Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-19

in Chicago due to fourth OF July cele- !
brations. Ten were killed by toy pis-
tolls.
Chicago merchants are receiving in
creased orders for Kansas and Missouri
because OF the large yield Of wheat
there.
John Dewitt, of Meriden, Conn,
while showing his wife his new police
mans pistol, accidentally shot her in
the head.
Houses at Peru, Ind, were shaken
and occupants aroused by a mysterious
explosion. Residents believe it was
an earthquake.
The National Telephone and TeIe
graph company, with an authorized
capital of $5O,OOO,000, files articles of in
corporation at Trenton, n. J.
An unknown disease Of great viru-
Ience is raging in Caldwell parish, La.
Experts from the state board of health
have been sent to the scene.
Crop reports show an increased
acreage of wheat, but marked de-
cline in condition of wheat, barley and
cotton throughout the country.
Two boys attempted to wreck the
Chicago Flyer on the Lackawanna road
between Oswego and Lounsberry, n. Y.
They were arrested and confessed.
The preliminary hearing Of Frank
Schreffler of Joliet, accused of killing
his wife by pouring gasoline on her
clothes and setting them on fire, began.
The price of cotton advanced mater
tally owing to the Chinese war and
the scarcity in the crop and the slight
increase is voted in the cost Of choice
meats.
Official reports from the Cape Nome
district indicate that the government
will be called upon to aid many thous
ands Of stranded gold hunters during
the coming winter.
The steamer St. Paul arrived from
st. Michael Alaska, with news that
martial law had been proclaimed at
Cape Nome. The St. Paul brought
81, 100000 in gold
The government crop report indi-
Gates a wheat yield of 486,000, 900
I bushels, the smallest since 1896. The
past week has helped crops east of
the Rocky mountains.
One United States marshal instantly
killed and three desperadoes mortalIy
wounded and captured is the record
for a fight on the Arkansas river forty
miles east of Glencoe, Mo.
At the National Educational council
President Harper opposed national
university and said many small col
leges should be strengthened and
others reduced to academies.
At New London, Ma, the trial of
Alexander Jester, charged with the
murder of Gilbert w. Gates, brother of
John w. Gates, the steel magnate,
twenty-nine years ago, began.
Cardinal Gibbons has decided not to
go abroad before next spring, con-
| trary to the general impression that he
would visit the Paris exposition and
| the Passion Play at Oberammergau
Thomas F. fireman of Pittsburg, who
| has been deaf and dumb for fifty-nine
| years, had his voice restored as the
result of a shock caused by a fall from
a building on which he was working.
Jay Cooke, the aged financier, who
was thrown from his carriage while
driving near his home at Ogontz, Pa,
suffered very little discomfort from the
accident and is up and about as usual
Marguerite Canavan of St. Joseph,
Mich, was poisoned by the bite of an
unknown insect and the symptoms
parallel those Of City Attorney Ryan
Of Chicago, who was bitten at Benton
Harbor
Archbishop Ireland of ST. Paul is to
be presented to the emperors Of Ger
| many and Russia on the invitation of
those mOnarchs. 1t is thought to be
due to their desire to establish more
friendly relations with the Vatican.
Edward w. Trexler, aged IS years,
Of Allentown, Pa, a retired million
aire lumber dealer, was struck by a
fast Philadelphia and Reading rail-
road freight train and instantly killed
today While driving home from his
farm
Drake, within few days will take on
board about 200 landsmen recruited in
the east. The Mohican will then go
on an eighteen months cruise, which
Will probably be extended to Australia
and the Philippines.
At Boston Francis Truth, who adj
yertised himself as a divine healer, ap-
peared in the United States circuit
court, withdrew his previous plea of
not guilty, pleaded guilty and was
fined $4,000; which he paid. He was
charged with fraud.
The National German-American
Teachers association elected these Of
icers: President, NJ. D. Learned of
Philadelphia; first secretary. r. Kram-
er, Cincinnati; second secretary, ]. A.
Hochgrefe, Milwaukee: treasurer.
Louis Hahn, Cincinnati.
Jeremiah Fisher of jamestown. n.
y, circuit judge of Pataqua county.
was elected grand exalted ruler of the
grand lodge of Elks over William
J. O'Brien of Baltimore, by vote of
53S to 209. J. o. Reese was elected
esteemed leading knight without oppo-
sition.
The submarine boat Argonaut, in
vented by Simon Lake of Baltimore.
Md, made her trial trip with thirteen
guests on board. The boat was sub
merged for four hours, and was pro-
PEELED along the bottom for several
miles. The ArgOnaut was huilt AT
cost of SIS, 900.