Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-24
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOM ESIIC,

MS Skull fractured While Praying pdSe
ball.
A large number Of wholesale grocers
in the middle west have formed a
combine.
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania
declares that Roosevelt is sure of re-
election.
Senator Spooner conferred with the
president and Secretary Root on the
Panama canal.
The body of Col. Eccles Cuthbert
was sent to Richmond, Va, from
Washington
Capt Richmond Pearson Hobsol
rescued a young woman from drown
ing in Mississippi.
Census figures place the value of
wooden manufactures in this country
in 1900 at 1892, 473,O50.
E. A. Woodson of Lynchburg, Va,
fell from the Rivermont bridge and
was instantly killed.
Four men held up and robbed a
Denver and Rio Grande railroad train
near Chester, Colorado.
The Chicago corner in July corn
euu6u VIII large IOE JONI w :.
Gates and his associates.
The strike of freight handlers in
Chicago was settled, a new wage
scale being agreed upon.
The Minnesota railway anti-mergec
suit will be tried by the United States
circuit court on it's merits.
Fitzsimmons' refusal to have his
fol nh t cd
indicate fear of defeat.
Joseph G. Mariner of Philadelphia
committed suicide at Smyrna, Del, Oh
account of finacial difficulties.
The blind horse Rhythmic won the
Merchants and Manufacturers $10,-
900 trotting stake at Detroit.
Mrs Charles Godfrey Leland, whom
Thackeray called the 'prettiest woman
ir America" died at Florence.
The body of David Merrill, the muir
dered partner of Outlaw Harry Tracy
was found near Seattle, Wash.
The cruiser Michigan was run down
and greatly damaged by the M. B.
Grover, lake boat, at Erie, Pa.
The Virginia assembly reassembled
oath to support the new constitution.
Wholesale grocers in Chicago
organized a corporation with $4,000.
600 capital and a New Jersey charter.
Plans for a Rock Island railroad ex-
tension from Ell Paso to Los Angeles
are completed and work may be be-
gun. ..t'.a - 49, ~ ~
= A handsome sword was presented to
Major L. w r. Waller at Norfolk. Va,
in recognition of his services in
Samar.
-Four gambling houses at Jackson
City, Va, across the Long bridge
from Washington, were destroyed by
FIRE.
Thirty-fve Utah miners were
killed by the act of a miner who
carried lighted candle into a power
magazine,
Frank Fl. Griswo1d, president of the
Northwestern Storage company, Chi
cago, died as result OF an elevator
accident. = '%%l:--.f
The old United States warship
Michigan was damaged SO 900 at Erie
by The orc carrier M. B. Grover, which
ran into it.
The democrats of the fourth district
of West Virginia nominated Col.
William n. Chancellor of Parkesbulg
for congress.
The physicians bills for attending
President Mckinley, for which con-
gress appropriated $4,000, will be
paid at once.
Widespread storm caused great
damage to crops and buildings in the
Red River valley and many parts of
Minnesota
Secretary Hay expects to have the
canal treaty with the government Of
Colombia ready for the senate IL
December.
The steering gear failed and the
battle-ship Illinois struck bottom while
entering Christiania harbor, knocking
hole in her hull.
Gen. Cronje, Gen. Vessels and
eighty eight other boer prisoners from
Bermuda arrived in New York on their
way to south Africa
WI Ting-fang, the retiring Chinese
minister, announces that he will write
a book on America calling it The
Wonderful Nation.
Survey of the Rock river from
Sterling, Ill, to Rockford, begun, TO
secure slack water navigation by
dams and CANALS
Jennings, Ia, oil tanks were set on
fire by lightning and the entire field
is theatened. Workmen are trying to
dam the burning fluid
Two persons were drowned by the
capsizing of the yacht Arab " in the
lake near Chicago, and eight others
had a desperate fight for life.
EX-Congressman R. B. Hawley, of
Texas, paid 500 for a special train ell
abling HIM to keep luncheon engage
ment with President Roosevelt.
A cyclone swept over northeastern
North Dakota and northwestern
Minnesota. Several towns were re-
ported destroyed. with loss of life
Harry Tracy the fugitive Oregon
convict is now on the Gold Hill trail
The body of Convict Merrill, whom he
killed, was found near Chehalis.
Work was resumed in the Cambria
Steel company's rolling-mill mine at
Johnstown, Pa. where 112 miners lost
their lives in last weeks explosion.
Charles M. Schwab, in an answer
filed in the steel trust suit at Newark
n. J., states that he values the assets
OF the corporation at S1,400, POI 900.