Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-02-22


cal and valuable records destroyed.
At Lansing, Kan, the board of di-
rectors of the state penitentiary have
decided to hereafter sell the entire
output of binding Irvine of the Kansas
penitentiary direct to the farmers.
A Kansas City jury gave negro
footbad forty-year sentence in the
penitentiary for snatching a white
woman's pocketbook. Two jurors
wanted to give him a life sentence.
DR.. William Steinitz, the famous
chess player, was taken to the insane
pavilion of Bellevue hospital, New
York. He is 81 years old and was con-
fined in an asylum in Moscow in 1897.
Commander Richard Wainwright
will be detached from duty in charge
of ships at the naval academy, March
4, and assume the duties of superin-
tendent of the naval academy, March
| Is.
w. S. Taylor, republican claimant
to the governorship of Kentucky, is
sending the troops out Of Frankfort in
pursuance OF his plan to have the leg
! islature meet again in the state capt.
| tai
The Clark investigation proceeded,
and several witnesses for the senator
were heard. One of them gave evil
dence for the prosecution, much to
the surprise Of the defense, which
called him.
Among the commissioners to the
Paris exposition nominated by the
president were Henry A. Parr Of Bal
| timore, Mrs. Bertha Honore Palmer OF
Chicago and O. H. Fethers of James
vile, Wis.
In New York Cecil Leslie, press
agent and employe of the Miller 52(
per cent. swindle, has made a con.
fession in which he says Miller mus
have gathered in 100000 out of the
scheme.
The survey for a cable across thu
Pacific has been finished All sound
ings have been made and the result!
have been mapped out, but they viii
not be given until transmitted tt
Washington.
General Miles laid the corner ston
of the tower and gateway to b.
erected at the dormitories of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in honor o
the university men who served in tn
war against Spain.
H. III. Wells, military governor o
Virginia in the reconstruction period
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs
James T. Walker, in Palmyra, N Y
after long illness. He was born il
Rochester in 1923.
Robert Shilling, national populis
committeeman of Wisconsin, has re
ceived a letter from Marion Butler an
nOuncing that a meeting of the ma
tional committee will be held at Lin
coin, Neb., Feb. 10.
At Joliet one workman was killed
two badly injured and several other
slightly hurt by the collapse of tn
heavy sheet iron roof covering tn
cast house of the Illinois Steel com
pany's plant here.
At st. Paul the supreme court, in
case brought from Mcleod county, de
clared the Minnesota inheritance ia,
law to be unconstitutional, being con
/ trary to the Constitutional provision re
quiring equal taxation.
Professor S. w. Stratton of the de
partment of physics at the Universit,
Of Chicago has gone to Washington
! to work in the interest of bill to pro
vide for a United States standard o
weights and measures
At Fargo, n. D., United States Mar
shall Haggart has completed arrange
ments for taking the forty-eigh
: Cinnamon ordered deported to Por
Townsend, Wash. They will sail TO
Hong Kong Feb. 20 or %
At Springfield, Mass, William Met
calf aged 81, printer and publisher
committed suicide by shooting Fo,
years he was the partner of Clark w
Bryan, the newspaper trade journalist
who shot himself two years ago.
Hugh kromrey, secretary of the st
Louis Mutual House Building company
No. 3, committed suicide. His friend:
are at loss to account for his action
Kromrey was so years of age ant
single and was of steady habits.
Roland B. Molineux, who was con
victed in New York of murder in the
first degree in causing the death OF
Mrs. Katherine J. Adams by poison
sent through the mails to Harry Cor
nish, shows no agitation over his po-
sition.
Hawaii is to be given a government
Identical in nearly every respect with
that which applies to the territories il
the report of the committee on terri
tories, which is complete and
which will be presented in the house
is adopted
Something of a squabble has arisen
between the American and Turkish
commissioners at Paris over the action
of the latter in insisting on construct
ing kiosk SO as to partially shut off
the American building from the view
of visitors
At Omaha Frederick S. Kelly, for
merly an employe of prominent in
surance company. but who left about
two years ago, when his defalcations
to be discovered, has been arrested in
San Francisco.
AT Chicago the Western Foundry
Works were destroyed by fire here.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, COW
cred by insurance. The offices and
contents were saved and the flames
prevented from spreading to an addi-
| ton just completed.
The abolition of special rates on
pulp wood shipments to United States