Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-25


Capt John j. Griffin was mysCeri- |
ously shot and killed in Columbia.
S. c., and Major Barnard B. Evans
is held, charged with murder.
J. P. Morgan & Co. are closing
options on bituminous coal properties
in central Pennsylvania and will
probably soon control the field.
With a shortage in his accounts as
township treasurer and refused help
by his boadsmen, J. K. Lamsley of
Lowell, O., drowned himself.
James H Anderson was again al
rested in New York for attempting TO
force his attentions on Helen Gould.
He was sent to a hospital.
Fernando Yznaga's will bequeaths
his fortune, estimated at more than
So 600, 900, to his eldest sister, the
dowager duchess of Manchester.
DeWolf Hopper, Dan Daily and Will
lam a Brady were arrested in the
Academy Of Music, New York, on
charge Of violating the Sunday law.
Squire Gunsaulus, one Of the Oldest
residents of Mount Gilead, O., dropped
dead. He was an uncle Of Rev. Frank
W. Gunsaulus, the Chicago minister.
President Mckinley has decided to
make Russell B. Harrison major Of
volunteers, and after June 80 to give
him a commission in the regular army.
The American Tobacco company
Cigarette trust) is about to absorb
the Havana American company, a
combination of big cigar manufacture
ers.
Secretary William J. Jenkins OF
Oklahoma territory has been selected
as territorial governor by President
Mckinley to succeed Governor
Barnes.
The New York Sun Wall street re-
view says that the industrial, COM
mercial and financial conditions were
never better and the prospects never
brighter.
The Ama1gamated association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers proposes
| to demand recognition of the union by
the steel trust and may preciritate a
great strike.
Henry SiegeI, president Of the
SiegelCooper company, was painfully
injured while riding in central park,
New York, his horse falling and roll
ing on him
John Norris told the industrial COM
mission the paper trust had caused an
increase iu the price to newspapers
of $4,900,00O on the total output Of
| $26,000,O00.
The total amount of gold now held
in the United States treasury eX-
ceeds $500, 100000, the first time this
figure has been reached in the history
of the country.
c. A. Ross of ST Louis shot and
fatally wounded Jas. Redmond Of New
York. The two men are followers of
the races. The tragedy resulted from
heated argument
The barking of a pug dog saved the
lives of George Williams and mis-
family at Brazil, Ind, it waking them
just in time to escape from fire in
their night robes.
Mrs. William R. Day, wife of ex-
Secretary Day, has recovered con-
seriousness and passed a comfortable
day. Her physicians are more hope
full of her recovery.
Policeman Fred Miller shot and
Oswego. The man was apparently en-
deavoring to effect an entrance into
Herman Lass saloon.
Baron d. Bates, a farmer, 60 years
of age, committed suicide at Wapo-
koneta O., by shooting himself. He
had threatened to kill his wife, who
had brought suit for divorce
The main building of the extensive
blower works of the B. F. Sturtevant
company, il the Jamaica plain
district, Boston, was destroyed by ire
causing loss of S350,000.
Count Wincenz Won Rola Macielin-
ski, once a well-known musician, died
at Kansas City, Mo-, Of paralysis. He
was a Polish nCblemGn who came to
Kansas City ten years ago.
i Cheap novels are said to have
prompted two Maryville, Mo-, boys to
ditch a passenger train which was
wrecked last week. They have been
arrested and one confessed.
A rat crusade is to be begun by The
Denver board Of health. The board
gets its cue from the action of the
authorities in Europe, who claim that
the rodents cause epidemics.
The remains of the late General
John Porter Hatch were taken to
Washington from New York and in
| Wi ioEn ~,
the National cemetery at Arlington.
Elmer Hiatt, Is years old, missing
eighteen months and mourned AS
dead, has been found at Payne, O..
He had run away. The father be-
lieved him the victim of kidnappers.
The Hyde Park Baptist church will
receive the gift of $4,000 from J. d.
| Rockefeller, which will make possible
| the erection Of a new building to cost
$4,000, instead of $50, 1000, as planned.
Agnes Alexander, aged II, and Anna
Johnson, 10 years old, domestic SER
wants were fatally asphyxiated by IL
Illuminating gas in their rooms IN
| Classon avenue, Brooklyn, Sunday
night.
At Helena Antonio Lopez, a cowboy,
MAS sentenced to ten years in prison.
His crime was charging through a
half-breed camp for sport and firing
his weapons One bullet killed Jean
Vatican.
Rev. Robert Richie of st. James
church, Philadelphia, has been Sc
lected by the duke of Newcastle as