Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-07-12
Chicago directory managers figure

300.
Webster Davis is converted to de-
mocracy by the arti-imperialistic
plank.
The Gypsy national convention in
progress at ST. Joe elected a national
chief.
The I. 5. battIeship Oregon has been
foated and, it is believed, will be
saved.
Alabama coal miners accepted a
wage proposition made by the opera
tors.
Every Bessemer furnace in the coun-
try is to shut down to stiffen the
market.
Judge Day accuses Spain of having
been the direct cause of the Maine
disaster.
Great crowd will visit Canton July
u, when Mckinley is notified of re-
nomination.
In five days Roosevelt travelled 1000
miles and spoke forty-one times in
forty towns.
Villatte, formerly the leader of the
old Catholics, is communicated by
Pope Leo XIII.
Dr.. Robinson Trip, one Of Chicago's
pioneers, died at the age Of 50 years
from old age.
Fire in a crowded tenement-nouse in
Hoboken, n. J., caused the death OF
twelve persons.
A horse frightened by firecrackers
broke into the ladies' parlor of a
Washington hotel.
The American Federation of Labor
may come to the support of Chicago's
unemployed workmen.
Official reports received from Hayt
set at rest the rumors of disquieting
conditions in that island.
During first six months of 1900 nine
railroad companies, operating 97S
miles, went into the courts.
| A water works reservoir at Grand
Rapids, Mich, burst and swept away
many houses. Only one life was lost
indictments were returned against
a number of aldermen of Syracuse, n
Y, on charges of municipal corrup-
ton.
Two persons were killed and thirty
three injured in a train wreck al
Track Siding, Mont, twelve miles from
Butte.
Officers of the American missionary
| board fear that seventeen workers from
the Chicago district were massacreC
in Pekin.
The excursion steamer Riverside, or
Niagara river, went ashore in a fog
the officers prevented a panic by
! drawing revOlyers.
At Pittsburg fire almost totally de-
stroyed the large soap and fertilizing
plant of the Walkers tratman com
pany. Loss, $4,000.
Homer B. Galpin for forty years
deputy sheriff in Chicago died at his
| home on West Monroe street. Heart
disease was the cause.
In a fight between cowboys and
Cinnamon in Duval county, Texas, four
| Cinnamon were wounded, one fatally
and a cowboy was wounded.
Director of the Census Merriam de-
clares that he will issue an order that
applications from clerks for a change
of work will be tantamount to resigna-
tons.
Joseph Wylie, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Chester, S. c., died
aged II. He endowed Erskine Theo-
logical seminary and gave a park to
Chester.
At Santa Ana, Cal, Emil Marken-
berg, an aeronaut, fell from a height
of 500 feet and was crushed to death.
A strap broke to which he was hanging
by his teeth.
Three tons of gold have arrived in
Seattle from Alaska being brought by
the steamers City of Seattle and City
of Topeka. This gold is valued at
over $1,O0O,OO
All the union coal miners in Ala
bama, about 10000 in number, quit
work, pending the settlement of the
wage dispute. The old wage contract
expired yesterday and the miners de-
manded a rise in wages and other con-
cessiOns.
The United States Army transport
Sedgwick, having on board more than
100 female teachers from Cuba and the
third Of the fleet bringing the instruct
ors to this country for a season of
study at Harvard University's sum-
mer school, arrived.
At St. Louis Thomas D. Waters and
his wife were followed by Alexander
Stroffregen and Julius Kulage, strike
sympathizers, who applied insulting
epithets to them for riding on the cars.
Mr.. Waters fired several shots, wound
ing Kulage fatally and Stoffregen seri-
ously.
twenty-five bodies of Hoboken fire
victims were recovered in one day. The
total number Of bodies so far found is
o. There are 142 of the crews of the
Main, Bremen and Saale still unac-
counted for in any way. No thorough
search has yet been made Of the Main
or the Bremen.
The Butte and Boston Mining COM
pany has made its reply to the de-
mand Of the miners union of Butte,
for an eight-hour day with ten hours
pay, refusing to accede to it. This
may indicate the position of all the
So-calIed amalgamated companies on
the question.