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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
NEBRASKA AGAIN SNOWBOUNO.
Storm Covers Entire State and All
Trains Delayed.

Omaha, March 30.-Five inches OF
SHOW has fallen since yesterday noon.
The storm covers the entire state and
parts of Iowa, extending north of
Sioux City and west to the Wyoming
and Colorado lines. Incoming trains
on the Union Pacific are three hours
Il te. Other railroads report consid-
able delay. In Omaha the street car
service is badly hampered.
Dallas, Texas. March 30.-There
was terrific rain and hail storm over
northern Texas yesterday afternoon.
The damage at Dallas from water in
cellars and stores is estimated at
100000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE

Mrs. Lon V. Stephens, wife of ex-
Governor Stephens, who left the CUB
ernatorial chair of Missouri of Jan.
l, is the first woman to have her
picture hung on the walls of she ex-
ecutive residence. The portrait, which
is done in oil, is life size and shows
the wearer in a handsome reception
toilet with garniture Of costly lace.
Mrs. Stephens is young and ambitious,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
la Crosse Boy For ANNAPOLIS.

La Crosse, March 28.-Congressman
Esch yesterday appointed Vaughn K.
Colman Of this city to the naval cadet
ship at the academy of Annapolis
Three young men from Eau Claire
who had higher standings refused to
accept the place, owing to other en-
gagements. Colman accented
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
LEHiGH VALLEY SOLD.
Philadelphia G. Reading Secures Con
troll Of Popular Jersey Railroad.

New York, April 1.-THE CONNER
cial Advertiser says: A semi-official
announcement has been made that
the Lehigh Valley railroad had been
turned over to the Philadelphia G.
Reading company and will hereafter
form part of the Reading system
which also includes the Jersey Cen
trail. The absorption of the Lehigh
Valley by the Reading system restores
the tripartite combination which was
made by Archibald Mcleod about 10
years ago when he undertook to ANAL
gamate the Reading, Jersey Central
and Lehigh Valley railroads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
SHORTENING UP ROUTES
Other Lines Get Use of the Dayenpors
Road.

Chlcago, March 31.-A meeting of
the officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul. the Chicago, Burlington &
quincy, the Davenport & Rock Island
and the Northwestern railroads was
Reid at Chicago yesterday. The de-
tails were decided upon in connection
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
BRITISH CAPTURE PRlNsLoo.
And Are Sweeping Eastern TransvaaI
of Supplies.

London. March 31.-A special dis.
patch from Standerton says the i'm
perial light horse have captured com.
mandant Prinsloo and a convoy OF
twenty-eight wagons. Commandant
Englebircht, the dispatch says, has
surrendered. The British are sweep,
ing eastern Transvaal clear of every.
thing useful to the beers All stand.
ing crops have been destroyed but
the women and children are being
cared for. Five hundred of them
have been conveyed to Utrecht, where
their wants are we'll attended to.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
Oxford Wins Race

London, March 31.-In the boat
between Oxford and Cambridge yes
terday Oxford won by two-ffths of a
length; official time 22:51. It was
magnificent race for the spectators.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
Russian War Ships at chemuIpo.

Berlin, March 31.-A dispatch re.
celVed here from Seoul, Corea, says
Two Russian warships arrived at
Chemutpo Saturday. This visit had
been arranged for some time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
Oil Wells in Iowa.

Greenville, Iowa, March 31.-Petro-
ieum in large quantities was discov-
cred here last night. Many locations
have been made, and excitement runs
high.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
COAL STRIKE IN OHIO,
FOUR Thousand Men at MassiIiot
viii be Idle Tomorrow.

Massillon, March 31.-The coal
hosting engineers Of the Massillon
district will strike tomorrow morn
ing because the operators have re
FUSED them an eight hour work day
and wage scale of $50 to s2.15.
Enforced idleness to 1000 local
miners will result.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04

and it is said her tact and gracious
ness have done much to assist the
political fortunes of her husband.
Their home, Ivy Terrace, at Jefferson
City, is one of the most beautiful and
hospitable in the town.
Victor Hugo's eldest daughter, Mile.
Adele Hugo, is now nearly " years of
age. She was engaged to be married
to an English officer, who died in IN
dia. On learning of her loss her mind
became affected, and she is still ignor-
ant of her fathers death The two
other heirs of the poet are his grand
son and granddaughter, Georges Hugo
and Madame Jean Charcot, who mar
ried the son of a wellknown neurolo-
gist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
WAS CLEVER WORK
so SAYS AGUINAlDO REGARD
ING HIS CAPTURE.
FUNSTON BROKE UP FUN

lnsurgent Chief Was Celebrating His
Birthday When kansan Game and
Took Him Prisoner-Future Plans
of Captive not Yet knoWn-Wife
May See Him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
UNEASY LIES TIE HEAD.

