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

trip through the Niagara rapids N
a barrel.
The estate of the late Phillip B.
Winston of Minneapolis is valued at
$500, 900.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago ordered
a 20 per cent. reduction in all city
expenses.
Commercial difficulties between the
United States and Russia are far from
a solution.
Initial steps were taken at Rich
mond, Va, for the formation Of a to-
bacco trust.
The collapse of a building and sub
seQuent fire in Grand Rapids caused
loss of $25O,O0O.
Horatio J. Sprague, United States
consul, died at Gibraltar. His son is
to succeed him.
Two blocks of buildings were de-
stroyed by fire in Enid, o. T., causing
a loss of 100000.
Twelve leading Kenosha manu-
featuring concerns will build homes
for their employees.
Alabama and Georgia heirs are to
get a $40,000,000 estate left by an
Australian relative.
A new series of SO silver certifi-
Gates to be known Buffalo Bill"
will soon be issued.
Two freight trains collided on a
bridge near Muskogee, Ind. T., and
five men we're killed.
Fifteen negroes were kIIled in a
p4.ched battle with Mexicans on
New Mexico railroad.
Hundreds of fish were made drunk
on whisky by the burning of distil-
lery in Pennsylvania.
Miss Mary Anderson of Portland,
Me-, was selected to christen the
new battleship Maine.
A coppers' union is the latest de-
velopment in Chicago police circles,
and strike is possible.
An unknown man murdered Mrs.
| George w. Lane, wife of a rich
| farmer near Canton, Ill.
The ministerial association of Jay
County, md, adopted a resolution op-
posing Sunday funerals.
! Differential duty on Italian sugar
may be removed because of Italy's
protest and explanation.
Secretary Root has accepted the
resignation of Capt. Strong and there
| will be no court-martial.
Denver ministers are planning to
organize a vigilance committee to
overthrow thug rule there.
Former Governor Stone Of Missouri
considers Daniel Lamont possibility
| for governor Of New York.
The police at Goshen, Ind, have 4
16-year-old girl who declared she was
abducted at Holyoke, Mass.
Mary Jennings fatally stabbed Kate
| McVeigh in a New York restaurant
where both were employed
Senator Clark sued the estate Of his
chief lieutenant to recover money
used in the senatorial fight
The German Exchange Bank of Chill
ton, Wis, failed, with liabilities of
100000 and 100000 assets.
Seven passengers on a train Of the
Vera Cruz and Pacific railroad in
| Mexico were killed by bandits.
Fred Feurheim of Pacific Junction,
Ia, made insane by the heat, killed
his wife, daughter and himself
A Ponca Indian and his squaw at
| Omaha pleaded guilty to killing a man
who accidentally shot their son.
Three barns burned, eight horses
were killed, and many lives imperiled
by lightning near Warsaw, Ind.
A $4,000 crypt has been constructed
for the relic Of ST. Anne in the Church
of st. Jean Baptiste, New York.
The home OF the correspondent who
sent out the frog story from Albany,
No., was blown up with dynamite.
The plant Of the Dold Packing COM
pany at Wichita was destroyed by fire
Loss $1,O50,O00, insurance $318,OOO.
The net increase in the pension roll
last year was 2,273, despite the drop
! ping of 3S,OS2 names from the rolls.
At Buffalo Capt Frederick Thomp-
son, who served throughout the civil
war in the 23d Ohio regiment, died.
Golden Rule" Jones of Toledo re-
fused to answer a police judges ques-
ton and was fined S. for contempt.
The st. Louis exposition officials are
| seeking to have the boundaries of the
Louisiana purchase clearly defined.
The Italian government filed a
formal protest against the lynching
of Italians by mob at Erwin, Mass.
Complete harmony is said to exist
among all parties concerned in the
management of the Northern Pacific.
About 20 Epworth Leagues are
stranded in Colorado Springs, as a re-
suit of the operations of pickpockets.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
believes the reports of damage to corn
by drouth in the west are exaggerated.
Willis Miller, charged with murder,
attacked his guard in court in Upper
Sandusky, Ohio, and panic followed.
Charles Willard Blanco, a grocery
clerk Of Wilmington, Del, says he is
the rightful heir to the British throne.
The trial Of Robert S. Fosburgh for
the alleged murder of his sister. May
Fosburgh, in Pittsield, Mass, has
begun.
The annaul convention of the
German-American Teachers Associa-
ton ended its business by selecting
Detroit as the next meeting place
Emil Dapprich Of Milwaukee was
elected president.
Baron Rothschild says that the
financial situation in England de-
ponds entirely upon the United
States.
About 100000 pounds of meat was
DESTROYED by fire which burned