Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-17
DOM ESTIC.


along the drainage canal.
At Offerman, Ga, five men were
killed and two injured by lightning
while stretching telephone wire.
Wireless telegraph experiments by
the coast survey show the system can
be used in determining longitude.
J. Edward Addicks's Bay State Gas
company of New Jersey has been
placed in the hands of a receiver.
Frank Burkenhaver, shoemaker
of Minneapolis, looking for work, was
found drowned near Hudson, Wis.
TIE new army uniform probably will
be colored "olive drab," considered
the least visible of all coIors in the
field
At st. Louis, Julius Lehman, con-
victed aldermanic boodler received a
sentence OF two years in the peni-
tertiary.
Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer has been in
dicted by the grand jury, charged with
the murder of her husband June 20 a.
Buffalo.
Harry Tracy, the fugitive Oregon
convict, has again eluded the posse
who thought they had surrounded him
near Seattle.
Miss Mary MacLane, the Butte
(Mont.) author, began her "lionizing"
in Chicago by attending a Saddle and
Cycle club dinner.
Peter Hendrick, postmaster at
Orange, w. Va, was killed during a
fight at church between the Hendricks
and Jarrold families.
Sixteen students of Northwestern
university have formed a non-kissing
society and elected Professor Crook
an honorary member.
At Dover, Del, the Lowe Cook and
Gas Securities company has organized
with $3O,OO0,000 capital, to mani
facture gas from coke.
Only twenty-five railroads in the
United States, and those unimportant
ones, are in receiv hands, accord
ing to the Railway Age.
Antifusionists won in the organiza-
ton of the Kansas state central COM
mittee, although the recent convention
declared in favor of fusion.
Three prisoners in the Buchanan
county, Mo-, Jail blew out part of the
wall with dynamite, but failed to es-
cape because the bars held fast.
Wesley Rathwe1l, aged II years, en-
p1oyed by the Trimountain mine, was
drowned in Eleven-Mile lake near
Painesdale, Mich. He was learning
to swim.
A premature explosion of dynamite
in a blast furnace Stag dump near
Duquesne, Pa, killed George Dezuka
and dangerously injured four other
workmen.
The Missouri democratic state
judicial convention cheered President
Roosevelt and Kissed ex-Gov. William
J. Stone. A free silver plank was
adopted
Gev. Stone of Pennsylvania refused
to call out the militia as requested by
the Carbon county sheriff. The
militia is declared not to be police
officers.
President Schurman of Cornell
predicted that Philippine republic
will follow American educational
work, il a speech to the National
Educational association in Mime
apolis.
A large tank barge, owned by the
Underwater Oil company of Bayonne, N
J., turned turtle in the East river,
New York Between 1000 and 5000
barrels of molasses were spread upon
the waters.
Attacks on Eldorado, ILL., negroes
have been renewed and Gov Yates
ordered the militia detail to protect
them. Mob attacked Rev. Peter A.
Green's residence He appealed to
Springfield.
The Panama canal title is con.
siiered above suspicion by the state
department, and the canal is certain
to be built on that route. France
gave assurance that its citizens will
not claim indemnity
The st. Paul railroad is planning a
coast extension because of treatment
by the Hill roads. A survey has been
made from Evarts to Bowlder. The
Moores now own over 40 per cent. of
Northwestern stock
Mrs. Burnett w Pyle, of Chicago.
who separated from her husband
twenty-five years ago, remained IN
ignorance of his whereabouts until the
other day, when she found his body
a ar undertaker's.
An invasion of the United States
will be attempted by the army and
navy to find weak points in defense
The navy will first oppose a picked
fleet and the army and militia will
then resist the attack
iredamp explosion in the Cambria
Rolling Mill mine, Johnstown, Pa,
killed or injured 600 miners. The
dead are estimated at IT'S, but the
exact number cannot be learned till
rescuers reach them.
The Chicago freight handlers strike
was practically settled with a victory
for the railroad managers The men
are given 20 per cent. wage in
crease, but the union failed to get the
recognition as demanded.
For tearing up an American flag and
throwing it into mans face, Charles
Roberts, an English steward on
Cunard steamer, was beaten by an on
locker and then fined $40 in Boston
for Decorating the flag.
Archbishop Ireland scored Catholic
newspapers for charging proselytism
by Protestants in the Philippine
schools, and stories Of cruelty in an