Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-07

the federal party in the Philippines
have decided to separate from the
Church of Rome.
A bill has been introduced IN the
Tennessee legislature providing for
e+atn nensions to veterans of the civil |
war on both sides.
United States Judge w. II. Seaman
of Wisconsin was appointed TEMPORARY |
" to fill the vacancy in the southern
district of Illinois.
The ST. Louis municipal assembly
passed bill providing for s5,OOO,O0O
bonds in aid of the Louisiana purchase
celebration in 1908.
The naval board which inspected
the floating drydock in Havana harbor
decided it is not worth the price
Spain asks-$225,000
Louise K. Schrader, fensing
teacher of Minneapolis, has challenger
Alicia Mower of Chicago to contest
with bare-tipped foils.
In Chicago Mayor Harrison aban-
doned his efforts to repeal the mid
night closing ordinance, which ne SAID
he would enforce.
The will of Mrs. D. Sturges Of Chi
cago gives 100000 to brothers and
sisters and the remainder of s3,OOO,-
600 estate to six children.
Congressman Springer says he is
sure Chicago will win the drainage
canal case and in fifty years be the
largest city in the world.
President Mckinley told callers that
he would call an extra session OF
congress to consider legislation for
Cuba and the Philippines.
A shortage of $4,000 was discovered
in the endowment bank, knights of
Pythias, and charged to trusted
clerk, whose name is withheld.
P. D. Armour's will distributed only
SIS 900 900, the balance of his es,
timated fortune of s6O,000,000 haTiSg
been given away during life.
DIR. Rodermund, who broke small
pox quarantine at Appleton, was ar
, rested in Milwaukee and forcibly
placed in an isolation hospital
Iowa will make an effort to collect
} from the government $25O,O00 to $3.50,
, 900 interest on bonds issued to equiv
Iowa soldiers in the civil war.
Official figures show that since the
opening of the last century our com
merce with the rest of the world ha:
increased more than twelve-fold.
The house committee on coinage
e agreed by a party vote to repor
favorably the Hill bill "to maintain
r the silver dollar at parity with gold"
Assistant General Passenger Agen
= Grain of the Northern Pacific resigned
to become general passenger agent o
S the Oregon Railway and Navigation.
n Mrs. Carrie Nation the Temperance
crusader, called on Gov. w. E. Stanley
r in Topeka, and arraigned him for hi
II failure to enforce the prohibition law
The municipal council of Chicag
2 refused to pass resolution of syn
4 pathy with the people of the BIRTHS
1T empire on the death of Queen Victoria
n The senate finance committee ha
agreed to recommend reduction c
the war tax on beer to $3.50 per barre
The total reduction is about $40, 900
10 000
~ The value of agricultural product
~ countries in 1900 exceeded in valu
two billion dollars and broke a
- previous records.
' The Hundred Year club has locate
~ the oldest man in Izal Rodofsky {
Moscow, 1876, and the oldest woman
Mrs. Nancy Hollofeld, III years oil
of Battle Greek, Mich.
Charles n Faro,1con a wa1I-Lnou
49, insurance man and once president {
- the National Association of Unde
writer's, is dead He was born i
y Oswego, N. Y. in 1916.
At Savannah, Ga, Joseph Bartlett
:. a runner for a sailors boarding hous,
49, was drowned while, with a companion
o attempting to steal a sailor from tn
Italian barkentine Letiza
~ Relatives of Miss Marie Louise Acke
man, the New York heiress who elol
"a ed with Lawyer George E. Wentworth
-, the husband of her dearest frient
have located her in Chicago.
~ 1t is expected that there will b
% active competition among shipbuilder
to secure the contracts for the thre
c
o which will be opened February 1.
Charles Kernen, a Madison, Ind
&C volunteer in the twelfth United State
ir Infantry, is returning from the PhiliI
pines, totally blind. Lighting struc
!, his gun, destroying his eyesight
ID E. J. Lyman, who victimized Gales
burg, ILL.,, college boys by collectin;
I commissioners for getting position a
II guards at the pan-American expos
ton, is being sought by the police.
J. William J. Zimmerman, a clerk il
n one of the branch postoffice stations i
New York, charged with robbing thu
IS mails, broke down in court and fell il
# faint. He was held in $4,000 bail.
The coroner of Rochester, n. Y
/ severely censured the city and asylum
l. authorities for the neglect of pre-
cautions which caused the loss of 8
e lives in the recent asylum holocaust.
e Charles Schmidt put poison in his
glass while drinking in a saloon a
d Helena, Mont, and died. His RICH
J. name was De la Gardie and he wa.
connected with the royal family O.
il Sweden.
8 w. G. McAllister, w. A. Death anC
A. ]. Campbell, slayers of Jennie Boss
Il cheiter at Paterson, N. j., were sen
e fenced to thirty years Imprisonment
and G. j. Kerr was sentenced to fiji
: teen years.