Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-08
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Bishop Benjamin ]. Kelley. of
Savannah, made an address there
severely criticising President Roose-
Telt for reflections on the character
OF Jefferson Davis.
Minister WI has declined an invita-
ton to deliver an address at a school
commencement at Milledgoville, Ca,
or account of recent criticisms of him
self in the senate.
George M. Passage, the Rensselaer,
IN. " merchant who was shot by a
masked burglar after a fierce hand-to-
hand struggle with his assailant, died
The police have no clew.
The magnetic influence of the Lake
Superior ore beds is believed to have
wrecked the steamer Tampa and the
schooner Aurora near Duluth. Their
cCmpasses were detected
Miss Faith Stewart, a rescue worker
among the denizens Of the Portland,
Org, slums, is in a dying condition as
the result Of a murderoUs assault
made upon her by five men.
DR.. Frank Strong of the university
Of Oregon was elected chancellor of
the university of Kansas to succeed
Dr. F. H. Snow, who resigned a wear
ago on account of ilI-health.
The building Of the MarcOni wireless
telegraph station was begun at Saga
pCuack, L. |. It will be used to COM
municate with ocean liners and with
Sandy Hook and Cape Cod.
George W. Perkins. who carried
through successfully J. P. Morgan, s
steamship trust organization, is a for
mer Chicago insurance man He IS
now MOrgan's business partner.
The Chicago grand jury investiga-
ton of the Union Traction transfer
bribery disclosed that the jury in the
second trial was fixed by Gallagher
Some Jurymen were paid S. each.
Rev. Mark Wayne Williams, instruc-
tor III philosophy in the University of
Iowa, has received call to the pastor
ship of the First Christian church of
chester, England. He will accent.
An explosion on the Holland sub
marine boat Fulton, en- route from Now
York to Washington, injured five of
the crew. An Australian lieutenant
and Lieutenant Macarthur were hurt
we believe the national capital is
located too far east, and will memoir
lallze congress to remove it to Rock
Island, said W. R. Benkert. national
chairman OF the united Christian nartv
Near Cairo, ILL.,, four more bodies OF
the victims Of the City of Pittsbure
wreck were recovered, making 40 in
ALL One was identified as .Josonh
Redding; the other three were colorea
| 1t Is said the British government,
may recall Capt. Lewis Bavlv IFS
naval attache at Washington, in con
| sequence OF allegations of overzealous
| ness IN obtaining data for his govern
| ment
one hundred quarts of nitroglycerine
| EXPLODED at Sanco Creek, w. Va al
Ii o'clock, killing two men. who were
engaged IN shooting a well. Consid
cradle adjacent property was also de-
stroyed 00
Henry Hoover, who was CHARGED
with dynamiting a Northern Contra
express train near York, Pa, No
vember Is. 1901, was acouitte,.
Hoover introduced witnesses to nrovf
| IN aIibi.
The four convicts who drank wood
i, alcohol at Thomaston, Me-. have
passed the crisis, and are now expected
to escape the fatal penalty which be-
fell the three other men who imh;had
the poison.
News that her former husband hac
obtained a decree setting aside q
| divorce she had obtained in South
| Dakota caused the death from heart
! disease of Mrs. Annetta S. Gill at New
Rochelle, N. Y.
The United States weekly crop re
port found that drought prevails In
| the upper Ohio valley, middle Atlantic
states, and eastern Rocky mountain
| slope. Extreme temperatures did no;
hurt the crops.
W. h. Reeves, who was recently sen
! fenced to 1O-years' imprisonment and
to pay fine of S35,516 for completely
in the Cuban postal frauds. but was
pardoned April % by Gov.-Gen. Wood
left Havana for Miami.
Eight girls were killed and 43 in
! jured by a. panic in philadelphia
! cigar factory. A false cry of fire
| started a stampede, and the employees
were trampled to death or jumped
| from windows.
Chicago beef packers are alarmed at
| the threatened prosecution, retained
John S. Miller as special counsel
Five hundred stockyards employees
were discharged because Of the fai.
| ing demand for meat.
Director Merriam is making prepare
tons to reduce his force one alf bv
July 1. There are now 1900 clerks
IL the census service. About $50 will
be dropped and the dismissals from
now on will be continuous.
The wholesale jewelry firm OF
Moore & Evans in Chicago was
forced to assign. A shortage of $780,
600 is said to exist in the firms ac-
counts. George B. Moore, the chief
stakeholder, is missing.
Martin Lynch, who was arrested a
few days ago, charged with the murder
OF his wife at the home of the couple,
6o5 Tod street, Cleveland, committed
suicide in his cell at, the county Jail
by hanging himself from the door knob.
Ex-State Senator Greenlief S. Van
Gordon was held up at Buffalo, N. Y.
by two masked men Mr. Van Cor6er
resisted and knocked one of the Zen
down. The other robber fired three
shots, one of which took effect in Van