Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-20

When the city hall, Philadelphia, 8
transferred from the commission to
the city, June 26, the total cost Of the
structure will have reached S24 lbs, |
592.
Memorial exercises were held over |
the graves of the Confederate dead at
Camp Chase, Columbus, o. School
children sang and addresses were
made.
Two more witnesses were called in |
an effort to prove an alibi for DR.. S. j.
Kennedy, accused of having killed
Emmeline Reynolds in New York il
August 1898.
DR.. E. P Sale, one of the most
prominent physicians Of Memphis, and
for many years president of the board
of health of Mississippi, is dead at
| Memphis.
Charles Varney, Jr., aged Is years.
was killed at Gallipolis, o., by being
hit over the heart while boxing with
| Jerome Wood. Wood has become
! insane.
After a long struggle with the
trusts the independent window glass
| plant of the Hurrle company at Hart
ford City, Ind, has been compelled to
close down.
Pere Marquette's old mission, on
| Madeline island, with the famous
painting by Reubens, was destroyed
by fire, thought to have been set
by incendiaries.
Gertrude Eckerman, aged years
old, of Anderson, Ind, was burned to
death and her mother burned in an
effort to save the child and is in a
/ critical condition.
The Everett-Moore syndicate buys
the street car lines OF Toledo as part
of a scheme to merge all traction
roads along the lake shore between
Detroit and Cleveland.
Francis B. LOOMS, United States
minister to Venezuela, said in a Lon
don interview that he did not believe
Germany meant to acquire the island
Of Margarita, Venezuela.
The president ended the third term
Of discussion by issuing a statement
that he is not candidate for re-
election and would not accept a re-
| nomination if rendered.
DR.. Alexander R. Hohfeld, dean Of
the academic department of Wander
bilt university, has accepted the pro-
censorship of German languages in the
. University of Wisconsin.
Senator Allison is said to be helping
Edward H. Conger in the Iowa
J gubernatorial race because Cummins
! if not checked, is likely to reach out
for Allison's seat in the senate.
: Senator Fairbanks of Indiana is con-
sidered the probable beneficiary of the
influence of the administration for
: president in 1904. 1t is thought he
d, will be pitted against Roosevelt.
The return in the Molineux murder
case was filed with the court of ap
l peals at Albany, N. Y. The return
). contains 3,405 pages, and is one of the
, largest ever filed with the court.
. Ferdinand Mark, prominent in Jew
. ish orders of New Orleans, died on
} board the steamer Columbia, en- route
/ to Europe, on May 80. He was 81
!. years old end native of Germany.
:, President Mckinley has committed
I the sentence of Harry Smith OF
: indianapolis, convicted of counter
feiting, and now in a penitentiary, tc
, one year. His sentence was three
| years.
q In head end collision on the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad, two miles
l south of Colesburg, KY, between g
t freight engine and south bound
1 passenger train, seven trainmen were
injured.
On account of the breaking of the
power dam in the Arkansas river
+ Buena Vista, Col, will be in darkness
for several months and the Buena
: Vista smelter will be closed down
indefinitely
The Students association of Vassal
college has started fund for the pur
pose Of building and endowing a club
, house for maids employed in the
college. 1t is intended to raise $40,
600 for the purpose.
Weber, Kanter, and Loveless were
declared guilty of conspiracy to defeat
the Chicago civil service law. I'M
prisonment in the penitentiary for one
to five years and fine of 81 900 was
imposed in each case
John Wanamaker offered Phila-
delphia $2,5OOO0O for the street rail
road franchise voted by the council
practically as a free grant to a com
pany in which prominent politicians
are said to be interested.
, w. H. Harris, D. D., first professor
Of theology in Griswold college, a
prominent Episcopal clergyman for
forty years and curator of the Daven-
port Academy of Science, died at
Davenport, Ia, aged SO.
The year 1900 closed the century
with the largest coal production ever
recorded, and according the suprem-
acy of the United States among the
coal producing countries of the world
The amount was 267 ,542, 444 tons.
At Elwood, Ind, Miss Leona Carve.
aged 20, daughter @ ex-District
Prosecuting Attorney A. C. Carver,
and who is a society belle, has been
arrested on a charge of robbery. She
is said to belong to a gang of society
thieves.
Frank Katilinek, Bohemian farmer
living northwest of Gam Valley.
Buffalo county, Mimi, who shot and
killed his wife last January in a
quarrel over money, has been found
| guilty and sentenced to Imprisonment
! for life