Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-25

authorized the general land Office to
make a thorough survey of wind cave,
in South Dakota
E. S. Tuley, formerly assistant post
master of Louisville and one of the
best-known republicans in the south,
died at Louisville.
The republican campaign committee
of a Massachusetts congressional dis
trict has asked the bankruptcy court
to cancel it's debts.
The Standard Table Oilcloth COM
pany, embracing nearly all the firms
in the country, has been formed with
S10,000,000 capital.
! Mrs. May Harrington Hanna sailed
for Europe with her three sons, thus
! ending the writ obtained by her hus-
| band, Dan" Hanna.
| Charles T. Becker, a wealthy re-
tired diamond broken, Of Brooklyn,
| shot and killed himself III health is
| given as the cause.
The weather bureaus weekly sum
| mary Of crop conditions says crops
are standing the unfavorable condi
| lions remarkably well.
| w. D. Gleason. a Brooklyn real
estate broker, died of hydrophobia
after great suffering. He was bitten
by a pet dog last March.
The will of Jacob S. Rogers, the To-
connective builder, was offered for pro-
bate at Trenton, N. J., and argument
was set for September 16.
Maj. A. H. Davis, wealthy citiz 9n
! Of Syracuse, N. Y, renowned his
allegiance to the United States and
| became British subject.
At Jersey City Nathan Woodward, a
colored man, Familiarity known in
Basking Ridge, N. j., as ''Uncle Nate"
died at the age of ITO years.
The postmaster general issued an
order denying the pound rate
privilege to novels, premium pub
LEGATIONS, and returned papers.
1t is said all parties interested will
contest the will of Jacob S. Rogers,
who left his fortune to the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art, New York.
A circus roustabout with the Gentry
company deliberately picked a COM
panion up, pitched him into Lake ST.
Croix and watched him drown.
At Denver the grandstand at Broad
way park, where the Western League
baseball games are played, burned.
The cost Of the stand was 100000.
The Cleveland (Ohio) tax equaliza-
ton board has increased the assess
able value of Senator Hanna's street
car lines from $595,OOO to s6,OOO,OOO.
At Chicago, w. S. Cleveland,
formerly a well-known circus pro-
prietor, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy, alleging liabilities of 100000.
Ambassador Porter's plain attire
made him the most conspicuous
figure in the French presidents boz
at the grand military review at Long
champs.
The bulk of the 100000 estate of
the late Lewis Elkin of Philadelphia
is left in trust to create fund for the
benefit of superannuated female
school teachers.
At San Francisco, a series of fires
indicated that incendiaries were at
work Stables were made the special
mark of their torches. Twenty
| horses were burned.
Census returns show that the
Chinese population of the United
States decreased 1850 during the last
ten years. There are now $4,000
Chinese in the country.
Professor Triggs told his class in
English literature at Chicago Uni
versity that the protestant hymns
were doggerel and dime novels better
than Sunday school books.
With a capitalization of between 81,
100000 and 100000, II of the chief
vaudeville theatres between Chicago
and the Pacific coast are about to be
merged into single property.
Pierre Lorillard's will was probated
at Trenton. N. j., and the estate is left
in trust for the benefit of the widow
three children and grandchildren. Mrs.
Allen was given Rancocas Farm.
Hard study and the error of a clerk
who recorded his failure instead of
success in the Annapolis naval
academy examinations are given as
the cause of young Harry Craven's
insanity
Mrs. Frances Warrimor of Staun-
ton, Va. wife of a United States
army surgeon now serving in the
Philippines, died at Omaha She was
on her way to San Francisco to meet
her husband
A mass-meeting of the Thomas G..
Baker Defense association in Airing
ton, n. j., demanded that the Rev
John Keller bring suit against Mrs
Barker for defamation of character
to clear his name.
One of the large trust companies of
| this country has decided to make an
effort to collect or compromise the
bonds issued by the southern states
during the reconstruction period fol-
lowing the civil war. and since re-
pudiated.
Joseph BARLEY, for four years
treasurer of Nebraska and convicted
of embezzling state funds to the
amount of nearly 100000, has been
released from the penitentiary. He
was sentenced to 20 years and served
| 40 months
| A mogul engine Of the 'hog" type
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
| Western railroad while going into the
| tank switch at Gouldsboro, Pa, ran
into two connected hogs" coming out.
Fireman Howe, on the inbound en-
gine, was killed.
At Zion City, Ill, John Alexander
Dowie, who claims to be Elijah IL,