Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-06-19

An attempt to kill the Lehigh Coai
company superintendent was made a;
Wilkesbarre The engine on whic.l
he was riding was riddled with
bullets.
The murder of three Sicilians at
New ORLEANS is laid to the Malta.
Three others were badly hurt. One
man was shot down in a funeral pro-
cession.
ne dancing masters convention at
Milwaukee was told that the two-step
never had been properly learned by
most dancers. 1t is generally
'romp."
In San Francisco, Blanche Warren,
actress, and her mother, were
asphyxiated III their room. The former
was the wife of H. L. Chapman ct
Los Angeles.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
ordered gatemen in Jersey City
station to stop kissing of passengers.
Exits and entrances are blocked by
ELUSIVE greetings.
An invention doing away with glass
blowers was tried by the American
Window Glass company and 10000
900 was offered for it to John Lubbers
who devised it.
The strikers are gaining strength In
the West Virginia mining region.
Carroll D. Wright is investigating the
Pennsylvania situation on behalf of
President Roosevelt
Two desperate convicts killed three
guards and made their escape from,
the Oregon penitentiary at Salem.
A mob drove all the negroes out Of
the town of Decatur, Ind.
Prof. Woodrow Wilson, head of the
department of Jurisprudence and
politics, was elected president of
Princeton university in place of
Francis L. Patton resigned.
At Marion, Ind, two men in buggy
charged crowd of five others with a
fired on them, killing one and seri-
ously wounding another.
Six hundred employees of the Empire
Bridge company, Williamsburg, N Y,
have struck for recognition of thel,
union. Their action will delay work
on many bridges in the west
In New York robbers entered the
apartments of two wealthy French
men, Baron Jaques Meyronnet de
Saint Marc and Baron Andre de
Neufliz, at No. Is West Forty-sixth
The subcommittee on Indian affairs
submitted report to the full COM
mittee completely generating Indian
Commissioner Jones from any con-
nection with the Standing Rock leases.
In connection with the commence
ment exercises at Princeton, formal
announcement was made of a gift of
100000 by the classes of 1900 and
1901 to be used for special purposes.
Strong pressure is being brought to
bear on the secretary of the interior
to induce him to approve the leases
for grazing lands on the Cheyenne
| river Indian agency, in South Da-
kota
Robert Jefferson Ferral, %, an
actor said to be the son of a prom
inent San Francisco a-.orney, killed
himself in New York by taking poison.
His friends say he had been de
spondent. .-..
At the end of this fiscal year the
United States will have on hand an
available cash balance of about $780,.
100000, the largest sum that has been
| held as free cash in the treasury for
many years.
| fiji inc or1a of
sylvania railroad against passengers
is declared mo go' in Chicago by
| Corporation Counsel Walker. They
have legal right to kiss if neither
! objects.
/ The governments weekly crop re
port found conditions favorable east
of the Rocky mountains and in the
middle and south Pacific coast
regions. Spring wheat is making
rapid growth
The b1lllon-dollar steel trust has
| been restrained in New Jersey courts
from carrying out it's conversion plan
while the United States courts in
New York refused to entertain a
similar injunction.
me beet sugar senators surprised
the Cuban committee with proof that
h. .. Havemeyer gave $1,000 to
promote the Cuban reciprocity cam
| raisn. General Wood paid $4,000
from the Cuban treasury.
The Pacific Mail Steamship City OF
Picking brings news of water famine
| In HongkOng. The wells have run
dry and in order to supply the city
with water, tugs were kept running
between the city and the mainland.
George L. Lohr and Miss Ada
Hawley, Wisconsin University seniors
/ were drowned in Lake Mendoza on the
night of their betrothal. Their ooat
tipped. Lohr was a Milwaukee boy.
the girl of Madison He was %. she
%
| A tornado in central Illinois Tues
| day killed eleven persons and caused
/ $2,OOO,000 damage to farm and town
property. A path 200 miles long was
/ devastated through BLOOMINGTON
Lincoln, Champaign, Peoria and
! Urbana.
| At kokomo, Ind, William Chapman,
| a veteran who was wounded in the
! neck with shell in 1862, and thereby
lost his voice, coughed up a lump
containing a small piece of the shell
and at once regained his power of
| speech.
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