Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-21

At Newark, n. j., J. Herbert Ballen-
tine has made an assignment. The
liabilities are s1,SS5,00. Mr.. Crooks
is confident that the creditors will be
paid.
Sixty pounds of dynamite, two
bombs and lis feet of fuse were found
in the room of Charles Eckerman, an
inmate of the Adams county in
Urinary.
The striking anthracite miners re-
lief fund is to be applied to the most
needy only, and allows husband and
wife $3.50 every two weeks for store
orders.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Fair of
San Francisco were killed in an auto
mobile accident while going at sixty
miles an hour between Trouville and
Paris.
Captain Cooks Three Voyages to
the Pacific Ocean, published in Boston
in 1897, a rare and unique work, is
missing from the congressional Ii
brary.
At Louisville, KY, J. D. Cook shot
Mrs. Louisa Jones, Mrs. Mary
Elberline and Mrs. Frances Rasner,
only one, the latter, being seriously
wounded.
At Terre Haute, Ind, Rev. Charles
Hill has confessed that he, while shoot
ing at a mark, fired the bullet that
killed Mrs. Smith at Benwood fifteen
years ago.
The commissioner of internal
revenue demanded the payment of
banks and withheld pending a court
decision.
The Euterpean Ladies chorus of
Columbus, O., left for New York,
whence the thirty-fve members will
sail for Wales, to compete in the ma
tional eisteddfod.
John F. Gaynor and BENJAMIN D.
Greene, wanted in the United States
in connection with harbor frauds at
Atlanta, Ga, were released by JUICE
Carson in Quebec.
The postal clerks of Chicago by a
majority vote have instructed their
delegates to vote against the propo-
sition to affiliate with the American
Federation of Labor.
An incendiary fire destroyed the six
story building occupied by Schwar-
schild &, Sulzberger at Pittsburg, Pa,
as packing house. Loss on build
ing and contents, $4,000.
All the leading cotton planters of
Louisiana have merged their interests
and pledged themselves to not dispose
of any of their product except through
the exchange at Shreveport.
The wife of DR.. Leslie W. Schwabb
of Chicago found a burglar in her
house, fixed him with her eye and
made him turn out his pockets and
deliver up his revolver.
At Utica, Mich, S. E. Sewer killed
his wife with an AK as she lay in bed,
and then hanged himself in his barn.
Temporary insanity, due to grief over
the death of a daughter, caused the
deed.
The coroner's jury at Springfield,
Ill, in the case of w. H. Riley, COM
missioner of Big Lake drainage dis
trict, who was murdered in his bed by
being shot, charged his wife with the
crime.
At Skagway a severe earthquake
was felt. Several large plate glass
windows were broken and chimneys
tumbled own. The water in Lynn
canal suddenly rose five feet and sub
God as quickly.
The war department is advised of
the sailing Of the transport Meade
from Manila, P. l., Aug. for San
Francisco, with headquarters, ten COM
panies and S92 enlisted men of the
fifteenth infantry.
~ Mass City, Mich, John Pearson, a
home-steader, has been offered a
fabulous sum for his farm, which
developed an oil gusher. No property
Whereabouts can be bought, as the
country is oil crazy.
Delbert Preston, a 15-year-old boy,
has made a confession of having
caused the wreck of a passenger train
on the Rock Island near South Omaha,
July "a, by which one man was killed
and several others injured.
The oak tree planted by King Ed
city many years ago and which ap-
peared to be dying a few weeks ago,
being given needed attention, has i'm
proved and is putting out new shoots.
At San Angelo, Texas, the Landon
hotel, valued at $4,000, was burned.
Seven women and children gathered
on balcony and were told to jump,
but fear held them until the wall fell,
carrying the balcony down and killing
them.
At Allentown, Pa, in a violent wind
and rain storm the new three-story
brick store and residence of Frank ].
SchrOth was leveled to the ground.
Mr.. Schroth, who was at work on the
roof, was thrown to the ground and
killed.
Mrs. John Golden, of Jefferson
vile, Ind, has been granted a license
to pilot steamers on the Ohio and Miss
issippi rivers, and she started on her
first trip as licensed officer She is
at the wheel Of her husbands steamer,
the Shawnee
President Ernest R. Nichols of the
Kansas state agricultural college, the
largest agricultural college in the
vest, has been elected for the posi-
ton Of president Of the Rhode Island
college of agriculture and mechanics
arts at Kingston, r. l.
The Cramp Shipbuilding company
is soon to launch the largest steam
ship ever built in this country. She