Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-02-14


ed. Loss, $150,000.
Addison Cammack, for many years
one of Wall streets most prominent
spectators, is dead.
The house committee on st. Louis
fair favorably acted upon the bill ap-
$5,OOO,O00
John Glenn of Columbus, Ind, shot
his wife, slightly wounding her, and
then killed himself.
A bill before the South Dakota legis-
lature removes the time limit from res
idence in divorce cases.
James Goodnow, son of the consul
general at Shanghai, was elected
mayor of Excelsior, Mimi.
Mrs. Nation wrecked another saloon
in Topeka and gained the sympathy OF
the courts and the police.
The national w. C. T. U. officers sug-
gest a Temperance tent as a substi-
tute for the army canteen.
F. J. Tack, express agent on the
Wisconsin Central, is missing, and is
charged with taking $1,000.
The Michigan legislature refused to
increase the number Of supreme court
justices from five to seven.
4 bill to make electrocution the le-
gal method of execution in Illinois
was introduced at Springfield.
Senator Sullivan Of Mississippi
created q scandal in Washington by
Shaping a young woman's face.
Charles Allen a postoffice robber.
who escaped from Jail in New York in
1895, was found in English jail.
Georgians in Forsyth publicly
burned a history of the United States
which called the confederates rebels"
Two hundred and fifty saloon-keep-
ers were arrested in Chicago, charged
with keeping their places open Sun
day.
H. E. Youtsey, convicted of CONF
plicity in murder of Goebel in Ken
lucky, was sentenced to life imprison,
ment
Miss Frances Caspari of Baltimore
is under arrest for persuading friends
to invest $4,000 in mysterious enter
prise.
Two persons persisted and three
were so badly hurt that they probably
will die in a hotel fire at Binghamton,
IN. Y.
Beall, populist, furnished the first
break in the Nebraska senatorial
deadlock by voting for Hinshaw, re
publican.
Prince Won Auersperg, who married
Millionaire Hazards daughter in 1899
at New York, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy,
| The Masonic Temple went up in
flames at Toledo, causing a total loss
of $150,O00, Of which $4,000 is on
the building.
The city marshal at Metropolis, H..
! killed in an attempt to arrest two
Kentucky desperadoes, who were final
ly put to jail
| Mrs. Nation spoke before the Kan.
| sas legislature, scoring the representa-
! tives who voted against allowing her
| to be heard.
Countess Castellane has sold to her
! brother, Edwin Gould, her interest in
the New York realty left by THEN
father for $43 500.
Mayor HarJenbower Of Des Moineq
is a candidate for democratic nomina
ton for governor unless the republi
cans named Conger.
Timothy j. Brennan of New York
vanished from his wife's sight Dec
so with $150,000 in cash and draft
An inquiry is on foot
Mrs. Pearl Carley Hunt has been
granted a decree of divorce from Rach
ard H. Hunt, the noted architect and
clubman of New York
A La Crosse man makes the start
| ling discovery that a wealthy nun
now dead, whom he supposed was his
aunt, was his mother.
Gov Nash decides to use the militia
I if necessary, to stop the Jeffries
Rubin fight at Cincinnati, regardless
of the courts decision.
The Union Pacific syndicate-W. Z
Vanderbilt, E. H. Hartman and jacob
Schiff-have bought control of the
| Southern Pacific railway
M. B. Plant, son Of H. B. Plant, said
in a New York court that he would
rather have $4,000 a year for life
than $15,000OO0 or $16,O00,0OO out
right
J. Provost Mason, who stole $4,000
from the Continental National bank
New York shot himself in his home q
! few hours before his case was to come
up in court.
Typographical Union No. has de
| cided by formal vote to withdraw the
! boycott against the New York Sun and
! to take no further hostile steps against
! that newspaper.
Gen. Tribe Tribe, leader of the
! Colombia revolutionists, arrived in
New York city. He said his party will
soon be in a position to push the war
with greater vigor than ever.
! Joseph Muldowney, a clerk in the
! North American Transportation and
! Trading company's store at Rampant,
on the Yukon, was shot and killed De
cember by Don Carrollton.
During her recent stay in Chicago
/ Madame Sarah Bernhardt took out q
life insurance policy for 100000, nam
! ing her son, Maurice Bernhardt, as the
beneficiary. The annual premium will
! be $500
John Henry Smith, Americas rich
est bachelor, will entertain New York s
society at dinner dance on Feb. IA
at the Waldorf-Astoria. There will