Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-04-19


not accept.
Judge Caldwell says that he cannot
accept the democratic nomination for
vice president, and now Towne's name
is mentioned.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections unanimously decided
that Senator Clark of Montana is not
entitled to his seat.
Spear has the reputation of always
carrying considerable money about
him, and robbery is the motive ascrib
ed by the police.
The special train of President Hill
Of the Great Northern road was ditch
ed at Silver Bow. Mont. The party
was badly shaken up.
At Cardinal, Ont, the glucose works
which are a portion of the Edwards
Vile Starch Works, were destroyed by
fire. Loss S15O,0O0.
Congressman H c. Vanvoorhees
swept the fifteenth Ohio district re-
publican primaries, winning a fifth
nomination with ease.
According to the circulation report
of the treasury department the per
capita circulation for the first time
has crossed the S26 line
Herman Marcuse, formerly one of
| the best known bankers in New York
city, is dead at on-Rhine,
Germany, aged rs years.
Marcus Daily has been sued for $780,
900 on the charge that his Montana
newspaper pronounced the gold statue
! of Maude Adams a fake"
The Ohio supreme court has handed
down a decision sustaining the law
which prohibits the coloring of oleo-
margarine in imitation of butter.
i John W. Gates, financial head of the
i American Steel Wire company, is re-
ported to have won between 100000
i and s4O0O000 recently on Wall street
/ Thirty inmates of the Soldiers Home
at Kaarny, n. j., were stricken with
symptoms of ptomaine poisoning after
breakfast, fourteen narrowly escaping
death.
i The safe in the postofice at Dover
Center, a suburb of Cleveland. was
blown open with dynamite by burglars
who secured $500 in money and 800 in
; stamps.
Arrangements are completed By
which W. H. StrattOn, the Cripple
: Creek millionaire, has purchased fol
81, 900 the Brown Palace hotel O.
: Denver.
| Rev David Gregg, a Brooklyn Pres
byterian, says he doubts if any mem
Der of the general assembly believe:
: in the condemnation Of non-elec
children.
{ Ocean travel is largely eastward
this spring, the rush of tourists Il
Europe having begun early, while few
: persons of distinction are coming
r this way.
Both political parties of Alaska vii
t hold conventions in May, the republi
cans on the 18th and the democrats OF
the 28th, to name national conven
l ton delegates.
e Charles o. Winold was arrested OF
the charge of attempting to poison hi
. wife and children in Cincinnati. H
r claims his wife secured a divorce from
him in Minneapolis.
5 Edwin A. Alderman, president of tn,
= University Of North Carolina, ha
been eleAed president of Tulane uni
versity, to succeed William Preston
a Johnson who died recently.
Honore Palmer, son Of Potter Palm
er, the millionaire. has retired from
l the Merchants Loan and Trust com
pany's bank, where he was employed
+ as messenger at 81 per day.
, The physical laboratory of Lehigl
University, one of the largest AM
: best equipped in the country, wa
, burned and all its scientific apparatus
destroyed. The loss is 100000.
: At Mount Vernon, H., George w
= Roberts, a prominent farmer was kill
ed last night by his stepston, Hard!
: Hughey. The cause for the killing i
: unknown. Hughey is under arrest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian Schoen
macher, eloped from Amsterdam, Hol
land, are with relatives near Apple
ton, Wis. The bride is an heiress ant
her husband was the family coachman
f At Norwood, Ohio Anthony o. Rus
sell, president and general manager O
I the United States Printing company
, and vice-president of the United State:
Playing Card company, is dead, ageC
a.
, John Norris. who has been promi.
nently identified with the New York
? World and the st. Louis Post-Dispatct
in various official capacities, has
severed his connection with those pa,
pers.
The state department authorizes a
denial of the published statement that
it has practically completed an ar
rangement for the acquisition Of a
considerable strip of territory along
the route Of the proposed Nicaragua
canal.
At Peru, Ind, fire destroyed the liv-
cry barn of Ward Brothers & Co., to-
gether with Lazarous, a fast horse
, Reilly Gregory, an employe, was burn
ed to death. Loss $4,000; partially
insured.
At Baxley, Ga, King and Lewis
Goosby, negroes, paid the death pen
atty here for the murder of Daniel
Mimms. a farmer, near Hazlehurst, on
March ). The Goosby boys were aged
respectively Il and II.
Minnesota university regents, for
an unstated reason, propose to dismiss
/ four veteran members of the faculty.