Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-30

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Statistics of the mineral resources Of
the United States show that Minnesota
stands second in the production Of iron.
Cashier Baleh of the Omaha National
bank was assaulted in a sleeping car
on the Northwestern and robbed of $50.
a riot occurred at Prairie du Chen,
Wis, growing out of a quarrel between
a resident and employees of Buffalo
Bill.
The sawmilI of the Harmer Manu-
featuring company at Burlington, Ia,
was burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
SIS, 600
Louis G. Bohmrich, the Wisconsin
democratic nominee for governor, was
given a welcome home by the city Of
Kenosha.
Cuban teachers were entertained in
New York, visiting Columbia Univer-
sity, Central Park and other places of
interest.
Philadelphia and New York neWspa-
per owners are said to be planning q
paper factory in Canada to combat the
paper trust.
Census office gave Cleveland 381,768
population; Cincinnati, 325,9O2; Oma-
ha, 1855; Jersey City, zoe, 433; Ho-
boken, 1894.
Henry E. Youtsey. on trial in con-
nection with the murder of Goebel of
Kentucky, got a continuation on ac-
count of illness.
Eyer Finstad of West Superior fell
100 feet while being lowered down the
side of the Great Northern's new ele-
vator and was killed.
Firemen working on the heavy ell
gines complain of the stress of the
work and propose means for the light
ening of their labors.
President Mckinley notified the
Grand Army of the Republic encamp-
ment officials of his inability TO come
to Chicago at present
A woman and four of her children
were murdered near Arlington, MINI.
Her husband, Theodore WaIlert, is sus-
pected and is still at large,
James Demarest, a Hackensack bach
elor, built a spite fence twelve feet high
to deaden nightly sounds of lOvemak-
ing in his neighbOr's yard.
The new battIeship Alabama, the
finest and most powerful ship in the
United States navy, has left Philadel-
phia for her official trial trip.
General John G. Black of Chicago
and Major Leo Rassieur of St. Louis
are the only men mentioned for com
mander-in-chief of the G. A. R.
Cardinal Gibbons in a sermon al
Southampton, l.. l., declared the home
rather than fashionable or public life
to be the true sphere Of woman.
thirty planning mills, including prac-
tically all the sash, door and blind con-
Germs in Chicago, will pass into COM
binatiOn with a capital of $4,000,000
The will of Coils P. Huntington was
offered for probate in New York. His
estate is variousIy estimated as being
worth from $2OOOO,OO0 to 100000, 900
Geronimo, the noted Indian chief re
Gently reported to have become insane
it is now said is about to marry a
youthful girl with a bank account OF
$4,000
1t is said Commissioner General
Peck has violated the constitution of
the United States by accepting the dec
GRAFTON of the Legion of Homer in
France.
Estimates as to the probable shortage
of the salmon on the entire Pacific
coast vary considerably, ranging from
100000 cases to 100000 cases below
the pack of last year.
The annual reunion of the Ninety
ninth Illinois Volunteers was held at
Marry, III. Colonel G. w. K. Bailey
of Eureka, Kas, the regiments old
commander, was present.
j. P. Dolliver was appointed United
States senator by Governor Shaw to
succeed the late Senator Gear of Iowa.
Cummins threatened to resume the
fight before the legislature.
The negro porter on the Glover Leaf
pay train stole a package of money
from the car at Frankfort, Ind. He
was arrested at Toledo, and all but
$3.50 of it was recovered.
Judge Charles H. Berry, formerly at
torney general of Minnesota, died at
WinOna, aged II, and former Justice
William Mitchell of the Minnesota SUI
preme court died at Alexandria.
L. H. Hirschfeld, ex-president of
The Merchants National Bank of He
,ena was acquitted on the charge Of
false reports to the comptroller
Of the currency as to the banks con-
dition.
Officers fired on mob of 1000 at
O., which surrounded a Jail
clamoring for a negro accused of
serious crime. A boy and baby were
killed and the prisoner was spirited
away
Suit has been brought against the
American Chicory company by Rich
ard A. Bevan, Christopher H. OIdfeld,
and the Barclay & Co., Limited, all Of
England, to forecIose a mortgage for
$4,000
The population of the city Of Oma-
ha is Shown by the returns Of the cen
sus bureau 10 have decreased in the
tas5 decade nearly 100000 The expla-
nation IS that the census Of 1890 was
padded.
At Chicago Sol Bloom. a music pub
Usher brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the Union restaurant and hotel
"a Randolph street for refusing TO serve
am while he was clad in a shirt waist
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