Another Attempt TO Assassinate the
Russian Ruler Reported.
London, April "A dispatch from
Kieff reports that an officer of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04

household attempted to assassinate
the czar-that he fred at his majesty
but missed and then shot and killed
himself
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
JONES AND JOHNSON
ELECTED MAYORS OF TOLEDO
AND CLEVELAND.
REPUBLICANS lNTHE TAD

Show Slight Gains in State as Whole
Michigan Kills Proposition to In
crease Pay of LegisIators-EIects
: University and Prohibition MAYORS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04
COUNTING THE COST.
Fortune for the Unfortunate Spent
Every Month.

Current expenses for the last month
of the YarinuS state inst itutinno uo,.o.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
RAISING CHURCH MONEY.

1t is very doubtful whether any
church organization whose member
ship is in no better financial condi-
tions than are those of the A. NJ. E.
church of this country has ever
raised more toward church eX-
tensions than has it. At a re-
cent meeting OF the financial
board Of the African Meth
odiSt Episcopal church of this coun-
try it was gwen out by the financial
secretary that within the past twen-
ty-one years the enormous sum of
$1,666,O0 had been raised through
the efforts Of the members alone, and
the same had been expended in the
ere'tlon Of church buildings IN this
and other countries. None of this
amount has gone for any other pur-
pose, save and except for the build
ing OF churches as SAID above. 1t IS
most remarkable that such a sum
could be raised in so short a time and
especially from class of people
VINO, for the most part, are badly
over-burdened with poverty misery
and want. Such a vast sum for such
purpose must prove to those antag-
onlsuc to the race who has
so cheerfully raised it that the
members thereof have succeeded ex-
ceedingIy well in establishing the
fact that the church and race will
yet become self-sustaining from
religious standpoint.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.

Much is being said throughout the
United States through the columns
Of the press about the progress that
the South is making at present.
Some of this may be true, but on
the whole it is but fabric of vi
sion. 1t must be and is admitted that
there are sections of the South to-
day that are forging ahead from an
industrial standpoint about as rapid
ly as some of the sections of the
North and the West, but on the
whole, the South is still a wretched
waste Of land and wealth, and it will
require a half centenry of the most
energetic labor to bring it back to at
least normal condition. Ninety
per cent. of the homes and the farm
lands of the South are mere abodes,
and show no more signs of being
human habitations than the hut in
which you camped in the mountains
last season in your summer outing.
Even in those sections where much
material progress is being made the
homes among the poorer classes,
both white and black, are more how
els than homes, and such as no ten
ant in the North would think of liv-
ing in even during the dog days OF
August. No care or consideration is
given to the homes of those who cul-
tivate the soil and who are the bone
and sinew Of the working world of
the South, and no more care is given
to providing the working people with
wholesome food than is given to the
providing of them with comfortable
homes. While the South may have
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
BLACK MAN FAVORED.

Strange as 1t may seem, the Jessie
Morrisoni murder case, accounts of
which occupied a large amount
of space in the daily papers, when it
was on trial some months ago, and
the jury disagreed, which necessitat-
ed a second trial, and which trial is
now in progress, the first juryman
that was accepted by both the state
and the defendant was a Negro la
borer. The Associated Press dis
patches report him to be a man Of
average intelligence, and seemingly
possessing plenty Of ordinary horse
sense. 1t is rather remarkable that
this man, coming as he does from the
most despised race Of the land,
should be placed upon jury which
will hold the destinies of one Of
Kansas most beautiful and talented
young women in the hollow Of his
hands. This is a co-incident in the
state Of Kansas which is deserving
OF much more than passing consid-
Grafton. The reader will remember
that it is not quite a year yet since
a cOlored man was burned at the
stake in Kansas merely on suspicion
OF having wrongfully injured a
white girl, and now member Of the
same race is sitting in judgment on
a white girl, who is being tried for
her life, and he is considered by both
her and her attorneys to be eminent
ly suited and worthy in every respect
to pass on her fate. This is the most
right-about face of affairs that has
occurred in a good many years, even
IN Kansas, where things are done
without much consultation or consid-
Grafton.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
DANISH ISLAND PURCHASE.

