Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-30

capital to resume his Official duties.
He has been in New York since
October
At Sank Center, Mimi, because of
the appearance of diphtheria, the
churches did not hold services Sun
day, and the public schools have been
closed
Missouri democrats will hold con-
vention July 8 to nominate three can
didateS for judges Of the supreme
court, and one at ST. Joseph July %
10 name candidates for railroad COM
missioners and superintendent of
schools.
Walter Downs Monnel, aged 62, of
Rock Island, H., committed suicide by
throwing himself in front Of a train.
Bert Bretschneider, a former hotel
man OF Niles, Mich, fell from all
engine al New Buffalo, Mich, and was
instantly killed.
The senate committee having
charge Of the Chinese exclusion act
told that Hip Lung & Co. Of Chicago
manufactured fraudulent merchants
certificates, which they sold to their
countrymen. Two witnesses admitted
using them.
John L. Sullivan, the expire
fighter, who is appearing as Simon
Legree in Uncle Toms Cabin, at the
Boston Academy of Music, was too
realistic and licked" the actor i'm
personating Uncle Tom to within an
inch of his life.
Representative Warner of Illinois
has introduced a bill for the estab-
lishment of a food bureau in the de-
partment of agriculture and for pre-
venting the adulteration and misbrand-
ing of foods in the District of Column
bia and the territories.
Senator Allison says: ''In my judg-
| ment the senate will insist upon d
canal within a reasonable time, and
after a full examination Of both routes
upon the principle that canal should
be authorized before we adjourn"
Two men were killed and three in
| jured in an explosion near Mackay,
| Idaho. Beno Hinterholzer and James
Person were killed. The injured viii
recover. The accident was caused by
an attempt to take out charge Of
dynamite which had failed to explode
The Church of the Good Shepherd
! will appeal it's case against the
Racine Water company, decided
charged the church for water used.
against it in circuit court. The city
! franchise orders water free to re-
igious institutions. The company
President and Mrs. Roosevelt enter
tanned at dinner at the white house
| Postmaster General and Mrs Payne,
Senator and Mrs. Depew, Senator
Frye, Mrs Hanna, Senator and Mrs
Hale, Senator and Mrs. Spooner and
Mr. and Mrs Wayne MacVeagh
were there.
! At Morris Greek, W. Va, William
Slaughter and Ralph Johnson, colored
musicians, were shot and instantly
killed and Powell Galloway, white,
mortally wounded at a dance by Lii
liam Williams because the musicians
did not comply with the woman's wish
to play ragtime music.
The river steamer Frank & Stone, of
the Bigbee and Warrior Packet COM
pany, was wrecked by floating log in
Mobile river, 80 miles above Mobile,
and lies careened in Is feet of water
in mid-channl. The bow of the boat
was pierced by the log and the steam
er sank in Is minutes.
Rabbi Caro- of Milwaukee announced
that Abraham Simmer of Waverly.
Iowa, had offered $4,000 to build a
| Jewish hospital in Milwaukee, con-
ditioned on the formation of an asso-
citation with 500 members who are to
raise among themselves $4,000 to be
used in maintaining the institution.
The 12-year-old son Of Thomas
} eastman died at Minong, Wis, from
alcoholic poison, brought on by whisky
which he bad drunk but few hours
before. The boy was at a lumber
! camp east of Minong and with a num-
! Der of men secured two jugs If
whisky, of which he partOOk freely.
At Toledo the members of the
| Knights of the Royal Arch, an organi-
| cation Of saloon-keepers, have agreed
to abstain from the use Of profane
and vulgar language in their places of
business under the penalty of fine of
s. for each offense and expulsion
from the order after three offenses.
Edward, alias "Old Man" Harvey.
who was brought back from Los
Angeles recently to be tried at Boston
for taking a watch from the pocket of
Police Capt. Warren in 1899, received
sentence of Az years in prison
Few pickpockets are better known
throughout the country than Harvey.
w. c. Collier, a merchant of Harris
burg, Ill, and travelling salesman, has
been missing four weeks, and it is be-
ieVed he was murdered and robbed.
The post-off1ce at Spring Lake, n.
j., was robbed for the second time N
six months. The safe was blown
open and 500 in money and stamps
was taken
Henry Coffee and his son. both dis
charged employees of the Southern
Missouri and Arkansas railroad, were
caught setting fire to the depot at
Poplar Bluff, Mo, They confessed to
setting the fires which recently de-
stroyed the company's rolling stock.
Admiral Schley and his party violat-
ed the South Carolina game law when
they hunted deer.
Gen. William J. Palmer has an
nOunced his intention of giving 10O