Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11

have declared themselves in favor OF
socialism.
Alfred Alison of Clarks Mills, Wis,
was killed by the accidental discharge
of a shotgun while crawling through
a barb wire fence with the weapon
in his hands
| A discrepancy of nearly $4,000 has
been found in the books of the Mil
waukee house Of correction and the
county officers have ordered an in
vestigation.
Imports of iron and steel material
for the month of March amounted to
$4,000 tons, of which 53,941 tons was
! pig iron, as against 1882 tons in
February.
| In Boston, State Senator Foster,
although acquitted of having solicited
bride, has been found guilty of con-
! duct which merits the condemnation
! of the senate"
| While trying to reach a sailboat
anchored about fifty yards from shore,
a party Of six Fall River, R. l., young
men were capsized and three of them
were drowned.
Rev. H. W. Mcknight has resigned
, the presidency of the Pennsylvania
college at Gettysburg and the board of
! directors has named a committee to
! fill the vacancy.
Chicago striking laundry workers,
including many girls, drove out all
/ the employees at the Derby laundry
and had started on another raid when
dispersed by the police.
The Berry family, consisting of
! father and four sons, was killed near
st. Francis, Kas., in a fight with
| twenty cowboys. The latter accused
them of cutting wire fences.
The first monument ever erected in
| this country to the memory of the Ger
man soldiers VINO participated in the
Franco-Prussian war was unveiled in
Hillside cemetery, Philadelphia.
At White Plains, N. Y, Governor
Odell has been appealed to offer re-
wards for the capture of firebugs. A
dozen farm houses and barns have
been burned the past two months.
Harry Zimmerman, teamster at
fractured in a fight in an antemortem
statement accuses two men with the
assault. The suspects have left the
city.
Tip" Nelson, aged 20 years, was
killed in Lee county, Virginia, by John
Reynolds. Their quarrel arose over
girl and Reynolds blew Nelson's head
-
capped.
At Pittsburg, burglars, failing to
find anything Of value in the safe, set
fire to the steel wire mills of Kidd
Brothers e Burghers. The main
building was destroyed with loss of
$4,000
Or. J. M. Dodson, dean of the medi-
cal department of the University of
Chicago, delivered the annual ad-
dress to the graduating class in the
medical department Of the University
of Michigan.
At Pottsville, Pa, Joseph Hendrick-
son, an expressman of the Adams Elk
press company, was beheaded on
the Pennsylvania railroad. Since the
accident his aged mothers life is de-
SPARED of.
Mrs. George Vogelstein, aged 40,
committed suicide in the presence of
her husband, two sons and daughter
at Bridgeport, Wis. by swallowing
the contents of a twO-ounce vial of
carbolic acid.
At Scranton, Pa. after thirUy-three
of a proposed forty-day fast, Edward
Mcintyre has lost only thirty-two
pounds. He is trying to cure himself
! of paralysis and takes hut one glass
of water daily.
Herman Zimmerman, the victim of
a mysterious assault in the court
house park, died at GAINESVILLE, Wis,
without having told who his assailants
were. Two men have been arrested
upon suspicion.
Jesse L. Miller, a South Side Chi
cago academy student, and Frances
e. Moore, University of Chicago
freshman were drowned in the Jack
son park lagoon while inspecting the
Spanish caravels.
botanist of the Ohio agricultural ex-
pertinent station. is dead from the
effect of pistol shot fired by an un-
known man as he was leaving the
home Of his fiancee.
At Marion. Ind, Charles Moore
whom Mamie Williams had rejected,
stabbed her and attempted to cut her
throat on a street car. After his ar
rest he expressed disappointment that
he had not killed her.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close of
business May 20, 1908, the total debt
less cash in the treasury amounted to
i 1,310,S 56,930, decrease for the
month of s3,247,3S5.
Steps are to be taken to secure a
more reasonable rate on American
flour than is contained in the proposed
new tariff, about to be submitted to
the Holland parliament by the
minister of finance.
George Kaquetosh, half-breed
Indian, was beaten almost to death by
his wife at Marinette, Wis. The wom-
an is said to have pounded her hus-
band over the head with a club and
fatal outcome is likely.
Four burglars, after looting fashion
! able residences in Prospect Park, New
! York, led the police and citizens a
! long chase Only one of the burglars
was taken, and before his capture he
was shot twice in the left leg.