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

Porto Rico and will attempt to prevent
it by amending the Foraker law.
Fire at Eddyville, Ia, destroyed a
church, seven business houses, and a
residence. The loss is SIT 900.
Girls were expelled and suspended
at the New Haven normal training
school for disrespectful conduct.
Rev. August Klug of Hadar, Neb ;,
fell dead while leaving a train at Nor
folk, Neb. He was ~ years old.
Dr. R. l.. Boggs died at Fairfield, H.,
aged 90 years. He was the father of
Chief Justice c. c. Boggs Of illinois.
Near Ithaca, James Churchill, a
jealous husband, killed his wife and
mortally wounded her aged father.
Ecclesiastics prefer an American
hierarchy to a papal legate to help the
United States direct insular affairs.
A Tennessee court held that the
Nashville street railway has per
petual right to streets of that city.
General Miles was made an Ii. D.
by Brown University. The college
endowment now amounts to S2,000,00O
Major Lee Hughes, a member Of
General Joe Shelby's confederate
brigade, died at Marshall, Mo, ag I'd
73.
The Barker-Keller shooting scrape
at New York drags along in court.
Material evidence is ruled out by the
court.
Beloit college earned 100000 en-
dowment of DR.. Pearson by raising
$4,000. President Eaton is to re-
main.
A nail-storm at Greenton, near
Kokomo, Ind, broke all windows
facing north and damaged crops in the
vicinity.
Ten persons were injured and con-
siderable property destroyed by a
cyclone in Beadle county, South
Dakota.
Wall street believes that Thomas
Lowry has given an option on his
stock in the Twin City Rapid Transit
company.
The Iowa State Society of Colonial
Wars met at Iowa City and elected
George A. CoodeIl of Cedar Rapids
governor.
The Chicago postoffice is to have
100 more carriers, an equal number of
new clerks. and 400 additional sub
stations.
The formal opening of the American
Institute of Homeopathy was attended
at Richmond Springs, N. Y, by SOC
members.
The federal grand jury at Helena
! Mont, indicted tWentysix persons
charged with stealing cattle from the
| Crow Indians.
One hundred men. with forty teams
started from Foley to Sank Rapids tc
secure the county records and fight
| is expected.
Changing the name of Northwestern
university to Deering university is
suggested. The graduating class
numbered AGO.
The father and brothers of Mrs
! Lulu Kennedy of Kansas City were
indicted as accessory in the murder o.
| her husband.
| Cummins' boom for governor o.
| Iowa is believed to have reached 6
critical point. He now has 473 of the
S21 delegates.
A. j. Myat of Wichita, Kas., former
probate judge and solicitor of thz
recent state court of visitation, died a.
Colorado Springs.
The jury which tried DR.. Samuel J
1
Kennedy, charged with the murder u
Emmeline Reynolds in New York
failed to agree.
1t is believed in Washington thai
this government will never submi'
important issues for arbitration &c
the Hague tribunal.
The tariff war between Russia and
the United States breaks out agar
and threatens to unfavorably affect
I political relations.
Count Cassini, the Russian am
bassador, admitted that Russia
action in increasing duty on American
| goods is retaliatory.
T. J. Reece, a farmland, attempted
to kill the husband of former sweet
heart near Bloomington, HI, the-
J committed suicide.
Simon Lake, inventor of the
Argonaut, has organized a company
with $1,000,000 capital to build subma
! rine torpedo boats.
| Helen Fifield, the 19-year old daugh
ter of wealthy resident of GAINESVILLE
Wis, disappeared. and it is believed
| she went to Chicago.
! A threatened break in the Larime1
and Weld reservoir, near Fort Collins
Col, has placed many lives and much
property in jeopardy.
Statements signed by Mrs. Castle
accusing Miss Morrison Of numbering
her, were introduced as evidence in the
trial Of Miss Morrison.
An insane Swede, supposed to be A. G
Peterson of Chicago, was killed at
| Rockford, Ill.,, by policeman whom
he attempted to shoot.
Charles T. Russell of Haddan, Conn
died in London, aged 65. He was
United States consul general at Liver
pool from 1885 to 1889.
The Tennessee supreme court re
fused the application of young woman
of Memphis TO be admitted to practice
law in the state courts
The caboose on a Wisconsin Central
train left the track near Milladore
Wis, and was thrown over an embanh,
ment, seriously injuring the conductor
and a brakeman.
The fuel and water problem in
southwestern deserts is solved by the
Santa Fe and Southern Pacific roads