Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-06-29

the purchase of suitable testimony to
be presented to Capt. Dreyfus.
DR.. Bangert in the medical conyen-
ton at Detroit declared that surgeons
are too free with the knife. There
are many victims with hands and feet
gone that could have been saved"
At Port Huron, Mich, James Marks
was sentenced to prison, at Jackson,
for life. His crime was the murder
of his 16-year-old wife, TO whom he
had been married but few days.
The secretary of state issued his |
warrant for the surrender Of John I.
Roach to the Canadian authorities. He
is wanted for larceny Of bank funds at
Napanee, Ont, and is in custody at
Boston.
The 21st annual convention Of the
music teachers association was held
at Cincinnati, O. There was large
attendance, with representatives from
Europe as we'll as from all parts of
America.
James Lowe and Miss Nellie Gilbert,
! of Paducah, Ky, eloped. The young
| lady was to marry Joseph Smith, but
| found Lowe, who was an old sweet
heart and he persuaded her to marry
him instead.
It is rumored in Washington that
Secretary Of War Alger will retire:
that he will be succeeded by ex-Gov-
ernor Merriam, director of the census,
and that Mr. Robert P. Porter will be
made census director.
A number of business men and
physicians met at the rooms of the
Chicago Medical Society and formed
the Illinois Society for the Prevention
of Consumption. Mayor Harrison pre-
sided at the meeting.
Justice Nash in the supreme court
at New York granted Isabelle Urqu-
hart, the actress, an absolute divorce
from her husband, Guy Standing, a
member of Charles Frohman's Empire
theater stock company.
Attorney-GeneralG riggs is review
ing the records of the trial of Captain
Carter, who was convicted of frauds
amounting to nearly 100000 in con-
nection with the harbor improve
ments at Savannah, Ga.
There has been an extraordinary
rise in the Mississippi river at Du-
buque, Iowa, and it is now within a
foot of the danger line. Lowlands are
submerged and inland streams are
overlooking their banks.
Peter Bellenbach, an old and re-
spected citizen Of Galesburg, ILL.,, was
shot and killed by Charles Linde-
wall. a man Of 20 years of age. The
trouble arose over a claim of indebted
ness which Bellenbach denied.
Senator Fairbanks, member Of the
Joint commission, thinks a settlement
) Of the differences between the United
States and Canada can be arranged by
the commission, but others believe no
; practical results will be accomplished
by a resumption Of negotiations.
D. A. Ray, of the interstate COM
merce commission, who was executive
officer Of the Hawaiian commission
last fall, has left Chicago for Homo
t lulu to continue the work Of both that
body and the United States coast sur
: yey, which remains incomplete.
e J. P. Brown, president of the Agri-
: cultural Society of Georgia. testified
before the industrial commission that
f the negro is the cause of the lack of
S development Of the south. Mr.. Brown
S advocates separation and colonization
of the negro in this country and else
! where.
t L. NJ. Lockwood Of Pennsylvania, in
d his testimony before the industrial
commission, charged that Judge Haight
e Of ay1-
/ had been elected by a corruption fund
: supplied by corporations. This is
denied by ex-senator Hill of New
/ York.
By building the road from Menomi-
; nee, Mich, 10 ST. Paul, the former
town expects to divert much Chicago
I trade The Ann Arbor car ferries will
I connect with the new road at Menomi-
c nee. thus bringing the northwest into
connection through the Ann ArboT
e road with the Pennsylvania system
/ and the east.
At ST. Louis prominent citizens have
made application to the county court
: for a franchise to construct and oper-
C ate a belt line, connecting all the
!. steam roads which now enter the city
from north, west and south. The
success OF the scheme also involves
: the construction Of a third bridge over
: the Mississippi.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones reported to Secretary Hitchcock
that the smallpox epidemic which re-
Gently ragged among the Moqui Indians
in Arizona has been stamped out. He
says the Indians quietly acquiesced in
the quarantining work after the SOL
: diers were sent there.
J The conference on combinations and
trusts initiated by the Civic Fedora
ton of Chicago, and called to meet in
| Chicago Sept. IS and 16, is receiving
Endorsement in all parts Of the coun-
try, and from many kinds of represen-
tative bodies. Governors, attorneys
general and labor commissions from
So states have either accepted for
themselves or will send representa-
tives.
The murderer of a brother of Presi-
dent Gates Of the wire and steel trust
has been located in Oklahoma after %
years of search. Gates was shot and
robbed in 1871 The murderer's sister
has written Sheriff Simmons Of
Wichita, declaring he is living at
Shawnee under the name of ". H.
Hill, and that her conscience permits
her to carry the knowledge Of her
brothers crime no longer
There was test at Indian Head