Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-21

awarded $4,000 damages for fall
through a Chicago viaduct.
Congressman Stevens of Min
neapolis names Roosevelt and Shevlin
as the next presidential ticket.
Frank Brunstein, engineer Of Mon
roe Restaurant building, Chicago, was
stabbed and killed by John Rice.
The mail originating in the Chicago
postoffice on Tuesday amounted to
154 tons, the largest on record.
Charles A. Johnson. missing cashier
of the Niles (Mich.) bank, is credited
with forgeries amounting to 100000.
The committee on securing the
Olympian games for Chicago wants
100000 before making application.
A bill DISTINGUISHING 10000 illiterate
voters in Maryland passed the state
| senate and the governor is sure to sign
it.
Lucy R. Lamberton, a New York
school teacher. is suing for divorce
| because her husband won't talk to
her.
The bursting of natural gas main
at Cloverport, KY, caused 100000
damage and left 1000 persons home
less.
! Daniel Jones, a farmer, was frozen
to death on the prairie near Preston,
Kan. He was veteran of the civil
war.
The United States vice consul at St.
Petersburg advises American shoe
manufacturers to establish plants in
Russia.
British steamer Camperdown reach
ed New York with twelve mutinous
members of the crew in irons for
mutiny.
John Henderson, colored, was
burned at the stake in Corsicana
Tex, for the murder of Mrs Conway
Younger.
G. w. Ryan, cashier of the National
bank, Halifax, Pa, was shot and killed
by one of two robbers. The outlaws
were captured
Paris Gibson, of Great Falls, who
was elected senator from Montana is
the counterpart in looks of the late
Marcus Daily.
The William Mayer company of Gin
cinanti, manufacturers of sashes,
blinds, etc, assigned. Assets $4,000,
liabilities $4,000
The Michigan legislature passed a
bill prohibiting the manufacture and
sale of oleomargarine colored to imi-
tate butter.
A sleet and snow storm prevailed
| in states south and east of Minnesota
and interfered with wire and rail
communication.
The appropriations of the fifty-sixth
congress are $12S, 100000 less than the
fifty-fifth and nearly $400,O00,O0O more
than the fifty-fourth.
Frank Hamilton, who killed L. r.
Day in Minneapolis, is made shipping
clerk of the binder Irvine department
of the state prison
President Hadley of Yale predicts
that United States will have an en-
peror within twenty-five years if
trusts are not regulated
Three small children of Guy Will
liams were burned to death in their
home, near Washington, Ind, while
their parents were away.
Schlatter, who poses as a divine
healer, is under arrest at Seattle,
Wash, on charge of vagFancy He
| declares his arrest illegal.
1t is understood the administration
will prepare a treaty abrogating or
modifying the Clayton Bulwer conven-
ton before congress again assemblies.
Andrew Carnegie will build a
marble wall costing 100000 to shut
off the view of neighbors' houses from
his new Fifth avenue residence in
New York.
Andrew Carnegie announces his re-
tirement from active business life and
donates 100000 as fund for super
anuated and disabled employees of the
Carnegie company.
Mrs. Rebecca Wagner of New York,
II years old is heir to a trust fund
established by her uncle forty years
ago. She uspleased him in youth by
her marriage and supposed she had
been disinherited.
A New Haven attorney defending
young women arrested in the COM
pany of Yale students at public ball,
denounced the students and said that
nowhere else were young women ex-
posed to such temptations
At Duquoin, H., Ferdinand French
negro, was strung up by the neck
four times and beaten with clubs and
fists in an attempt of five masked men
to extort from him confession of
crime. French was suspected of
knowing something Of the robbery of
! Henry Crossman's jewelry store,
which was plundered of articles worth
$3.50.
Ernest Dekoven Leffingwell, a Uni
versity Of Chicago student and
athlete, viii accompany the Baldwin
Zeigler expedition to the artic region.
He will be the geologist of the party.
The expedition will leave Tromsoe.
Norway, in June,
John Henderson, a negro, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Valley Young
err, wife of a white farmer, was not
taken from Hillsboro, Tex, to Corsi-
cana for preliminary examination. The
danger of lynching was so great that
the sheriff would not risk it.
The common council of Niles. Mich,
granted a franchise to the Indiana
and southern Michigan street railway
| for the use of the streets through that
Z! city The road is to run from South