Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-31

1t is said upon good authority that
President Roosevelt is certain that ne
will be nominated by reclamation al
the next republican national conVen-
ton.
At Greensburg, Pa, w. S. Byers,
democratic nominee for congress, is
under arrest, CHARGED With larceny
and larceny by bailee, to the amount Of
$250,U.-.
The announcement Of the resigna-
ton of the lord CHARACTERISTIC Oh
ireland by Lord Ashbourne is ex>
pected Immediately, says London
dispatch.
Secretary Root has issued an open
letter to the army urging its ofhcers
to perfect ne men in military science
and skill in order to be prepared Tor
emergencies.
c. S. Hamlin, former assistant sec
rotary OF the treasury, announces him
self as a candidate for the democratic
nomination for governor in Mas
sachusetts.
Sixty-four of the ninety released
beer prisoners who arrived in New
York from Bermuda on July IA, have
sailed for Capetown and Mossel Day,
south Africa.
A. Warren Stanger was drowned
and Engineer J. w. Van Wrinkle
fatally scalded by the explosion Of a
boiler tube on the launch Harold at
Philadelphia.
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers, in Chicago interview,
said the anthracite miners will con
tlnue their strike and will soon appeal
to the public.
Chicago fire losses for the six
months were $1,154,0UO on buildings
and $1,613,192 on contents. The
, losses and expenses for the year will
reach $S,000,0O0.
An Ohio and Little Kanawha pas.
senger coach jumped the track On a
trestle near McCOnnellsville, o., anu
fell forty feet. One person was killed
and Twenty-Five hurt.
President Mitchell started for
Wilkesbarre to resume charge of The
miners strike. Forty per cent. Of the
miners are not entitled to relief, but
must be placated.
Charles Francis Adams has gone to
! the home Of Carl Sunurz at Lake
| George, to meet other antieXpansiOn
| lists, where plans will be formed foI
pushing their issue.
The family of eX-Capt. Putnam
Bradlee Strong paid May Yohe $4,000
to settle the latter's claim 1o1
diamonds pawned. The warrant
against him was withdrawn.
A Brooklyn coroner's verdict de-
clared that Albert G. Latimer, killed
by a alleged burglar, met death at the
hands of an unknown person" The
police inquiry will continue.
Five burglars blew open the STAN
ford and New York Railway company :
safe and stole $500, but did not take
the money and watches of five railroad
employees whom they held up.
May Yohe made formal complaint
against ex-Capt. Putnam Bradlee
Strong, charging him with grand
larceny, and it is alleged $250,00O
worth of jewels have disappeared.
At Salt Lake, Justice Hall of the
state supreme court, upholds the
Sealing for eternity marriage con
tract, and declares the church divorce
of John r. Park and Annie F. Park
void
The supposed heirs of the "Cronk-
hite'' estate of $SO,OO0,0OO IN Amster-
dam are again pushing their claims,
and feel confident of success, through
| the efforts of Mrs. M. l.. Wood of Chi
cago.
Orders have been received at the
New York navy yard to proceed with
the preparations for the building OF
the new battleship Connecticut. Work
on the launching ways has been
started.
Boys in bathing near Fort Hamilton,
n. Y, found the mutilated body Of a
man about 35 years old, fair com
plexion and dark hair, gray eyes,
brown moustache, and weighing 200
pounds. ...i
The reorganized New England
democracy held mass meeting at
Nantasket, Mass. w. J. Bryan
Senator Carmack, Edward M. Shepard,
and Mayor Collins, Boston, delivered
speeches. ,.
Secretary Wilson of the United
Mine Workers and six union officials
were held in contempt by the United
States court at Parkersburg, w. ",
for violating an injunction. All but
Wilson go to prison.
A sword presented by General G
M. Smith to Captain Strong, lately
mixed up in a scandal with May
Yohe, the actress, was found in a
New York pawnshop where it had
been left to secure loan of $3.50.
At Columbia, S. c., E. H. De Camp
editor of the Gaffney Ledger, in
terrupted the speech of Tillman, can
didate for governor, long enough to
prove, by letters, that the politician
had lied. as charged by the editor.
Five masked men blew open the
safe in the Office of the New York and
! Stamford railroad at Port Chester, n
Y, about daylight and stole $4,000
James McGinne, a night Waterman
was bound, gagged and tied to a char
Twenty-three thousand and forty
ceres of land on the Silets Indian
reservation in Lincoln county, Or.
were thrown open for settlement. The
township contains the finest timber
and agricultural lands on the reserva-