Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-23
DOMESTIC.


prophesies dollar wheat.
The Dakota elevator at Buffalo. \.
Y, burned; loss 100000.
Fitzsimmons and Sharkey are TO
fight Aug. "a for a purse Of $4,000.
Mccoy is training we'll and in great
condition for his fight with jim Corbet.
Ex-Representative George w. Shonk
Of Wilkesbarre, Pa, died in Washing
ton.
Henry J. O'Neili. the barley king"
filed a petition in bankruptcy in Chi
cago.
Miss L. Blanche Fearing blind
lawyer and writer of note, died in
Chicago
Professor Irven Lewiston of Omaha
was elected superintendent of the St.
Paul schools.
There is talk in baseball circles Of
adopting three balls and three strikes
next year.
At Tampa, Fla, Bias Trujillo, a
prominent cigar manufacturer. com
mitted suicide.
At Chicago the clothing factory 0f
K. B. Olsen & Co. was destroyed by
fire; loss $4,000.
Congressman Jenkins was renOml-
mated by the republicans of the tenth
Wisconsin district.
Congressman Dolliver may be ap-
pointed United States senator by the
governor of Iowa.
Capt. James Compton of Fergus
Falls was elected cOmmandant of the
Minnesota soldiers home.
William NJ. Gravenhorst, the Neither
lands consul, is dead fom heart failure
at his home in Brooklyn.
President Mckinley will do no active
campaigning, but may make one or
two speeches in Chicago.
Robert S. Hughes, president of the
Roger Locomotive company, is dead at
his home at Paterson. n. J.
At Necedah, Wis. Sadie and Libby
Lauk, children, were drowned in the
river while playing on raft.
The Illinois Central will improve
its ocean carrier service between New
Orleans and European ports.
Three hundred delegates attended the
anti-imperialist convention in Indian
apolis. Bryan was Endorsed.
John ]. Mooney of Kenosha lett
100000 to grandchildren, and directed
that he be buried in $25 coffin.
Croker defeated Hill by preventing
the selection Of Mcguire for Chairman
of the New York state convention.
10 0f
William Jennings Bryan j., by keep
ing from falling out of a window.
Confederate veterans Of the south
ara opposed to General Gordon's at
tending the G. A. R. encampnent
Thompson Stickle's design for the
Nancy Hanks monument to be erected
over her grave, has been accepted.
T. Romans, a candidate for political
Office in Missouri committed suicide
because Of attacks by his opponents.
Mrs. L. S. Grant cannot attend the
Grand Army enc2mpmcnt owing to ad-
vanced age and the nervous strain.
The main building of Holbrook
College, at Fountain City, suburb Of
Knoxville, Tenn, burned; loss $4,000
At Corinth, Miss, Jack Belts,
negro, was Iyncheu. He was charged
with assulting a 1O-year-old white
girl.
Governor Beckham Of KENTUCKY
called an extra session Of the legis-
lature for Aug. % to modify the Goebel
law.
President Mckinley returned to
Washington especially to receive the
Cuban teachers studying at Harvard
college.
The anti-Goebel democrats in Ken
lucky decided to support Jonn w.
Yerkes, the republican candidate for
governor.
Rain has fallen every day for 81
days in northeast and south Texas.
Rises are reported in the rivers, the
Colorado being % feet above low mark
at Columbus. Crop is shedding bolis
badly.
Grover Cleveland was quoted at
Indianapolis as having refused to head
a third ticket because of the state of
his health.
Mrs. S. R. GoodelI of Rockford has
received word that she and fifteen
others are heirs to a $50,000,000 estate
in England.
A letter from the Philippines tells
OF the death of Richard Eisenach,
Forty-ffth Volunteers, a Racine boy,
from wounds.
The Langstaff Hardware company oil
Memphis assigned, scheduling liza
bilties $50 ,000 with assets sufficient toI
pay creditors.
Gilbert NJ Hitchcock, Omaha pub
Usher is a democrat candidate for the
United States senatorship, to succeed
John NJ Thurston.
Wisconsin bankers met in Milwau-
kee. The retiring president said that
business in the state increased 20 per
cent. in two years.
\ man in an advanced stage oil
leprosy was discovered wandering |
about the streets of Minneapolis He
was quickly isolated.
At Marietta, Ga. Samuel Robinson,
the negro charged with criminal as
sault on Mrs. George liner, was con-
victed and sentenced to hang September
!.
The sailing vessel Mazda crashed
into the rocks at Sault Ste. Marie, and
sinking, completely. blocks the chau-
mel, tying up all shipping.
Prof. James E. Keller, director Of
the Lick observatory and one of tie
greatest OF American astronomers,
died at Mount Hamilton.