Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-27

charged and the plant closed. The
trust will move the business to Kansas
City.
J. H. Phillip, president of the Mel
bourne State bank, Melbourne Fla,
killed himself by cutting his throat.
The bank is said to be in good con-
dition.
| Former Governor P. c.. Cheney Of
New Hampshire of Manchester, n. H,
died at the home Of his son-in-law,
| Charles H. Fish, at Dover. n. H. aged
70 years.
A hospital for negroes in the railway
service will be considered by the
executive committee Of the Railway
Porters' association at meeting in
Chicago.
In the baccalaureate sermon before
the New York City college Rev. Dr..
P. S. Grant held up Andrew Carnegie
as a warning of the danger of
materialism.
Frank H. Cooper Of sIegel, Cooper
& Co., Chicago, announces that within
two years he will retire from active
participation in the management OF
the firms affairs.
James Shepardson, editor of a
weekly society paper, committed
suicide at his home in Chicago by
shooting. His mind had been i'm
paired by brain fever.
Fire destroyed all the lumber in the
yard of the Ontario Lumber company.
at French river, on Georgian bay,
amounting to 100000 feet and
valued at over 100000.
The New York court of appeals
: heard the appeal to save the life of
Roland B. Molineux, convicted OF
; causing the death Of Mrs. Katherine j.
Adams in December. 1898.
The secretary of agriculture pre-
| diets that in ten years the United
l. States will produce all the sugar need
ed for home consumption as a result
5 of beet sugar development.
5 At Sumter, S. c.. Frank Winn was
killed and Charles Smith wounded in Il
shooting ARRAY. VIM had trouble
| with Eddie" Edwards and Smith
J tried to act as peacemaker.
Dr. Edwards Bevans, a WellknOWn
physician of Fargo, who was married
in January to Minnie ]. Lewis. Of
Lowell, Mass, former concert singer,
+ has mysteriously disappeared.
Benjamin H. Perrin, aged 81 years,
l for many years a citizen Of central
] Illinois and a wellknown member of
the Cass and Morgan Old Settlers as
ISOLATION, died at Virginia, Ill.
, Major Lee Hughes, aged 70 years
5 member of the second Missouri
> cavalry, General Joe Shelby's famous
brigade in the confederate army, IS
J, dead at his home in Marshall, Mo.
0 The repeal of large part of war
t stamp taxes will go into effect July J..
The list includes bank checks, tele-
4 grams, express receipts, money orders
S deeds, conveyances, and bills of lading.
S Judge Hallet, in the federal court
at Denver, rendered judgment 10 the
). case of Mum Bros. against the hex
Z Mining company, by which the plain
L tiffs may secure more than $1,000,OO0
The steamship Hawaiian. which has
i arrived from Honolulu. brought the
= largest cargo of sugar ever sent out
from the Hawaiian islands. 1t con
sisted of $500 tons, valued at s75O,OO0
r Guilty of murder of the first de-
e gree" was the verdict returned by a
{ jury against Edward Graffan, who fol
a fortnight has been on trial for the
J. killing of Clifford Mosher Of Gorham
L Me.
> A cablegram received in Louisville
KY, announced the death in Cassel
Germany, as the result Of a surgical
! operation, of Ferdinand G. Pfngst, a
retired tobacco manufacturer of Louis
vile.
At New Orleans, Gen. Eugene May
+ a prominent wholesale druggist, died
of injuries sustained in a fall from a
spirited horse. He served in the civil
war with the famous Washington
artillery.
P. G. Cheney Of Manchester. N. H.
! died at Dover, n. H, aged 70. He
had been governor of New Hampshire,
, United States senator, and was United
States minister to Switzerland under
, President Harrison.
!, Pension Commissioner Evans denies
all knowledge of the reported move
ment to transfer him to another post
under the government. Ex-Repre-
sentative Peters of Kansas is mention
! ed as his successor.
Princess Hatfield has no intention
r of contesting the will of the late
T.. Coils P. Huntington. The princess.
1 who was the adopted daughter of
Coils P. Huntington, is visiting her
. mother in Sacramento.
: At Dothan, Ala, Professor Rankin,
y who was assistant principal Of the
| public schools, shot and killed Princi-
. pal George R. Mcneil and then COM
t mitted suicide. Rankin had been
/ dismissed from the school,
The Emperor of Germany has
, ordered a schooner-yacht to be de-
; signed and built in the United States.
1t is to be constructed on similar lines
as the American yacht Yampa, which
Emperor William now owns.
| The National Wholesale Liquor
: Dealers association met in Cincinnati,
and elected w. E. Broderick, Balti-
more, president; Ephraim Brice,
Philadelphia, treasurer; and David
Slauber, Baltimore, secretary
In an interview in Chicago Samuel
M. Morse, of Indianapolis, ex-consul
| general to Paris, said: The supreme
: courts recent decision presents an