Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-12-12

he railroad combination have replied |
% Governor Van SAINTS invitation to
! conference to consider the subject. |
tide interest is shown.
ltichard Croker in a conference with |
SeIator Tim Campbell, admitted that
is leadership Of Tammany was prac-
Italy at an end. His health requires
him to give up the work.
]. A. Whitehea, a Harvard student
' listing friends at New Haven, Gisked
his life by climbing up a granite cliff
400 feet high to show Yale men he
could accomplish the feat.
The safe in the bank of Holly, Colo,
was broken open. The outer works
of the safe and the Office fixtures were
badly wrecked, but the burglars
failed to open the inner stronghold.
The Australian consul appealed to
the Austrian legation at Washington
to compel the Michigan Central COM
pany to reveal the whereabouts of the
immigrants injured at Seneca, Mich.
At Rochester, n. Y, fire caused $780,
300 damage to Woolworths' and other
stores in the business district. Seven
fremen were overcome and removed to
the hospital, two of them being in a
erious condition.
Near Pond Creek, Okla, the farm
house of William F. Heck was de-
stroyed by fire, and Mrs. Heck and an
1S-months-old boy were burned. The
child has since died, and Mrs. Heck
cannot recover
Dispatches from Sparks, Neb., re-
port destructive prairie fires in the
northeastern part of Cherry county
and throughout the greater part of
Keya Papa. Thousands of acres of
range have been destroyed.
The validity of an insurance policy
depends on the truthful answers to
questions propounded by the COM
pany when application for insurance
IS made, according to an opinion hand
ed down by the United States court of
appeals.
A tremendous development in the
manufacturing industries of Chicago
and Illinois is shown by census bulle-
tin. In the last decade the Chicago
plants increased 92.5 per cent. and
the value of the product 1877 per cent.
to $888, 1895.
At Walla-Walla, Wash. after three
days of steady poker playing for the
biggest stakes seen in years in that
part of the northwest, Nicholas
Scheidisch was forced to quit the
game, penniless, having lost $4,000
TO John Kramers.
Hugh Cameron, assistant cashier of
he First National Bank of White
Sulphur Springs, Mont, committed
suicide. No cause is assigned for the
act, his business affairs being in first
class shape, while his domestic re-
lations were pleasant.
The bull fight season opened at
Juarez, across the border, in Mexico,
with a very tame exhibition Three
thousand Americans from this side Of
the Rio Grande river attended and
saw one bull gore three blindfoldad
horses to death. Two bulls were
slain.
EX-Queen Liliuokalani and suite of
Hawaii arrived in New York and were
denied admission to several hotels,
being taken for negroes, and their
identity being unknown Lip has gone
to Washington disappointed because
no official notice was taken of her
presence.
Lizzie Albert, 20 years CT age, COM
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid in New York. A month ago, she
had a nervous attack, which mani
tested itself in a twitching of the
muscles of her face. Her girl COM
panions, she said afterward, made
fun of her affliction and her sweet
heart gave up calling on her.
At Philadelphia the district council
Of the brotherhood of carpenters sent
to every employer of carpenters in the
city a notice asking for an increase of
pay to As cents an hour, the eight
hour day, half holiday on Saturday,
extra compensation for overtime. Sun
day and holiday work, and that the re-
quest be granted by May 1, 1902.
The Irish National Worlds Fair
association, recently organized, will
erect a permanent Irish building on
the worlds fair grounds, ST. Louis, in
which will be displayed during the ev-
position the manufacture, arts and
sciences of Ireland. After the fair it
will be utilized as a museum of the
art, literature and antiquities of Ire
land.
At Fall River Mass. the members Of
st. Anne's parish age in a state OF
CONSERVATION over the loss of two
valuable relics, stolen from the church.
One, the original relic of st. Anne,
was small piece of bone which was
received about year ago. The other
was even more valuable. 1t was a
piece of bone from the right forearm
Of the patron saint of the parish.
Edward Schumann, a farmer of
Sigourney, Iowa, and a widower with
four children, recently wrote to his
brother Jacob, farmer of Saxony,
to pick out an Industrious woman in
and send her to Sigourney.
Edward said he would marry the wo-
man as soon as she got to his home.
Jacob selected his servant. Clara
Fleischer, SO years old, and she has
arrived en- route to Sigourney.
Obituary.
Frof. Albrecht Weber, the Berlin