Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-04

Edna Wallace Hopper, the actress,
arrived in California twen+y-f7ur hours |
too late TO Sc her mother aiive. By
her mothers will she will inherit
fortune of 100000.
For the second time in his career,
Thomas H. Wilkes, vice president and
general manager of the combined
Pullman and Wagner Palace Car bust
rcss, was divorced.
An immense grain fire is raging near
os Banos, Cal Ten thousand acres
OF grain have been burned and a still
larger area of grazing land has been
swept by the flames.
Grace Sullivan, aged 10 years,
daughter Of J. A. Sullivan, president of
the First National bank at Sallisaw,
| l. T., committed suicide by taking
| poison. No cause is know.
C. A Morey presented his resigna-
| ton as member of the Minnesota board
| of control, which was accepted by the
eovernor and Judge Gould of Winona
was appointed to the vacancy.
| At Bristol R. l., the body of Miss
| Frances Wheeler, of New Haven,
Conn, was found on the shore. Miss
| Wheeler had been missing from the
Hopeworth sanitarium since Monday.
At Pana, ILL.,, W. q. Rickhart was
arrested charged with kidnapping two
of his children. Rickhart came all the
way from Crowley, Iowa, to steal his
two children and take them home with
him.
Mcpherson, Kan, is suffering from a
toad plague. Traffic of almost all
cars, bicycle and buggies cannot be
used while the toads hop about the
street.
The government continues to reduce
the strength of the United States
fleet in Asiatic waters. The gunboat
Castine, in pursuance Of this policy,
has sailed from Manila for the United
States.
A picnic given Sunday by the e.
Paso Order of the Knights of Labor
at Las Cruces, n. NJ. ended in a riot
Several men were badly hurt and one
man killed and three are in Jail at Las
Cruces.
The Dawson Daily News of June Z
says: Dick Beals was shot to death by
Mrs. Thomas Herndon. She had been
persuaded by Beals that Herndon was
dead and married Beals, who soon de.
serted her.
The examination Of candidates fol-
a 5p,iccioo 70 tho rouo1 onadpn1v will
be conducted hereafter at their homes
by the civil service commission in
stead of at Annapolis by a board of
naval officers
John De Young of Kenosha, Wis.
aged IS years, was killed by wreck
5 ing train of the Northwestern railroad
, De Young had started to walk home
on the tracks and, being deaf, did moi
hear the train.
, Announcement was made at the
: Harvard alumni dinner Of the gift 81
$1,000,009 to the university By
' J. Pierpont Morgan Commencement
: exercises were held, 1866 degrees
l being conferred.
At Spring Lake, n. J., George H
Moller weil-known sugar refner O.
. New York, died. He was president o
e the Garman Savings bank of Brooklyn
and a director of the Pacific Fire In
; surance company.
John Considine, formerly a Chicago
: politician and gambler, killed ex-Chie
Of Police w. l.. Meredith at Seattle
S who had forced the closing of the
: slayer's dives. The victim was also
2 a native of Chicago.
On statements of two Paterson girls
e who say they were attacked by sever
f men near the scene of the Bosschietel
5 crime, young Edward Mcmahon is
held without bail and six other mar
. are being sought for.
I. Government receipts exceeded eX
=. penditures by s77,OO0,OOO for the fisca
year ending June 80. The balance OF
foreign trade in favor of the United
- States amounts to $675, 100000, an in
! crease of $l45, 100000.
A collision On Hull street in Mont
gcmery, Ind, between a trolley cal
I and a hose cart, killed one man anG
injured four The dead man is Cap
l tain J. w Sykes. The conductor and
motorman were arrested.
The American Plow company was in
> corporated with a capital of 100000
Although starting in a humble way
it seeks to control the worlds market
in it's line and expects soon to increase
= it's capital to $100,000,O00.
The Wisconsin district of Evan
gelical Lutherans Of the Missouri
synod adopted resolutions prohibiting
: any of it's members from taking part
q in any public entertainment where
l. rag time" music is played.
Governor Stone Of Pennsylvania
has allowed the bill making it unlaw
: full for first cousins to marry to be
) come a law by not acting upon il
within 10 days after it's passage, as
Y required by the constitution.
, Richard Freedman, photographer
1 shot and killed his sister Rosa, aget
, 81, attempted to kill his sister Helen
aged II, and then killed himself on the
s street in Boston. 1t is believed he
4 was insane as the result of illness.
4 The executive committee of the
= National Hospital of Consumptives
located at Denver. report a new dona
e ton Of $4,000 to be applied to the
: building now in course of erection.
5 is thought that the work will soon BIZ
t completed.
4 prise by the marriage of Clifford How