Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-09-06

Senator Hanna has, it is said, decid-
to take hand in the Tennessee
fight between the Brownlow and the r.
Clay Evans factions, and settle it.
The National Association Of Mexican
War Veterans will meet in Cincinnati.
Sept. ) and 6. This will probably be
the last meeting Of the association.
Chicago men, headed by c. F.
Periolat, just returned from Alaska.
will build 100000 cyanide plant for
the reduction OF gold at Yakataga.
Because his stepmother made him
mind the babies and do Homework
Harry Burgess, twelve years old.
drowned himself at Winsted, Conn.
The 100000 endowment fund tor
Carroll college, a Wisconsin insti-
tuition, has been secured by git OF
$4,000 from a wealthy Chicago woman.
It was announced that the Rogers
locomotive works will go into hqul-
dation and that the plant will be closed
Dec. l, thus throwing 1,400 men out Of
work
John Csson, of Chicago, mortally
wounded Harold H. StridirOn and
killed himself at the Hotel Vendone
yesterday. Drink and jealousy caused
! the crime.
On the ground that its figures were
the lowest submitted the Midvale Steel
company has protested to Secretary
Long against the rejection Of its bid
for armor plate.
Mr.. Bryan expressed himself as
highly gratiied over the action Of the
populist committee in indorsing the
nomination of Mr.. Stevenson for the
vice presidency.
Michigan fruit farmers are unable TO
take off the large crop and sent to
Chicago for all the help that they can
procure in pairing and canning the
harvest for market.
Near Camerson, Tex, Charles Lane
a farmer, shot William Mason to death
and then surrendered to the officers
Lane accused Mason Of attempting to
assault his 12-year-old daughter.
Lieutenant Colonel Calvin Dewitt
deputy surgeon United States army
has been ordered to St. Paul, Mimi, as
chief surgeon of that department, tc
relieve Colonel Joseph P. Wright.
Chief SWenie and five companies o.
fremen had a narrow escape from
suffocation in the basement Of the
Pousey company's varnish factory
Chicago The building was destroyed;
loss, $4,000.
Otto H Tittman of the geodetiC
survey declares that the Alaska bound
airy as established by the modu:
, yivendi of October 20, 1899, is not to be
regarded as a settlement Of the disput
ed question.
At Kaukauna Wis, in full view of {
: large party Of picknickers, Mrs. Henri!
Quaddy and her three little sons were
drowned in the river, while Mr.. Quadd!
= with his daughter narrowly escapei
, the same fate.
At Dallas, Tex, Mrs. Mary Carmacl
I and Richard Walker were placed ii
| Jail and held without bond, charge,
= with numbering w. T. Carmack, tn;
:. woman's husband, who died nea
e Dallas from alleged poisoning.
e The American Red Cross societ.
announces that, under the powers con
ferred upon it by the last congress, i
will at once begin active work for tht
relief Of those suffering from famin,
in India. Headquarters will be in New
York.
E Rural free delivery service has beer
ordered established Sept. a
l Hawarden, Sioux county, Iowa, witt
Henry Hilton and S. NJ. Southwick a.
= carriers, and at Chippewa Falls, Chip
pewa county, Wis, with Thomas Con
= nell as carrier
. Richard Wood Atkinson of Dumont
3 Iowa, was killed at Palatine bridge OF
V the New York Central. Atkinson AM
his brother were on their way to Eng
4 land with two carloads of horses. H
!. had climbed to the top of the car an,
his head was crushed by the bridge.