Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-17

which has been played through Kansas
the past two weeks, was billed. but
Mayor Nicely forbade the production.
Church people had protested.
A fruitless conference between state
officials and the parties to the St.
Louis street railway strike took place.
4 woman passerby was killed by a
brick hurled at suburban car.
Kansas City will not have its new
convention hall ready for the demo-
Gratis by July I, but the hall will have
the floor, four walls and the roof COM
plete and this will satisfy the COM
mittee.
At Charlotte, n. c., fire broke out in
the Merchants and Farmers bonded
warehouse, partially destroyed 1900
bales Of cotton and caused a loss Of
$4,000, which is fully covered by in
surauce.
A shipment OF 1896 bags OF rice
! weighing 396, OO0 pounds went forward
from Georgia to New York recently on
the order of the United States govern
ment, to be reshipped at New York to
Porto Rico.
A United States navy officer invents
a shell that no armor plate at present
manufactured can resist. This fact
was deemed so important that the
senate will consider the matter in
| secret session.
At mass meeting under the aus
pieces of the Frisco labor organiza-
tons, resolutions protesting against
violations of the Chinese exclusion act
and the great influx of Japanese labor
ers were adopted.
The amount Of bonds received at the
treasury to date for exchange for the
new per cent. consols is S265, sol, $50,
Of which $4S,812, 800 was received from
individuals and institutions other than
national banks
The body of Mrs. Gen. J. H. Wilson,
who was burned to death in Havana
April %, was removed from the trans
port Buford by government tug and
taken to Jersey City from whence it
was forwarded to Wilmington, Del.
Butterine makers interested in the
! defeat of the Grout bill claim a vic
| tory in the decision Of the subcom-
mittee that that measure shall not be
reported until May %, perhaps too
late for passage at this session.
Six men blew open the safe of the
Farmers bank at Sunbery, Ohio, and
IN doing so blew the entire rear wall
out of the building. The noise aroused
the people aud the robbers escaped
having stolen three horses for she pur-
pose.
Gen. Silas NJ. Bailey, one of the 3O6
Of the famous old guard" which stood
by General Grant in the convention of
1881, died in Uniontown, Pa, aged 81
years, of brain trouble, which resulted
from bullet wound received in the
war
Captain Thomas Meinb. one Og the
best known mining men in California.
is dead Of lung trouble. He amassed
fortune in the TransvaaI- When Dr.
jameson made his famous eaid Msirl
was one of the Americans. taken pr5s-
oner.
The husband Of Mrs. Genevieye
Jennison, who drowned herself at
Wellesley, Mass, says she wass deeo-
~ melancholy because she could not
shake off the mastery of her. mind
held by Ivan Panin, a disciple of
T0lstoi.
Middle of the road popuIists n0Gntn-
ated Wharton Baker for president ana
IgRatius Donnelly for vice president.
The platform favors an irredema3le
paper currency, direct legislation, and
public ownership of railroads, tefa-
graphs, coal mines, etc.
Franklin l. Fisk, D. D., whose regis
tration after forty yeacs' incumbeneg
of The Office Of TIE Chicago Theological
Seminary takes, effect at the close ct
the current year has been elected pro-
lessor emeritus # the chair of sacred.
rhetoric of the Institution.
At Victoria, B. c., Martin SEryet shot
and killed Steve Fredrlga of Juneau,
Alaska, He thEtE shot d man named
ChrlstiaaSon, bl1E was, eaptGreG He
then requested that he be hanged. and
as there was no. way OF caring for him
his request was. GzRmpltsd with.
Ethelhart Watts. United States con-
sui in Jamaica, las, had cOnfqrreG upon
him by the khediye OF Egypt, the I'M
perial order Of 0slnaniah Of the third
class in recognition for services rem
dered whilst he was Cal the staff Of the
United States consul general in Egypt.
The presbytery Of Washington city
decided to send 20 the approaching gen
erai assembly of che Presbyterian
church an overture requesting that
body 50 take steps. to prepare q brief
evangelical creed to be submitted to
the church foG adoption as a part Of its
constitution
President Gompers of the Fedora
tlon OF Labor urges Neg YcrE tobac-
co strikers TO disregard the court in
junction against pfcketing Or attempt
ing in any way 10 deter others from
taking their places OF from giving
financial aid for the purpose Of con-
tiGuing the strike.
john ". Gates resigned the chair
nlanshiQ Of the board of directors of
the American Steel and Wire COM
Dany and is row On his way to Eu-
rope. He is succeeded by Alfred Cliff
ford If Chicago. John Lambert, the
president of the company, resigned in
favor of William P. Palmer.
John Francis Rrice, the late former
Senator Brice's youngest son, who is
law student at Harvard, has, with