Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-06-26
DOM ESTic.

C. Mercer of Ames, H., COM
mitted suicide.
Illinois operators are alarmed at the
prospect Of miners sympathetic
strike
William Agar, Terre Haute, tried
to marder Mrs. Lima Davis while in
sane, but a trick bulldog seized him
aDd prevented
G. A. Pickett, Of Waterloo, Iowa,
grand exalted ruler ct the Elks, was
married in Louisville to ~.Iss Hilda
Parmlee Ryan.
A Vincennes Qnd.) mob which
threatened to storm the Jail and lynch
Bill Edison dispersed when the militia
was ordered out.
Because her lover disappeared and
failed to keep his promise of marriage
Annie Maggatz of Milwaukee, com
mitted suicide.
The opening of Fort Hall Indian
reservation, Idaho, was followed by a
rush of 1900 men and boys across the
line from PocateIlo.
The South Dakota delegation has
ment Of justice for L. G. Oceanrider
Of Webster, S. D.
The old mansion at Eufala oc.
cupied and owned by tie family of
Governor Jeiks of Alabama was de-
stroyed by fire.
Maj. Ora A. Shaler New York
tunnel contractor was fatally hurt by
xxyhio FOL &c
back, breaking it.
Meriden. Conn, William McGoYern
made the eighth suicide in that city
in two months A suicide club is be-
loved to Exist there.
The crew of the ship Fannie Kerr,
which was destroyed in the Pacific,
rowed 500 miles in open boats before
they were rescued.
ABE ROthschild, who is accused
Of being concerned in a diam ond
swindle at Shippensburg, Pa, was ar
rested at Harrisburg.
The United States Shipbuilding COM
pany was incorporated with 100000
capital, which will probably be in
creased to $20,O0O,00O.
Both the Pennsylvania and New
York Centraps new 20-hour trains
reached Chicago exactly three minutes
ahead of schedule time.
James K. Hackett Harrison G.
Fiske and Maurice Campbell have es-
tabiiShed an Independent theatrical
booking agency in New York
John z. Hopkins was elected a
member at large of the Illinois demo-
crat state central committee in spite
of Mayor Harrison's opposition.
Philip Bishman of Waseca, MINI,
was killed at riotous wedding
celebration in the old village of
Wilton. FIVE miles south of Waseca.
Charles Francis Adams, of Boston,
in an address at the University o.
Chicago, said that a statue of Rooeft
e. Lee should be erected in Washing
ton.
A national convention OF soft and
hard coal miners to discuss a gen
eral strike was called by President
uitchel. Over 100000 men are in
VOWED.
Rev. Clarence F. D. Smith, pastor
of Park avenue congregational church,
Minneapolis. has accepted a call to
Central Congregational church of
Boston.
The senate committee on public
lands has ordered a favorable report
on the Gamble bill for the creation of
Dakota.
The government crop report found
conditions favorable in the central
corn states. There is excessive heat
in gulf region and cold in the northern
&ier OF states.
Mayor Of Paterson, n. j., discharged
he chief OF police for allowing strike
riots. told the police to shoot mere
after and took charge himself of the
silk mill defense.
Otto Jaehlel, wanted in Bue z1s
Ayres for the alleged $4,000 theft,
went fishing at Trevor, Wis, with
strangers who proved detectives.
He will be extradicted
Strikers at Paterson, n. J., led by
italian anarchists, attacked the silk
mills, wrecked the looms, and over
power the city police. Twelve persons
were shot, two fatally.
The college of st. Thomas, at
Villanoya, Pa, conferred the degree OF
doctor of jurisprudence upon e2-
President Grover Cleveland, who also
addressed the graduates.
At Oklahoma City w. E. Johnson
was shot and killed by w. T. Nc
Michael As Johnson fell, he shot
McAIichael in the abdomen, causing
4 probably fatal wound.
Rear Admiral Crowninshield's crit
icism of italian justice in the cruiser
Chicago decision caused a protest by
the Italian ambassador. 1t may prove
an international incident.
Ezra Smith of Medina, O., is dead
and Mathew Bramley is seriously in
jured as the result of fight pre-
cipitated by the attempt of Smith to
destroy a dam on Bramley's farm.
At the opening of the trial of
Joseph I. Coleman at Brooklings, S.
D., charged with the murder of his
brother Edward to secute $4,000 life
insurance the accused entered a plea
Of not guilty.
A. gift of $4,000 from John l..
Rockefeller was announced by Presi-
dent Harper at University of Chicago
eonvocation. Other friends gave Sl5,.
900. The money will go toward the
purchase of more land.