Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-19

Jur1eS.
Workmen of the Bay View steel
mills held meeting in Milwaukee
and voted to return to work. The
radical element seeded from the
lodge
Mrs. Mary Quinlan, Chicago, del,
aged 82 She was the mother of the
late Captain George A. Quinlan, vice
president of the Houston and Texas
railroad.
Herman o. Armour of New York.
brother of the late Philip d.
Armour, millionaire meat packer Of
at Saratoga.
Two hundred non-union men were
brought from st. Louis, heavily
guarded, to work in the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern railroad shops AZ
Washington, Ind.
Miss Ethel Jackson, the actress,
was married in Philadelphia to ].
Fred Zimmerman, Jr., son Of j. Fred
Zimmerman, of Nixon & Zimmerman,
theatrical managers.
The eighty-seventh anniversary OF
Commodore Perry's victory on Lake
Erie was celebrated at the Grand
Army of the Republic encampment by
a great parade in Cleveland.
Postoffice Inspector Williams has
been notified of the arrest Of William
J. Fair, postmaster at Newberry, S. c.,
| charged with the embezzlement of
postal and money order funds.
Charles H Whittlesey, the 17-year-
old son of Horace Whittlesey, an en-
gineer on the Vandalia line, was
killed by a switch engine in the
Illinois Central yards at Ellington,
| III.
The government crop report showed
| the corn percentage to be SIT, a de-
cline of % points for the month of
! September. The condition of winter
and spring wheat combined is given
at 82.S.
A remarkably light catch of seals
by all the vessels operating in the
Boring sea is reported by the officers
of the brigantine Blakely. Some If
the sealing schooners have not taken
single seal.
Josiah Gwin, editor Of the Public
| Press, of New Albany, Ind, is dead.
He served as recorder of Floyd county
for nine years and was democratic
member of the upper house of the
legislature for two terms.
Reba OHain, 20 years cid, Of
Bushton, H., who claimed to have
been twice abducted from her home
has confessed at Kokomo, Ind, that
she told the story to procure $4,000
ransom from her father.
At Dayton, Ohio, Governor Thomas
of the soldiers home has arrested five
Mckinley was shot. Two have beer
expelled from the home and the
others will be expelled if found guilty
Fred M. Westphal. a banker o
Joliet, died of typhoid fever. H
was 80 years old and leaves a widow
and three children. His father
brother. and he were the owners o
the German Loan and Savings bank c
Joliet.
The 12-year-old son of G. A. Gum
mer, a farmer living near Moscow
Idaho, was killed by powder ex
plosion. The boy had put the small
end of powder horn in his mouth
and applied lighted match to thl
powder saying he was going to take
a smoke.
James NJ. Key, formerly president
of the Andrews Commercial bank III
Andrews, Ind, recently convicted OF
forgery, was taken to the DenitentiaTl
from Huntington by circuitous rouCe
to avoid threatened violence a
Andrews.
A new disease similar to influenza
but more severe, among horses, cattle
and swine has appeared in easterG
British Columbia and Alberta. 1t IS
estimated that in the northwest
territories alone $4,000 head OF stoca
are affected.
! Twelve-year-old Mike zielinski LOST
his life at st. Louis in saving that u
Joe Czerwinski, a 5-year-old playmate
Joe was about to pick up a live wire
when Mike rushed forward and
knocked it from his reach, receiving
a fatal shock
In order to relieve the money
Gage has ordered that 100000 of
internal revenue receipts be placed
in authorized repositories, and also
offers to buy $2O,000,000 worth of gov
eminent bonds.
Henry Williams, convicted at
Marshall, Tex, Of numbering Henry
Brown, has been given the death
penalty. John Pearl, who killed Emil
Hermann, near Brownwood, last
spring, has been sentenced to be
hanged on Oct %
James T. Patterson of Omaha has
sued his wife for divorce, alleging
cruelty. Both are members of prom
inent Virginia families, and she says
the action was brought because liz
father otherwise threatened to cut
! him off from his S3.0OO.00O estate.
Ii is discovered that a brother OF
Leon Czolgosz, the would-be-murdereI
of President Mckinley, is employ o.
the Diamond Match works in Barber
town, Ohio. He condemns in the
strongest possible manner the dead
Of the assassin, and even went so tal
to eyclaim with considerable force:
Leon ought to be strung up
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