Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-22
menced in the Botkin murder trial in

Lawrence Priori, a drug clerk.
A bill to make per cent. the legal
rate of interest will be introduced in
the New York state legislature.
The S44 900 private car which Fred
Gebhart gave to Lily Langtry, will be
sold at auction at Cleveland.
The bridge over the Mississippi at
Alton is in the hands OF the sheriff
for back tax amounting to S3,126.03.
An extra session of the Kansas leg
islature, which is populist, has been
called to pass anti-coporation meas
ures.
At a convention in st. Louis the
western fire insurance companies de-
cided to cut commission rates after
Jan. /.
Marsh, president of the looted Key
stone bank, Philadelphia, was SEN
fenced to a fine and imprisonment of
II years.
The editor Of the Northwestern Mil
Ter declares that the -four trust will
not be able to capture the Mnneapo-
lis mills.
The Alton city council unanimously
adopted resolutions for a curfew Or
dinance and for a heavy license on
cigarettes.
A square mile of Brooklyn was
flooded by the bursting of water
main, causing damage estimated at
| 81 900, 900.
| Ice crushers have been called into
service to release vessels frozen in on
the great lakes.
United States deputy marshals are
exonerated by officials who investi-
gated charges made after the Leech
lake outbreak.
Homer M. Washburn, vice president
and manager of the Continental Wall
Paper company, died at Springfield,
Mass, aged 50.
Chris Mage and Dave" Martin, it
is said, will stay out of the Pennsylva-
MIA republican caucus. This would
defeat Quay.
Sulphur and arsenic fumes from the
smelters at Butte, Mont, killed four
men. Some of the smelters may be
destroyed by a mob.
Rev. J. Luis Rivera, the Cuban lead
er, who was recently released from life
Imprisonment in Spanish prison, ar
rived in New York.
James Shaw, the only surviving
member of the Michigan legislature OF
1S47, when Detroit was the capital,
died at Niles, aged Sc.
Archbishop Ireland, who is urging
for the annexation of CUBA to the
United States, is believed to voice the
sentiments of the pope.
Albert Dickerson of Atlantic, Iowa,
is free, after four years in prison for
fraud in connection with the Cass
county bank of Atlantic.
At Lincoln, Neb, Mayor Graham was
acquitted of the charge of accepting a
bride of $50 from a city employe who
desired to retain his place.
At Jeffersonville, Ind, Ephriam
Keigwin, known far and wide as the
marrying squire" and who had we'd
ded 5000 couples, is dead, aged 81.
Thirty-two stockmen have been in
dicted at Hot Springs, S. D., for the
killing of sheep man who refused
to remove his sheep from the range.
A mortgage for $4,000 on the Pres
byterian summer school at Wtnona
Lake, Ind, was raised. Thomas Kane
and Alexander Mcdonald donated the
5000.
Five suits in admiralty were begun
in the United States district court al
Chicago, against the owners of La
Bourgogae. In each case $4,000 dam
ages is asked.
Twelve principal breweries Of Pitts
| burg and Allegheny and four outsid-
T ers will combine to form the United
Brewing company with a capital oil
$13,000,000.
At the first meeting Of the new coun
Gil in Chicago, the Yerkes 50-yeal
street car franchise proposition re
ceived black eye. A test vote showed
SO opposed and 27 in favor of it.
In the opening address before the
eighteenth annual convention Of the
American Federation of Labor at Kan
sas City, President Gompers gave his
reasons for opposing imperialism.
Detroit's council rejects the PROPOSE.
ton of the Citizens Street Railway
company to grant six for quarter
, fares and universal transfers as com
pensation for a 30-year franchise. e
The Congregationalists of Eat
Claire want to build a college at tina
place. A report says that O. H. In
gram, the millionaire lumberman
I promised 100000 for the project.
By the death of George Richardson
: in New York, his granddaughter, An
ME, who has ben brought up in com
t parative poverty, becomes heiress u
some of her grandfather's millions.
: Mrs. Lulu Johnston of Pond Greek
!, Okla, is in Jail on the charge of pois
lining her sixth husband at Lawrence
C Kan. She is also accused of poisoning
V half brother in Sumner county, Kan
d. B. Frisbee, the man who sol(
Everett Ransom, of GAINESVILLE, paten
right territory in Wisconsin to thu
amount of S11,500, has been arrested
/ at Detroit ON the charge of swindling
Il expect to propose an amendmen
to the army reorganization BILL" sait
2 Mr.. Heatwole, raising the age limi
a of volunteer officers TO be trans
: ferred to regular service from So tt
e As.
Michael BEEN, 14-year-old boy 0
st. Paul, was awarded $4,000 in sui
L against the street car company there
He had been pushed off an over
: crowded car and run over, losing
| foot