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


Maryland.
Great preparations are beng made
at New York or it's sesqui-cenetnnial
celebration.
At Williamsport, Pa, fire destroyed
the brick mandatory Of D. P. Guise.
Loss $50, 600.
Another Cleveland street car was
wrecked by an explosion. Five pass
engers were injured.
The Samuel J. Tilden residence in
Gramersy Park, New Y ork, is reported
to have been sold.
At least nine persons were killed by
tn , collapse Of the steel arches in the
coliseum, Chicago.
At Los Angeles, Cal, ex-Gov. Samuel
Merrill of Iowa suffered stroke of
paralysis and is dead.
The steamer Clutch has arrived with
12O passengers and $4,000 in gold dust
from Atlin and Dawson.
At Atlanta Joseph Carroll, a negro,
was hanged for the murder of Josie
Alexander, also colored.
A secret agreement is reported to
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Canadian negotiators.
At Stamford, Conn, the stock Of the
Nation Motor Carriage company was
attached by creditors.
| Carlton Simone, living near Ottawa,
| Ohio, shot and killed his mother, mis-
taking her for a Burglar.
William J. Bryan and family left for
California, where they will spend a
month in the Yosemite valley.
For the first week in months the beef
trust failed to announce an advance in
prices to New York retailers.
The battle ship Alabama left
Cramps shipyard and will go to sea
for her builders trial today.
Material changes have been made in
the intrior arrangements of the execu-
tive mansion at Washington.
The new battleship Alabama made
tn knots in her first sea trial exceed
ing contract requirement by IL knots
Apache Indians of Arizona are on the
warpath against the Zunis, whom they
accuse of numbering three Of theil
number.
The treasury received $3,210,O00 from
the sale Of the old custom house site
in New York city, authorized by con
gress.
Mrs. Mary Harriet Robinson, The
only direct descendant of Columbus il
America, died at SandUsky Ohio, ageC
80 years.
A Northen Pacific express wa!
dftched in Manitoba and Express Mess
enger George Johnson of st. Paul wa
killed.
At Lockport, n Y, the brass an
iron bedstead factory of Olive
Brothers was destroyed by fire. Los
$40 1000
The shortage Of the supply of struct
ural steel in comparison with the de
= mand is seriously felt throughout tn
, country.
The clipper Sips Tillie B. and Star
buck began a race from Cape Henlope
y to San Francisco for stakes aggregat
. ing $4,000.
- Prominent Finlanders state tina
100000 Firms have decided to leav
a their country on account of Russia
:, oppression.
Mrs. Fred D. Grant announces tina
no attempt at display will be made q
the wedding of her daughter to Prime
= Cantacuzene
4 All the glass factories in souther
, New Jersey, which have been idle dun
r. sumed operations.
Jonothan G. Arm, inventor of tn
skein setter, which revolutionized til
manufacture of vehicles, died at Nc
- line, aged 81 years.
Il . A trust with$150,0 900 capital
- said to be negotiating for the purchas
of every print cloth and fine goods mi
in the United States.
i Mrs. W. A. Purdy of Chicago has al
( rived at Seattle from the Klondik'
: She is accompanied by baby boy VIII
! was born in Dawson.
British bluejackets are guardin
land at Hankow, China, from whic
7 Cossacks elected workmen sent Their
S under British protection.
t In a collision on the Central railrc2
e of New Jersey, near Pennington, 4
l. loaded freight and gondola cars wer
: thrown from the track.
The census bureau will make ever
n effort to secure accurate mortalit
e statistics, and will ask the assistance c
: state and municipal officials.
I Cadet Philip D. Smith, who was ap
e pointed to the West Point militar
e academy from Nebraska in 1897, wa
n dismissed from the institution for ha2
d ing Cadet Ulysses Grant, third
The negotiation of a parcel-post con
vention with Germany may develop
sentiment in the United States in fav0
of : domestic rarcel-post system.
Comptroller Coler discovered tina
New York city owns a S35, 900 hotel a
Coney Island, property that has bee
overlooked for five years.
Jesse F. Saith, wanted in Chicag
for forgery, is under are t in Wash
ington He denies his identity an
claims to be a London fruit dealer.
Mrs. Josephine Kuder, member Q
the Arion Singing society of New York
g died suddenly Of heart disease on
special train eastbound from Denver.
: Maj. A. f. Woodson of the mint
cavalry has rendered his resignation O
e the agency Of the Cheyenne and Ara
pahoe Indians, at darlington, o. T.
Y The value of the imports into Grea
Britain from the United States in 1879
). was 1912 ,662,073 Canada is a keel
competitor in farm and forest products
a At San Francisco J. F. Turner, a rea
f estate agent, was shot and killed D.
: JOSeph Frena a barber as the result O