Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-03

Ind. died anged 60 years. He was
the father Of twelve children all Of
whom are living.
John Young Brown, formerly COVER
nor Of Kentucky, will accept guber-
material nomination from the anti
Goebel democrats.
Senator Stewart will introduce a
constitutional amendment authorizing
the election of senators by plurality
vote in the legislatures.
The engagement is announced OF
Nahan Frankie, the noted violinisI
and orchestra leader, and Miss Anna
Braga, the German actress.
Mrs. Anna Dimon, wife Of Elroy
Dimon, general agent for the McCor-
mick Manufacturing company, died az
Sycamore, Ill, aged % years.
General Master Workman Parsons
appointed committee Of fifteen from
the various labor unions to take charge
of the trolley strike in New York.
The 200 employees of the bag depart
ment of the Warren, Ohio, mill, be
longing to the American Steel Hoop
company, struck for additional pay.
At Chicago the Peoples Gas Light
and Coke company will absorb the Og-
den properties, thereby securing a
monopoly of the gas business here.
At New York Mrs. Ada Gray Tingay,
the actress, better known as Ada Gray,
is seriously i'll, having just undergone
an operation for removal of a cancer.
The rioting of the Cleveland street
car strikers was renewed and there
were several serious outbreaks. Six
persons were hurt by an explosion.
Wheat to the value of S830,000 was
DESTROYED in the C. H. & D. elevator
fire at Toledo. The total loss on build
ing and contents reaches $1,0O0,0O0.
A striking inspector of the Brooklyn
Heights trolley road applied for war
rant for the arrest Of President Ros-
sitter for violating the ten-hour law.
Professor Edwin Markham of Cali
| fornia, author of The Man With The
Hoe, was given a complimentary dim
ner by the Manhattan Single Tax Club.
| Allen Thomas Wells, general freight
agent of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad died at Denver Of diabetes
He was born at Memphis, Tenn, in
! 1854
Oscar F. Lackey, the yellow fever pa
tent, was discharged from New York
quarantine. Accompanied by his
brother-in-law, Mr.. Abel, he went to
Baltimore.
Near Fort Gibson, |. T., the bodies Of
| two white men, supposed to be father
and son, have been found in the brush.
officers believe they were murdered
and robbed.
Lloyd Tevsi, the California multi
millionaire mining king, turfman and
stock raiser, died at San Francisco.
His estate is estimated at from $10,0O0,-
900 to S20,000,000.
President Sunde, of the failed Scan
dia bank Minneapolis, intimates that
he will pay the remaining so per cent
to depositors. He has made millions
in Mexican mines.
Thomas Jefferson Sawyer, D. D.,
Boston, Mass, professor of Christian
theology and formerly dean of Tufts
College is dead. DR.. Sawyer was born
at Reading, VT, JAN 9, 1904.
Russell Hogan, Is years Of age, under
arrest in Chicago, states he saw Mrs.
George shoot George SaXton at Can
ton, Ohio, last October, and left home
to avoid being called as a witness.
Captain Charles Troy Of Racine, one
Of the best-knoWn Frenchmen n
southern Wisconsin, shot and killed
himself Financial reyerses is attrib-
uted as the cause. He was 63 years lod.
The coal miners strike in some of
the Dominion coal company's mines in
Cape Breton, n. s., has collapsed, the
drivers of International and Reserve
mines refusing to join the strikers.
Chinatown has had another murder.
The supposed wife of Lem Sang, a
! Chinese laundryman, was Brutality
murdered in a room occupied by The
pair in Stockton street Suspicion
points strongly toward Lem Sang.
In Chicago his mother declined to
prosecute Alfred Parsons, son OF the
anarchist executed for completely N
the Haymarket riot, when the case Tor
assault on her was called. Mrs. Par
sons says she believes him insane.
Ten thousand delegates are expected
to attend the tenth anniversary of the
! Young Peoples Christian Union of The
United Presbyterian church, which will
be held at Pittsburg. The convention
viii open Aug 2 and will be in session
a week
Chairman Watson Of the sugar COM
mittee of the wholesale grocers an
nounces that granulated sugar will
sell until further notice at $3.50 100
pound sack, instead Of 1854. The cut
is due to the fight between the Ar
! buckles and the trust.
r. Z. Brown, an American citizen,
has filed a claim with the state depart
ment for s2,0O000O against the Trans
yaal government. Brown was engaged
in mining in the Transvaal and the
title 10 his claim being questioned it
was thrown into the courts.
Al PiItst0urg the pudding depart
ment at the Aetna mill and Spang.
Chilfant e Co.. which has been shut
down since July /, on account Of a
! strike Of puddlers, resumed with col
ored workmen. The strikers were lot
expecting the negroes and there is no
trouble yet.
Mrs. Rich, who is accused OF having
murdered her husband in Mexico, will
be kept in communicate for forty