Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-07

Soldiers stationed at Fort Sheridan
are charged with assaulting women 20
such an extent that residents of Wau-
kegan, Highwood and other north
shore towns are talking of organizing
vigilance committee.
The weekly crop report found the
, temperature generally favorable; corn
is making good growth and spring
wheat is promising; rain is delaying
i the winter wheat harvest and drought
| is seriously hurting cotton.
Rev. Alexander P. Doyle. secretary
! of the Catholic missionary union, has
received a gift of $4,000 for the es-
Enlistment of the Apostolic mission:
house for the training Of Roman Cath
Ollie priests as missionaries.
| By the caving of a water main
| trench in Havana. Ill, City Clerk
Adolph Schill and Henry Bohm, d
workman, were buried under four feet
; of earth. They were unconscious
! when rescued, but were revived.
Chicagos right to compel the Peo-
pies Gaslight and Coke company to
furnish IS per cent. gas was sustained
by the United States circuit court. The
| twenty-five per cent. will be saved to
consumers if the opinion is upheld
| Earthquake in Los Alamos valley,
: California, changed the surface of the
(; country in strip fifteen miles long
and destroyed buildings in Los Alamos
settlement. Wide rents were left in
the soil and residents fed in a panic
big Bill Devery gave an excur-
sion and feast for $4,000 women and
children Of the ninth assembly dis
trict, New York. The crowd was so
! big that the nine boats which took
, them up the Hudson didn't dare land.
A new franchise, legislative action
and the incorporation of company IN
New York state must be obtained be-
fore the Pennsylvania Hudson river
tunnel is authorized This was de-
cided at Mayor Lows conference
Long delay is expected.
A band of river thieves which has
been operating along the Ohio river
for weeks and stealing boats and raft.
ing equipment was captured near
Metropolis, III. The robbers made re-
sistance and several shots were ex
changed.
President John Mitchell and the
United Mine Workers officials strik-
e-s, and sympathizers, were enjoined
by the federal court at Charleston,
w. Va, from entering the mine
property holding meetings. or asking
the miners to quit in the New river
fields.
Because the time lock to the vault
OF the Phoenix National bank, New
York, was set for Sis p. m. instead
Or $3.50 a. M, the officers of the in
stitution had to hustle around to Dor
row money with which to do business,
as $1,315,0OO cash in the safe could
not be touched.
Driven to desperation by hunger and
thirst, band of thirty Yauuis. nearly
half OF them women, swooped down.
upon the Carmen ranch near Her
mosillo and fierce fight followed
When a patrol of Mexican troops
galIoped down to the rescue, two OF
the women and five of the men lay
dead.
John Wise, negro, who committed
an assault upon young white woman,
was lynched at Pembroke, Ga. He
was captured near Roller, Ca, after a
desperate fight with a posse. He was
returned to Pembroke and positively
identified as the assailant He was
then hanged to a telegraph pole and
bis body riddled with bullets.
-Four men, two whites and tw,
negroes, are reported to have been
shot and killed on Missouri, Kansas
and Texas excursion train, at poinr
in Indian territory. The negroes are
said to have been shot down by the
whites, who were in turn shot and
Killed by deputy sheriff who was &C
companying the excursion.
Andrew Carnegie has declined the.
proposition submitted to him by the
special committee representing the
art society of Richmond, Va. to give
the 100000 he proposed to give to
public library, toward a fund for tn.
erection of great building to be the
nome OF the fine arts in that CITY. !
which building, it was proposed |
should include a library
Max Bean of De Witt, Ill. aged %
years, who prided himself on his good
looks, committed suicide by shooting !
himself with rifle. He suffered Al, j,
attack OF smallpox last winter which |
left number of pits in his face. |
Bean brooded over the circumstance !
and decided that life with a pitted !!
face was Unbearable and left a note To
this effect. !
Two freight trains on the West i
Shore railway collided at HARRINGTON
Park, N. J. E. w. Randall, fireman
of one of the locomotives, was killed.
Engineer w. F. Miller was bruised !
about the hea0 and body, and brake
man had an arm broken The col
hslon was a rear-end o.e, and the
locomotive and half dozen freight
care were badly wrecked
Harry DeWindt, the Arctic traveller,
who recently completed a remarkable
Journey overland throughout northern
and across the Boring sea. AT.
rived at Port Townsend, Wash. on the
steamship Topeka from Shagway. ac-
companied by Viscount de Clinchamp
Belligarde. George Harding ana
Stephen Rastofuyeff. He is on HIS
way to New York.
Rev. Alexander P. Doyle, secretar,
OF the Catholic missionary union, has
received a gift of $4,000 for the es-