Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-04

of Omaha for the, long term Thomp-
sen and Rosewater withdrew, ending
the deadlock of three months.
Tom L. Johnson, democratic candi-
| date for mayor of Cleveland, filed his
petition praying for an injunction
against Mayor Farley to prevent him
from carrying into effect the council
ordinance compromising the lake
| front case with the railroads.
| Rts Rev. John B. Brondel, bishop
of Helena, announces that the Sisters
Of Providence, whose headquarters
are at Montreal, will establish a
| novitiate school, the first in Montana,
at Missoula, where the order now
maintains an academy and hospital.
At Martins Ferry, Ohio, work was
commenced on the foundations for a
big steel works for the Laughlin Iron
and Nail company. The mill will be
one of the largest in the country, will
! be independent of the United States
/ Steel corporation, and will employ
| 1000 hands.
The Stubs capital punishment
bill, which, as it passed the Colorado
| house, provided for electrocution as
| the method of execution. was amend
ed by the substitution of hanging for
the electric chair, and passed. 1t is
believed that the house will refuse to
accept the amendment.
The Michigan supreme court has
filed an opinion, upholding the ruling
of Commissioner Osborn, that the
earnings of the Wabash railroad in
Michigan exceeded $4,000 per mile
last year, and that the company must
reduce its passenger fare in Michigan
to two cents per mile.
The fine medicinal springs, set aside
over q century ago for the use of the
public by Lord Fairfax at Berkeley
Springs, w. Va, were dynamited by
unknown persons. The controversy
over the leasing of the springs to out
siders has caused i'll feeling, and the
work Of the vandals is attributed to
this
Thornton F. Marshall, one of the
oldest and most prominent retired
lawyers in northern Kentucky, died
Monday night at his home in Augusta
Ky, aged 80 years. He was ever a
chief promoter of the welfare OF
Augusta and left $35, 1000 or $4,000 to
build waterworks and an electric light
plant.
Consul Lyon at Hiogo, Japan, in a
communication to the state depart
ment, says there were altogether 1894
banks of different organization in the
empire on the 31st of December last
representing $253,249,936 in capital
The figures show an increase Of SO in
the number of banks, and $2,511, 314 in
, their capital during the month.
William Deardruff pleaded guilty
+ yesterday in Kansas City to stealing
SO 100 worth of diamonds from his
employers, Edwards & Sloan, whole
sale jewelers.. He was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary. Deardruff's
father pleaded for his son. The elder
Deardruff is a Kansas City jewelel
and the boy had borne a good reput
ton.
> The body of Egerton Clairmont
husband of George Egerton' the Eng
fish woman who wrote the Keynote
series of novels, and himself a writer
of some note, who died in Los Angeles
, is awaiting burial at the expense OF
comparative strangers, because ii
has been impossible to communicate
with any friends of his family or rela
tives
w. F. McLennan, chief of the war
|
of the officials in the auditors office
treasury department, will sail fol-
Honolulu for the purpose of the pay
ment of the bonded debt of the island
which was authorized by the resolu
ton of annexation and provided for
by an appropriation m, de by the last
congress.
| Mr.. Dawes, the comptroller Of the
currency, has received a report from
the receiver in charge on the condi-
ton of the failed First National bank,
of Niles, Mich. The indications are
that the defalcation of the cashier
will amount to about $195,000 Mr..
Dawes decided to assess the stock
holders of the bank 100 per cent. of
| IlISII uOIulUSS.
A sad bereavement has befallen the
family Of Major James Claggett,
second infantry, commandant at Fort
Thomas, KY, in the death from pneu-
monia of Mrs. Claggett's mother, Mrs
COrnelia De Payster Black, widow of
the late Colonel H. M lack, 7. S. A.
and daughter of the late Colonel
Joseph Plympton, U. S. A. One of
her daughters is the wife of General
NJ. Randall, U. S. A.
The supreme court dealt a death
blow to the so-called debenture bust
ness in Ohio. In the quo warranto
proceedings brought by the attorney
general against the Interstate Invest
ment company, of Cincinnati, the
court entered judgment of custer. The
decision is based upon the finding Of
the court that the methods employed
by the debenture companies are those
OF lottery; that they are fraudulent
contrary to public policy and unlaw-
full
General Van Vliet, retired, died in
Washington, D. c. He was born in
Ferrisburg, VT, July 81, 1915. He
was educated at the United States
military academy and graduated
ninth in class of forthy-two in 1910.
He became captain in 1916 and served
with distinction during the Seminole
and Mexican wars, being present at