Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10

penses.
Eddie Santry of Chicago, candidate |
for the featherweight championship, |
was knocked out in five rounds by
Oscar Gardner of Wheeling at Louis |
vile, Ky.
Thirteen thousand men struck, in
Guiding the building trades employees
in Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Minneapo-
lis, Kansas City, Omaha, East st.
Louis and Duluth.
Judge Tarvin, president of the Ohio
Valley Bimetallic league, said if there
was any equivoca ton on the Chicago
platform Bryan would be defeated
overwhelmingly
The United Christian party in con-
vention at Rock Island nominated ST.
las c. Swallow of Pennsylvania and
John G. Wooley of Illinois its presi-
Dental ticket.
Mrs. Marie D. SWEET of Chicago
has begun suit for $4,000 damages
against the city of Bloomington for
injuries received last fall on an icy
walk in that city.
Lieutenant Gibson favorite, won the
Kentucky Derby, easily, by three
lengths, Florizar second and Thrive
third. Gibson is owned by Charles
H. Smith of Chicago.
Robert Wayne was compelled by cir
| cumstances to play his part at one Of
the theaters in Chicago while his wife
lay dying at one of the hospitals as
the result of an operation.
Albert NJ. Bryant, an Englishman,
% years old, jumped from Brooklyn
bridge holding an umbrella to break
tie fall and bladders to keep him
af1oat. He will probably die.
Chief Justice Magic, to whom Gov
ernor VOORHEES, of New Jersey ten
dered the vacant chancellorship, was
at the state house looking over the
| office. He is likely to accept.
Change of venue was granted the
kentuckians accused of completely in
the Goebel assassination. The United
States supreme court finished the
hearing of the contest case.
At Baltimore a wagon with five
people caught on the rails while
| crossing the railroad track and was
struck by train. Of the five people
| in it all but one were killed
Nicaraguan canal bill is placed on
the senate calendar, but republican
leaders aim to let it sleep until ad-
| journment. Senator Morgan threatens
reprisals if the measure is shelved.
The sundry civil bill reported to the
house carries appropriations of S137,-
| 600 for the Improvement of the Chi
cago river, 100000 for the Calumet
and S1,000,000 for the Hennepin canal
Vivian Clerise, Gn actress, and J. W
Cardowuie, an actor. were drowned
while boating at New Haven. E1thel
Clerise, a sister of the drowned wo-
man, was rescued by a Yale student
At Galveston, Tex, a woman known
as Margaret Connette was sold at auc-
ton for $40. The police and federal
authorities are searching for the per-
sons involved. She is said to be a
Belgiah.
The filing of petition for adminis-
tration on the estate of George Kim
ball Of Kenosha, Wis, who died in
1863, blocks sale of gas works much
of the stock belonging to the de-
! ceased.
John Keough and Grace Sanders of
Newark, each Culy sixteen, were mar
ried, unknown to the boys mother.
She tried in vain to win him from his
bride, whose wealthy mother approved
the match.
Former United States Senator Wait
man Thomas Wiley of West Virginia
died at Morgantown, w. Va, of old
age. He was born in 1912 and was
the author of the constitution of
West Virginia.
Chicago primaries gave Hanecy 234;
Carter 22S; uninstructed, "A, of which
Hanecy probably will have a majority.
Carter carried Evanston and Cicero,
most of the other country towns are
likely for Hanecy.
At Port Huron, Mich, the strike in
volving 300 employees of the street
railway company and jerks Ship
Building company was settled, the
strikers being conceded Is cents an
hour, which they demanded.
The 52-round bout between Billy
Whistler of Baltimore and Dave Sulli-
van of Boston, before the Eureka Ath-
| letic club at Baltimore, was stopped in
| the 18th round, the police claiming the
exhibition was not sparring contest
Albert M. Williamson, editor of the
| Florida Journal and c. w. StanselI,
city councilman, exchanged shots.
Both were wounded, but not fatally.
| The trouble arose over charges made
in Williamson's paper against Stansell
The government crop report shows
| that rain has retarded farm work in
the Missouri valley and the Rocky
mountain slope. Good progress is re-
ported between there and the Atlantic
coast, where rain is needed. Too cool
On the Pacific coast
The announcement is made that
the interest in the Philadelphia Times
owned by the heirs Of the late Frank
Mclaughlin has been sold to syndi-
~-@N VI AONoi Capitalists, AcduSu ny
Charles F. Kindred, general agent of
the Reading railway
Iowa democrats held a state conven-
ton and reaffirmed the Chicago ma
tional platform denounced trusts,
Philippines policy and Porto Rican
tariff bill, extended sympathy to the
beers and favored the election of |
United States senators by direct vote.