Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11
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The Northwest Skat League will
meet next year at st. Louis.
Charles Brown, aged 21, of Bos-
cobel, Wis, was killed at Wauzeka by
a train.
Professor J. P. Leslie. the famous
geologist of the University of Penn
sylvania,, is dead.
John Flynn, a prosperous farmer of
Flathead county, Montana, was MUIR
dered at La Sale.
Sweden's proposed tax on fat men,
applied to Grover Cleveland's share
would cost him s622:
At Monticello, N. Y, Mrs. Kate Tay-
Tor has been sentenced to death July 5
for the murder of her husband.
John Dennis, negro, was lynched in
the presence of women shoppers at
Greenville, Miss, for an attempted
assault.
Albert Meyer, who was attacked
with CHAMBERS three weeks ago, is
dead at Newark, n j., after terrible
suffering.
Charges against A. w Machen and
Croft Bros, alleged to have bribed
him. were presented to the federal
grand jury.
In New York Ernest E. Wilhelm
was killed by the explosion of flash
light apparatus which he was using in
taking picture.
Eleanor Gallagher, the divorced
wife of Edmund P. Dole, attorney gen
eral Of Hawaii, is going on the stage
as a chorus girl.
Mayor Rose of Milwaukee gave out
a statement in which he charged
William J. Bryan with defeating
him for governor.
At Chicago blank cartridges stored
in the basement of Butler Bros ware
house exploded. killing one man and
iniuring two others.
The barges ArgO, COrney and Buck
ley are on the rocks at Grenadier
island at the entrance of St Lawrence
river. The crews are safe.
r. H. McCullum. of Duluth. Mimi,
a commissioner TO the Presbyterian
assembly. died at hospital in Los
Angels. He was 81 years old.
At Montgomery, Ala. the United
States grand jury has returned thirty
six indictments against white citizens
for holding negroes in servitude.
At Dover, n. H. Albert o. Mathers,
for thirty-fve years treasurer of the
STAFFORD Five-cent Savings bank, is a
defaulter to the amount of s15,542.
The Mississippi river flood broke all
records at Keokuk. The Sny, Hunt
and Indian Grove levees are broken
and 100000 acres of land submerged.
Nine persons were killed and
twenty-eight injured by a head-on
collision of two Santa Fe railroad
passenger trains near Stillwell, Kas.
Samuel Mitchell, white. who led
the mob that Iynched Thomas Gilyard,
a negro, at Joplin, Mo, recently, was
sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
The Oklahoma Booth story is
fake pure and simple. The body of
the assassin was buried in Baltimore
after the disinterment at Washington.
Henry Johnson was executed at
Kaufman. Texas, for crimina assault
on Mrs. Wentworth. the negro being
legally hanged within four days of the
crime.
At Paterson. n. J.. statue Of Vice
President Garrett A. Hobart was IN
yelled. The orator was former United
State Attorney General John W.
Griggs.
An explosion wrecked the plant of
the Explosives Manufacturing COM
pany, at Elmira, N. Y, killing three
employees and seriously injuring
several.
At Canton. Ohio, the bookcase and
Office special manufacturing plant of
the John Banner company was burned,
causing loss Of 100000. Insurance,
$4,000.
As a result of the investigation Of
Clinton New York prison, six officials
have been discharged. Wholesale
smuggling of opium to prisoners was
discov
Rev. F. E. Dewhurst of the Universe
who is known as the originator of the
movement to establish a workshop for
the rich in Chicago, is to deliver the
commencement day address at the Osh-
kosh normal school
Word was received at the war de-
partment that Major General Alex
ander NJ. McCook, U. S. A, retired,
was stricken with apoplexy at Day
ton, O., and is now in a critical con-
dition.
The commissioner of internal
revenue has ruled that palm oil is
oleo in "coloring matter and that
such product must be taxed 10 cents
per pound.
In sermon at Denver, Bishop M :.