Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-11

GIGoluGuG anu .. dit
at Canton. for the summer.
United States Senator Kyle died dt
his home in Aberdeen. S. D.
1t is said that gambling was re-
sumed generally in New York.
Charles F. Albert, noted violin.
maker, is dead at Philadelphia
Matt Bales. a Belle PLANE merchant
was drowned in the Minnesota river
The case of Mrs. Botkin was post,
poned until July Is at San Francisco.
A Dowieite meeting at Waterloo, Ia.
was broken up by firecrackers and
eggs.
Andrew Carnegie will give $750,00(
toward the erection of a library in De
troit.
About 200 employees of the Illinois
Central railroad were retired on pen
sions.
About a million dollars a month is
to be spent in naval repairs, beginning
at once.
Albert l.. Johnson, the street-cal
magnate, died at Fort Hamilton
Brooklyn.
Chicago postofice receipts for the
fiscal year just ended were nearly
$8,000,000.
Professor John Fiske, the historian
died at East Gloucester, Mass, after {
short illness.
Allenhurst inn, a fashionable hote.
on the New Jersey coast, was de
stroyed by fire.
1t is said that Charles M. Schwat
will not aid churches which have long
standing debts.
Six bags of gold amounting tt
$4,000 were stolen from the Sal
Francisco mint.
At Huntington, W. Va, fire ragged Il
the heart Of this city, resulting in
loss of 100000.
In strike riot III Colorado two mel
were killed and nearly score o
others are injured.
An Iowa company proposes to built
line from the Lake of the Woods t.
the gulf Of Mexico.
At Richmond. Va. the Homestea
hotel was totally destroyed by fire
The loss of 100000.
A small cyclone passed near Apple
ton and did considerable damage t.
buildings and crops.
The Illinois broomcorn crop is re
ported in bad condition. The acreag
decreased &C per cent.
t. F. Ward, charged with wrecllin
the Lemars (Ia.) National bank wa
arrested at Jersey City.
Admiral Dewey and Gen. JOSEF
Wheeler are being entertained O.
every hand at Newport.
The trust has advanced the price G
linseed oil from 65 cents to 80 cent
per gallon since June l.
The receipts of the government tn
past year have exceeded the expend
lures by about $76,000,000.
A skeleton supposed to be that {
G. G. Crosby of Galesburg, Ill, wa
found in North Park. Colo.
The tonnage passing the Sault st
Marie in June exceeded the previou
best record by 100000 tons.
Milwaukee and Detroit played 81,
teen-inning ball game, the latter viii
ming by the score of to 5.
Su Shin Chin, the Chinese reforme
detained at San Francisco, was pc
mitted to enter the country.
A commissioner of immigration ha
been appointed with full jurisdictio
over the island of Porto Rico.
During a general row in Muncit
Ind, Mrs. Herbert Mccall was she
and killed by Walter Driscoll.
The number on the pension rolls
estimated at $4,000, a net increas
during the year OF about $500.
Thousands of carloads Of perishabl
goods are tied up in East ST. Louis b
a strike of the freight handlers.
A Topeka (Kan.) minister horrif1e
a Carwood congregation by appearin
in the pulpit wearing a shirtwaist
The state of South Carolina is cor
testing the payment Of internal reN
enue tax on the state dispensaries.
A monument is to be erected i
Kansas on the spot where the Amer
can flag was first raised in the state
| Congressman Charles Dick ha
been elected chairman of the Ohio re
publican state executive committee.
Prof. F. J. Bertwel, an ornithologis
was strangled by a rope while de
scending from tree in New Mexico.
Commodore Theodore Zeller, u.
| N, retired, died at his residence i
New York from old age, aged SO years
Thousands of horses and mules ar
being shipped from New Orleans t
south Africa for British use in tn
war.
| Lieutenant Whittlesey is believed t
be the author of the famous order t
Dewey to take or destroy the Spanis
| fleet.
William hurry, adjutant of the Hi
nois soldiers and sailors home a
| Quincy, is dead after a lingering i'll
| ness.
The annual report of Chief Wilke o
the secret service department indi
Gates that counterfeiting is on tn,
! wane
| Fred Colson, former Cornell cox
swain, married Miss McNary, one,
! captain of the girls crew at Sage
! college.
Judge Thompson of Cincinnati en-
Joined striking machinists from inter
fering in any way with employers
business.
At Keyport, N. J., the plant of tn,
National Fireprooing company wa
burned Loss 5000 600 insuranc,