Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-08-15

ton Of tracts in the recently opened
Oklahoma lands.
Rev. F. w. Taylor of Springfield,
H., was consecrated as bishop coad-
tutor Of the Quincy diocese Of the
Episcopal church
Heavy rains fell in the southwest
ern part of Nebraska, breaking a
drouth which has been almost con-
tinuous since July 4.
The government is to enter into a.
business partnership with number OF
exporters to make test shipment of
fruits to foreign lands
Thieves stole a wagon of the
Arthur Dixon Transfer company,
while the driver was in store. They
got 1000 worth of goods.
The federal government has secured
attachments against all loans and
securities in Savannah held by former
Captain Oberlin NJ Carter.
Nine Chinese workmen persisted in
fire in the shaft tunnel of the
American steamer Arethuea while at
the docks at HongkGng July rs.
The comptroller of the currency ap-
pointed Special Examiner William
L. Yerkes receiver of the First
National bank of Austin. Texas.
Vice-President Roosevelt is off on
two or three days coyote hunt in
Colorado. His companions are DR..
Gerald Webb and Philip B. Stewart.
Judge William Cecil Price, United
States treasurer under President
Buchanan, died in Chicago, aged sc
years, and was buried at Madison,
Wis.
State Treasurer A. Fl. Barrel Of
Montana has received s50,221 inheri-
lance tax on the estate of the late
Marcus DAILY. The total tax was
$S3,7O2.
Card playing on trains of the New
Jersey Central road has been pro-
hibited as the result Of a fight caused
by an attempt to reserve seats at a
card table.
The Gottleib Bauern-Schmid-Str
Brewing company, combination of
Baltimore brewers. was incorporated
at Camden, n. J., with capital of
$5,000,000.
George Glib, chief clerk for the
general manager of the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company at Denver, killed
himself in the office of the company
by shooting.
Two convicts in the Michigan City
Ind, penitentiary are said to have
planned and directed, from the prison
the recent holdup of the Baltimore &
Ohio fast train.
The republicans of Maryland nom
mated state ticket and denounced
the "disfranchising election law
ex-senator German.
Robbers tunneTed into the strong
| room Of the Selby Smelling and Lead
company at Vallejo, Cal, and secured
| gold bullion valued at $2S0,000, which
| they carried away by boat.
The Iowa republican state conven
ton made the following nominations
Governor, A. B. Cummins; lieutenant
| governor, John Herriott; supreme
court, Judge S. M. Weaver.
In Chicago Constable H. B. Good
rich was shot and killed during a
| quarrel with his wife, whom he had
deserted and who had been searching
for him for two months.
The grant of a plat of land on the
Hudson near Fort Lee by the state OF
| New Jersey is supposed to be for the
! site of a large sugar refinery in op
| position to the sugar trust.
Samuel Shinn, recently convicted Of
murder in the second degree for
killing Thomas F. Apologize, was
sentenced at Trenton, N. J., &c
eighteen years at hard labor.
At Mancellona, Mich. two girls
aged 8 and 2. daughters of George
| Simmons, were burned to death
They were left with two older boys in
! the house, which caught fire.
At Evansville, Ind, the large ware
house belonging to the broom corn
trust, and filed with broom corn, was
destroyed by fire, entailing loss OF
! $4,000. Insurance $4,000
| Citizens at Lawton, Ok. T., organ
| lied vigilance committee to suppress
| crime in the new town. Two murders
and many robberies are reported
| Gamblers are warned to leave.
The biggest ship in the world. the
| Celtic, of the White Star Line
reached New York on her maiden
| voyage. Her time from Liverpool
was eight days and forty-six minutes.
Miss Emma Tizzard at Eaton, O.,
| committed suicide by jumping into a
well. She had tried to kill hers elf
with poison and her brother, on guard
at the door to prevent her escape, fell
asleep.
The body of James NJ Frazier, a
Presbyterian minister, 80 years of
age, was found in the Ohio river three
posed he committed suicide while
insane.
Every national bank in Chicago city
has written to the president and Sec
| rotary Gage urging the appointment
Of W. B. Ridgley as controller of the
currency to succeed Charles G.
, Dawes.
AS a result of a secret meeting of
the finance committee of the proposed
national coal trust, with a capital of
$500, 100000, it is said the combina-
ton will be completed by the first of
next year.
Erick Johnson and John Peruchoit,
miners at the Prince OF Wales mine
of the Regent grOun near Negannee