Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-27
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Negotiations are said to be in
progress for combination of cleo
trical business which will include the
General Electric, Sprague and West
lnghouse companies. The combined
earnings of the companies are over
s30,000,000 year.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, chair
man Of the democratic national COM
mittee, says the issue in the next
presidential campaign will be the
course Of congress in the exercise CT
its power to govern the territory &C
quied from Spain.
Henry NJ. MagiltOn, a once famous
acrobat, is dead at his home in Phila-
delphia after having lain helpless with
paralysis for many years. He was 70
years Of age. By a fall in the London
Alhambra in 1859 Magilton sustained
| incuraDle spinal injuries.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Yerks has ruled that banks Or
| stationers cannot make claims for the
redemption of documentary stamps
| belonging to customers or others, but
may purchase such stamps and make
| claims in their own names.
A number of committee reports were
acted upon by the Supreme Lodge,
Knights of Honor. One Of the most
| important, and which was adopted,
exempts freight brakemen from
prohibited occupations and makes
them eliglDIe to membership.
At Camden, Ark, Tom Watson. who.
with his wife, swore falsely that a
negro Will Bussey had committed an
assault on Mrs. Watson. was taken out
by committee of citizens and given
500 lashes The negro had been SEN
fenced to die for the alleged crime.
| BuckhOrn, the Umatilla Indian, and
a Yakima Indian named John Some
thing, who made a murderous attack
on Chief of Indian Police BristOW
when he attempted to arrest them.
have been overtaken in the mountains
near Pendleton, Ore, and shot, the
former fatally.
The United States and Chilean
claims commission dismissed tn !
claim of the owners of the Itata
against the United States for $3.50, 600
damages. The decision, it is believed,
clears the way for the presentation by
Chile of claims for $4,000 900 against
the United States.
The Ohio supreme court handed
down a decision in the case of Street
! Western Stable Car Line of Chicago
VS.. States Auditor W. D. Guilbert, sus-
tanning the validity of the law by
which Ohio places a tax Of per cent.
upon such part of the capital stock of
equipment companies as is used in the
state.
Among the ordinances introduced IN
the constitutional convention OF
Alabama was one by Mr.. Williams,
Marengo county, to establish a whip
ping post; by Mr.. Pettus, Limestone,
to prevent miscegenation; by Mr..
Green, Calhoun, to hold all municipal
elections on the same day as state
elections.
The reason why President Mckinley
did not go to Harvard and receive the
degree of LII. D. is because he has
been greatly displeased with the op-
position that has appeared to the
granting of the degree, and that he
decided the most graceful way out Of
the matter was to remain away from
the exercises.
Francis B. LOOMS, minister 10
Venezuela, will be transferred to
Lisbon, to be minister to Portugal
; Herbert w. Bowen, minister to Persia
will be transferred to Caracas as
. minister to Venezuela. Lloyd =.
, Griscom, first secretary of the legation
at Constantinople, has been appointed
| minister to Persia.
At Tampa, Fla, Miss Fanny Kilgore
is under arrest charged with causing
the death of Mrs. Emma Hatfield, who
found a note. it is alleged, in Miss
Kilgore's room intended for her hus-
band. She accused Miss Kilgore OF
writing the note and reprimanded her.
1t is alleged that the young woman
assaulted Mrs. Hatfield.
i Judge Hallett, in the United States
district court, Denver, has made a
decision in a bankruptcy case, holding
that the claims of the county under
forfeited criminal bonds are &c be
allowed with the other claims of
creditors, and that discharge N
bankruptcy does not discharge the
lien Of a forfeited criminal bond.
Mrs. Josephine Lederer, aged sc
years, mother of George W. and James
L. Lederer, the theatrical managers,
died at New York of general debility.
She was born in Prague, Bohemia, and
in 1S4S crossed the ocean in a sailing
vessel. 1t was necessary to make a
hasty exit from their native land
because of the revolutionary tendecies
of her husband.
The assessors have decided to tax
church and university property. in
Chicago. The example set by Chicago
may be followed by other cities. If
the action of the assessors stands. it
means that the churches and edu-
cational institutions will be forced to
pay taxes on s25,0OO,000 worth Of
property that has hitherto escaped
The assessors claim that there is no
exemption where the property is not
| actually used in connection with the
different institutions.
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