Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-03

President John Henry Barrows, of
Oberlin University, announces that Dr.
Alice H. Luce, of Wellesley college,
has accepted election as dean of ODER
lin.
Capt. Carter must serve his sentence
for embeZzlement in the prison at
Fort Leavenworth, the United States
supreme court having denied his ap-
peal
William Douglas, an inmate of the
reformatory a Green Bay, Wis, was
shot and killed while trying to escape.
He belonged to a good family in Chi
cago.
Employees Of the Spring Valley Coal
company voted 10 go on a strike be-
cause of alleged violations of the
agreement entered into by the COM
pdny.
AT Dover, Del, Ephraim Wilson,
colored, aged 105 years, died. He often
referred to incidents in the war of
1912 and said he saw George Wash
ington.
Electricity has supplanted steam in
the operation of the big packing
houses of Armour & Co. at the Union
Stock Yards. The new plant cost
81 900 600
The Hub Motor Transit company,
incorporated in New Jersey for 81 ,000,-
600, promised Chicago scent fares in
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revolution.
Armed boycotters drove a non-unior
clerk from Butte City, Mont, threat
| ening him with death if he returned
because he did not observe an early
| closing rule.
The reception committee Of the
| Chicago Dewey celebration has receiv.
ed formal notice from President Nc.
Kinley of his declination of the invi
| tation to attend.
Henry A. Robinson, ex-statisticia1
of the United States agricultural de
partment and former state labor com
missioner, died at his home in Detroit
aged IS years.
The eruption of volcano is re
ported from the Philippines TIL,
place was the extreme southeastern
portion of the island of Luzon, in tn,
province of Albay.
James Harris, arrested at Ottumwa
charged with the murder of Johl
Allen, a wealthy merchant, has mad
a written confession, duplicating tn
wife Of the deceased.
The Troy conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal church today advise
the retention of the possessions tina
came to the United States as a re
suit of the war with Spain.
Australian dispatchs tell of the dis
coVery of rich placer ground at Wed
derburn, Victoria. John Boyd, tn
first man to stake ground, unearthe
a 61-ounce nugget at % feet depth.
At Lima. Ohio, an Indictment wa
returned against n. l.. Michael, ex
vice-president of the American Ma
tional bank, which was mysteriousl
robbed here two years ago of $4,000
At Chillicothe, Ohio, James Stewart
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in the street. George Poe was arrest
ed and confessed that he strucI
Stewart with a stone in a drunken row
The indictment against w. S. Tay
Tor, republican governor of Ken
lucky, will be held up until after tn
argument before the supreme cour
of the case involving the governor
ship.
Admiral Dewey's candidacy seem
to have passed into innocuous desue
tude. John R. McLean's mission t
New York did not unearth a genera
demand that the admiral be a candi
date.
At Oswego, N. Y, Gen. Timoth
Sullivan, United States Army, retired
died at an advanced age. He serve
in the civil war, commanding a brig
ade at Bull Run and at South Noun
tain.
At San Francisco, the court-martia
in the case of Capt. Peter C. Deming
cOmmissary Of subsistence, Unite
States army, came to a sudden en-,
today by Captain Deming pleadin,
guilty.
! Gamblers from all parts of tn
/ country are apparently making Kansa
City their Mecca, the word havin;
gone forth that the new city govern
ment is to tolerate a "wide-open'
policy"
It is the belief of many that Cover
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present illness. Gall stones are tn,
cause of the severe attack of gastriti
with which he has suffered for som,
time
! Gustavus F. Swift, president O
| Swift & Co., commenting on the strik,
of the packing corporations New
York butchers, declared that the com
pany was determined to resist to {
finish.
At Seattle 30 of 526 Japanest
brought by the steamship Riojur
Maru have been refused admittance t.
the United States by the commission
ers. They will probably be returned tt
Japan.
Mayor Van Wyck signed the bill
authorizing the construction of the
New York connecting railroad and g
report spread that the Vanderbilts
had obtained control of the Long Is
| land Railroad
! Archbishop Corrigan in starting or
an official visit to Rome received
wagon loads of flowers and the cor
dial farewell greetings of many
friends, who expect him to return a