Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-23

could have any motive to assault her
DR.. g. A. Coe, professor of mental
philosophy in Northwestern universe
ty, hypnotized three students of one OF
his classes to prove his theories re-
garding the influence of suggestion.
DR.. Coe says that faith healers like
Dowie, Schlatter and Schrader, en-
ploy hypnotism. He says their claims
| to being instruments of God are alb
surd
What are considered two insur-
mountable obstacles in the way of
obstacles in the way Of the Panama
canal purchase have come to light.
One is that the Panama Canal COM
pany's lease provides that the canal
and concessions shall revert to the
Colombian government, and the other
is the CONVICTION that clear title can
not be given by the Panama company.
At Buffalo, n. Y, Henry Pearlstein,
his wife and five children, were burned
to death in a fire that destroyed a
two-story frame building. Joseph
Supowski, who owned the building,
and Karl Bracki, his brother-in-law,
have been arrested. Supowski carried
an insurance of $4,000 on the building
and its contents. Supowski told the
police that he accidentally dropped a
lamp.
DR.. Clayton Parkhill one Of the best
known surgeons in the west, died at
Denver of Bright's disease The
physicians who attended him ex-
pressed the opinion that the disease
was a development of a tropical NAL
ady contracted by DR.. Parkhill while
in the service of the United States
army in Porto Rico during the Span
ish war. DR.. Parkhill was born near
Vanderbilt, Pa, in 1850
The twenty-sixth anniversary Of the
railroad branch of the Young Mems
Christian association was celebrated
in New York. Andrew Carnegie was
the principal speaker. There are 10
railroad branches of the Y. M. G. A.
in the United States and Canada, with
membership of more than $4,000, and
an annual expenditure of more than
100000, of which sum the railroad
corporations contribute SO per cent.
At Beaver City, Neb., the sky was
Illuminated by brilliant meteor,
which passed across the heavens in
southwesterly direction When it
struck the earth the conclusion sound
ed like thunder. Those who saw it say
that it appeared as large as football.
Many thought it to be a slight earth
quake shock. Railroad men report
that the meteor struck the earth near
Atwood, Kan, and that the people in
that vicinity were panic stricken.
At Ann Arbor, Mich, DR.. Frederick
G. Novy, Junior professor of hygiene
and physical chemistry, has made the
discovery of a new compound called
organic peroxide, and if the discovery
proves as successful in practice as in
the laboratory, it's assistance IN pre-
serving the health of military camps
in prevention of Asiatic cholera cpl
denies and in the general combating
of all diseases in which the intestinal
germ plays a part, including typhoid
fever, is inestimable
Senator Hanna is the leader of the
opposition to Senator Morgan's plan
to hurry the Nicaragua canal bill
through the senate before full consid-
Grafton could be given the offer of the
Panama Canal company to sell for
100000. At meeting of the CON-
the committee should wait until the
isthmian canal commission had an op-
portunity to meet and make a supple
mental report, if it desired, dealing
with the new conditions.