Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

his wedding tour
Bessie Jackson. white girl, was
assaulted and murdered, by a negro,
near Atlanta, Ga.
Horace Pell, the young actor, died
in Cleveland, from a self-inficted
pistol-shot wound.
James O'Connell was reelected
president of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists.
Pillow manufacturers completed ar
rangements for forming trust with
SIS 900 900 capital.
The National Metal Trades associa-
ton declared war against the $4,000
striking machinists.
\. B. Carskadon, a prominent at
torney of Kansas City, Mo, dropped
dead of heart disease.
Henry Schaub, Newark IN. j.
barber murdered his wife and child
and cut his own throat.
| Frank Rutlege. convicted of robbery
in Toronto, killed himself by jumping
| from gallery n the Jail.
The house at Harrisburg passed the
new state capitol bill carrying an
appropriation Of S4,000,000.
The beheaded woman found near
! Lowell, Mass, was identified as Mrs.
Margaret Blondin of Boston.
A settlement is reported to have
been made by the contesting heirs to
the Gilman $5,000,000 estate.
Henry NJ Flagler, Standard Oil
| in
divorce from his insane wife.
Robert B. Porter says that the
United States is not formidable con-
mercial rival of Great Britain.
DR.. H. w. Stuart of Chicago was
appointed assistant instructor OF
philosophy in Iowa university.
1t is said the largest linseed oil mil
in the world will be erected neal
Toledo and will fight the trust.
Dun & Coz weekly review of trade
gives cheerful color to the condition
of the markets and productions.
The Institute of Medical Research
founded by John D. Rockefeller with
a gift of $4,000, was incorporated.
The Norwegian Lutheran Free
church, in session at Willmar, decides
to postpone revision Of the liturgy.
Ex-United States Senator John A
McShane of Nebraska made S1,000,00
by investments in Texas oil lands.
John D. Crimmins stated that he i
too old to accept the anti-Tamman.
nomination for mayor of New York.
Capt. Howard Blackburn will at
tempt to sail from Gloucester, Mass
to Lisbon, Portugal, in a 25-foot sloOp.
Bishop Cotter Of Winona, who wa
operated upon in a Rochester, Mimi
hospital, has some chance of recovery
Millikin university, organized q
Lincoln, Neb, is to absorb Lincoll
. college and Decatur Industrial college
At Dexter, Kan, Cashier Watkins
; of the local bank. committed suicide
A shortage of $4,000 has been found
A Georgia mob tried to take a negr
; murdered from a sheriff and one ma
was killed and two severely wounded
A plan to defranchise 80 per cent
Of the negro vote was introduced i
, the Alabama constitutional CONVEX
ton.
The wife of R. G. Sibley, New York
promoter of the whisky trust, secure
e a divorce from him and $3.50 a mont
: alimony.
4 Andrew Carnegie signed a dee
transferring $10,00O,0OO in steel trus
= bonds for the benefit of the Scotc
universities.
The annual report of the Chambe
of Commerce of New York show
Americas trade balance is we'll owe
$5OO,OOO,OOO
Rev. Richard D. Harlan of Roches
} ter, N. Y, elected president of LAX
, Forest university, is a son Of suprem
/. court justice.
Mrs. Mckinley continues to improve
Rev. DR.. William Fawcett of Chicag
died of ptomaine poisoning at Alder
l Lea, MINI.
Evelyn B. Baldwin, the Arctic ex
plorer, kept an engagement to dine il
st. Louis by travelling twenty-foul
miles in a balloon.
The special two days session of tn
Washington legislature adjourned las
night after passing a new capita
punishment law.
Advocates of the election of Unite,
States senators by direct vote of tn,
people are much discouraged over tn,
opposition encountered.
Mrs. Mary Ashland Townsend
, whose nom de plume was Xariffa,
: well-known southern poet and writer
, died in Galveston, Texas.
The waters of the Younghioghenv
river were turned into the mine a
, Port Royal, Pa. where Is miner:
are believed to be dead.
Louis Hays, son of New Yorl
millionaire real estate dealer, was
arrested for the attempted robbery OF
the Bronx Borough bank.
! Treasury department officials deny
the report that the United States is
about to coin a new scent piece with
a hole through its center.
DR.. August NJ. Unger and F. Way
land Brown, were found guilty in
Chicago Of charge of conspiracy to
defraud insurance companies.
DR.. Runge, in an address at the Mil
waukee Observation-Disclosures conven-
ton, declared the state insane
asylums slaughter-houses
Anna Schultz of Jersey City, mar
ried to Joseph Harmon Conder," was
astounded to learn on her Wedding
day that ''he'' was a woman.
At Northampton, Mass, the grand
jury returned an indictment against
Miss Mabel Burt, charged with larceny