Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-05


stored.
Politicians are already arriving in
Kansas City for the democratic con-
venCion.
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
earnings are lower than for many
months.
Politicians in Lincoln Neb., think
Bryan IS opposed to D. 3. Hill as run
ming mate.
Six excursionists were killed and
"a injured in railroad wreck near
Green Bay.
James H. Norton, principal of the
Lake View Illinois high school, died in
Southampton.
The Burlington road VIII employ
Crow Indians to grade a section in the
Big Horn region.
Mayor Rose Of Milwaukee is practi-
caIIy selected for temporary chairman
Of Kansas City convention.
Thirty-fye persons were killed in a
railway wreck on tie southern rail
way near McDonough, Ga.
The schooner Everett was wrecked
on st. Lawrence island. Five of the
crew Of six starved to death.
Admiral Dewey said emphatically
that he would not accept the demo-
cratic vice presidential nomination.
Bryan in an interview says he eX-
poets the Chicago platform to be re-
affirmed at the Kansas City conven-
.ion.
Some Pennsylvania councils Of the
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics have seeded from the ma
tional body.
1t is estimated that 100000 persons
will attend the Roosevelt Rough Rid
ers' reunion at Oklahoma City July 1,
2, and f.
Four cases of leprosy have developed
at Boise, Idaho, among returned vol
unteer soldiers who served in the
Philippines.
Bryan Is regarded as opposed to hav-
ing D. B. Hill as a running mate, but
southern delegates are declaring for
the, ex-senator.
United States Senator George F.
Hoar Of Massachusetts has made a
public statement declaring for Nc
Kinley's reelection.
Railroads between Chicago and Kan
sas City give notice that passes will
be denied all visitors and delegates to
the democratic convention.
Brig-Gen. Joseph Wheeler, who is
to assume command of the department
of the lakes, arrived in Chicago. His
two daughters are with him.
In Chicago Harley Mcpherson, a nom
union Iaborer, was attacked by three
men and shot, fatally wounding James
WEIGH, one of his assaiIants.
Mrs. Ruby Kennedy Scobell, the
organizer of the Women's National
Promotion of Health Society three
years ago, is dead in Chicago.
Prohibitionists in state convention
nominate Judge Visscher We're Barnes
for governor and select full ticket.
| Women win a fight for suffrage plank.
The union reform party in state con-
vention nominated Floyd Spencer of
Chicago for governor. The platform
advocates initiation and the referen-
dunn.
Gus Rubin knocked out Tom Shar-
key at Coney island in the fifteenth
round of a terrific glove contest that
was scheduled to go twenty-five
rounds.
Miss Helen Gould unveils pedes-
| tailed cannon captured in Manila from
the Spanish fleet by Admiral Dewey at
Three Oaks, Mich. Thousands were
present.
John G. WooIley of Illinois for pres
ident and Henry B. Metcalf of Rhode
Island for vice president were nomi-
mated by the prohibition national con-
vention.
Aaron T. Bliss was nominated for
governor by Michigan republicans on
the nineteenth ballot, his four rival
candidates remaining in the race to
the last
The Port Clarence and Cape Nome
and Norton Bay Railroad company of
New York has been incorporated with
capital of 81 100000 to construct and
operate railway in Alaska.
Reports are coming in of great dam
age done by hail in Iowa. A girl near.
Neville was probably fatally bruised
by the hailstones, while hogs and
sheep were killed by the score.
Wheat in the northwest is very
seriously injured by drought Min
nesOta will have half a crop, South
Dakota and Montana even less, and
North Dakota practically none.
Ex-senator Murphy says he is not a
candidate for the democratic nomina-
ton for vice-president, but he is
thoroughly in accord with Mr.. Bryan
on the issues of the campaign.
Henry Finehout, aged 81 believed to
have been the oldest railroad con-
ductor in the world died in St. Paul
His railroad service extended over a
period of 60 years and he never had an
accident.
Another effort will shortly be made
to obtain a rehearing of the famous
Captain Carter case The plan is to
try and bring him before a civil court
on a writ of habeas corpus and then
have the case tried upon its merits.
Kansas City announces that she is
dressed and ready with her big new
convention hall Mr.. Bryan will not