Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-09-25

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fused a charter for a Christian
Science church, on the ground that it
was to be partly for business profit.
Alderman John Jenkins of Iron
wood, Mich, was killed at mine.
He was riding in a skip when train
men dumped an ore car into the shaft.
st. Pauls Methodist Episcopal
church, Ashland boulevard and West
Harrison street, Chicago, costing $780,
coo, was dedicated by Bishop Merrill.
Much official interest attaches to
the return of Acknowledgement Knox
from Paris, where he went to invest1-
gate the title of the Panama Canal
company.
Copperas mountain, near Balm
bridge, o., is giving out smoke anu
sulphurous gases visible three miles
away, and a volcanic eruption is
threatened.
during a fight at Catlettsburg, Ky,
Fred Marcum of Wayne county, w.
Va, struck John Davis of Hampton
City Ky, with his fist, killing him
almost instantly.
The use of boron or boric preserva-
tives in small quantities to keep
butter will not subject the product to
butterine tax, according to a revenue
department ruling.
Nicholas Fish, a Millionaire banker,
died in New York from injuries al
legged to have been inflicted by
Thomas j. Sharkey, a private detec-
tive, in saloon brawl.
At Carlisle, Pa, ABE" Rothschild
and Thomas Best, diamond swindlers;
Hiram Bowermaster, murderer, and
Mrs. Sarah Mcbride, fortune-teller,
were sentenced to prison
Alterations of the white house
were delayed by a painters strike,
due to the Enjoyment of Amalgamated
association members, with whom the
Brotherhood Of Painters is at war.
Girl cracker packers, ITO strong.
struck at the Bremner branch of the
National Biscuit company, Chicago,
because the So to $12 weekly pay was
reduced to the piece work system.
An unknown robber, armed with a
bomb, demanded $4,000 from a Skag-
way (Alaska) bank and threw a bomb
after the clerks when they fed. The
robber was killed and five clerks hurt.
! Germany will furnish a large
market for American crops this year
Cold weather and rains there
seriously damaged rye and other
grains, which promised d great yield.
The mystery of Clarence A. White,
the burglar killed at Orange, N. Y,
has not been cleared up. He was
married, engaged to wed another
woman, and had urged a third to
elope.
Secretary Hay protested against the
oppression of Jews by Roumania, in a
letter to the United States ambas
sailors to the powers responsible
Fear OF immigrating to America is re
spOnSible for the protest
Edwin E. Ives, trainmaster of the
middle division of the Santa Fe rail
way system, was killed at Emporia
Kan, by being run over by a switch
engine, and E. Austin, trainmaster OF
the eastern division, was hurt
The Iowa attorney general held the
Rock Island railroad reorganization
not in conflict with the state law, anC
Gov. Cummins will not begin a suit tc
prevent. The deal is declared neither
a merger nor consolidation.
The American Cycle Manufacturing
company with $S,OOO,OOO capital and
controlling the Rambler, Imperial
Crescent and Monarch factories OF
Chicago, was placed in receivers
hands; yet it is believed solvent
Albert E. Whitcomb of 1112 South
Oakley avenue, Chicago, shot Mrs
Elizabeth Notter, his housekeeper
just before her wedding to w. H
Sampson at BaItle Creek, Mich, and
fatally wounded Sampson and him
self.
A strike of railroad EMPLOYEES
handling anthracite coal is threatened
if an effort is made to reopen the
mines. The present coal strike, it is
declared by leaders, will decide the
fate of organized labor. Trainmen
telegraphers and firemen will lend
aid
Shelton White, leading druggis,
and society man of Jackson, Miss
was found dead in his room. He left
a letter for his business partner. say.
ing he needed only black coat, white
tie and pair Of shoes to be ready
! for burial. No cauSe for tho c1,ioid q
is known.
| National prison congress officers
for the ensuing year were elcted as
| follows: President, Henry Wolfer
Minnesota; general secretary, John L.
Mllllgan, Pennsylvania; assistant Sec
rotary, L. c. Storrs, Michigan; treas
urer, Charles M. Jessup, New York.
1t was decided to hold the next con
vention at Louisville.
Secretary Moody will order an in
vestigation to ascertain who is re-
sponsible for the defects which have
| so badly crippled the cruiser San
Francisco, which will arrive at New
! port News in a short time. The re-
turn from the European station ST.
soon after joining the squadron in
those waters has given rise to con-
siderable criticism.
The war department some time ago
made answer to the complaint of Miss
Taylor, denying that her dismissal
constituted a violation of the civil
service rules. Miss Taylor's counsel