Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-05-09

makes a grand total OF over S1OU,ouo,
600.
Professor Herron's name was strick-
en- from the roll of the Grinnell Con-
gregational association. This is be-
ljeyed to forecast the result Of his
| trial
Minister Conger was given warm
welcome on his arrival aides Moines.
He declared he is not a candidate for !
governor and does not intend to enter |
the fight.
Owing to the danger of importing
smallpox from the mainland the Hon
olulu board of health has decided to |
fumigate all mails coming by steamer |
from San FrnciscO.
Moved by the posthumous influence I!
of Gen Benjamin Harrison, the com
mittee on revision will recommend TO
the Presbyterian assembly certain re-
forms in the creed.
Venezuela apologized for recent acts
of discourtesy to the United States
representatives. Full amends are 10
be made for the indignities to lgnaclo
Baiz, the American consul.
The monthly statement of the col
Iections of internal revenue shows
: the total receipts for March, 1901,
were s24,O3O,745, a decrease as COM
7 pared with March, 1900, of $295,933.
Mrs. Hadley Jones, wife of the eX-
} MAYOR of Little Falls, New York, ac-
. companied in his flight her husband,
I whose alleged forged mortgages and
/ unpaid debts are said to exceed $780,
: O00
s Harry Byrne, one of the oldest
master plumbers of Chicago, died,
7 aged so years. Mr.. Byrne was born
d on Sept. 20, 1910, near Queenstown,
). Ireland. and came to America when
t II years old.
}. At St. Louis fire damaged the build
e ing occupied by the Roth Homeyer
Coffee company, 200 South Eighth
street. The loss is $4,000. The stock
of the Oliver Wall Paper company was
damaged slightly.
, The principal business block of San
Jose, H., was destroyed by fire.
" Smiths twin elevators, Adam Reid1n-
= gers general store and several build
- ings were consumed. The loss eX-
ceeds 100000.
- The elevator owned by the Carbon
dale. H., Milling and Elevator com
- pany with $4,000 bushels Of wheat
was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss
n of over 100000. The grain was nearly
fully insured.
a Chicago ice dealers who control the
business are contemplating plans to in
PC crease rates 80 to 40 per cent. Pros
pective action of the Wisconsin legis
a+ lature taxing ice is partly responsible
for this eXaction.
70 At Tacoma Judge w. H. Smell sus
". tanned the demurrer of the city to The
complaint of the former city employees
49, who have been suing for overtime
- This decision knocks out the eight
hour law passed in 1898.
The pan-American Exposition a
~ Buffalo was informally inaugurated OF
~ the date originally set for the cere
g.. mony. A salute of AZ guns wa
~ 49, fired, flags were unfurled, and pigeon
~ released. The president telegraphe
80 his good wishes.
-" Admiral Remey has cabled the nav
department. news of his arrival aboar
=. the Brooklyn at Sydney, New Sout
~ Wales He will proceed to Melbourn
"0 to take part in celebrating the oper
-, ing of the first federal paliament i
~: Australia early in May.
Mrs. Emily w. Johnson, widow c
i+v the millionaire lumber king of wis
cd consin and Michigan, died at Sa
Francisco. from the effects of strok
OH of paralysis. The estate, which
or over $10,OO0,O00, will be inherited b
the son, o. w. Johnson.
90 Congressman ROsseau E. CrumI
In aged So years, representative from tn
tenth congressional district, died q
nm his home in West Bay City, Mich
IN from heart trouble. He returned tie
days ago from the Baltimore hospita
10 where he had been i'll for severe
,at months.
ri At Latrobe, Pa, the engine-hous
and boiler-house Of the Dorothy Goa
,or and coke plant of the American Stee
he and Wire company is a smOulderin
'es mass of ruins, and it is reported tina
either four or six miners have los
in their lives The loss is $150,000, full
he insured.
III Inc village OIL heuS6II, Ill " OiI
county, Iowa, was destroyed by fire
ey- Fourteen buildings were burned an
CHI the total loss is estimated at $4,000
tic The principal losers are: Eckert
Williams, elevator; Farmers Mutua
re- elevator, Kensett News Office and Roe
!. bucks store.
OF At Washington Cardinal-elect MAJ
tinelli received from member of tn
er papal guard of Pope Leo Kill, Coun
M Stanislaus Colaciichi, the consistora
ng letter advising him of his elevation t
the cardinalate and the red zuchettc
IN emblematic of that big office. TIL
at ceremony was brief and simple.
- The question of opening the gate
of the pan-Americn grounds on Sun
es day has been settled. The gates ar
III to be open from l p. m. until II p. NJ
but the midway and all amusemen
features will be closed during tn
ny twenty,four hours from Saturda.
N night until Monday morning.
D" Mother Ascension, aged "a years
one of Indiaua's earliest pioneers
en- died at Notre Dame. She came t
ed Notre Dame in 1916, one year afte,
III the founder, Father Scum. Fifty-fivt
years of her life have been devoted t
IS, works of mercy, until she has become
al known all over the United States az