Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-09-27

with Lieutenant Y. B. Campbell OF
McLeansboro, III.
Owing to the shutdown Of the dam
at Lockport the Chicago river is run
ming into the lake and the drinking
water is imperiled.
The vice president of a Chicago coal
company states that the fuel scare
is unfounded, as there is supply for
the rest of the year.
Miss Jeanette Cecil, a society belle
of Summit, n. J., was secretly married
two weeks ago to John Randolph
Giles of East Orange.
The state republican convention, San
Antonio, Tex, Green faction), in a
one day session nominated a state
ticket and adjourned.
Chief Ripley issues an order that
all tramps and Ioungers in Chicago
shall be arrested at sight if they have
no visible means of support.
Chief Ripley of Chicago has issued
an order that all tramps and loungers
shall be arrested at sight if they have
no visible means of support.
Confederate veterans denounced the
Grand Army utterances made in Chi
cago. accusing their former foes of at
tempting to revive sectional strife.
The American league season ended
with the clubs in the following order:
Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, De-
troit, Kansas City, Buffalo and Mimi
eapoIis.
A. c.. Bartlett of Chicago has given
$1250O0 for new gymnasium at the
Chicago university. Ten new build
ings are to be commenced by next
spring.
The trustees of the Northwestern
university, unable to agree on sue
cessor to President Rogers, appointed
a committee of seven to make the
choice.
Chicago water officials will present
a bill to the Continental Packing COM
pany for water alleged to have been
stolen, and it is thought the amount
will be nearly $4,000.
President Mitchell said 10000 min
ers were not working. Most of the
men in the Markle mines, the key to
the situation, remained at work.
There has been no violence.
The three men suspected Of compile
ity in the case of Peterson, the young
man presumably murdered near Tracy,
Mimi, were discharged, the evidence
being insufficient to hold them.
Capt. Elizabeth Erickson died at the
hospital, Cincinnati, from the effect OF
Injuries received in the Salvation
Army nursery fire. This makes eight
victims, Capt. Anderson having died.
The wage committee of iron, steel
and tin workers will meet at Cincin-
natl, to discuss the final proposition
made to the Republic Iron and Steel
company for a settlement of the scale.
Juda A. Fleece, a girl wife Of six
teen, called by artists for whom she
posed the most beautiful child in New
York" died at the New York hospi-
tai from morphine poisoning. She was
married
The effect of the coal strike in the
| anthracite region is being made mani
fest by the decreased output of coal
Shipments in the Hazleton district
have decreased two-thirds snce the
strike began.
The worlds 1O-mile automobile
record was broken at the automobile
exhibition at the race meet at Wash
ington park at Chicago, by Alexander
Winton in a four-wheeler. The dis
lance was made in 1902 1-5.
The social democrats held a state
convention at Butte, Mont, and named
a ticket with presidential electors,
pledge to Eugene v Debs for president.
NJ. e. Elliott was nominated for con-
gross and ]. F. Fox of Butte for gov
ernor.
After a stormy voyage the United
States army sea-going tug Slocum,
formerly Gypsum King, Capt George
Evelyn, arrived at Callao, Peru. All on
board are we'll. The Slocum, which left
New York July u, will proceed today
for San Francisco.
w. C. Stimson, Cambridge, won a
20-mile motor-paced race from Jimmy
Michaels in Worcester, Mass. Michaels'
two motors went wrong and the mid
get dropped out after finishing Il
miles. The time of the race was So
minutes IS % seconds.
Strikers in the anthracite coal re-
giOn continue to make gains and
practically every coIIiery in the af-
fected district is idle Operators de-
clare they will not yield Deputy
sheriffs are being sworn in by hun
dreds and bloodshed is feared.
John G. Springer, secretary of the
American Southdown Breeders asso-
citation, prominent in G. A. R. circles
and a former commander of Stephen
son post, was stricken with apoplexy at
his home, Springfield, Ill, and is in a
critical condition, one portion of his
body being paralyzed.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows, Richmond, Va, elected officers
as follows: Grand Sire, A. c. Cable,
Ohio; deputy grand sire, John B,
Goodwin, Georgia; grand secretary, J.
Frank Grant, Baltimore; grand treas
urer NJ. Richard MuckIe, Pennsyl-
vania. A resolution appropriating
$500 to the Galveston sufferers was
passed.
Helen Southgate, who was the com
panion OF Henry G.. Barbour at the
time of his suicide near Brooklyn and
who was herself wounded because of