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

luJlOnS prdlSlnS Lincoln.
Three more deaths charged to Dow
ieism occurred in Chicago.
Rev. Louis Zahn of Quincy, H., fell
dead while helping to lay the corner
stone of church.
General John B. Gordon was re
elected commander of the Confederate
Veterans association.
A mob at Barlow, Fla, burned a ne
gro at the stake who killed a white
woman in sight of the main street.
The churches at Toledo formed
trust to do more effective evangelical
work.
Iowa's supreme court decided
against the Cherry sisters in a libel
suit.
McGovern knocked out Herrera in
the fifth round of one-sided ring bat
tie.
The Minneapolis grand jury severe
ly criticised Mayor Ames' police de-
paTtment.
Secretary of War Root decided that
the sentence Of dismissal against Ca
det Shannon must stand.
All machinists working in shops
where the unions demands have not
been met are ordered out on strike
The Presbyterian general assembly
in session at Philadelphia dissolved
after session of nearly two weeks.
The machinists' strike in Chicago
may be referred to each shop to set
tie with the men.
| A Jewish university with an income
of 100000 per year is to be established
in New York.
By an explosion of coal dust in the
| Dayton (Tenn.) mines II men were
killed.
! DR.. Mcclure, president of Lake For
est university, resigned in order to
give his whole time to the ministry.
Charles R. Westervelt, the default
ing cashier of the Dime Savings Bank
of Newark, N j., was sentenced to
years imprisonment.
| Two electric cars near Albany, n.
Y, collided while racing for a switch
Five people are killed and forty others
are injured.
Creditors OF the estate of ex-Mayor
Strong of New York have sued the ex-
ecutors, charging that 100000 turned
over to relatives should go to them
William P. Hazen, former chief of
the secret service bureau, has re-
signed from the service and will open
a detective Office in New York.
New York city has decided to pur
chase and to preserve Fraunce's
Tavern, where Washington babe fare
well to his generals.
Senators McLaurin and Tillman of
South Carolina have resigned and will
go before the people of their own
state for vindication.
At Chicago, Thomas Morris Avery
founder of the Elgin National Watch
company, died from a stroke OF
| paralysis.
Cornelius Vanderbilt invented a
locomotive tender which is shown al
the Buffalo exposition and is approved
by engineers.
Three alleged gamblers arrested in
the recent raids in New York pleaded
guilty and were sentenced to 80 days
in the city prison.
! Booker T. Washington appealed to
the Alabama constitutional convention
for conservative action in restricting
negroes.
The United Presbyterian general as
| Sembly in session at Des Moines
adopted the judiciary report placing a
{ ban upon all secret societies.
| Tom Mccarthy, a member Of a not
ed gang of desperadoes IN Nebraska
and pal Of Pat Grove, has been re-
leased on parole
The American colony at Paris dec
Grated the tomb of Lafayette, Ambas-
sadOr Porter making an address, on
memorial day
The sultan of Turkey has conferred
on Charles E. Munroe, senior dean of
Columbia, the decoration Of the Order
of the Medjidje.
John T. Price, nephew of General
Price, was murderer Dy his brother-in-
law at Bethany, Mo-, while marching
in parade to the cemetery
Eight members of a picnic party
near Philadelphia were swept over
dam in the Schuylkill river and seven
of them drowned.
The twenty-third annual convention
Of the National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation began its sessions at Mime
apolis
c. A. Johnson, defaulting cashier of
the Niles bank, is planning to make
complete disclosure of how the bank
was wrecked.
Gov. insolvency of South Carolina
is one of nine candidates for the seats
Of Tillman and McLaurin in the
United Stetes senate.
Edward Beaucleigh shot and killed
Inez Leonard and then killed himself
at Key West, Fla. They were mem
bers of dramatic company and were
engaged to be married.
William Martineau shot and killed
his young wife at Lincoln, R. l., and
then killed himself Albert Fair
banks, who tried to rescue the woman,
was wounded.
~ Neil Hearn was shot and killed at
Tuskegee, Ala, by his neighbor,
Andrew Cleghorn. Cleghorn claims
the shooting was done in self-defense.
Both were planters.
Josie Emerson, aged Is, killed her
self with a revolver at Terre Haute,
rather than return to her parents at
Danville, Ill.
James c. Stout of Auburn, n Y,
former warden of the state prison,
died suddenly of apoplexy He was
c0 wars old