Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-31

VOTED against his authority.
New York butchers decided 10 make
general the fight against the beef trust
by enlisting butchers of other cities.
At Seattle the steamer Roanoke ar
rived from St Michaels, Alaska, with
$50 miners and $25O,0OO in gold dust.
Miss Lottie Lewis of New York is
suffering from malaria, which the doe
tors say was caused by mosquito bites.
Mayor Jones Of Toledo has in pre-
paration a letter announcing his indie
pendent candidacy for governor OF
Ohio.
The fish commission steamer Alba
tross will make an etexnded tour Of
deep-sea investigation in the Pacific
ocean.
Consul-General Howe at Cape Town,
South Africa, reports a fine market
there for products of Americn manu-
facture.
Princeton professors have returned
form an expedition to Patagonia, where
they found many skeletons of extinct
mammals.
The union reform party in Ohio
dominates a state ticaet, but Mayor
Jones of Toledo is not the nominee fol
governor.
Nearly forty persons are reported tc
have been drowned and many houses
destroyed in a storm in North and
South Carolina.
Lane D. Robertson, a Chicago con
tractor, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy. The liabilities are $324,000
assets nothing.
Colonel JOhnson's canvass for the
office Of commander Of the G. A. R. Is
said by his friends to be likely to result
in his election.
George Boucher, charged with killing
an unidentified man at ST. Joseph
Mich, was taken to st. Joseph after hi:
arrest in Chicago.
Yellow fever experts declare tina
Sanarelli has discovered the Bacillus O.
the disease and a more powerful anti
serum may be produced.
Brian G. Hughes, practical joker
pretended to find $4,000 in the Ash
bury Park surf and was fined SO for
causing a disturbance.
A London hosiery firm has filed {
bankruptcy petition against the earl O.
| Yarmouth, who has been society lio1
at Newport this summer.
The Lake Michigan & Lake Superio
Transportation company hit the Chi
cago st. Paul lines by making tire
mendous cut in freight rates.
Assistant Surgeon Heiser at Maple:
has cabled that there is absolutely NJ
truth in the report that the plague hat
appeared at Naples and Palmero.
The resignation of Thomas B. Rec
as congressman in the first Maine dis
trict has been accepted by Governo
Powers and will take effect Sept. 4.
The forest fires in the Adirondack
are eXtinguished, or under control
The fires have mostly been in waste
lands, no virgin forest being burned.
The supreme court of New York ha
decided that, according to law, negro
pupils may be excluded from publi
schools where white children attend.
The New York Butchers Mutua
Protective Association adopted a new
scale Of meat prices, making an ad
vance to consumers of to cents {
pound.
At a meeting Of the National council
OF the Daughters Of Liberty III,
charter fee was raised to $25, and tht
regular report Of the national councillor
was made.
The Rev. F. w. Sandford has founded
a new religious sect in Maine Calling
itself The Holy Ghost and Us which
has obtained a marvellous hold on the
people.
About 1000 masOns in Havana held {
! conference at which a strike wa:
agreed upon. They asked $3.50 a day
for ordinary work and $3.50 for spe-
cial work
Mrs. Anna TeepIe, wife Of Postmaster
James Teeple of Charlestown, and he1
son, 8 years old, were drowned in the
Ohio river, nine miles above New Al
bany, Ind.
A riot between the soldiers Of the
the North Leavenworth negroes took
place and one man was wounded on
each side
Llewellyn Stout who killed Harvey
H. Wurster, telegraph operator and
station agent on the Philadelphia and
Reading railway, has been hanged Al
Easton, Pa
The towns of southeastern Alaska
have issued a call for a territorial con-
ventiOn to be held at Juneau. Oct. 8.
The convention will be composed Of
seventy delegates.
At Tampa white caps brutality beat
Edward w. W. Crum of the Florida
Republican at Peck. His offense was
the appointment of a negro as his as
sistant in the postofice.
The republican state campaign
opened at London in a mammoth polit-
zeal demonstration and barbecue. Gen
eral Taylor, the candidate for governor,
was the principal speaker.
Peter LOuin and his 15-year-old son.
who were under Arrest at Electric.
Ala, charged with shooting Hall Jor-
dan. respectable citizen, were taken
from Jail and lynched.
AT Springfield, Ill, the children of
Owen Ward veteran OF the Mexican
war, who died recently, have found
hidden in the walls of his dwelling
over $4,000 in gold and specie.
Rev. Father Stephen, rector of the
monastery at Dunkirk, n Y, was
elected provincial OF the Order OF the