Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-12-12
Domestic

man at Hiawatha, Kas., died after
sleeping three years.
Eddie Armines, aged II, of Newport,
KY, stabbed an 8-year-old playmate to
death.
DR.. j. G.. Evans, former president of
Hedding college, was stricken with
paralysis at Peoria.
A New York customs officer tried to
seize a cork leg made in Germany and
worn by passenger.
Yale declined to make an athletic
agreement with Harvard for period
longer than one year
Congress may enact a law increas-
ing the salaries Of the supreme court,
circuit, and district judges.
Sharkey challenged Jeffries TO fight
for the heavyweight championship and
posted a forfeit of $4,000.
Fourteen Massachusetts cities held
elections Ten of them elected re-
publican mayors and councils.
Agricultural reports from Germany
indicate a big shortage in the wheat
and rye crops of that country
A dog upset lamp in house near
Altoona, Pa, and a woman and four
children were burned to death.
1t is charged that Detective Walsh
Is the leader of a gang of Chicago
safe blowers. Walsh denies it.
Amos Rusie, once a famous ball
player, is getting $3.50 a day as a
common laborer at Munice, Ind.
William B. Leeds, an official of the
steel trust, will probably be made
president of the Rock Island road
N, P. Clark. the ST Cloud lumber
man, filed a petition in bankruptcy
with $687,725 debts and $125 assets.
The Russian artist, Makonsky, is
painting a portrait of the president
President Roosevelt is offered the
honorary presidency of the OIympian
games by the international committee.
The Alton road discharged so en-
ployes who refused to work on
Thanksgiving day and strike may
follow.
Judge Emory Speer of Georgia de-
'ided that bankruptcy laws supersede
state laws in insolvency proceedings.
Congress is likely to reduce south
ern representation in that body be-
cause of the denial of suffrage to
negroes.
The will of Clement Studebaker was
fled at South Bend. His estate, which
is valued at several millions. is left to
his family.
The mayor of Decatur was indicted
charged with aiding and protecting
gamblers and saloon-keepers in vioIat-
ing the law
The Rutgers Riverside Presbyterian
church. New York, has called Rev. DR.
Robert Mackenzie of San Francisco TO
its pastorate
l.. X. Salisbury, city attorney of
Grand Rapids. was convicted of ac
cepting bride of $4,000 in the water
works scandal
The first National Bank of BalIston
n. Y, was closed pending investiga-
ZION. Teller G. E. Fitcham is appar-
emily short 100000.
BY the explosion of an ammonia re-
tort in the Hotel Belyidere New York.
two men were hurt and the guests
were thrown into panic.
Three men were fatally wounded at
Rich Hill Mo, in fight between
miLers and a sheriff's posse State
troops were ordered TO the scene.
Frank Jay Gould. Youngest son of
the late Jay Gould and Miss Helen
Kelly, daughter of the late Edward
Kelly, were married in New York.
The Standard Oil company acquired
monopoly in the oil business Of
Borneo and east Africa by the pur-
chase of the Shell line of steamers.
The Isthmian canal commission in
its report to congress recommended
the Nicaragua route, the cost of a
canal being estimated at S1S9,S64, 062.
S. E. Murphy, who is in Jail at
Eufala, Ala, charged with forgery, is
said to have posed as an evangelist
and conducted several religious re-
vivals
The full text of the Hay-Pauncefote |
agreement concerning the Nicaraguan
canal is made public by the senate. |
The United States alone is to control |
the waterway.
Blaine Nance, aged IL, while snap
ping a revolver which he did not |
think was loaded shot and instantly !