Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-09-04

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At Chicago the girls still employed
by the Western Union are being fol
lowed and mistreated by the boy strik-
ers, the aid of the police being often
necessary to rescue them.
H. L. Willett, professor Of Semitic
languages and literature at the Unl-l
versity OF Chicago, will not accept
the invitation to succeed Rev. Frank
Crane of the Peoples Church. =
Oak sole leather sells for "a cents
q pound and hemlock for 20 cents, an
advance of 5 cents in six months.
Shoes will cost 25 per cent. more this
fall and winter than a year ago. !
Gen. E. L. Mo1ineux of New York be- |
lieves he has secured proof Of the in
nccence of Roland B. Molineux, who Is
to be tried again on the charge OF muir
dering Mrs. Katherine Adams.
The Plymouth Congregational |
church Of Oakland, Cal, decided by a !
majority vote to accept the Presby-
terrain faith, to move to another edi-
fee and to engage a new pastor.
Samuel W. Packard, late legal adj
wiser of John Alexander Dowie, was
unanimously received by the members
OF the First Congregational church,
Oak Park, as reinstated member.
Beaumont, Texas, is having another
series Of murder mysteries similar to
that which originated so much excite
ment several months ago when five or
six bodies were taken from the river.
At Whatcom, Wash, Judge Neterer
overruled a motion Tor a new trial for
H. St. John Dix and sentenced him to
ten years. Dix was convicted of wreck
ing the northumberland bank.
"a little higher every day. sum-
marizes the anthracite coal situation
in Chicago. Local dealers are parting
with few tons at So and $40, one
demanding 81 and not wanting to sell
at that.
The wife of Francis B. LOOMS, min
lister to Portugal, receives 100000
from the estate of P. P. Mast of
Springfield, Ohio, and two other
adopted daughters receive equal
amounts.
brought suit for 100000 against the
Master Plumbers association for ruin
ing his business, claiming it to be a
trust in violation of the Missouri anti
trust law
The Burlington directorate have is
sued circular announcing an average
advance Of SIS per month to employees.
The lowest wages for trainmen will
be $50 per month and S125 for passen-
ger conductors.
Returns from nearly every county in
the state show that in the race for
governor Governor Jelks carried Ala
bama by $4,000 over Captain Johnston.
Cunningham beat Waller for lieu
tenant governor.
Secretary Shaw invited bankers to
deposit government bonds as security
for an issue of currency needed to re-
iieve the threatened stringency in the
money market, due to the demand for
cash to move crops.
Rev Robert Nourse, who was strick-
Ell with apoplexy in the pulpit of the
First Congregational church in Wash
iugton, just as he began the delivery
of his sermon, is much improved, and
returned to his home in Falls Church,
Va.
Officials of Oconee county, S. c.,
Henry Love, John Howard and
Thomas Howard-whom they charge
are responsible for the wreck Of the
Southern railways limited near Toe
Goa.
General Manager Dixon of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fee railroad states
that the strike of the machinists in
the company's shops at Cleburne,
Tex, and other points has been de-
clared off. About 700 men are in
volved.
Henry Walker Hollenberg, who dis
appeared from Coney Island while
bathing, returned to his home in New
Rochelle. He says he was carried out
to sea, picked up by fishing boat and
remained on it two weeks. He is
very i'll.
Four hundred telegraph operators,
one-half the force employed by the
Northern Pacific road, get raise of
salary. An order raising tho minimum
salaries varying in amounts from 81 80
to $40 month was issued by the COM
pany Saturday.
Another attempt to rescue Mrs. Flor
cree Elizabeth Maybrick from her
prison in England and bring her back
to America has been started Mrs.
Harriet Hubbard Aver of New York
newspaper writer and novelist, is agi-
Eating the present movement
The earnings of the steel trust for
August will, it is believed, be con-
siderably in excess of $13,O00,O0O and
the July earnings are estimated at that
figure. There is every reason to be-
Eeve that the net earnings for the
quarter will be about $4O,O000OO.
The artholin-Mitchell matter be-
comes more mysterious every day, |
especially as the courts refuse to al
low the elimination of the remains OF
the supposed Minnie Mitchell, and the
woman found dead on Aug. at Sew |
eCty-fourth and State streets, Chicago !
J. R. Hunter, J. w. Woodwork, H . |
P Kauffer and S. n. Bickerstaff OF the !
Henderson-Ames company Of Kalama-
zoe pleaded guilty to the charge OF |
conspiracy to defraud the state of
Michigan and were fined $4,000 each,
excepting Bickerstaff, who must pay
$1,000.