Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-09-04
DOM ESTIC.


mont political meeting was due to
whisky.
At Salt Lake Brigham Young is re-
ported in a critical condition, result
Of dropsy.
The entire family of S. H. Nc
Pumprey was burned to death at
Gehring, Neb.
George Wolf of Chippewa Falls
made public statement of how he
murdered his wife.
The University Of Chicago congre-
cation voted for segregation during
Junior college work.
The value Of the gold output for the
year in the United States was $685.
700 and silver $50, 128,4O0.
The gold and silver production or
the United States in 1901 was less
than in the preceding year.
John Alexander Dowie has expelled
sixty of his followers who have
neglected to pay their tithes.
Four million feet of lumber belong
ing to Bradley, Miller & Co., at West
Bay City Mich, were burned.
The wife of Jailer Smith with a
shotgun prevented the escape OF 10
prisoners at Covington, Tenn.
The republican state convention in
California, after a long fight, nomi-
mated G. C. Pardee for governor.
Direct Hal won in three straight
heats in a superb race for the Park
Brew $4,000 stakes at Providence.
CattIe-raisers in the west are form
ing big independent packing con-
Germ to compete with the meat trust.
The heirs of Mrs. Charles Fair ac-
copied 100000 and resigned all claims
to the estate of the dead millionaire.
A mine guard was killed in a riot in
West Virginia and troops ordered out.
Strikers attacked soldiers at Tamaqua,
Pa.
The Evangelical Lutheran joint
synod appropriated $4,100 for the sup
port of the Lutheran seminary at st.
Paul
President Roosevelt made. many
speeches in New England. Trusts
and big navy were the principal
topics.
Rioting miners took possession of
the Panther Creek field and soldiers
were hurried to the scene of disturb
ance.
The tennis championship in singles
was won by William A. Larned, who
defeated Reginald F. Doherty of Eng
land.
While hunting hedgehogs Charles
Balliett of Allentown, Pa, was acct
dcntally shot and killed by Charles
Bachman.
The government estimate of the gold
output in the Klondike this year is
$14,0000OO compared to $24,0O0,000
last year.
new ruling allows postmasters to
contribute cash but bars them from
personal participation in political
campaigns.
August Scheuch, mine policeman,
while attempting to rescue his son
from a mob of strikers at Hazleton
was stabbed.
President Burt of the Union Pacific
railroad was arrested, charged with
holding 10 shopmen prisoners in the
company's cars.
High play is the rule at Saratoga,
and it is estimated that $15,000,000
has been wagered in various ways
there this season.
Mrs. j. H. Cobb of Richmond, Va,
aud Frank J. Matthews of Jersey City
were killed in an automobile disaster
at Long Branch, N. J.
In New York on her promise not to
solicit aims, Mrs. Jean Harris Hunter,
who was arrested for begging, has
been allowed to go.
The Ohio legislature met in extra
session to enact laws for municipali-
ties whose governments have been de-
clared unconstitutional
Virgil Garvin, pitcher for the Chi
cago American league club, shot at
a Chicago policeman, wounded a
saloonkeeper, and fled.
Well drillers have struck natural gas
at Coleta, ILL.,, twelve miles northwest
Of Sterling, and the gas shoots fifty
feet in the air and is burning.
A coroners jury at Seven Springs,
n. c., formally Endorsed the lynch
Ing of Thomas Jones, who fatally as
saulted Mrs. James M. Smith.
The report of the auditor of the in
terror department showed the amount
paid in pensions for the year ending
June 80, 1902, was s1S7, 40O,741.
A census bulletin shows that the
extent of illiteracy in this country is
6 PEI cent. of the population of cities
and IS per cent. in rural districts.
The federal court at Madison, Wis,
enjoined all parties from interfering
with the Elgin Creamery company re-
ceiver's Attorney R. W. Jackman
At Battle Creek, Mich. five en-
ployes of the sanatorium in a rowboat
we're run down by the steamer We'll
come in Lake Gocnac and drowned.
The city council of Bloomington,
H., has forbidden the serving OF free
lunches in saloons. The saloon
keepers desired such an ordinance.
An Iowa justice gave mother the /
custody of her children and declared |
unconstitutional the law permitting
charitable institutions to take them.
After twenty years Theodore |
Vaitrain, who spent fifteen years in
prison for killing his wife, found his |
daughter, Mrs. 1. NJ Martin, of Olney, !
ILL.,
The North Carolina supreme court |
heard argument for new trial for