Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-23
reception in PHILADELPHIA.

Henry J.. Wilson, minister to Chila
has been transferred to Greece.
julius Brown, of Syracure, N. Y,
married his mother-in-law, Mrs. Viola
Meyer.
EleonOra Duse reached New York
and will begin her American tour at
Boston.
Sir Michael Herbert presented his
credentials as Ambassador from Great
Britain.
W. T. bearing, of Roanoke. Va,
was shot and killed by an unknown
negro.
An Ohio syndicate is buying up
abandoned oil and gas wells in Penn
sylvania.
AT Butte, Mont, a discovery of gold
was made while excavating for the
federal building.
The estimate for entire expen-
ditures for postal service for the next
year is S -0,520.
One million dollars wore found in
the New York gamblers safes CAP
tured in a police raid.
j. Ogden Armour is king of corn
and has the shorts defeated on the
Chicago board of trade.
At Omaha Principal Waterhouse
has forbidden mirrors and sweaters
DOMESTIC.
Mascagni received an enthusiastic
in the high school.
Rev. DR.. A. B. Simpson raised
$6O156 for foreign missions at two
meetings in New York.
A eang of alleged postoff1ce robbers
said to be wanted in Virgfnjq was
captured in Los Angeles, Cal.
Sir Thomas Lipton's third challenge
for the Americans cup was accepted
by the New York Yacht club.
Texas officers at Nacogdoches out
Wltted three mobs and successfully
landed negro murderd in jail.
Miss Alice Hogan. of Louisville
author Of Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch, is to wed Gale Young Rice.
lightning struck Beaumont
iieXas) negro church while funeral
was in progress and killed one man.
At Quincy, H., one killed and one
fatally injured, besides much damage
to property resulted from tornado.
Miss Beatrice Blaine. niece of
James G. Blaine. was married to
Charles Francis Byrne in Washington.
Two were killed and a number
wounded by an express running into
the wreck of a freight near Barre. Pa.
United States judge Gilbert dis
solved the shingle trust, ruling that it
violates the Sherman antitrust law.
Comptroller circuit found that s17,-
67l.Sl7 was due New York city from
street-oar companies for unpaid taxes.
T. H. Brooks haswithdrawn his offer
to bet from $4,000 to $50 900 on
Odell at odds of 2 to / in New York.
Clarence H. Mackay was elected
president Of the Postal Telegraph
company and Commercial Gable com
pany.
EN-Qucen Iiliuokanalni will leave
Nov. II for Washington. where she
will present her claim for the crown
lands.
Miss Georgian Chamberlain. a ST.
400 pension office clerk at Washing
ton, committed suicide with carbollc
acid
The second trial of Roland B. Mol
neuX. charged with the murder of
Mrs. Katherine J. Adams, began IN
New York
Harry A. Harris, carpenter at the
Nebraska penitentiary. was arrested
on a charge - smuggling opium to
prisoners.
At st. Louis a hailstorm. covering
the ground until it resembled snow.
did $4,000 damage to glass, mainly in
greenhouses.
A District of Columbia court holds
excursion tickets bearing contracts
signed by purchasers to be non
transferable.
Mrs. Jennie Guild of Wrentham |
Mass, is suspected of causing the
deaths of two husbands and two chill
dren by poison.
Four bodies were found in sacks on
the streets of indianapolis and were
identified as persons recently buried
in local cemeteries.
DR.. Francis L. Patton, former presi- |
dent of Princeton university, was
elected president of Princeton Theo-
logical seminary.