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

AQOlpn Haul OF mitchell, >. d, VINO
was lacerated by q dog, reached Chi
cago for treatment When he entered
the Offices Of the Pasteur institute he
fell in swoon. 1t is believed he will
be saved from hydr0phobia.
A great fashion show has been plan
ned to open in New York Sept. 1, at
Madison Square Garden. The exhibi
ton will show every kind Of apparel
worn by women in process of manufac
ture and in finished form.
The family Of Mark Twain Samuel
L. Clemens) are under physicians
care. The humorist has a severe at
tack of bronchitis, two daughters have
the measles and Mrs. Clemens is
stricken with nervous prostration.
Chicago union walters, cooks, and
bartenders, numbering 10000, ignored
the employers organization and arbi
tration and threatened to strike unless
their demands are met. A ten hour
day and fourteen hours pay are asked
The governments weekly crop re
port shows favorable temperature east
of the Rockies, with the drought gen
orally relieved, except in New Eng
land. Corn planting is making good
progress and winter wheat is promis
ng
DR. Samuel A. Mathews of Chicago
has discovered that salt solution will
cure lockjaw. Other stubborn all
ments for which it is said to be a com.
plete or partial remedy are uremia
locomotor ataxia and morphine poison.
ing.
The annual international arbitration
conference at Lake Mohonk IN. Y. J
opened with an address by John W
Foster, who cited the Plus fund, Chile
Argentina, and the Venezuelan dis,
putes as examples of arbitration last
year.
The battlefag carried by the sixty.
third Tennessee regiment of confede-
rates, captured by a New Hampshire
regiment and turned over to Governor
Johnson of Alabama by the New
Hampshire governor, has reached it's
OLD ensign.
G. A. Belch son of A. J. Belch of
Winnipeg, Man, and member of the
Canadian volunteer contingent in the
south African campaign, has been
found drowned in Il creek in Log Is
land city, N. Y. Tt is considered a
case of suicide.
Representative Buchanan has recon-
the appointment of J. D. Jones
of Long Prairie and Egbert S. Oakley
Of Buffalo for register and receiver
respectively of the new land Office at
Cass, MINI. Both are Endorsed by
Senator Nelson.
A. w. Machen, general superintend-
ent of the postoffice department free
delivery service, was arrested for al
legged illegal participation in a contract.
Some $1S,9S1 is said to have been Sc
cured by MIN on patent T, stall box
fastener grant.
At Meridian, Kan, an old feud, arts
ing from the elopement of a man
named Stewart with a Miss Coughlen.
in a street duel, in which
two of the Coughlens were killed. a
third badly cut and three Stewards
seriously injured.
Judge Kirkpatrick in the United
States circuit court at Trenton, N. J.,
refused the petition of Harry c..
Sp1nks to have set aside as fraudulent
ly issued gold collateral certificates
of the Asphalt company of America,
aggregating s3,700,000.
Overcome with joy at the success of
her daughters grafton at the New Lon
don, Ind, high school commencement
Mrs. Jacob Hanson expired as she sat
in sthe audience, while the daughter,
not knowing of the mothers death,
calmly finished her address.
The Royal Arcanum, in session at
Quebec, elected A. S. Robinson of Mis-
souri, supreme regent. J. S. Johnson
Of Illinois was elected a supreme trus-
tee. Robert Van Sands of Illinois, su-
preme orator, and II. S. Burkhart of
Illinois, supreme guide.
By the bursting Of the dams of two
lakes near Glen Ellen, Va, the track
of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac railway was washed away. A
freight train went down and was to-
tally wrecked. Engineer G. M.
keelon Of Richmond was injured.
The destruction of Western Union
telegraph lines by the Pennsylvania
railroad is an effort to punish George
Gould for extending his railroad to
Pittsburg, where the Pennsylvania
controls all traffic. Gigantic battle
between the two interests is expected
At San Diego, Cal, party of seven
Cuba children has arrived in charge of
Secretary Pierce of the Theosophical
Brotherhood. They were taken at
once to the Homestead at Point Iona
The children have come direct from
Cuba and are to enter the Raja Yoga
school.
At Wilkesbarre Alderman Donohue,
famous for thrashing wife heaters
brought before him, was arrested for
assaulting his own wife. carried dis
gracefully to the station with fewer
clothes than modesty requires and
later held under $500 bail to appear be-
fore the grand jury.
Henry Tierney, a novitiate Of Ken
rick Seminary, st. Louis, Mo, it is an
nounced, will receive the prize offered
by King Christian Of Denmark for the
best poem in commemoration of the
recent meeting at the Danish court of
the dOMager emnraSS Of Russia and