Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-05-16

The Colombian minister MADE
formal offer to sell the property rights
and concessions of the Panama Canal
company to the United JLates.
Many clerks, walters, Office boys,
typewriter girls and other women are
said to have made fortunes in a day
in the Wall street speculation.
The third trial of DR.. Kennedy for
murder was begun in New York.
Judge Newburger refused to permit
the dentists wife to sit beside him.
The statement that the state depart
ment has delivered new isthmian
canal treaty to the British ambassa-
dor is officially denied by Secretary
Hay.
Baltimore republicans elected eight;
cen out of twenty-three members for
| the first branch Of the city council,
and all three members Of the second
branch.
A New Haven Court has given 70
Miss Bartholomew verdict of $1,000
against rich Charles l. Parmlee be-
cause he shouted Boo" and scared
her into hysteria.
A cablegram to the Harvard observ-
atory from Professor Krantz. at kiel
observatory, says that the comet seen
at Cape of Good Hope will appear
soon in the northern hemisphere.
The New York Confederate Veter'
ans camp adopted resolutions prals-
ing President Mckinley for recon-
mending that the nation care for the
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/ Il was annouced that plans for the
locomotive combine had been per-
fected. w. Steward Webb was
chosen director in the International
Power company, the parent concern.
A strike among the sawmill en-
ployes at the head of the lakes is
threatened. Two mills are shut down
on account of the trouble and possibly
others may discontinue operations
today.
President Mckinley and his party
reached Los Angeles, after a notable
daylight ride through the San Ber-
nardino valley. They were welcomed
to the state by Governor Gage at Red
lands.
the Mexican ambassador $4,000 as full
idemnity to the heirs Of Florentine
, Suaste, a Mexican citizen, who was
lynched in La Sale county, Texas, il
1895.
l Eccentric young Paul Mccormack
of Poughkeepsie, "to get square on a
local newspaper, published a report OF
< his marriage 70 a New Haven school
girl. He now says that it was 8
fake"
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerkes has decided that as the rate
of tax on tobacco and snuff will no,
be changed by ,ne act Of March 2
1901, no new stamps for tobacco and
snuff will be issued.
: Thomas ]. Shelton, publisher of the
Christian, who claims the power tt
cure disease by sending vibrations t.
. any distance, pleaded guilty to the
improper use of the mails at Denver
AID was fined S25.
Part of the bank of the Erie cana
was carried away at the eastern wide
waters, just beyond the Rochester
city line, doing much damage tt
I manufacturing establishments in the
immediate neighborhood.
I A dispatch received from the mayor
Of Colbert, I. T., announces that small
pox is raging there. The smallpo,
i outbreak in the Salem, Ore, Indiar
= school there has so far resulted in ter
cases and three deaths,
: A deal involving S9,250,s0O in in
: surance circles was made when the
Hope Mutual Fire Insurance com
3 apny of St. Louis sold and renewed. it:
4 policies in the National Insurance
company of Hartford, Conn.
Valet Jones, the chief witnes;
against Lawyer Patrick of New York
accused of Millionaire Rice's murder
is seriously i'll in the House of De
tention and has taken no food for five
days owing to stomach trouble.
> The Italian steamer Vincenzo Florio
which arrived at New York from
Naples, with 80 cabin and 90S steerage
: passengers, is detained at quarantine
owing to the presence of a case Of
smallpox among the immigrant pas
sengers.
Mrs. Thomas Hamilton Burch has
: begun suit in New York for divorce
, charging her husband with cruelty
He accuses her in his answer of great
: extravaganza, and says she gave him
love potions in his food which made
him i'll.
: The navy department has been in
! formed of the departure Of the gun.
boat General Alava from Padang
Sumatra island, for Batavia. This
} vessel carried the eclipse observation
party from the Smithsonian institution
at Washington to Sumatra.
The international Union of Textile
Workers met in annual convention at
Holyoke, Mass. There were sixty
) delegates present, representing the
textile centers of the north and from
) North Carolina, South Carolina, Ken
lucky, Alabama and other southern
states.
Miss Mary LORNA Cort, aged "a
: years, who spent seventeen years in
Siam as a teacher and missionary,
, died at the home of her father in
Denver. She was the author of
several publications on Siam, the most
important of which was The Heart Of
Farther India
Two of the county judges of St.
W. It'll