Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-03

guilty and sentenced to long terms in
the penitentiary.
AT paramount, Ind, a costly fire
started in waresheds of Wilson &
McCullough's fruit jar factory. Three
hundred carloads Of finished jars
were consumed. with loss of $3.50, 1000.
Insurance, $4,000.
i Lazarus Silverman, the real Chicago
real estate dealer, for whom Judge
Clifford appointed receiver, has filed
a petition in bankruptcy, scheduling
an Indebtedness of 1921, 400, and assets
amounting to 1851, 1853.
A department of marine engineer
ing is to be established in the New
York university, under the direction
Of Prof. c. C. Thomas, until recently
chief engineer of the Globe Iron
Works, of Cleveland.
, Mrs. Sarah L. Wright, daughter of
l Judge Ebenezer Peck, in whose house
IN Chicago the first Lincoln cabinet
was made up, died at the residence Of
Perry Trumbull, 1863 Kenmore avenue,
/ at the age Of IS years.
: Earl Russell and his wife have left
l Chicago accompanied by Stanley Wat
t son, on their way to London, expect
ing to reach that city within three
weeks. The Earl says a bigamy
charge will not stick.
Rev. Chas. Beecher, a brother of the
| late Henry Ward Beecher, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. c. w.
q Noyes, in Georgetown, Mass. He was
: 81 years Of age and was the youngest
|, of the Beecher family.
The jury in the Camden circuit
court has awarded Miss Lydia B. De-
e laney $4,000 in her suit against
: Thomas j. Husband, who courted her
: for twenty-five years and then mar
: ried younger woman
Under the reorganization of the
n Atlanta Evening Journal, Morris
: Brandon has been made president
: James R. Gray vice-president, Geo. H
{, Dickinson general manager and Josiah
Carter managing editor.
! Against the explicit orders of the
e Building Material Trades council al
e the Western Electric Light company's
plant in Chicago six weeks ago, have
1. voted to return to work.
n train bearing-a building in sec.
e lions and the Workmen to put it to.
e gether has been sent from Chicago or
its way to Paris Exposition. 1t is en-,
J. tirely complete. The house is for the
A
u At Mountain Grove, Mo. at a liter
airy debate, on the subject, Resolved
that democratic politics are contrary
to the laws Of God" great excitement
prevailed, chairs were thrown and sew.
g eral persons were injured.
u The '76 Stone House, at Tappan, n
Y, where Major Andre was imprisoned
70 until his execution during the revolu
tionary war, has been leased to per
sons from New York city, who viii
y turn the place into a soap factory.
= At Dayton, Ohio, Albert ]. Deady
T. and his 16-year-old wife jumped from
u a bridge into the canal and were
|. drowned, clasped in each others arms
Il They leave a young baby. 1t is sup
v posed Deadly had financial trouble.
= Information has been received tt
/ the effect that the Japanese govern
&c ment, without waiting a request from
u the United States, is about to take
steps to restrict the immigration o.
Japanese coolies to the United States.
Is Charles s.. Rosenhaum, aged 2:
: years of Philadelphia and Florence
~ Harold, Is years old, of Delanco, N. J.
II were found dead in bed in a room
/ which both occupied at 4,219 Ger
mantown avenue, with the gas turned
y on.
~ A cablegram was received annOunc
IL ing the death in Sicily of Augustin J
) Buell., a Chicago board of trade man
L He left for European trip a month
ago with his family. No particulars
Il are given. Mr. Buell. was so years
3, old
~ Illinois populists nominated this
u state ticket. Governor, A. C. Van Tyne,
9 Flora; lieutenant governor, j. H. Far
ris, Joliet; secretary of state, Edward
e Mulloy, Chicago; treasurer, Jacob
% Cosad, Fayette; auditor, w. H. Banni-
3 gan, Chicago.
:, The ways and means committee con-
sidered the resolutions of Representa-
tives TaWney and Grout, calling on
> the internal revenue officials for spe-
- cific information concerning oleomar-
y garine and voted adversely on both
. resolutions,
At Middleboro, KY, county officials
. who went to the home of Berry How
=. ard with warrant for his arrest on
y the indictment for the assassination
" of William Goebel failed to find him
at his usual place of residence in the
mountains.
The largest single foreign shipment
y of cotton cloth ever made from the
- south was forwarded by the Dwight
Cotton Mills. of Alabama City, Ala.
= The shipment comprised II carloads
and is destined for points in the
Chinese empire
The state department has informed
Mrs. l.. Ruiz, widow of DR.. Ricardo
d Ruiz, who was murdered in prison in
5 Guanabacoa, Cuba, while a captive
: of the Spaniards, that the chair on
which he wrote his last message to
4 her would be forwarded to her.
l President Carroll of the Chicago
Building Trades Council estimates
that 1000 workmen are in actual want
4 and with their fau,iliac 500 DaonIa