Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18

and kindred diseases.
Andrew Carnegie has declined to |
run for mayor in New York as he has /
too much other business on hand.
An order has been received for !
100000 tons of Tennessee and Ken
lucky coal to be shipped to Venice.
Nearly ten thousand people leave
Oklahoma City for FL Keno to register
in preparation for the rush for land.
The mail stage running between
Morrison and Fair Haven, H., was
burned and a sack of mail destroyed.
The body Of Chris. Harm, a prom
inent merchant Of Ute, Iowa, was
found in the Soldier river by small
boys.
Thomas G. Barker was taken tt
Trenton prison to begin his five years
sentence for shooting Rev. John
Keller.
1t is said Rev. John Keller, of
Arlington, n. j., will seek vindication'
of the charges made by Mrs. T. G.
Barker.
An Alton passenger train was
wrecked near Norton, Mo, and four
teen persons were killed and forty
injured.
Japanese fishermen won the Vac
couver fishery war, largely outnumber-
ing the strikers and their SYM
pathizers.
A. Cary Smith, of New York, has
received commission from Emperor
William to build him a 120-foot cruis
ing yacht.
Col Mosby of civil war fame was
appointed special agent Of the general
land office for Minnesota and
Nebraska.
Alfred Norlin of Minden, Neb., con-
fessed embezzling $1,000 of county
funds. He was given six years i'm
prisonment.
There are about 900 cases of leprosy
in the United States proper, and
nearly every large city has one Or
more cases.
Carl Jansen, supposed to be insane,
murdered a woman and is said to have
horribly mutilated a little girl in
Denver, Col
A system of floating hotels was
inaugurated in New York for the
benefit of business men during the
heated season.
The Chinese minister filed a claim
for 100000 against the government
for injuries inflicted on Chinese i'll
Montana riots.
Tommy WEIGH of NATION, ILL.,, 8
years old, says he was kidnapped by
gypsies and escaped after gnawing
through his bonds.
Charles Ferguson of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, who deserted his wife thirty-two
years ago, returned to find her the
widow of another man.
| The Ohio democratic state conven-
ton refused to indorse Bryan and the
Kansas City platform. bourne was
nominated for governor.
William E. Fitzgerald, president of
the Milwaukee Dry Dock company,
died of injuries received in an ex-
plosion of acetyliLe gas.
A claimant to the Rogers millions
be son, daughter or widow of the dead
locomotive manufacturer.
| Mayor Carter H. Harrison received
a letter from Harvey, Ill, warning him
to leave the city at once as there was
plan on foot to shoot him.
The sultan of Turkey deposited
! $4,000 with the American minister
to settle American claims growing
out of the Armenian troubles.
| G. S. Young of Ypsilanti, Mich,
obtained injunction pI ohibiting the at
tention to his wife of man he feared
would ALLEVIATE her affections.
| The crops of the northwestern states
southwest considerable damage is
done by the hot, dry weather.
The steamer Queen, just in from
Alaska, reports that beer is very
scarce at Dawson. The price has
risen from SIS to $3.50 barrel.
Prince Alexandrovitch Galitzin, who
once duped the New York -four
hundred" by a fake art sale, died N
Bloomingdale asylum a pauper
Salvis Janero. engaged in the South
Omaha bull fight, was tossed by an in
furiated bull about forty feet, his side
being bored and two ribs broken.
The national council Of educators
adopted the report Of the national uni
versity committee that no bill yet
offered in congress is practicable.
The trial of Robert S. Fosburg.
charged with killing his sister, May
Foshburg, is expected to be reached
at Pittsfield, Mass, within a week.
Several hundred persons were
poisoned at Ada, l. T., by drinking
lemonade. Three children are re-
ported dead and many seriously ILL.,
The Younger brothers were released
from prison by the Minnesota pardon
board after twenty-five years imprison
ment They must not leave the state.
Five-year-old Eddie Smith was
drowned at Newark, n. J., while trying
to rescue his eight-year-old brother,
and the lads died in each others arms.
Rev. DR.. E. T. Perkins, rector
emeritus of st. PauPs Episcopal
church, LOUISVILLE, va, u1eu. he WAS
born in Richmond, Va, October 5,
1888.
Herbert L. BTidgman, started N
command of the fourth Peary relief eX-
petition, says he believes that the
explorer has already discovered the
Pole.
Negotiations are to be reopened
between the Amalgamated Association
and the United States Steel Corpora
ton. which NAV avert an extension of