Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-05-09
Domestic.
ago April wheat, 72AC.

Chicago April wheat, ~ &C.
Oil was discovered near Evanston,
Wyo
His Eminence won the Kentucky
Derby.
The Mormon governor of Utah is to
marry a gentle.
Terry McGovern whipped Oscar
Gardner in four rounds.
James Douglass Reid, "the father of
the telegraph" is dead.
Six flour mills at West Superior and
one at Duluth combined.
Thieves at Springville, Mich, robbed
Mrs. Ruth Ayres of $4,000
The National Congress of Mothers
is to meet in Columbus, O., May Fl.
The winner of the oratorical prize at
De Pauw is found to be plagiarist.
Major D. ]. Pruden of the white
house force is to be promoted to pay
master.
The triennial conclave of the Sons
of the American Revolution opened at
Pittsburg.
John Burg, formerly assistant post
mastel of Kenosha, is charged with
burglary.
A part of Lampsons 100000 gift
to Yale will be used for a public lee
ture hall
Prof. Bolley of the North Dakota
Agricultural college, has discovered a
flax parasite.
There is a firm belief in Wall street
that the Northwestern will get the
Union Pacific.
Insurance of 100000 was paid for
loss of the cargo of the steamship
Rio de Janeiro.
Ambrose N. Merrick, the first city
attorney elected in Minneapolis died
of Brights disease.
Mrs. Carrie Nation had an attack
OF violent hysteria and denounced her
friends as traitors.
Reports indicate that the Cherokee
treaty has been defeated in the In
dian territory election.
George D. Perkins withdraws from
the gubernatorial race in Iowa in
favor of Minister Conger.
Colonel Ray, in command of de
partment of Alaska, declared that
Alaska offers a splendid field for agri
culture.
An electric engineer has applied for
a patent On an invention which he
declared will transmit by wire pictures
in colors.
May day was marked by strikes in
many cities, principally because of the
refusal of employers to grant an eight
hour day
j. P Morgan e Co. bought the Ley
land line of ocean steamers, which
will consolidate with the Atlantic
Transport line.
The Burlington management is to re-
main unchanged under the new deal.
Fire in Duluth caused a loss of
about $65, 900
The census bureau fixed the center
of population six miles east of Colum-
bus, Ind, only slight change during
the last decade.
Mrs. Charles Morgan, wife Of Gun
ner Morgan who has brought suit at
Newport, R. l., for divorce, means to
contest the suit.
Unless the Illinois Central recedes
from its position in refusing to grant
the machinists d nine-hour day a
strike will be declared.
The kidnappers of Edward Cudahy
offered to return S21,100 of the ran
som if the prosecution is dropped apd
the reward withdrawn
One-half of DR.. Harcourt's women
parishioners in Reading, Pa, complied
with his request and removed their
hats during service.
William H Elliott, aged 81 years,
member of the republican national
committee from Michigan, died at his
residence at Detroit, Mich.
Mrs Thomas j. ONeill, wife of the
secretary to Mayor Carter H. Harri-
son, Sr, and to Mayor D. c.. Cregier,
died in Chicago of pneumonia.
Miss Helen Hay, daughter of the
secretary of state, has written The
Rose of Dawn. a poem dealing with a
love tragedy in the Fiji islands.
England is anxious to negotiate
parcels post convention with the
United States. Senator T. G. Platt,
express magnate, may block it.
DR.. j. Gartrell aged 20, of Kansas
City, confessed killing and robbing
D. B. Donegan, a Colorado miner.
Gartrells son was an accomplice.
Witnesses in the Prof. Eastman
murder trial at Cambridge, Mass, de-
clared the professor had often
threatened to kill his brother-in-law.
Miss Florence Putney, daughter of
the manager of the Missoula, Mont,
Mercantile company, fell down an ele-
yator shaft in store and was killed.