Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-03-22
Minnesota voted to grant liquor

ton Is 10 De nelQ IN DeS MONIES May .. |
John F. Convey, United States consul !
general at Yokohama, Japan, is dead. |
Harry Graves was appointed di- |
rector of Yale's new school Of forestry
A great improvement is noted in the
agricultural conditions Of the country.
France may enact law acquitting
starving people charged with stealing
food.
Special pension examiners are strik-
ing remarked willows from the pension
rolls.
The Iowa house passed bill esJab-
fishing state department of agricui-
ture.
Congress will not act in the cases of
the Utah postmasters accused Of polyg-
amy.
DR.. Cameron is accused Of stealing
book-plates from Boston and Harvard
Libraries.
Temperance people accuse Hanna of
defeating local option in the Ohio leg
| islature
/ A. C. Rand of the Latin & Rand
Powder company died at New York,
aged SO.
Extensive Japanese naval maneuv-
ers will be held in the latter part of
this month.
Kentucky's democratic legislature
appropriated $1O0, 900 to organize a new
state militia.
Governor Tanner issued a procla-
nation designating April q as arbor
day in Illinois.
The proposed combination of the
manufacturers of threshing machines
falls through.
Delegates instructed for Mckinley
were elected in Texas and Kansas dis
trict conventions.
Suit has been commenced by the
sugar trust to test the constitutiOnality
of the war tax.
The house committee favors an ap-
preparation of 100000 for national
guard expenses.
Dewey will attend the Illinois G. A.
R. encampment at Jacksonville and
may visit Peoria
DR.. Frank H. Fisher, husband of
Maud Lillian Berri, prima donna, is
dead in New York.
Mrs. Hearst will pay the expenses
of University of California archeo-
! logical expeditions.
A New York senate committee ia
Vorably reported a bill repeating the
! Horton boxing law.
A new emperor is said to have been
selected in China. His name Is Pont-
sein and he is 9 years old
Rhode Island democrats nominated
n. w. Littlefield for governor and in
dorsed the Chicago platform
The Bank of Commerce and the
Union Bank of New York are to be
combined; capital $4,000 600
Rhode Island republicans put up a
ticket headed by William Gregory of
North Kingston for governor.
Chicago machinery manufacturers
applied to Judge Chetlaine for an in
junction against union pickets.
The populist convention in Custer
| county, Nebraska, refused to indorse
! Bryan and voted against fusion.
The Dublin corporation council,
after stormy discussion, adopted an
address OF welcome to Queen Victoria.
The Chicago Woman's club discussed
! Mrs. Emmons Blane's plan for placing
domestic labor on an eight-hour day
basis
A federal Judge at Butte, Mont, en-
Joined labor organizations from boy
cotting Chinese laborers or their en-
ployes.
\ brother and sister of Henry Ward
Beecher died on the same day, one at
Elmra, n. Y, and the other at Hart
! ford, Conn
Swift & Co., the Chicago packers.
| buy the American holdings of the
Eastman company of New York for
| S., 900 900.
Indiana gold democrats declared
| that they will not support Bryan or
any other candidate on the Chicago
platform.
| w. l.. F'arnsworth, who is reputed
to have had 40 wives, was sentenced
by Chicago Judge TO the Illinois pen
itentiary for bigamy
! Francis Truth, a Boston divine
healer" was arrested on the charge of
using the mails to defraud. His re-
ceipts were $4,000 day.
A scheme is on foot to construct
direct railroad from New York to
Chicago, saving 500 miles and making
the distance in sixteen hours.
It is believed that all the bodies in
the Red Ash CIV. Va mine disaster
have been recovered. The full list
shows forty dead and six injured
The men arrested at Lexington az
cused of completely in the murder of
William Goebel of Kentucky have
been placed in Jail in Louisville.
Starvation is driving the black pop
ulation of Barbados, to desperation
and arrangements are being made to
send 10000 of them to st. Lucia
The Kentucky legislature has ad-
Ijourned sine die, both parties agreeing
that Taylor shall remain governor I'M
til the courts decide the contest
Andrew Carnegie's answer in the
F'rick suit says that the assets of the
steel company are $75,61O,1O4 and ad-
mits profits in 1899 of s21, 900, 900.
Negro men, women and children
some deaf and blind, and Others mute,
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