Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-06-07

Tucker.
Secretary Hay will do all in his
power to aid the pan-American con-
gress.
German nearly failed to prevent his
own county from instructing for
Bryan.
Colorado wolves are being extermi- |
mated by incubation with virus OF
rabies.
Statutes of Lincoln, Grant, Sher-
man. and Farragut were unveiled at
Muskegon.
The New York democratic conven-
ton is practically certain to instruct
for Bryan.
An explosion Of nitroglycerine killed
six and fatally wounded four people
near Marietta.
Julian B. Arnold, son Of Sir Edwin,
will fight extradition on an embezzle-
ment charge.
St. Louis street car was blown up
by dynamite and two policemen were
badly hurt.
The school census of Indiana shows
population of 2,638,483, a decrease Of
5,497 from 1899.
Mrs. Sarah E Sampson of Chicago
left $40 900 in her will to various re-
Iigious societies.
TWenty-siX lumber firms in the Lake
Superior region organized mutual
benefit association.
Neely's printing plant at Muncie,
Ind, was attached and closed by
| United States marshal.
Increasing surplus due to war taxes
and decreasing expenditures furnish
problem for republicans.
Crops in the northwest, most of the
lake region, Ohio valley and middle
Atlantic states need rain.
Fifty thousand visitors attended the
first day of the confederate veterans
reunion at Louisville, KY.
It is reported greater New York is
made into one Roman Catholic diocese
under Archbishop Corrigan.
A mob in Pueblo lynched a negro
by dragging him through the street
with rope around his neck.
Benjamin F. Shively of South Bend,
Ind, will accept the democratic nomi-
nation for governor if rendered.
Mrs. Lone is not candidate for re-
election as president of the General
Federation of Women's clubs.
The German meat bill will not take
effect till Oct 5. In the meantime
packers hope for change in it.
Francis Murphy, temperance lectur-
err, said better conditions prevail at
army posts where canteens exist.
Unde the new meat bill just passed
by the German reichstag Chicago
packers will lose millions of trade.
1t is reported that former Senator
David B. Hill will exert every infu-
ence to turn New York against Bryan.
1t is probable the state department
will accept the result of the arbitra-
ton in the Delagoa bay railroad case
Bishop John Moore Of the Catholic
diocese of St. Augustine, Fla, was
stricken with paralysis in Allegheny
Pa.
The library of congress will send
$50 volumes and 100 pamphlets by
American negroes to the Paris exposi-
! ton.
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon
tana, and the Dakotas are said to be
united in supporting Judge Bartlett
! Trip.
Minister WI said the Chinese name
of Boxers" is Tu HUI Chuan, which
means righteousness, harmony, and
: fists"
) Ella Lee, colored, has confessed tC
= throwing baby into a we'll nine years
ago at Springfield, III. She is under
arrest.
; Bloomington, ILL.,, celebrated the an
niversary of the original republican
convention Of 1856 by a reunion of sur
vivors
Congressman Delivers boom for the
= vice presidential nomination gains
strength, amazing the Mckinley man
? ayers.
President Mckinley delivered an ad-
dress incident to the dedication Of a
memorial shaft upon the battlefield of
Antietam.
w. A. Clark gave his daughter $4,-
100000 in stocks and $4,000 900 in
cash on her marriage to DR.. L. R.
Morris.
The steam yacht Oneida arrived here
from Bermuda with her owner, E. c..
Benedict, and former President Cleve-
land on board.
New Jersey democrats in convention
avoided pledging the delegates to Kan
sas City, but showed their sympathy
with Bryan.
An Indiana judge decided that ball
players cannot be fined twice for the
same offense. 1t is a practical victory
for Sunday ball.
The enumeration for the twelfth
census began June l, and is to be COM
pleted in thirty days The cost will be
over 10000 900.
Mrs. Alice Stewart of Shelbyville,
Ind. filed a sensational suit asking
$4,000 damages from her husband,
son and other parties.
The railroad commissioners conven-
ton voted to ask congress to give the
interstate commission power to pre-
scribe maximum rates.
Jeffries' manager says Sharkey is
afraid to meet the champion and for
that reason insists on unreasonable
conditions for the fight
The claim Of the Pottawatomie
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