Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-03


if elected president.
Fire in a New York tenement causes
the death of three persons and the in
jury Of three others.
English capitalists have purchased
10000 acres Of oil-producing land in
Indiana and Ohio
Southern floods are receding, but
days must elapse before railway COM
munication is restored.
War revenue receipts from June IS,
1898, to March 81, 1900. are shown to
have been $18, 405, 1872
Sweet sixteen is the spanking-age
limit for a girl, according to a decision
of a Connecticut court.
The Pennsylvania republican state
convention pledged its support to
former Senator Quay.
1t is expected the campaign in
Washington against butterine will
come to an abrupt end.
A Chicago jury decided that a wo-
man cannot be a vagrant because wo
man was not made to work.
earthed in digging the foundations Of
the monument at Springfield.
Bishop Whipple, Episcopalian,
thinks Cuba ought to be subject to the
United States for many years.
The Indian republican platform did
not mention Porto Rico specially, but
Endorsed all insular legislation.
Comptroller Bird S. Coler. it is said,
will be the democratic candidate for
governor of New York this fall
At Baltimore Bishop Paret was mar
ried to Miss Sarah Hayden Haskell.
The bishop is 73 and his bride 4S.
Charles G. Stachelherg, head of the
New York cigar firm of NJ. Stachel-
berg & Co., is dead, aged IS years.
Former Senator Quay's influence in
the senate will be used to bury the
ship subsidy bill Hannas measure.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler of Alabama
has sent to Governor Johnston a
formal resignation as congressman.
1t is charged that civilian inventors
have a hard time gaining a considera-
ton by military ordnance experas.
The steamship Quito sailed May 5
from New York with 100000 bushels
of grain for Indian famine sufferers
A donors committee presented Adj
miral Dewey watch purchased by l.
cent contributions from $4,000 chill
dren.
Congressman Babcock, Often, David
son, Dahle, Cooper and Barney of
Wisconsin were nominated by repub-
Iicans.
The house committee favorably re.
ported a bill to enable foreigners in.
jured by mobs to sue in the court o.
claims
John Hughes shot and killed his wife
in front of st. Vincent de Paurs
church, Syracuse, N. Y, just aftel
mass.
Bryan denies that he will abandon
silver, but says trusts and imperialism
will be the main issues in the mex
election.
Forest fires raging in Manitoba have
entrapped, it is estimated about 5Ot
settlers and lumbermen, whose live.
are in danger
For sharing fee with an attorney
Judge Frank Dellenbaugh of Cleveland
has been disbarred by the suprem,
court of Ohio.
Benjamin Northrup, a welI-know1
newspaper man, formerly managins
editor Of the New York Mail and Elk
press, died.
At Marquette, Mich, the thermom
eter registered 81 in the shade, tn,
highest April temperature recorded il
eight years
Residents near Maplevale Cemetery
New Haven, are excited over a ghos
that they say dances nightly over
new-made graves.
| photographers employed on the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad have made
demand from Pittsburg, Pa, for an
increase in wages.
Senator Plat said: Governor
Roosevelt, if called unanimously to rur
for vice-president, would accept, but
he won't be called
William Khun, formerly of Roanoke
Va, and said to be an ex-state sena.
tor of Virginia, tried to kill himsel1
and his wife. Lulu.
Andrew Stubs of Pittston. Pa, was
murdered while resisting two high.
waymen who rifled his pockets. The
murderers escaped.
Late arrivals from Alaska report the
probable murder by the same Chilkat
Indians that killed Mr.. and Mrs. Hor.
ton of four prospectors.
At Sanderson, Fla, Ernest E. Pons
a lawyer Of Jacksonville was shot and
killed during an alteration with Rich
ard and James Altman.
United States Immigrant Agent
Healy at Seattle, Wash, says the in
tiux of Japanese imported immigrants
will cause labor upheaval.
General Miles has written a scath-
ing criticism of the ordnance bureaus
| installment Of so many disappearing
guns in the coast defenses.
Amelie Rives, the Princess Trouble
| S%--NSA- 40 SuAAS4 MS II OH nervous pros
tration at the home of her father,
Colonel Rives, ID Virginia.
Stuart Robson, the actor, was sued
for $500 room rent, and set up as a de-
Tense that the apartments were in
habited by rats and vermin
The Iowa dle-of-the-road popu-
lists hold state convention at Des
Moines and select delegates to the Gin
cinnati national convention.