Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-15

John E. Fitzgerald, husband of the |
late Nine. Connolly and formerly a
prominent Boston politician, dropped |
dead in a New York cafe.
Eugene Debs has accepted the posi- |
ton for president by the amalgamated !
socialists and Joseph Hartman of Cal
ifornia that for vice president.
In Chicago Archibald Clarke asked
for a new trial so he might plead guilty
Of murder and be hanged and thus
avoid imprisonment for % years
Many state banks throughout the
country prepare to take out charters
under the provisions of the new
finance bill when it becomes a law.
The ministers of both Costa Rica
and Nicaragua deny that their respect
i've countries have protested to the
terms Of the Hay-Paunceforte treaty
The amended subsidy bill reported
by the house committee excludes trusts
from bounties and reduces the pay
ments 5 per cent annually after ten
| years.
At Omaha as result of jealousy
|
wounded his wife and then killed him
self at the residence of the Rev. A. F.
Nelson
W. R. Vaughan, the Cincinnati
neWspaperman who was injured in the
Missouri Pacific wreck at Independ-
ence a week ago, died. This makes
four deaths.
Tho i,,ru in tho ooro,o.,, ;,o,o,r
over the death of the Schmidlapp fam
lily in Cincinnati, in the Missouri Pa
lcific wreck, returned a verdict censur-
ling the railroad company
a trainload of 100000 pounds of ham
and bacon cured by a new formula
gotten up by the agricultural depart
ment was shipped from Chicago to
soldiers in the Philippines.
Chicago packers generally think the
Nicaragua canal would not be used in
shipping their products to the orient
But shipments to South American west
coast would go that way
At Chicago in consideration of $50
the late General Joseph Terrence, has
withdrawn his contest of his fathers
will, which cut him off with $3.50
Julius Moyse, the bogus Captain
Clark, who deceived and married Miss
Bertha Warnken of Cincinnati, has
been committed to be tried on the
charge of impersonating a government
officer.
Solicitor General Richards has en-
f tered a motion in the supreme court to
advance the appeal of Admiral Dewey
in his claim for bounty on account Of
f the destruction of the Spanish fleet at
Manila.
Fifty-nine Chicago building ma
: terial manufacturers agreed to lock UP
their plants until the end of labor
trouble. This will render 10000 men
idle and tie up s2O,OOO,000 invested
: capital.
The supreme court has approved the
: decision of the New York circuit court
. refusing the petition of the Chemical
National bank to be counted among the
| creditors of the Fidelity National bank
l of Cincinnati.
bill for the construction of a Pacific
4 cable by private concern, to be paid g
subsidy of 100000 annually fol-
I twenty years. The cable will cost less
, than $4,000, 900.
Paul Blouet MAX O'ReI has been
attacked by catarrh of the stomach
D He will bring his tour to a close and
go to Paris for treatment He thinks
it probable he will quit the lecture
platform for good.
Nate Salisbury, the English show
f man who is interested with Buffalo
J Bill in the show business, and his
partner, Col. Cody, have arranged tc
build a big irrigation canal in the
, Big Horn basin, Wyo.
The national baseball league agreed
; on an eight-club circuit Baltimore
: gets 100000 for a franchise without
players, Washington $39 1000 for play
ers and franchise, Cleveland SIS 900
and Louisville $4,000
The Elder Line steamer, Planet Mer-
curry. has doubtless been wrecked on
} the ledge at Pubnico, and all aboard
lost She sailed from Portland, March
2, with full crew, a cargo Of $500, 200
, value and several cattlemen
At San Francisco Elida Wilbur, d
beautiful girl who had been in a trance
for more than two years, died Her
case has been a mystery to the medical
, profession but it is believed the girl
f suffered from rare form of hysteria.
At Cleveland the jury in the case
/ against Albera E. Davis and Samuel
G. BROKER, charged with defrauding
the city in connection with the So
called city hall steals, has brought
IN verdict finding the accused men
, guilty.
The police stopped the performance
Of Olga Nethersole's Sapho at Wal
lacks theater, New York, after Magis-
trate Mott had held the actress for trial
on the charge of indecency. No further
attempt will be made to produce Sapho
pending trial.
There is little doubt that the ad-
ministration will prevent the passage
OF bill to build the Nicaragua canal
at present. One of the main reasons
is the desire to first provide $4,000
600 demanded by the friends of the
: ship subsidy bill
At meeting of the Boston Social
Union it was announced on behalf Of
the Newton Theological Institution
tho Tobo n PooI-ofoJIo-