Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-26
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been dissolved.
A dozen lives were lost in cloud
burst at Coleman, Tex.
The funeral of the late Senator Gear
was held at Burlington, Ia.
Colonel Joseph Hamilton, U. S. A,
retired, is dead in Brooklyn.
EX-Alderman James T. Appleton
('Jim D'App') died in Chicago.
Roosevelt unknowingly posed for
cinematograph man in st. Paul.
Hawaiians express their thanks for
the liberal laws granted by congress.
Heat caused the death of over
seventy people in New York and vicin-
ity.
A smallpox epidemic is decimating
the gold hunters on the beach at Cape
Nome.
Professor c. R. Eastman, Harvard,
charged with the murder of R. H.
Grogan Jr., was discharged.
The organization of 234 national
banks capital $12,645,O0O, has been
authorized since March IA, 1900.
The proposal to withdraw the cOlored
troops from Arizona is opposed by the
settlers, who fear Indian outbreaks.
American Federation of Labor do
mates money to assist the cigar-makers
of New York in their present lockout.
North Carolina whites will vote on
an amendment to the state constitu-
ton Aug. to disfranchise the negroes.
CustOm-house collections are heavy,
dealers Withdrawing tea in anticipation
the war.
The adjutant generals report shows
that the organized militia of the states
aggregates 1868 men; fit for serv-
i've, 10,343, 1852.
A. B. Cummins, at the Iowa State
Bar association meeting, was cheered
when he shouted for vengeance on
Chinese sayages.
The Chicago division Of the street
railway mail service increased nearly
100000 pieces in mail matter
handled last year.
The will of Timothy B. Blackstone
will probate in Chicago. Six public
institutions receive $4,000 each. The
widows share is over $5,000,000.
Martin Renniger of Chicago was
gored to death in a stockyard pen af-
ter a battle with a steer, from whose
nose he was trying to clip ring.
George Chance, well known through
out the country as a labor leader, died
at his home in Philadelphia, aged 81
years. He was printer by trade.
Former Secretary of State Powers,
who is charged as an accessory to
G0ebeI's murder in Georgetown, Ky,
is placed almost out of hope by the
evidence.
Wilson w. Dunlap, the New York
banker who has been driving around
Chicago streets distributing religious
tracts, was arrested for driving on the
boulevard.
Justice Mclaughlin of the New
York supreme court ruled that labor
union men have the right to strike
and employers may refuse legally to
hire union men.
Eliza Wise in court at Anoka, Mimi,
charged James Hardy and Elmer Mil
Ter with the murder of her parents and
admitted her own and sisters knowl-
edge of the plot.
Captain NJ. A. HeaIy of the United
States revenue cutter McCulloch was
examined by physicians who pro-
nounced him insane, and a commit
ment to an asylum was issued.
At Shelbyville, Ind, three young wo-
men, riding in a buggy, were caught
on the crossing and killed by a pas
senger train. Two were the Misses
Schloss and the other was Miss Zoble.
Attorney General Crow of Missouri
began quo warranto proceedings to re-
woke the charter Of the St. Louis
Transit company, the United Railway
company and the National Railway
company.
During the trial of Caleb Powers at
Georgetown, Ky, Finley Anderson, a
Knox county republican swore that
Powers had said to him that if no one
else killed Goebel he would kill him
himself.
The American Federation of Labor
will make one more effort to adjust
the Chicago strike and in the event
of failure will back the strikers with
the whole federated labor unions of
the country.
The Minneapolis supreme court has
decided that the baking powder law
requiring manufacturers and dealers to
affix label bearing the names and
amount Of the ingredients on each can
is constitutional.
The United States circuit court of ap-
peals has settled a question of bound
airy line between Tennessee and North
Carolina in favor Of Tennessee Both
states had made grants of the terri
tory in dispute
The UniyeTsalist Young Peoples
Christian Union elected Louis Anan
Ames Of New York president. There
wa,i some opposition to condemning
the army canteen, but a resolution to
that effect was adopted.
Judge W. H. Washington of Phila-
delphia, a direct descendant of Au-
gustine Washington, father of George
Washington, is dead at Castle Creek,
Hot Springs, Ariz., Of consumption. He
was Is years of age and a lawyer of
ability.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, Judge Halsey
granted new trial to John Lutz, the