Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-13

theatrical manager, in Chicago.
The great Portland gold mine at
Victor, Colo. is reported to have been
sold to Londoners for s21, 100000.
Three members Of Hawaiian legisla-
ture are charged with demanding
bride for voting on a franchise.
Ballington Booth denies the report
that the Salvatic . Army and Volun-
teers of America are to be united.
Nine persons were injured in a
collision between an electric car and d
railroad train near McKeesport, Pa
Two West Point cadets We're dis
missed for making false statements
to get permission to leave the post.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew IS
enthusiastic over the subject Of q
third term for President Mckinley.
Mrs. Nancy B. Irving of Chicago Of
fers a reward Of $1,000 for a man who
can live an honest life for a month.
the bee t:rst has put ~ prices Two
cents a pou2d, the oh eot being, it is
said, to squeeze cut the wholesalers.
Fumes following the explosion Of
dynamite in a mine near Iron
Mountain, Mich, killed eight miners.
The New York city statistician re-
ported the arrest of 1,121 women in
April, an increase of 457 over March.
The Alabama constitutional conven-
ton is considering a scheme to els
franchise law breakers and iIiterates.
The national woman's suffrage Goa
vantion took a firm stand aGainst the
proposition to segregCte vice in cities
The Reformed Presbyterian synod
of North America at Pittsburg recon-
mended more rigid divorce legislation
The theory Of the district attorney
in the Bonnie case at WashintOn is
that J. S. Ayres was shot while in bed
Fish farms, where people may
cultivate their own water food, may
become a certainty in the near future
Duncan |. Roberts, general passen
ger agent of the Erie railway, has re
signed, and is succeeded by Delos w.
Cooke.
The department of agriculture viii
issue a bulletin giving directions fol
| butter.
One hundred and forty-fye acres
along the palisades New York, were
sold to a Philadelphia syndicate fol
100000
Calvin Joy Cressey, member of the
fourth class at Annapolis naval acad
envy, was found guilty Of hazing an(
dismissed.
The st. Louis grand jury is in
structed to investigate the loss Of g.
lives in street car accidents there il
six months.
The president and trustees of Mon
mouth college resigned their places
! to end two years fight concerning thu
management
W. J. Dent was given life imprison
ment in Texas for forging pardon b.
which murderer escaped from thu
penitentiary.
| Threats that negroes will injure tn,
south if deprived of suffrage create
sensation in the Alabama constitu
tional convention.
Three passengers were killed am
16 injured-three perhaps fatally-il
collision on the Southern railwa.
near Atlanta.
Wesley c.. Shaw, GA years old, o
Springfield, L. l., who has been bin,
for years, married Mrs. Elise Lewis
a wealthy widow of 5S.
Methodist preachers, in session a
Chicago, declare the Epworth leagu
is for young people alone, and shout,
be kept sacredly for them.
The department at Washington ma,
stop all timber operations on tn,
Chippewa reservation until congress
| legislates on the subject
NJ L. Barrett was arrested for pass
ing a confederate $50 bill on an Indian
at Yale, n. D., during December, 1893
for SIS bill in a horse trade.
Secretary Root has called for re
ports on the effect Of the antt-canteel
law and is expected to make a fign
for the restoration of the canteen.
Efforts are being made to secure tn
release of 'Frenchy," the Algerian
convicted of a charge of murderin!
cold Shakespeare" in New York il
| 1891.
Cabinet officials and others close t,
Present Mckinley scout the predic
| ton of Senator Depew that the execd
tive will attempt to secure a thirt
| term.
Machinists on railway lines are no
to be called out at present, the inter
national union desiring to concentrat,
all its energies on the manufacturing
shops.
Commander Ballington Booth, of tn.
| Volunteers CT America, is said to b.
planning an industrial city in Gecrgi;
for the poor of Chicago and othe
cities.
William Arnell Jr., of Beaverton
| Mich, while drunk, killed his daugh
ter, fatally wounded his wife, ant
severely wounded two sisters and ;
| brother.
Congressman Theobold Often AM
| his secretary were seriously injured
at Milwaukee. The carriage il whicf
they were driving was run down by
| trolley car.
Miss Mabel Lawrence Burt,
former student of Smith college, wa,
arrested charged with stealing 500
worth of jewelry from college
| dormitorieS.
The first agnostic wedding ceremon!
celebrated took place in Cincinnati
The bride and bridegroom assented tt
a series of peculiar pledges as to thei
| future conduct.
The Evangelical Lutheran SYNOD
voted that the Foreign Mission BoarC
| in, c-pp5 foitb daoIiDi1o 4,