Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-03

He HSu ClOoS SOClSty hdS etDS'h
1oned plan for twentieth century
watch meeting il Ma5isol Square
Garden.
H. Green surrendered to the police
at Sacramento, Cal, saying he killed
William Feeny at Claire Station,
Mich, in 1875.
Mayor Harrison, Chief Ripley, and
other Chicago officials appeared be-
fore the grand jury and pleaded il
nocent of any knowledge of vice Or
crime in Chicago.
A destructive fire in Eau Claire, Is
miles east of St. Joseph, Mich, re-
suited in reducing half the business
section into ashes. The total loss is
$4,000; partly insured.
Father J. P Chadwick, who was
chaplain Of the battleship Maine when
she was blown Up, has been assigned
to the cruiser New York, at the re-
quest of Rear Admiral Rogers.
At Philadelphia, W. Irving Smith,
who has been filling the position of
United States consul at Barrinquilla,
Columbia, and who was recently ap-
pointed consul at Singapore, COM
mitted suicide.
The Fox Press Steel Bar works,
one of the largest industries in Joliet,
was nearly destroyed by fire. The
| loss will reach many thousands OF dol
lars. Two hundred men will be
thrown out of work.
The resignation of Capt. Charles A.
Boutelle of Bangor, Me, as a member
of the house for the fifty-seventh con
gress will be rendered about March
according to an understanding with
President Mckinley.
A new effort is likely to be made tC
induce congress to grant recognition
of some kind to Naval Constructor
Richmond P Hobson for his gallant
conduct in sinking the Merrimac in
the harbor of Santiago.
La Normandie, of the French line
has arrived from Havre, bringing five
French gendarmes, in full uniform
who are going to Tahiti, the principa
island of the Society group, to relieve
a like number now in Tahiti.
Milton Whitney, chief of the divisoI
of soils, reports a successful termina
ton of experiments conducted in CO
operation with the Connecticut ex
pertinent station in the production o
Sumatra tobacco near Hartford.
Frank Smith, the boy district mes
senger of Brooklyn, who took a mes
sage of greeting from American schoo
children to President Kruger, was il
the police court, charged with hurlin!
: a paving stone through a show case.
The body of Michael V. Britzius,
prominent Chicago labor leader VIII
died at Denver, will be cremated a
: Graceland cemetery, and his ashe
. will be scattered, as provided in hi
| will. Only intimate friends will b
| present.
} Professor Thomas A. Williams, as
. sistant chief of the division of as
? trology, department of agriculture
+ and well-knoWr authority on botany
died at his home at Tekoma of hear
disease. He was 35 years of ag
and came from Weeping Willow, Mel
The officials of the Lehigh Coal an
Navigation company are jubilant owe
the fact that the fire in the celebrate
, burning mine at Summit HILL whic
started forty-two years ago, is nov
: under control, and it is said that tn
next two years will see it's extinguisl
ment.
On his arrival at New York, Ferdi1
and Peck, the United States commits
sioner to the Paris exposition, con
! municated with the white house, an
an arrangement was made for an il
tervieW, when it is expected Mr.. Pee
will lay before the president the gel
eral results of his mission.
John j. Morgan, at the experiments
| sanitary camp, Quesnados, Cuba, ha
volunteered to test the theory that til
germs OF yellow fever are carried b
mosquitoes. He will be placed in
house built for the purpose. and slice
every night in a room with forty-fiv
mosquitoes that have bitten yello,
fever patients.
The Kentucky court of appeals at
Journed until the January term will
IO"I ASliuCIIllS d u0clSlOn IN the cas-
OF ex-Secretary of State Caleb Power:
| charged with completely in the Goebe
assassination and sentenced to life in
prlsonment. This passed the appea
; to the new court, which will stand fou
, republicans and three democrats.
At Denver, Charlton Claybrook ha
; winter vehicle which is the auto
mobile of the winter 1t is an auto
sleigh. 1t is very mush like the whee
machine, only it has runners like
sleigh and the propulsion is in the run
ners. For climbing, a different a,
rangement is used, spikes being or
Grated. He thinks that the ascent O
Pixies peak can be made, and tn
descent, also.
Proof that man may live with .
bullet in his heart was afforded by tn,
use OF the x-ray upon Charles B
Nelson of Cadillac, Mich. formerly E
Chicagoan, who was, in 1896. the
central figure in a sensational shoot
ing that nearly resulted in his death
Under the Horoscope the ball in Mel
sons heart could be plainly seen
rising and falling with each pullsatior
of the vital organ.