Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-12-06
supposed to have come from TaIagra,


Greece, are forgeries.
Mrs. Joanna Robinson, second
cousin of President Mckinley, died at
her home in St. Paul, aged 70 years.
On the occasion of the presidents
last visit to the northwest he made
long call at the Robinson home.
Albert Bart Roeder, formerly OF
Madison, Wis, president of Or1noco I
Iron company, New York, filed petit
ton in bankruptcy. Liabilities, s434,-
| 255; assets, nothing. He is q son-ln-
law of Searles, the sugar magnate-
Leonard R. Day, son of the late mil |
lionaire lumberman of Minneapolis,
was stabbed to death and Frank H. |
Hamilton, a newspaper man, is held
on suspicion of being the murderer.
Day was 26. There is lady in the
case.
The roof of glass works in San
Francisco, from which 100 men were
wrongfully watching a football game,
gave way and they fell on top OF hot
furnace. Eleven were killed outright
and eighty injured, fifteen of whom
will die.
In an address to the students Of
Colorado college, DR.. D. K. Pearsons,
the Chicago philanthropist, announced
that, Jan. 1, 1901, he would make the
college a gift of $4,000 toward the
cost of completing the new scientific
building
A London bric-a- brac firm, with 4
claim of $3S5,OO0, obtained an order
from the New York supreme court
: restraining the trustees under the will
of Jay Gould from paying Anna Gould
any money until the further order OF
t the court.
J, At Syracuse, N. Y, Harriet Schmoll
: has been acquitted Of the charge OF
murder. June 8, 100, she shot and killed
f Mrs. Lulu Ostrander at Baldwinsville,
i and it was shown at the trial that
i Mrs. Ostrander had been intimate with
2 MIR. Schmoll
Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis of
d Minnesota, chairman Of the committee
}, on foreign relations, died Tuesday
d night at his home in St. Paul after
e an illness of two months Of Bright's
disease, aged 50. His parents and a
l. widow survive
# Terry McGovern signed articles
) at Chicago to meet 'Ber" Jordan of
l. England in a six-round contest some
time in January or February. The
e fight is to be for the international
d featherweight championship and a
:, purse of $4,000.
g The will of Charles H. Hoyt re
quests that Frank Mckee continue to
e manage the business OF Mckee &
e Hoyt. All the profits to go to Mckee
4 except a share to Elwood NJ. Dasher.
L Requests are made to friends, but
nothing to relations.
d James W, Golden. the New York
4 janitors helper failed" owing
n $196,S29, is an investors dummy
e He charges for the use of his name
and property is decided to him when
n the real investor does not care to fig
4 ure in the transaction.
l. Fire at Cross Forks, Pa, destroyed
v about $4,000 worth of property. No
sooner had the fire subsidized than the
S. highest flood ever known in Kettle
n Greek struck the town and carried
lie away two bridges on the Buffalo &
% Susquehanna railroad.
The state department issued war
ID rant for the surrender to the German
il authoities of Johann Bauer, now held
a under arrest at New York, under com
IS mitment by Commissioner Semple
charged with numbering his father at
r Munchmunster, Bavaria.
B The war department. is preparing to
Is make a competitive test next spring
ID of the latest invention in field ordi
nance, with the purpose of selecting
!, gun which will bring the United
=. States artillery branch up to al
~ equality with the best foreign artillery
> The 18th anniversary of the incep
ton Of Kappa Alpha, the oldest Greek
: letter fraternity, occurred at Schenec
10 tady, N. Y. A great number of alumni
= were present from all over the coun
~ try. A ball was attended by many so
ciety people from New York, Washing
-, ton and other cities.
; Illinois has forty-fve cities with a
~ population between 5000 and $4,000
20 and ninety-five between 1000 and
5000. Oklahoma grew 544 per cent
and now has 39S,245; Washington,
= SIS, 1903; North Dakota &c., New
!, Mexico, 195,310; South Dakota, 401, :
- $40; Tennessee, 2,020,616.
Il Captain Edward T. Strong has been
, placed on the retired list of the navy
~ with the rank of rear admiral. Cap.
. tain Strong recently was in command
of the monitor Monadnock, on the
Asiatic station, and his health broke
down while on that duty.
o. A. Sato, lately first secretary of the
. Japanese legation at Berlin, has ar
rived in Washington, en- route to
Mexico, where he will become Japan
= csc minister. He will be succeeded at
~ Berlin by Mr. Nabeshima, the present
:, first secretary in Washington.
:, Details of the veteran corps of ar
;, tillery OF the military society of 1912
in New York raised flags over the
G block-house in Central park and in
!. Battery park. The event was in COM
:, memoration of evacuation day, the
6 day that the British troops left New
York.
At M'Pherson, Kas., five fremen
+ were seriously injured in a fire which
:. burned the Merchants hotel. The
= building collapsed burying them in the
: ruins. The injured are Ed Maltby,
r Dick Wilson, Theodore Brantano, Joe
Perritt and Stuart Baird, injured in
, ternally.
i Mr.. Jenner, the British umpire in the