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

| DdSSdUOr TO 1dly.
The Niagara bank of Buffalo failed.
It's affairs are entangled with those
! Of the City National of New York,
which had failed.
| The real test in the strike of the
/ Amalgamated Steel Workers is not
expected until big plants reopen in fall
after summer repairs.
The striking employees of the Steel
Trust have called for contributions,
declaring they will fight the trust with
its own weapon-money.
An Omaha judge refused to inter
fere with a proposed bullfght IN
South Omaha, declaring they were no
more brutal that football.
Jacob S. Rogers, once owner Of the
Rogers locomotive works at Paterson,
n. J., was found dead in his room
at the Union League club.
Ten thousand persons have been
forced to yacate their homes on the
east side to make way for the new
Brooklyn bridge approach.
The Cripple Creek output for June
was 4S 500 tons, or S2,174,000, making
the totals for six months Of 1901,
297 800 tons, Or S12, 5S3 800.
Semi-official reports received in New
York indicate that the wheat crop in
Minnesota and the two Dakotas will
be double that Of last year.
Robbers who secured $4,000 in
holdup of Great Northern train near
Wagner, Mont, are being pursued by
three posses of expert rif1emen.
Professor F. w. Fisk. who was for
forty years leading member of the
Chicago Theological seminary and for
thirteen years it's president, died.
A society to be known as the indie
pendent Order of Men Who Refuse to
Pay the Other Fellows Street Car
Fare is to be organized at Topeka.
A writ of error has been taken out
in the case of Thomas G. Barker, SEN
fenced to five years for assaulting
Rev. John Keller at Arlington, N. J.
Postmaster General Smith is plan
ming a reform in the system of carry
ing periodicals in the mails at pound
rates to shut out spurious publications.
The steamship Victoria has arrived
} from Skaguay with seventy-fve Daw-
sonites ard between 100000 and ST.
100000 in gold, part of the spring
. cleanup.
The plant of William B. Pollock &,
Co., builders of blast furnaces and
} steel mill machinery at Youngstown,
o., was destroyed by fire. The loss
is $150000.
2 A marine rural postal delivery route
has been put in operation at Oconomo
: woo lake, and has proved so successful
that similar routes will probably be
established.
A new revenue collection district
embracing North and South Dakota
was established with Herman Eller-
man as collector. The office is located
at Aberdeen.
It is reported that J. P. Morgan is
planning to consolidate all of the
bituminous coal properties east of the
Mississippi and north of the Ohio and
L Potomac rivers.
At Benton Harbor. Mrs. Florence
George Sesser, well-known violinist
who was at the point of death. i;
claimed to have recovered by the use
of the salt treatment.
Some one unknown sent by mail
what is supposed to have been an
Internal machine to Miss Catherine
, Barney, a granddaughter of Jay
: Cooke, at Ogontz, Pa.
John Ross. who was sent to an
Indiana insane asylum on the evidence
Of four Indianapolis doctors, was de
clared sane by a court and released or
a writ of habeas corpus.
The Alabama constitutional con
vention, after devoting a session to d
Of the tax rate from rs to IS cents
voted in favor of the change.
Four hundred and fifty tons of dried
fruit was destroyed by the burning of
the fruit packing house of George N
Herbert near San Jose, Cal. The loss
is about 100000; insurance, $4,000.
Ten boys were caught like rats in q
trap in tunnel leading to the old
Keeling mine, owned by the Pittsburg
Coal company. Two boys were
killed and the other eight overcome By
the fumes
In the intercollegiate races at Pough-
keepsie Cornell won the varsity and
four-oared events and Pennsylvania
won the freshman race Columbia
was second in the varsity and Wis
consin third.
1t is believed that Judge John H
Baker of the United States district
court will be promoted to the circuit
court of appeals, to take the place of
the late Judge William A. Wods of
Indianapolis.
President Gompers of the Federation
of Labor, who suffered a conclusion Of
the brain as a result of fall from a
Washington street car is progressing
rapidly towards recovery. He will go
to Deer Park, Md,
George w. Partridge, for eight years
private secretary to "Zack" Chandler,
former ex-secretary of the interior,
was found dead in bed at his home in
Detroit. Heart failure was the cause.
He was 20 years of age.
Secretary Long admits that neither
he nor the president, nor any one in
authority, sent the massage to Admiral
Dewey which caused the destruction
of the Spanish fleet. 1t was sent by
some clerk in the navy department.
John Cook, living at Losantville,
Ind, died from the result of gunshot