Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-10-04

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Judge Fish decided the franchise
to build an electric road through |
Kenosha, Wis, is void.
One days work of robbers yielded
over $4,000; safe-blowing is the
most popular method.
The Fire Underwriters Association
Of the Northeast elected 2. L. Nc
Gregor Of Chicago, president.
The annual report Of the Burling-
ton railroad shows net earnings Of
$16,113,O78, an increase of $S53,119
Governor Savers Of Texas, VINO has
been visiting Galveston, reports con
lions rapidly improving in that city.
Archbishop Ireland is presented
with the insignia of his Office as d
commander OF the Legion Of Honor.
The Pennsylvania railroads annual
report will show total income Of
$32,056,532, against $26,436,320 the
previous year.
General Miles in a letter to the
army urges soldiers to study the prin-
ciples Of war, reverence the flag, and
cultivate patriotism.
Directors of the American Cereal
company rejected the bid of an Eng
Iish syndicate for whole or majority
of stock at $175 a share.
Fire losses of $127, 2O6,250 in Chi
cago in the last eight months may
bring about an increase in insurance
rates Of 5 to 20 per cent.
DpCciJ1p+ LIorTi1nD on1 family
who have been at their camp in the
Adirondacks all summer, will leave
Monday for their home in Indiana.
The London Financial Times re-
CARDS German bond purchase as sig
nifcant of growing Importance of
United States in worlds money mar
ket.
General John NJ. Palmer was
buried at Carlinville, H., the Ma
sonic fraternity and the Grand Army
of the Republic taking part in the
services.
Coal operators have offered the
strikers an increase of 10 per cent. in
wages. President Mitchell wants the
union recognized. The miners may
return to work.
One hundred and fifty thousand old
rifles aid great quantity of cart
ridges have been sold to a German
firm, the proceeds amounting to $780,
600 frances which will eventually be
expended in the purchase Of new war
material.
Yale opened it's 20Oth college year.
The strike leaders plan to outwit
the mineowners in their efforts to
relieve the coal famine by bringing
soft coal into the market. Bituminous
miners are urged to refuse to mine
coal destined for the anthracite mar
ket.
William B. Dunton, the alleged
Chicago embezzIer who is held re-
sponsible for the loss Of $4,000 by
the Union National bank Of Chiacgo,
was sent by Judge WaddiIl to Chicago
for examination. The prisoner was
brought from Newport News for eX-
tradition.
Subsistence supplies to the amount
of $4,000 will be purchased by the
United States government in Chicago
within a week for use of its troops
in the Philippines anu China. The
provisions include canned roast beef
bacon, veal loaf, canned corned beef,
mess pork, and lard.
There is every indication of a peace
full solution OF the present crisis in
Bulgaria. Troops, which for weeks
have been massed along the frontier,
are being gradually withdrawn This
measure has apparently been decided
on since the return of Prince Ferdin-
and to Sofia
At Duluth, Mimi, Judge Ensign
sentenced Randes AbrahGmson, the
19-year-old boy, who confessed to
setting thirteen fires in Duluth last
spring, to ten years at hard labor in
the State penitentiary. He was CON
victed of setting fire to stable in
which a human life was lost.
The friends of Mrs. Marie Pleva of
Kenosha, Wis, who vas sent to
states prison in 1897 for a term Of
sixteen years for the murder Of her
husband, think she will be released
in a short time. It is said that Judge
Fish has decided to sign the applica-
ton for the release of the woman
At Cleveland, O., the body of Jane
Corrigan, the last victim Of the yacht
Idler disaster, was recovered, being
found on the beach a few miles east of
the city. The yacht, which was the
property Of John and James Corrigan,
the wealthy vessel owners, foundered
on Lake Erie during a heavy squau on
July last. Six lives were lost.
Gen. Macarthur reports Captain
Shields and f1fty-one men of the
twenty-ninth infantry killed or cap
tured by Filipinos.
Coal operators held a long secret ses-
sion at Wilkesbarre; apparently ac-
complished nothing. Independent
operators declined to make conces-
sions to strikers unless they are
given reduced freight rates. R. G..
Dun & Co.'S weekly review of trade
says all commercial interests are in
jured by the coal strike, but looks for
quick recovery when settlement is
reached.
Judge ]. NJ. bennett has just return
ed firm the Cascade Mountain district
of Washington, bringing samples and
news of the location of vast fields of