There is at present joint high
commission IN session at COpenha-
gen, composed of representatives
from both the United States and the
Swedish governments, with the view
Of arranging for the latter to trans
fer all Of its rights and possessions
to the Danish West India islands to
the former. These are very fertile
and well developed insular posses
sions, and, owing to their proximity
to the United States, the authorities
Of this country have long desired to
become the true possessorS thereof.
1t is learned from a correspondent
from one Of the islands that the citi-
zenship is made up almost wholly OF
the descendants of native Africans,
and the face of a white man, re-
gardless Of his nationality, is the ex
ception instead of the rule on the ISL
ands, either in the city or the coun-
try. These people, however, are
highly educated, having sent their
children to the various European
countries, where they were educated,
and afterward returned to the island
as a part Of its citizenship. Owing
to the fertility Of the soil and the
high state of progress that they have
made there is a vast amount of
wealth among the citizens, and they
naturally hesitate over any proposal
of becoming American citizens. All
things considered, from a CONNER
cial standpoint, the merchants of the
islands are quite willing to become
part and parcel of the United States,
if they be assured of fair treatment,
but they realize in doing this they
will be accepting the guardianship Of
country in which race prejudice is
the chief cornerstone, and not being
accustomed to such conditions, ow-
ing to their relations commercially
and otherwise with the various Eu-
ropean countries, they do not exact
ly see what the outcome OF such a
change will be, and Judging from the
present outcome of the race troubles
in the United States, it is far from
being very inviting to them. So
soon as the United States becomes in
possession Of the Danish West India
islands then there will at once bob
up another difficult race problem
for this country to solve, and it
would appear to the average citizen
that there are already a sufficient
number Of such problems before the
statesmen of this country for solu-
ton without buying any more.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
Of Men and Things in the
Public Mind.
THE WEEKLY REVIEW
Prince-Kennedy Murder Case =
South Has a Fictitious Progress
jay Gould's influence Still
Much in Evidence-George and
Helen Gould Following in the
Footsteps oftheir Father Other
Points of General Interest.
PROTECTED HER HONOR.

Kansas City, Mo-, has been stirred
from center to circumference for the
past twenty days over the trial Of
Mrs. Lulu Price-Kennedy for the
murder of her husband some months
ago, which trial resulted in verdict
of guilty Of manslaughter and ten
year sentence in the state penitenti-
ary being imposed upon her. This
was a most remarkable affair and
one in which not only Kansas City,
but every locality IN the United
States should feel personally inter
ested in its outcome, which prompts
this comment. Mrs. Kennedy in her
maiden days was a most beautiful
and attractive young lady, highly ed
ucated, cultured and refined. Her
striking features and winning ways
caught the eye of Masher Kennedy,
and he at once set about to con-
tinue her ruin. Having succeeded
In running this most estimable young
lady, be was forced at the mouth of
shotgun to marry her, but he abso-
lutel y refused to live with her as her
husband and the father of her child,
and entreat as she might he turned
a deaf ear to her. Crazed from this
brutal treatment she went to his Of
flee burning under her shame and
disgrace, demanded of him whether
he intended to protect her and her
child and receiving a cold and indif-
ferent answer in the negative, she
whipped out a revolver and shot him
instantly dead and then kicked his
dead body in the face. While the
laws Of this land say that murder
shall not be committed, yet, if wo-
man was ever justified in shooting
the heart out Of a human fend, this
woman was of all women the one.
The man who will cold-bloodedly,
deliberately, beguile young and in
experienced girl in such a manner
as to bring about her ruin, make her
a despised outcast in the eyes of soci-
ETY. and implant on her fair form and
face lifelong stigma Of disgrace is
the man that should be murdered
like a dog, and that, too, regardless
of his mushroom standing in the
community in which he lives, fin
ancially, socially and otherwise.
1t is a case of just retribution,
and it is to be regretted that
there are twelve men in the United
States that would render a verdict of
condemnation against any woman
for so protecting her girhsh chas-
tity.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
GEN. HOWARD'S WORK.

United States Commissioner Of
Education Harris has given out the
statement that Howard University
takes the lead in higher education
for colored youths over all others in
this country. While this school
makes no great pretenslons of indus
trial trainings, as does the Tuskegee
and Hampton, yet it has made itself
just as famous as either Of those in
stitutions along industrial lines, and
far more so along other lines. How
ard University makes a speciality of
legal and medical professions, and
also in preparing young men for the
ministry, and it sends out, generally
speaking, the ablest students that
are to be found in this or any other
country among colored people. In
fact, no school, from a legal stand
point, ranks as an equal with it, and
the same might be said Of it as to the
medical department. This institu-
ton of learning for colored folk was
first established by Gen. 90. How
ard, and through his influence con
gresS has from time to time annually
allowed the institution $4,000
and also appropriated parts of
other funds set aside for educational
for its use and maintenance.
1t Is largely attended by students
from all parts Of the country, and
from even foreign countries, and at
present it has an enrolment of 915
students. The tuition is free and
the students can get board and lodg-
ing on the grounds, which is made
up Of twenty-acre tract in the
northern part of the city, at SO per
month. A great many students,
however, board in the city proper
and do odd jobs about the national
capitol and other places Of business
to pay their board while attending
school.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21

The above incident reminds the
writer that Kansas for the most part
is one Of the best states in the Union,
if notNthe very best, so far as the So
cial relationship between the white
and the black folk is concerned.
No state in the Union from time to
time, since it has been admitted into
the Union, has accorded the colored
people in general such fair and i'm
partial treatment in every respect as
has bleeding Kansas" Her citi-
zens may be feverish and fitful and
reverse themselves with the changes
of the moon, but regardless Of their
frequent change Of heart in matters
Of state and local Importance, they
are always the same in their treat
ment of the colored folk. Isolated
cases where colored persons are bad
ly treated by enraged whites are
sometimes reported from the state of
Kansas, but on the whole from the
Mississippi river to the Colorado
boundary, the citizenship of Kansas
gives the black man to understand so
long as he will be a man and attend
to his own business, as do the white
citizens, he will be accorded the same
treatment and given the same show
to make a living as the self same
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
GOLD IN ALEUTIAN ISLANDS.

