Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-19
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.

United States Consul Adelbert 5.
Hay is about to leave Pretoria for the
United States.
Democrats Of the 18th Illinois dis
trict nominated Jesse Black, Jr., for
congress.
At GresswelI, Ga, John Jennings,
colored, was Iynched for killing a coal
er on railroad.
At Plymouth, Ind, the 18th district
democratic convention nominated Dr.
Glenn C. Bowers Of EIkhart for con-
gress.
The London war office announces
that Butler reports the $50 prisoners
released by the beers have arrived at
Ladysmith.
At Georgetown, KY, eight jurors in
the powers case have been finally ac-
copied by both sides, seven Of them be-
ing democrats.
At Marshalltown the partially de-
composed body of an unknown woman
about 40, well dressed, was found
floating in the Iowa river.
At Newark, N. J., Chas. R Wester-
welt, secretary and treasurer of the
Dime Savings bank, was arrested,
charged with stealing $4,000 from the
bank.
Officials of the Milwaukee pubic
museum report the robbery of that in
stitution of large collection of rare
coins estimated in value from $4,000 to
$4,000
At Marshalltown Queen Lii, owned
by w. w. Walsworth of Ashton, Ne
braska, broke the half-mile track rec
ord of the state and repeated in so
seconds fat.
Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, was married to Miss An
ME Conner, daughter of the late Hugh
NJ Conner president of the Central
Georgia railway.
At Bloomington, H., Mrs. Martha
Cleveland Harrison, prominent in
church and literary circles, died of
heart disease, aged Il. She was rel
alive of ex-President Cleveland.
A Singapore correspondent says two
Japanese recently made a determined
attempt to murder Kang Yu Wei, an
eXiled Chinese of the reform party,
who was there under British protec-
ton.
Calvin A. Whyland, senior member
of c. A. Whyland & Co. of Chicago,
commission merchants, was adiudged
guilty of completely in alleged bucket
shopping operations by the exchange
directors and suspended for five years.
The steamer Miowera from Sydney,
at Victoria, brings the story of the
planting Of the British flag on Nieu or
Savage Island by the Porpoise in June.
The island is situated 300 miles north
east Of the Tonga group, exports 500
tons of copper annually, and has fer
tile soil.
The first session of the Nebraska
prohibition state convention after
adopting platform adjourned until
today The platform reaff1rms the
declarations of the national cOnven
ton, scores the ruling of Attorney
General Griggs on the army canteen
and declares for the Acknowledgement
of women, the initiative and the refer
endum.
At Bismarck, n. D., the supreme
court handed down a decision disbar-
ring from practice L. A Simpson,
states attorney Of Stark county, and
candidate for the state senate on the
republican ticket, who was chairman
of the republican state convention at
Grand Forks Wednesday. The charges
comprised several alleged infractions
of violations of his duties as attorney.
Reports from Red Lake, Mimi, say
the Blanket Indians are congregating
in large numbers and an outbreak Is
feared. They have secured large guam
titles of liquor and a war dance is
going on. The reds are greatly excited
by young bucks from the White Earth
reservation. The white settlers are
making preparations for a siege and
Indian Agent Mercer has gone to the
scene to pacify the Indians.