Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-06-19
DOM ESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Count and Countess Rochambeau
sailed from New York for France.
At Iowa state university ground was
broken for buildings to cost 100000.
st. Louis exposition officials pledged
themselves. not to keep open Sundays.
The president will stop at La
Crosse few hours on his September
trip.
AT Nashville fifteen picnickers N a
tallyho were injured by collision with
trolley car
Two negro boys were lynched near
Char iotte, N. c., and one negro near
Newport News, Va.
Joseph Baker of Peoria shot and
killed Martin Baker and wounded John
Baker, both stepsons.
at Philadelphia waiterless restau-
rant, o. - nickel-in- the-slot machines
beinS used, was opened.
AT Saginaw, Mich, Daniel Smith,
III years old, dropped dead. He was
veteran of the war of 1872
Wardrobe matron of Days New
York theater declares that shapely
girls come from the west
An interurban electric line is to be
built at Jnce between Rushville
Muncie and Alexandria, Ind.
DR.. Guy P. Benton, president of the
Upper university of Iowa, was elected
president of Miami university.
Mrs Lillian ]. Adams was appoint
ed treasurer of Kansas City, 10
succeed her husband, who died.
Consular reports show that Spain
and Italy are steadily increasing
their purchases of American goods
In Chicago, while initiating a
vaudeville tightrope walker, John
Bronson, aged 10, fell, dying later
Three white men, convicted Of
lynching negro year ago, were
pardoned by the Alabama governor.
The third attempt on the safe OF the
Model bakery, Chicago, netted the
burglars over $4,000, mostly in notes.
In New York Alice Lewis, daughter
OF the wealthy st. Louis merchant,
committed suicide, due to i'll health.
1t Blueffeld, w. Va, joan Wymick,
colore., for assaulting Mary Green,
white, was taken from jail and shot.
At New York C. e. Mackey. d
promoter. had j. ]. OToole arrested,
charged with a $500 swindle in
Paris
Indians of South Dakota and Utah
ask TO be allowed to work in agri-
cultural and railroad construction
fields
\ cyclone near Dubuque upset thu
Mississippi river steamer Ravenna
Four members of the crew were
drowned.
A bill to make Captain Clark. tor
mer commander of the Oregon, a rear
admiral. was introduced by Congress-
man FoSS
Poisoning from Panama hats packed
in sulphur caused the death of George
c. Davis, who shaped the hats in "a
Baltimore factory
subscriptions amounting to $3.50
were added to the New York fund
for drinking troughs for dogs and
cats in that city.
At Mannheim, Pa, 10000 persons
took part iii the presentation of one
red rose" the annual rental of the
heirs of Baron Stiegel.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, during the
performance of a circus, Mile Noama
Ethardo, contortionist, fell. Her
injuries may prove fatal
Detroit and Mackinaw excursion
train jumped the track at Black liver
Mich, killing August Grosinski and
mjuring nearly SO others.
Martha Bodmer, 20 years old, Is
missing from Appleton, Wis. and her
parents believe she has eloped nth a
professional ball player
Alfred Mace, son of the noted pugi-
hist and an English evangelist, gives
Dowie hard name and declares he
was Kissed out of England.
Irwin A. Gardner of Minneapolis. a
special policeman working unler
Mayor Ames, was convicted of taking
800 bride from swindlers
Monument to soldiers of Black
Hawl, war killed at Stillman Valley.
ILL.,. In 1882, was unveiled. Ore sur
vivor of the battle attended
Governor Jefferson Davis, of Arkan-
sas. who was turned out of church
at Little Rock. has Joined the church
at his home town. Russellville
The navy department is taking adj
vantage of the miners strike to enlist
them as seamen. Recruiting officers
have been sent to the coal region
At Toledo. Mrs. Rose E. Guggen-
helm after settling $1,000 on Thomas
G. Fisher, was married to him by
Rabb. Freund They are from Chi
ca~o
A hayrock party Of high school stu
den1B, returning from Morrison, Colo
We're overturned from bridge. One
was killed and others seriously in.