Mining experts are quite satisfied
at present that gold in paying guam
titles is to be found on the Aleutian
islands, which extend out from Alas
ka into the Pacific ocean toward Rus
sian territory. If gold in anything
like paying quantities is ever found
IN those islands it will bring about
one OF the greatest Stampedes that
the United States has ever seen. The
stampede to Alaska will not compare
IN a single instance with such stam-
pede as would be to those islands
under such an excitement. Accord
ing to a geographical report there
are one hundred islands in that
group, and they have a territory Of
$4,000 square miles and extend out
into the Pacific ocean some 5000
miles west of Oregon, and they ex-
tend down from the north to about
the same latitude as Washington and
Oregon. Unlike the Alaska gold
fields, these islands can be made
profitable not only for mining, but
for the raising OF grains and vege-
tables. In other words, they will
soon become self-sustaining, ire
Spectlve of the number of persons
who might flock there. They are
not so cold as are the mining regions
of Alaska, and lie directly between
this country and Japan and China,
and would be a splendid halfway
resting place for ocean vessels ply
ing between the Pacific coast points
and the Orient. 1t is to be hoped
that this mining report is not with
out foundation and that gold in pay
ing quantities will be found through
out the length and breadth of this
great group Of islands. When these
islands belonged to Russia, they had
quite citizenship and quite an
amount of farming was carried on, in
which grain, vegetables and pota-
toes were raised at a profit.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
LOUISIANA TROUBLE.

The wholesale lynching of Ne
groes in the state of Louisiana on
account of the numbering of one of
the prominent white men by the Ne
groes has been averted by the timely
interference of the governor of the
state. While the excitement lasted
it was at white heat and the country
was prepared to hear Of most any
form of barbarous brutality being
perpetrated on the Negroes there,
whether guilty or innocent.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21

more industries in operation
now than it had at the
close of the war or cou-
pie of decades thereafter, yet the
general condition of the country is
no better now than it was prior to
the war. 1t is a country totally de-
void of progress, save and except
here and there where some man has
either imbibed the spirit Of the
Northerner or is himself a Northern
man by birth, sojourning there for
reasons only.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
JAY GOULD LIVES ON.

The memory of Jay Gould, the
financial wizard of Wall street and
the railroad king, still lives, and his
will is being carried out the same
today as it was when the man him
self actually lived and was engaged
in cornering the stock mar
kets Of Wall street. When
Jay Gould died his fnan-
cial mantle fell upon his son
George J. Gould, who the father was
wont to say, ''is my son George, a
child after my own heart" While
George Jay Gould may not have all
the dash of his father, he quietly
goes about things, and in the end
succeeds, just as well as did his
father. He is the center of both the
railroad and financial worlds Of this
country. The hand Of George Gould
is to be found here and there
and wherever any great finan-
cial deals are being made,
and with the active aid and
support of his sister, Miss Helen
Gould, it begins to look as though
the Gould family Of these latter
years will even attain a higher de-
gree Of success than did the famous
Jay Gould, whose deals and dealings
paralized the entire civilized world.
Should the Goulds succeed in build
ing the trancontinental roads from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, as they
now have in mind, it will place the
Gould family in the first rank Of
the entire United States citizenship
and emblazon their names on the
walls of time, from which it will re-
quire centuries to efface.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21

The japanese government is COM
pleting a university exclusively for
women near Toxic, which was built
by funds contributed by rich Japan
ese philanthropists.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
BROTHER
IN BLACK
Under Critical Eye of OBJ
serving Men.
BORROWED THOUGHTS

A. NJ E. Church Raises Millions
for It's Own Extension-Danis
West Indianman Not Favorably
Impressed with Uncle Sam
Howard University Black Man
in Kansas More Home Hospi-
tality Might Save Young Men
from Ruin.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-06-21
OF
INTEREST
Gathered From the Most Re-
liable Sources.
.PUNGENT POINTERS

Many Facts and Figures, Statistical
and Otherwise, of General Pub
lie Interest, Collected for Imme-
diate Use for the Busy, Bustling
Business Man Things in @
Nutshell as You Like Them
Realm of Religion.