Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-04

white colony which it has long been
successfully landed ~ Malata.
DOMESTIC.
Miss Roosevelt ordered a big red
touring automobile.
G.. H. Keep, of Buffalo, was appointed
assistant secretary of the treasury.
w. c. Clifton, a confessed MUIR
derer,, taken from Jail at Gillette
(Wyo.) and lynched.
Consul General Bellows at Yoke
hama cables the department of state
that plague exists there.
The 1861 900 workmen in New York
made idle by strikes and 1ockouts lose
$660,000 day in wages.
A college for the Mennonite people
of the United States and Canada is to
be locate at Goshen, Ind.
Alexander Short of Kokomo, Ind,
was killed by live wire. A widow
and twelve children survive.
At Cincinnati Thomas F. DeWar, the
noted whisky gauger, was found
dead in his bed from asthma
At Los Angeles, Thomas H Dickin-
son, travelling passenger agent for the
Santa Fe road. committed suicide
Booker t. Washington will establish
a tobacco factory at Richmond, Va,
to be operated entirely by negroes.
Charles M. Schwab, president of the
steel trust, is again i'll and has gone
to New York to consult physicians.
At Colorado Springs G. J. st. John,
president of the city council is &C
cused of taking $500 for his vote on a
franchise.
Joseph Killoran, the noted burglar
and bank sharp, has been taken to
Springfield, H., to stand trial for post
office robbery.
A boiler of Wilson & Cochran's saw
mill at Wilcox, near Warrington station,
La, exploded, killing six persons. Nine
others were injured.
The expulsion of the Rev. Louis
Richter by the Minnesota Presbyterian
synod was upheld ny the general as
sembly at Los Angeles.
At Philadelphia fire with estimated
loss of $1,000,000, occurred last even
ing in the building of the Front Street
Warehousing company.
An incendiary fire almost totally de-
stroyed the town of Altman, Colo. The
flames were finally checked by blowing
up several buildings.
Lena Broyhill of Kansas City Sc
cured judgment Of $21, 500 against h
B. Norton of Westport, Mo, for breach
of promise to marry.
At st. Louis Emil Hartmann. for
mer member of the house of delegates.
has been sentenced 70 six years in the
penitentiary for bribery.
At Middletown, n. Y, Charles
Adams, sentenced to twenty years for
attempted wife murder. drowned him
self in bathtub at the Jail.
A movement to stamp out the prac-
tice of divorce or at least reduce
the number of cases to the mini
ant and Catholic churches
At St Louis Miss Temple. daughter
of judge Leeper, committed suicide by
drinking carbolc acid. Melancholy
due to illness was the cause.
At Indianapolis a private detective
named James Smith, employed to in
vestigate municipal scandals. is under
arrest for attempting to bribe.
Alex Kaldy. who was taking two
camels and an elephant to Minneapolis
to join a circus, was trampIed to
death BY the elephant in a car.
The liabilities of Porter Bros. Chi
cago, are placed above $1,000 900 900.
with assets considerably over $1,000
900. The firm expects to resume.
Charles Grannis shot Mrs. Della
May Ryhal at Cascade Park, Pa, and
then shot himself Neither can live.
Unrequitted affection is the cause.
Ten persons were killed by tornadoes
in Ohio, Indiana. Iowa Kansas, and
Missouri. Heavy damage was done
near Fort Wayne anG in northern Ohio.
At Marion, Ind. after a chase of
four miles and desperate attempt to
commit suicide, Stephen Isour. who
tried to Kill his wife, was landed in
jail.
The Chicago Athletic associations
bellboys, bowling, billiard. and bath
boys struck at p. m. on ladies'
night" ecause the supper did not suit
them.
George Nevers of Brainerd. Mimi.
has been recommended by Represen-
tative Buchanan for an appointment as
midshipman at Annapolis naval acad-
envy.
Mr. Roosevelt is said to have or
dered an inquiry into the giving out
by officials of news about his
mail and comments on his wife's hand
writing.
Mrs. Agnes Ethel Tracy, who. as
Agnes Ethel, was known to theater-
goers of three decades ago as a most
promising exponent of emotional roles
is dead
The Irish Industrial League OF
America has been Incorporated The
primary object is to promote agricul-