Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-18

The body Of Hazen S. Pingree, |
ormer governor of Michigan, was
placed in a vault in Elmwood GENE |
cry, Detroit. Over 5000 men took [
cart in the funeral procession.
The endowment rank, Knights of
oythias, was found to be 100000 in
iebt, with S135 in the bank. The
financial methods of John o. Hinse5
we're criticised by the supreme
council.
The government report Of the crop
averages on July 1 shows the spring
wheat crop of the northwest to be
forty points ahead Of year ago, AMI
five points ahead of the ten-year
average.
Roy Boyce, private Of company D,
Delaware national guards, was shot
and killed by Private John Allen at
target practice Boyce was scorer
and raised his head from the pit as
Allen fired.
1t is learned that Perry Heath, who
was one of the board Of directors of
the defunct Eleventh National bank Of
New York, and his brother, Fletcher
S. Heath, who was vice president, will
not be prosecuted.
President Shaffer announces that all
main differences between the steel
trust and steel-workers have been
adjusted and that at a conference
terms of final settlement of trouble
will be announced.
At Great Bend. Kan, 5000 acres of
wheat went up in flames. The fire
was started by an unknown man
throwing a lighted cigar into field OF
wheat stubble. The loss will az
gregate 100000 bushels.
A. H. Hummel, a well-known New
York lawyer, was seriously injured bv
the overturning of his carriage while
driving in London. Miss Irene Perry,
an American actress, who accom-
panied him, was slightly injured.
Evidence is accommodating against
the aged Charles Dunn, charged with
the murder of 10-year-old Alice
Cothrell at Wallen, Ind. A maid
servant was arrested as an accessory
on the testimony of a hired man.
James e. Yeatman, a wealthy resi-
dent of st. Louis, died. aged 81 years
Though STAKEHOLDER, he supported
the union in the civil war. 1t is said
that Winston Churchill found in him
the original of one of the characters in
The Crisis.
J. NJ Damron, aged 46 years,
formerly district attorney Of Johnson
county, and a warm friend of Senator
Cullom and other politicians, died At
Phoenix, Ariz. After leaving Illinois
ne distinguished himself in law and
politics in California.
While professor" Smith was at
tempting a slide for life" at Water
town, N. Y, his apparatus broke, and
Henry Phillips, of that city, fell s.
feet to the ground. Phillips died. 1t
has been discovered that the rope
holding Phillips was cut.
Steel rail manufacturers, forming
what is known as the steel rail pool
have formally agreed upon $2S ton
as the price which will be asked for
the coming year. This price IS 81 a
ton higher than that agreed upon at
the steel rail pool meeting last fall.
Efforts are being made by Peru and
Bolivia to induce Venezuela and other
South American republics to refuse to
participate in the pan-American con
gress in case there should be no modi
fication of the proposal that arbitra.
ton be limited to future questions
only.
Judge Ferdinand B. Earhart, post.
master at New Orleans, is dead. He
was civil judge in the '70's, deputy
collector of the port in 1890 and
United States district attorney under
Harrison and Cleveland. He sue
ceeded ]. r. G.. Plukin as postmaster
in 1901.
Professor Leconte, Of the University
of California, died yesterday in the
Yosemite valley, where he had gone
for brief outing. He had a national
philosophy, history and sciences. He
was born in Liberty county, Georgia,
in 1922.
A Bohemian janitor, for revenge for
having been discharged from the en-
ploy of the United Banking and
Savings company of Cleveland, for
laziness, circulated report that the
bank was unsafe. The rumor started
a run on that institution which crazed
thousands of Bohemian residents.
At Mount Pleasant. Pa, Baltimore
and Ohio accommodation train from
Connellsville, Pa, crashed into an
engine on a siding and was wrecked.
Those most seriously hurt were: Mrs.
Victor Woodward, Lancaster, Pa;
Engineer Ridenour and Samuel Fish,
Lowell, Mass. The accident was
caused by an open switch.
The treasury department has drawn
warrants aggregating $1,000,000, or
$4,000 for forty-five states and two
territories, being the maximum amount
provided for by congress in the act of
Aug. 80, 1900, for the endowment and
maintenance of colleges for the benefit
of agriculture and mechanics arts.
This act provided a minimum sum of
$4,000 for that year, with an annual
increase of 5000 for ten years, up to
$4,000.
Mrs. Sarah Belle Tanner Taylor,
wife of VILLAIN S. Taylor, ex-governor
Of Kentucky, but for more than a year
a resident of INDIANAPOLIS, died of
hemorrhage resulting from heart
disease. She was 40 years Of age and
was born at Morgantown, KY. She
went to indianapolis a year ago last
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