Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-26
Domestic.

Most Of the late II. y. Armour S
fortune is left to relatives.
Mrs. John Brown and her child were
killed by a fire at Fort Wayne.
A Chicago syndicate is to build a
Wyoming.
Terrific gales on Lake Michigan
caused numerous shipwrecks and some
loss of life.
The great steel strike has been set
tied, the strikers receding from some
of their demands.
The democratic primaries in New
York resulted in two notable victories
for the antiCroker leaders.
G. L. Clausen of Chicago was ar
rested for implication in the alleged
aldermanic bribery at Kenosha.
The safe Of the Bank of Hammond,
Wis, was blown open and $4,000 in
cash and many valuable securities
were stolen.
Michael J. Synon, who was once
convicted and sentenced to hang for
wife murder in Chicago, was acquitted
on his second trial.
Senator Frye announced that he
would not accept the craftsmanship OF
senate foreign committee. Senator
Lodge may be chosen.
The Virginia constitutional conven
ton rejected a provision for free
speech in the bill Of rights, because OF
the presidents murder.
William Fry, colored, of Bedford
Pa, was shot dead near Mount Dallas
while trying to rob the paymaster OF
the Colonial Iron company.
Owing to a lack of funds. it was an
bounced that only half of the Phila
delphia night schools in operation last
year would be opened in October
Deputy Police Commissioner Devery
of New York was arrested on a war
rant charging him with oppression and
neglect of duty, and was held in bail.
At Atlanta, Miss Caroline Lewis
Gordon, daughter of General and Mrs
JOIN B. Gordon, was married to Or
ton Bishop Brown of New Hampshire
Six persons were killed and 25 hurt
in collision between freight and PAS
senger trains on the New York. New
Haven, and Hartford road, near Avon
Mass.
Twenty-Five thousand steel strikers
went back to work. Tin-plate workers
unable to get a statement from Shat
fer as to the conditions, will deal with
employing company direct.
Word has been received at the
Colombian legation from a confidential
agent at Curacao that a strong OPPOSE
ton is growing in Venezuela against
President Castro's belligerent attitude
towards Colombia and that even Gen
eral Uribe-Uribe, the Colombian in
surgent leader, has had a spirited cor
respondence with President Castro. in
which General Tribe demonstrated
against the extreme hostility towards
Colombia evinced by the president OF
Venezuela
A comparative statement concerning
the commerce of Cuba for the eight
months ended Feb. %, 1901, and 1900
shows that the total value of mer-
chandise imported during the eight
months ended Feb %, 1901, was S42,
290.S14 as against s4S,476,61s for the
same period of 1900; the total value
of merchandise exported during the
eight months ended Feb. %, 1901, was
S34, 035 1857, as against $23,S29,156 for
the same period of 1900, a decrease OF
| lis per cent in the value of imports
and an increase of 42S per cent. in
the value Of exports.
Eldorado, Col. is seriously threat
ened by forest fire which started on
| Woodland mountain. Already 80
square miles of heavy timber have
| been burned and many mine buildings
destroyed.