Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-29

and burned at the stake by a mob at
Lansing, Tex.
Haynes D. Wright, son of a promi-
nent Chicago man. goes to Sing Sing
for four years and nine months for
robbery at Peekskill.
Edwin Gould's steam yacht Aileen
crashed into the Staten Island ferry
boat Middletown and killed Broker
John Colt Atterbury.
Between IT'S and 225 men and boys,
it is estimated, were killed by gas
explosion in the Fraterville mine,
near Coal Creek, Tenn.
Independent oil operators have be-
gun suit in Pittsburg against several
railroads for damages, alleging dis
elimination in freight rates.
E. H. Hartman is forming a new
Chicago-Pacific coast route by COM
bining the Alton, Kansas City south
ern, and Southern Pacific lines.
! DIR. Emmett Enos, former superin-
tendent of Kankakee insane asylum
is hopelessly insane from paresis. He
I correctly diagnosed his oWp case.
Twenty-Five hundred patients Of the
New Jersey state hospital for the
insane at Morris Plains were panic
| stricken by a fire in the institution.
French delegates of the Rocham-
beau statue unwilling were welcomed
by President Roosevelt and cabin 1T
A visit was paid to Mount Vernon.
Crazed by infatuation for 13-year-
old Abitha Mccullough, William Aus
tin, of Hastings, Fla, killed her and
four others and then committed sui
eide.
According to a Chicago report the
Northern Securities company will
change it's charter, and the govern
ment will withdraw the suit against
the company.
There is a statement that Lord
Fauncefote is dying of a broken
heart, induced by criticisms concern
ing his. connection with the Spanish
American war.
The Presbyterian general assembly
adopted the creed revision report with
two negative votes. Party lines were
wiped out. The report will now &C
to the presbyteries.
John Becker of Aberdeen, Wash
spent day and night on ledge O.
rocks above the Pacific ocean, where
he was forced to climb after beins
trapped by the tide.
Books of the big firms composins
the beef trust have been hurriedl!
sent to New Jersey to prevent then
from falling into the hands of tn,
district-attorney for investigation.
In an imprisoned speech to tn
, Northern Presbyterian assembly a
New York Rev. J. M. MacGonigal, O
= ST. Augustine, Fla, declared tn
southern negro is a menace to tn
country
Justice O'Gorman was elected gran
sachem of the Tammany society t
: succeed Thomas l.. Feitner. EX-MayO
Van Wyck, CAROLS candidate, wa
defeated and the Croker men ar
iubilant
Acting on instructions from thei
/ bishop, the Catholic clergy Throughout
;: the anthracite region pledged thei
L parishioners, the striking miners, nc
to drink during the continuance of tn
e struggle.
/ The Grand Trunk west bound Nor
I treal train was wrecked at Mishs
waka. Ind. Four coches wer
smashed and several passengers hur
but none fatally The wreck was du
> to defective switch.
Archbishop Corrigan's will b.
a Queaths to Bishops Gabriels and M
Donnell all his personal propert
d valued at $4,000 and real estat
estimated at $25O,O0O, and they are t
t hold it as joint tenants
Cardinal Gibbons declined to offe
e invocation at the Rochambeau statu
Z unwilling because Bishop Statterle
of the Reformed Episcopal church ais
L took part. The refusal was in az
S cord with the pope's order.
A. j. Lord. sailor on the Chicag
t has written to his father at Bingham
d ton, N. Y. that the officers who &C
into trouble were alone at fault, an
/ the punishment ley received was d.
a | served. 1T was a very nasty, dis
graceful mix up he says
t S. E. Gross was declared by tn
d United States court to have originate
CyranO de Bergerac in his Merchan
l Prince OF Cornville. Mansfield
+ forbidden to produce the play Th
profits to go to Gross, who is CHI
1 cago real estate dealer
The special committee appointed i
the recent negro mass meeting to sue
gest some plan whereby the excessiv
death rate of the negro population O
New Orleans, which is twice the nor
l NAL, might be reduced, has presente,
its report. 1t recommends specia
sermons on health and the care of tn
body in all the colored churches.
The president, in discussing hi
trip through Indiana, Illinois ant
Michigan, said it would be taken latt
, in October. While it would not b.
stumping tour in any sense of the
word, he would not deny that it nigh
have political significance The presi
dent is to make a speech at The
Spanish war veterans reunion, a.
Detroit; an industrial speech at The
state fair in Illinois, and a schoo
speech in Indiana.
1t is hardly worth while to ta!.
about effective opposition to the "a
election OF Speaker Henderson, pro
vided the fifty-eighth congress is re
publican. Henderson is strong in the
, lack OF available material to ye