Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-24


the track of makers Of quart milk
bottles that hold but thirty ounces.
In practice at Philadelphia Kreanz-
lein jumped "a feet So inches, beating
Pinstein's jump of "a feet IA inches.
Rev. Geo. ". Stone in an address to
the delegates of the Western Unitarian
conference predicted the fall of ortho-
doxy.
The Southern Railway surgeons con-
Guided their convention. Joseph R.
Miner of Knoxville was elected presi-
dent
A court in Milwaukee issued an in
junction TO prevent the marriage of :
man on the ground of mental incom-
petence.
Forest fires are growing worse in
Michigan and Maryland and the Town
of Fisher, Mich, seems to be totally
destroyed.
After a persuit of ten years Pauline
Hertzman of Chicago has secured {
warrant for her husband on a charge
Of bigamy.
The Turkish consul general declare;
that in no country with state church
is there greater religious tolerance thar
in Turkey.
James NJ. Constable, senior membel
of the large New York dry goods firm
of Arnold, Constable & Co., died, ageC
88 years.
Kansas republicans wrest the party
| leadership from Cyrus Leland and alsC
refuse to send him to the Philadelphia
| convention
, Rev. P, J. Herman, vicar-general o.
the Rochester diocese and rector of st
Mary's Roman Catholic church, died
aged A years.
The mine managers of the Hough
ton, Mich, district have decided tt
present a united front to the demand!
of the men.
Three are dead and four were per
haps fatally and many others seriousl,
injured as result of fire in the Hote
Helene, Chicago.
President McKinley's second vett
was to pay W. l.. Orr of Chicago 81 so
for unofficial services in the nav,
during the rebellion.
President and Mrs Mckinley gave ;
dinner in honor of Governor and Mrs
Roosevelt. Members of the cabine
and their wives were present
Fire destroyed the Progress furni
ture factory at Seymour, Ind, causinj
a loss of $4,000. Sixty-five men ar
thrown out of employment.
The American Ice company, agains
which a fight has been made in New
York, has yielded in part by makini
concessions to small consumers.
Edna Hoover. the daughter of
prominent contractor at Hannibal
Mo-, was arrested at Quincy for forg
ing checks to the amount of $50.
The senate committee on inter
oceanic canals reports recOmmendin
the Nicaraguan route and the immed
late passage of a pending bill therefor
At the Methodist conference. i
session in Chicago, DR.. A. r. Rich, O
Erie, Pa, charged that profits of tn
Book Concern were being misapplieC
j. H. Patten was killed instantly a
joplin, Mo, by unknown negro high
waymen, and l. N. Glade, Patten'
brother-in-law, was wounded slightly
The executive board of the striker
refused to accept the proposed agree
ment to settle the st. Louis street ca
situation. Cars are running on man,
lines.
The federal court at Kansas Cit,
issued an injunction against stree
railway strikers, who, in common witt
other union men, have appealed to con
gress.
Senator Butler, chairman of the ma
tional populist committee, says tn
Sioux Falls convention aided Bryan b,
the nomination of Towne for vice pres
ident.
Miss Helen Gould will be the CUES
OF Wellesley college next month. 1t il
thought she will be given a degree il
recognition of her good works for wo
manhood.
Five girls of Waukegan cut thei
hair, donned uniforms, and followed
their sweetharts from Fort Sheridan
on the way to Cuba, but were detected
at Hammond.
The legality of the ordinance com.
pelling street railway companies t.
clean Chicago streets between th<
tracks is to be tested. 1t amounts tC
S250,000 year.
The United States supreme cour,
| decided that the inheritance tax law is
constitutional, but that it applies to the
amount of the legacy and not of the
! estate as a whole
At Boston the treasury agents have
unearthed customs swindling scheme
in which 100 sacks of wool, valued al
| $4,000, have been seized in Boston
Lawrence, Mass, and Bristol. R. /
1t is estimated that $4,000 worth
has been struggled through the port
of Boston during the past year.
Gov. Roosevelt, despite party lead
erS, may call an extra session of the
legislature to repeal a Rochester school
law in which eighty words were in
serted by fraud
Mayor Harrison is reported as about
to declare himself out of the Illinois
gubernatorial race. The rumor fol-
lows request for information from
w. H. Hinrichsen.