Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-14
Domestic.

The population of Alaska is 63,392.
Saloons at Clinton, Ia, were closed
by injunction.
DR.. Asa Bowman, of Stonington, H.,
died, aged 81.
The Missouri supreme court upheld
the beer inspection law.
President Mckinley renominated
the members of his cabinet.
The capital removal bill was killed
by the South Dakota senate.
Both candidates for mayor of Cleve-
land favor q three-cent car fare.
Vice President Roosevelt promised
to open the Minnesota state fair this
fall
Robert S. Mccormick, Chicago,
General Dewet is now marching on
Fauresmith, in the Orange state.
was appointed minister to Austria
Hungary.
Lord Pauncefote will represent
Great Britain at Washington for an
other year.
Mr.. Alfred Harmsworth harpooned
and captured a porpoise weighing
100 pounds.
Captains R. d. Evens and H. G.
Taylor have been commissioned as
rear admirals.
Montana republican Legislators ex'
pect to elect Carter senator, with flu
sion assistance.
At Omaha Frederick Metz, ST.,
president of the Metz Bros. Brewing
company is dead.
Colonel w. X. Sanger, New York.
may succeed Meiklejohn as assistant
secretary of war.
Ex-senator w. E. Chandler has been
named president of the Spanish
claims commission.
John Herriott, former state treas
urer, announced himself candidate for
governor of Iowa.
The Missouri house passed a bill ap-
propriating $1,000,000 for the ST.
Louis worlds fair.
Ira Putney, for many years post
master of Stronghurst, in Henderson
county, H., is dead
Little regret is expressed by mem
bers of congress at the fate of the
river and harbor bill.
The county attorney of Barber
county, Kan, was given verdict of
81 against Mrs. Nation.
The design for naval memorial
arch and water gate in Battery Park,
New York, has been accepted.
Bribery charges in the Delaware
legislature were referred to the at
torney general of the state
Roy Powell confessed that he killed
Woodbury. Workinger near Freeport,
H., but claimed self-defense
The cotton crop for the year amount
ed to 1872, 500 pounds, of which
Texas produced 1900, 50S,7S2.
The stock of gold in the United
States treasury is S4S9,412,15S, the
largest amount ever recorded.
Robert F. Kennedy of Philadelphia,
president of the Jacksonville and st.
Louis railway company, is dead.
One man was killed and another lost
leg by the bursting of a f1ywheel in
sawmill near Galesburg, Ill.
The Minnesota legislature passed
convict parole bill introduced in the
interest of the Younger brothers.
The democratic majority in the
Maryland legislature is Fastening work
on bill to disfranchise negroes.
The building occupied by the Fay
Stocking factory and Elyria (Ohio)
Gaming company burned; loss, $780,
900.
Senator Chandler stimates that
William A. Clarks six attempts to get
into the senate have cost him $685.
$50.
The Kirkwood Avenue Christian
church of Bloomington, Ind, has re-
ceived word that Andrew Carnegie
will present the church a fine pipe
organ, to be placed in position within
year, to cost $4,000.
Ida Baccka, aged 5, left by her
parents in the family home near
Houghton, Mich, was burned to
death
The Indiana house passed a resolu
ton favoring a woman suffrage con
stitutional amendment but the senate
killed it.
A Dover Oel.) dispatch says an eff
fort will be made to fix up a sena-
torial deal among the democrats and
anti-Addicksites.
Samuel Moser of Pekin, ILL.,, was