Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-09-13

/ Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
Railroad, died at Rye Beach, Me. He
| had been i'll for some time and left
Kansas City in June.
The Sheridan Road Day association
is preparing for a drive banquet and
| ball to be held on Oct. 5, to be cele-
brated annually an anniversary Of
! General Sheridan's birth.
: The National Fraternal congress
! decided to meet next year in Detroit.
An appropriation Of 5000 was made for
! further investigation Of the subject OF
! cancer and consumption.
The National Afro-Anerican Council
! elected Bishop Alexander Walters Of
New Jersey president. Nine vice
presidents were chosen, including
Earnest Lyons Of Maryland.
! At Cleveland, six hundred longshore-
men, who went on strike at the Erie
railway ere docks, returned to work
/ this morning pending a settlement OF
! their grievances by arbitration.
Coal dealers of Chicago fear famine
in fuel this winter and are laying in
heavy stocks. Prices are expected to
be higher than in years and much SUI
fering among the poor is anticipated.
Harry Vance. who was a musician in
Company L, thirty-seventh regiment OF
volunteers, and became traitor in the
| Philippines, was among the prisoners
F.! brought from Manila by the Thomas.
Rev. DR.. F. e. Clark, president of the
! Christian EndeayOr, returned from
tour Of the world made to attend the
conventions of the order. He left
Pekin four days before the "boXeT"
outbreak
DR.. Andrews, the man who completed
a fast Of forty days in the Cook county
jail last week, has again started in to
fast for seven days and says he may
! continue to refuse food for another
long spell.
At Centre Hill, Fla, Luke Merritt
and S. NJ. Dixon, who had been farming
on shares, became involved in quar-
rel over the division Of the crops,
ending in each Selling gun and in
stantly killing the other.
At Valdosta, Ca, Mrs. Annie Day
Mayes, an actress of st. Louis, COM
mitted suicide because Of the failure Of
an amateur ''Bibi' which she had ar
ranged and presented for the benefit OF
the Grady hospital in Atlanta.
'In my opinion there will be a strike
in the anthracite region Of Pennsyl-
vania and it will be the biggest thai
the United States has ever known,
said President John Mitchell, OF the
United Mine Workers of America.
There was q sham battle in Nara
gansett bay between the submarine
torpedo boat Holland and the tug
i Leyden, manned by a crew of seamen
and gunners. The submarine boat
was picked up" three times by the
Leyden's searchlight.
The sudden recall Of the cruiser
Montgomery from the South American
: station with orders to put her out OF
commission caused much comment in
naval circles. 1t is intimated that the
report of Rear Admiral Schley is
responsible for the order issued.
Chicago has gas war. The new
! municipal gas company threw down
the gauntlet to the Odgen company and
the Ogden company responded by say
ing that it would fight to the last
ditch. Gas is selling at 60 cents a
thousand feet, and may go lower.
The Chicago Drainage board is I'M
pressed with the threats Of the ship
ping interests that navigation in the
! Chicago river may stop. and appointed
a commission to investigate the needs
Of the river, with instructions to report
as quickly as possible and with an
instant remedy.
Pottowat0mie Indians claim many
miles Of Chicago lake front, which is
valued at $15,OO0,G00. The claim is
made that, the land never having been
surveyed or taxed, it is the original
property or the first sQuatters, the
Indians. 1t is thought likely that ,Ae
case will be taken into the courts.
A. J. Arnold, an engineer Of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, fell
asleep in the cab between Quincy and
Bro0hfeId, Mo, and the engine ran
away. The alarm was given and two
heavily loader passenger trains were
side-tracked out Of danger. When the
locomotive died" on grade Arnold
was found asleep with his hand on the
throttle.
The American line steamer St Paul,
Captain John c. Jamison, arrived at
New York from Southampton and
Cherbourg, after a quick passage of
six days, seven hours and six minutes.
This time is the best made by the st,
Paul between this port and CherbOurg,
and beats the best time Of each Of the
big feet of ocean greyhounds plying
: between Cherbourg and this port with
the single exception Of the present
record holder, the Kaiser Welhelm der
Crosse, whose time is five days, seven
teen hours and thirty-seven minutes.
DREADED THE CHINESE.
Wife of the Italian Minister Did Not
Wish to Go to Pekin.