Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-09-13
DOMESTIC.

The new tlnplaLe scale Will NOT
reduce wages.
American paints will be used on
German warships.
The last Of Shag Rock was blown out
Of San Francisco harbor.
Commissioner H. Clay Evans dis
covered he is entitled to a pension.
A justice Of the peace at Des Moines,
Ia, decided labor unions are trusts.
Bankers are beginning to send
money to the country to move crops.
The census gives Fort Wayne, Ind,
45.115 inhabitants; gain, 27.47 per cent.
Cowboys, at war with sheepmen,
drive 5000 sheep over a precipice in
Colorado.
The arrest of a jeweIry agent in New
York spoiled a big diamond snug
Cling scheme
An earthquake in Lituya Bay,
Alaska, disIodged glaciers and killed
five Indians.
The steamer Holstein, Of Costa RIGA
was put in quarantine; yellow fever
being suspected.
Wholesale fruit dealers in the east
expect to organize to fight the CalifOr-
MIA prune trust.
Steel men have ordered ten steamers
to ply between Lake Erie and
European ports.
Pennsylvania lines west Of Pittsburg
will establish a travelling police force
to keep away tramps.
Cfl,1 opJ ySTipo n a. q
deny the story that they wound bulld a
plant at Waukegan, Ill
The Liners Deutschland and Kaiser
Wilhelm started from New York on a
race across the Atlantic.
The Michigan peach crop is the
largest in years, taxing the capicity of
steamboats, and railroads.
Harold f. Wray Of Brooklyn turned
burglar to secure money to employ a
lawyer in a divorce suit,
Arthur SewalI, democratic candidate
for vice president in 1896, died at his
summer home near Bath. Me.
e. NJ. Hopkins, New York, in London
to sell coal, said English operators are
buying coal tracts in United States.
A Pensacola, Fla, coal company
closed a contract for 100000 tons Of
coal to be shipped to Fiume, Austria.
Charles Truax reports that American
exports need to consult the demands o.
foreign consumers more than they do.
Colonel Zygmunt Milk0Wski, Polish
poet and soldier, arrived in Chicago 10
raise money for the national defense
fund.
Joseph Dakus. a Missouri farmer,
was arrested charged with poisoning
melons and causing the death of nine
boys
The reorganization of Roman Catho-
lie Church choirs in Chicago would
follow the prohibition of women
singers.
N. A. Burnham, late of Chicago, and
young wife disappeared When women
came from Racine to claim him as
husband.
Canton, O., McKinleys town, gained
17,100 in population in last decade;
Lincoln, Neb., Bryan home, lost 27.11
per cent. Peoria, Ill, gained 3O.75
per cent.
At Montreal, R. Phillips Gormuliy,
president Of the Gormully 6, Jeffery
Company, and Venezuelan Consul at
Chicago, died
Dr. Selin H. Peabody has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the depart
ment of liberal arts of the Pan-Amer-
can exposition.
Cresceus lowered the worlds trot-
ting record for stations at the Charter
Oak track at Hartford. He trotted
against time in 2:04a.
Posses have been sent out in search
of party of bandits who held up
Union Pacific passenger train No.
near Upton Station, Wyo.
The recent storm at Nome caused
large loss of life. Thirty-eight bodies
have so far been recovered on the
beach and buried by the officials.
The West Virginia Pulp and Paper
company, which was incorporated two
weeks ago, has increased its capital
stock from $3,O00.00O to S3,600,OO0.
Rufians invaded a Chicago home
while drunk and interfere with a
coroner's inquest over the remains OF
Louis MOrsber, who committed suicide.
The British fleet was greeted at Bar
Harbor, Me-, by boer flag raised over
house Of Edward Van Ness. Police
took down the emblem when owner re
fused to remove it.
Manufacturers Of building material,
owing 10 the strike of the woodwork
ers. threaten to remove their plants
from Chicago to Michigan, Indiana or
other nearby states
E. s. Washburn, president of the