ton as to NJ. Cambon's transfer to one
of the embassies of Europe.
1t is reported that DR.. Angel IS to
| be made president emeritus OF the
| university of Mich gan, Dean Harry
| T. Hutchins to become the active head
of the institution. Dean Hutchins
recently refused a call to be president
of the Iowa university for this reason.
Gov. Savers has received accept
ances of his invitation to attend an
antitrust convention atSt Louis, Sept.
| 20, from Governors Tanner of Hi
| Ohio, Pingree of Michigan, Thomas Of
Colorado, POINTER of Nebraska and
Bradley of Kentucky.
The anticipated strike at the smelt-
ers in Denver, Pueblo and LeadviIle,
owned by the Union Smelling and Re
filming Company, began. State Labor
| Commissioner Smith estimates that
10000 men employed in the mining
and smelling industry of Colorado
will be thrown out of employment if
the differences between the smelter
owners and their employees is not soon
adjusted.
In New York the strike of 5000
members Of the Children's Jacket
| Makers and Knee Brooches Makers
Unions went into effect yesterday. The
strike is directed against the large
wholesale dealers. The men say
piece work system.
Another chapter of crime has been
added to the Taylor-Lee feud in Ken