Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-28
DOMESTIC.

year were about S28 900 QUO IN excess
OF those of the year of 1897.
DOMESTIC.
Miss Mamie Bowen was elected
queen of the GAINESVILLE carnival.
William Alexander Ruff, a promi-
nent citizen of Lexington, Va. is dead.
Civil Engineer P. r. Mccullough was
killed at Junior, w. Va, by a fall OF
slate.
The Pressed Steel Car company has
orders for over $2O,000,O0 worth of new
cars.
Recent archaeological discoveries
IN Shasta. county, Cal. are said to be
of great value.
1t is said that the meat combine paid
$21 100000 for the packing plants of
the Cudahys
William Adams, a wealthy citizen
OF Lincoln county Va, was shot from
ambush and killed.
Gov William A Stone of Pennsyl,
vania says he will quit politics at the
expiration of his term.
Miss iona Dunlap OF Aledo, Ill.,
suspected of poisoning Annie Dool
with candy, was released.
Charles M. Schwab denies that he
intends to resign as president of the
United States Steel corporation.
Building operations aggregating
$3.50, 240 were undertaken during the
last fiscal year in Washington
A mob at Jefferson, Ohio threatened
to lynch John Grooms, colored, charged
with assaulting two aged\sisters.
Nine persons were injured and 900
others badly shaken by a wreck on the
Wisconsin Central near Neenah.
Alfred H. Prescott of Cambridge
Wis, committed suicide in hotel al
the state capital by taking poison.
Regular republicans of Delaware, in
state convention at Dover, renomi
mated Congressman l.. HeisIer Ball.
The republican committee of the
tenth district of Virginia decided moi
to nominate candidate for congress.
A cablegram from Portsmouth, Eng
land, announces the death there OF
Bessie Bonehill. the vaudeville actress
Joseph Anderson drowned his four
children near Salina, Kan, and then
shot himself, infiicting a severe wound
The Forward Reduction company, a
Texas oil booming concern, with head.
quarters at Cleveland, failed for $780,.
900.
Fire destroyed Parsons college at
Fairfield, Ia, a Presbyterian institu-
ton founded in 1875. The loss is $780,
900.
The subject of creating mortgage
loans with government guarantee to
aid the Filipino farmers is being agi-
tated
With the allotment of lands to the
Indians, which was begun this week,
the Creek Nation will PASS out of
existence.
Chief Charlots, the FAMOUS Indian
scout of the Rocky mountains district,
is dead on the Flathead reservation in
Montana.
Russell A. Alger, former secretary
OF war, declared himself a candidate
tor the senate, to succeed Senator
Mcmillan.
Ed Sparks and Horace Meredith
were arrested at Onarga, H., on the
charge of numbering a farmer two
years ago.
At Cleveland Dr. Forward. president
of an oil refining company, is bank
rupt, with liabilities of S47S.5S7 and
assets of $:,225.
Merritt Morse, a citizen of Racine.
after grieving constantly over the
death of his wife, committed suicide
on her grave.
At Wilmington. Del, two digesters
in the pulp mills of the Jessup &
Moore Paper company exploded and
fifteen were killed.
Henry Peckman, a well-to-do farmer,
living near Sandwich, ILL.,, died of in
juries received in a runaway, caused
by an automobile.
In New York George Lea who for
forty years conducted theaters and
other places of amusemnt in various
places, Is dead.
The 3-year-old daughter of Almon H.
Marsh of Green Bay, Iowa, died as the
result of sting from bee received
nine hours before.
Mother Jones" is said to be planning
a march of miners wives which will in
its chief features resemble the Coxey
army demonstration.
The coroner's physician of Chicago
said he does not believe the body found
Oh the prairie was that of the missing
Mitchell
Chief Willis l.. Moore, of the United
States Weather Bureau, ridicules the
idea that Atlantic City is in danger
from tidal wave.
In Louisa county. Va, Wesley Hicks,
cclored, was sentenced to be hanged
October 80 for the murder of his SON
in-law, Milton Bourne.
President Truesdale of the Lacka-
wanna railroad says the anthracite coal
operators will make no concessions in
order to end the strike.
An electrical and wind storm in