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

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Chicago March wheat, 6415c.
Smallpox is epidemic in Mississippi.
Olga Nethersole asked for a jury
trial.
Republicans carried Elmira, D. B.
Hills home.
A fire occurred in the St. Peter in
sane asylum.
The Iowa house defeated a woman
suffrage bill.
Fire in Philadelphia caused a loss
of over 100000.
Ellen Terry is suffering from pleu-
risy at Toronto.
Slosson agreed to Vignaux's terms
for billiard match
A case of suspected plague is dis
covered in San Francisco.
\ mine explosion at Clinton, Ind, in
jured three persons fatally.
Twenty thousand tube workers re-
ceived an advance in wages.
The sugar trust reduced prices to
fight the Independent refineries.
At Caledonia, Mimi, Banker Glenn
ents was convicted Of larceny.
Congressman Hemenway and Wat
son are renominated in Indiana.
The Illinois democrat convention
will be held at Springfield June 26.
Cardinal Gibbons attended the funer-
al of Archbishop Hennessy at Dubuque.
In the New York supreme court
Henry Hilton's will was declared valid
Only five of the seventy-fve men in
| the Red Ash mine were rescued alive
A Kenosha music teacher inherited
| 1 100000 marks from a German estate.
| Mason introduced bill to give medals
to sailors who fought in Cuban waters.
The lackwell-Durham Tobacco
company is in the hands of receiver.
Boardman Shaw, father of Gov.
Shaw of Iowa, is dead, aged "a years.
General Henry Harnden, Wisconsin
ly i'll.
| Congressman Hit was renominated
and delegates were instructed for Nc
Kinley.
Dairymen met in Washington and
inaugurated a fight against oleo-
margarine.
The vice president of a bank at Lima
Ohio, is accused of the burglary of his
institution.
Taft, Worcester, Ide, Wright and
Moses are members of the Philippine
commission
Henry P. Burr, a California forty
miner, is dead at his home at Westport
Conn, aged 81.
Congressman Alfred c. Hammer oil
Pennsylvania died at his home in Ger.
mantOwn, Pa.
Chicago sends 10000 quarters Of
dressed English beef to England
every week
J. S. Culver offered to erect a me-
mortal to Nancy Hanks Lincoln a
Spencer, Ind.
The Michigan Central is likely to alb
sorb the Flint and Pere Marquette
railroad system.
Edward j. Phelps is again in a criti
cal condition, and there is little hope
of his recovery.
The passage of the financial bill will
cause many banks to change from
state to national.
The sugar trust cut down the divi
dend on common stock from a II to
6 per cent basis.
Mayor Van Wyck will break gounC
for the Rapid Transit tunnel in City
Hall park March "a.
Mrs. Helen Potter has sued William
H. Gross in New York for $500
, for breach of promise.
. Two Chinese merchants and a car
penter were murdered in San Fran
cisco by highbinders.
Mrs. Frances NJ. Wolcott, wife o
Senator Wolcott, has been granted {
divorce for desertion.
Sapho will be given in Chicago, be-
ginning March %. The mayor said he
saw no reason to stop it.
!, City Sealer Quinn of Chicago gays
most of the coal sold by the bushel is
short in weight % per cent
At Cleveland news is received from
Havana, Cuba, Of the death of Thomas
J. Mooney of Mooney Bros.
More testimony showing the brutal
ity of the soldiers during the Idaho
labor troubles was presented
More than forty persons were in.
jured near Brazil, Ind, by a collision
between freight and a miners train
Yale sophom2res will be permitted
to substitute modern languages and
history for classics and mathematics
The supreme COurt has bnfOra II 6
case that will test the validity Of
the specification of payments in gold
Fifty bodies have been removed from
=" burning mine in West Virginia in
which seventy-f1ve miners are still en-
tombed.
At Lowell. Mass, the Howe Lumber
company has assigned, as a result .!
the failure Of the Globe National bank
in Boston.
Harvard students are alarmed over
the epidemic of grip, measles. scarlet
fever and diphtheria that threatens
the university
Six men have been indicted and five
OF them arrested for alleged con-
sDiracy to wreck the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company
Olga Nethersole and her associates
were held for trial for producing
Sapho, and the police forbade a per
Torrance last night.
The second Presbyterian church
Twentieth street and Michigan avenue
Chicago, was practically destroyed by