Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-08-22
WIS OF THE WORLD.
Domestic.

italy destroyed by fire.
A lot in the new town Of LawtoD
sold for $40 a front foot.
Fifteen harvest hands were robbed
of $3.50 near Hastings, MINI.
The Consolidated Tobacco company
absorbs other tobacco trusts.
Railroad reports for July show a
remarkable gain in business.
The governor of Mississippi is plan
ming to wage war on lynchers.
Several sensational arrests are ex-
pected in the New York police scan
dal.
James Cummings is accused of the
murder of his brother near Stearns,
Mich.
Gov. Odel said that the executive
mansion at Albany is a sewer-gas
death trap:
Christian Mack, president of Ann
Arbor Savings bank, dropped dead in
his store.
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee daughter
Of J. Pierpont Morgan, is the mother
of baby girl.
Albert Pvan, who tried to kill his
wife at Litchfeld, Mich, shot himself
to avoid arrest.
The weekly government crop re-
port shows but little if any improve
ment in the situation.
Joseph Gcgo, former sheriff Of
Porter CO.. =, Indiana, was arrested
on the che of forgery.
Helen Gould is involved in a line
fence war at Tarrytown with a
wealthy New York broker.
Consul General Long, in report to
the state department, declared slavery
In Egypt practically ended.
An interview may result III the
British consul at New Orleans being
declared persona non grata.
Pietro Cuneo, who emigrated from
italy 81 years ago, was appointed
American consul at Turin.
Lieutenant Watterson, son of Henry
Watterson, was married to u niece of
the Cuban General Casanova.
Secretary Hay returned unex-
pectedly from Newbury, N. H., where
he is spending the summer.
and American ball leagues will prob
ably be arranged next winter.
Northwestern health officials met
in Duluth to devise means to stamp
out smallpox in lumber camps.
Edmund z. Brodowski, United States
consul at Solingen, Germany, died at
the house Of a friend in Eberswalde.
Bandits in Indian territory COM
PEELED a government postal clerk to
help them rob passengers on a train.
A Northern Pacific official invented
a method of sending telephone and
telegraph messages over the same
wire.
The wife of a merchant at Great
Falls. Mont, whipped three union
pickets whose union bGycotted the
store
A dead man was found wedged be-
meath the floor Of a Coney island car
which had been in continuous use for
ten hours.
John Tanner, father of H F. Taber,
an actor. was killed by an automobile
owned by May Irwin, the actress, in
New York.
Our Charge d'Affaires at Caracas
was authorized to represent Colombia,
whose minister was withdrawn from
Venezuela.
Over one hundred cracker manu-
facturers will meet in ST. Louis to
form an organization to fight the
cracker trust.
Professor Pupin's house at YoI-
kers was broken open and ransacked
to discover the secrets of his ocean
telephone invention.
Charles w. Seabury, we'll known in
banking and brokerage circles, died
in Boston. He was born in Tiverton,
r. l., April Is, 1881.
Robert and Henry Wilson, brothers,
who parted fifteen years ago, found
each other at Atlantic City through a
tune played by band.
Anna Fotsch accused Dowieites of
rejecting her from Zion after they got
$400, her life's savings. The grand
jury is to investigate.
Harvey Scott of Faribault, Mimi,
willed that his fortune of $4,000 be
burned because he could not find a
charity worthy of the gift.
Gov. Odell pardoned James E.
Bedell who in 1888 obtained $296.SS0
through forgeries and was sentenced
to Sing Sing for 25 years.
Masked men held up a Missouri,
Kansas and Texas passenger train
at Caney, l. T., looted the express and
mail cars and robbed the passengers.
Many retired army officers are
found to be drawing double pay from
the government Several are en-
ployed in the pension department as
clerks.
A new and noisy sect in Brooklyn
are called by neighbors the far offers.
At the Missionary Alliance iron for
gold" meeting in Old Orchard, Me-.
$4,000 was raised.
The attorney general has rendered
an opinion that the government is
responsible for mail matter lost
through the negligence or dishonesty
of postal employees.
Ten men were killed by a fire in the
Cleveland water crib, two miles off
shore. Thirteen men were saved bv
seeking refuge in tunnel 200 feet
below the surface of the lake.
Arch Rock in San Francisco bay
was blown up by thirty tons of nitro |
gelatin. Rocks and debris were
hurled 1000 feet in the air by the ex-
plosion and many fish were killed.
The steamer Idzumi Maru brings the !