Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-04
ture in Ireland and advance land

out glasses up to the time he was 100
years old.
Parlor games for prizes are declared
by the Williamson county Qll) grand
jury to be gambling within the law and
citizens are urged to prosecute if they
are continued.
Rev. Morton G. Andrews, rector of
st. Paul's Episcopal church at Oshkosh
has purchased a cafe and will conduct
it in conjunction with his grocery and
investment bureau.
At Stamford, Conn, William J. H.
Bohannan, ex-mayor, and now practic-
ing law in New York, thrashed Irwin
Wood, a commuter, because Wood had
insulted a woman.
The price Of beer to the Milwaukee
trade is to be raised from Sc barrel
to $3.50 or 81. The Increased price of
labor and materials is given as the
cause of the change.
An unknown man sitting in an open
car crossing Brooklyn bridge, suddenly
alighted when the car was in the mid
die Of the center span, jumped into the
river, and was drowned.
Mrs. Susan G. Day, divorced wife of
William A. Day, assistant attorney
general, fired four shots at DR..
Charles A. Nicholas at Urbana, ILL.,,
but he escaped unhurt.
At Valparaiso, Ind, Truman Beam
entered a plea of not guilty to the
charge of numbering Martha Lawrence.
The defense secured a continuance I'LL
til the September term.
General John F. Weston, chief COM
missary of the army, is seriously i'll at
Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore,
where he went for special treatment
for an affection of the lungs.
Amos Leedy, aged 90 years, post
master at Leedy, Okla, pleaded guilty
to OBTAINING valuable letters in land
contest cases, and on account of his
age was let off with a fine.
Benjamin F. Jones, the Pittsburg
steel manufacturer, left an estate
valued at $6O,OOO,OOOO. The widow re-
ceives al income from the bulk, the
balance going to four children.
At Portland, Oregon, M. w. Leasit,
who murdered his father-in-law and
then fed, taking his divorced wife
along as an unwilling companion, was
captured, and wounded, in a barn.
The ice manufacturing plant of the
American Ice company, Philadelphia,
was destroyed by fire at loss of $780,
900. There were explosions of am
monia tanks, but no one was injured.
At the seventy-ninth annual meeting
Of the American Baptist Publication
society the officers were reelected.
The treasurer's report showed assets
Of $1,950,617 and liabilities of $8S9,346.
The interstate commerce commits
sion's power and future existence will
be tested soon in the United Sites
courts on the refusal of the anthracite
coal presidents to produce their books.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Los Angeles was told by the Rev. G.
L. Thompson, New York, that the
Mormon church cannot be reformed by
education, but must be crushed.
Chicago restaurants are threatened
with a tie-up because Of the demand
by 10000 union walters and cooks for
So weekly wage increase. Some al
ready are making $50 weekly through
tips.
At Lawrenceburg, Ind, it is now be-
lieved that the assault on both Rosa
Keiser and her father was by a white
man and not by a negro, and that re-
venge instead of robbery was the mo-
tive.
Booker T. Washington, in a state
ment at Tuskegee, Ala, declared young
negroes are driven from the country
to the city by mob rule. Better schools
and police protection are found in
cities.
At Memphis, MRS. Lizzie Mccormick
has been indicted for murder in the
first degree for sending a bottle of
poisoned whisky to a woman in Gin
cinnati, which caused the death of one
person.
While passing on q hill near Erie
the boiler on the locomotive pushing
a Philadelphia & Erie freight train ex-
ploded, killing one trainman and in
juring four others, three perhaps
fatally.
Thomas Mcdonald a well-known
citizen of Plymouth, Pa, had a severe
and prolonged attack of hiccoughs.
The strain of one of the paroxysms be-
came so great that two ribs were
broken.
At Marion. Ind, in family quarrel
L. D. Baldwin, president of the Bald
win Gas and Oil company, stabbed his
stepson, his stepdaughter and his
wife. He then fed from the house
and disappeared.
Joseph Becker, socialist, was arrest
ed at Walla Walla (Wash.) for a sus-
pected plot against President Roose-
velt's life. He had come from PendIe-
ton (Ore) with a rife after a reputed
threat to kill.
Citizens returning to Ell Paso, Tex,
from Casas Grande, in the heart of the
Sierra MaGre mountains, report the
discovery of smoldering volcano
hitherto unknown except to a few of
the natives. The volcano showed
signs Of q recent eruption.
Fourteen panic stricken Italians in
the North river tunnel at New York
were prevented by Supt. Brady from
opening the air compartment when a
break started A threat to shoot
saved their lives.