Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-12-19

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are regarded as an announcement
that the Monroe doctrine hereafter
should be interpreted as discouraging
and disfavoring territorial aggrandize-
ment by one republic at the expense
of another.
To White Sulphur Springs, Mont.
news has come that George Hayes
and three prospectors, who left here
for the Philippines in 1899 and disap-
peared, went into the mountains of
central Luzon, and later the four
bodies were found chopped to pieces
by bolomen.
Lieutenant Colonel Carl H. Potter,
aged GO years, died in a Philadelphia
hospital. He was a retired regular
army man and was last connected
with the 23d infantry. He was
colonel Of the 14th infantry during
the time of the 14th infantry during
Philippines.
The jury in the case of John X
Barr, formerly q prominent merchant
and manufacturer Of Denver, on the
charge Of robbing Mrs Mary Belts OF
| $1,000 worth of diamonds, returned q
verdict Of guilty The penalty is
from one to fourteen years in the
| penitentiary
Fire burned the Masonic block al
| Oldtown, Me-, and caused a total loss
Of $4,000. The building was owned
| by A. F. Bradbury and was insured
The T. E. Allen clothing company had
$4,000 loss, the Masonic lodge $4,000
and the New England telephone com
pany $1,000.
Colonel John Doniphan, a veteran
of the Mexican and civil wars and fol-
| fifty years prominent in the affairs oil
Missouri, died in st. Joseph, Mo. He
was born in Ohio in 1926, was an Odd
| Fellow of national reputation and
was the first president Of the Kansas
City, ST. Joseph and Council Bluffs
railroad.
The Clan-na-Gael of New York com
memorated the 34th anniversary OF
the execution Of the Manchester mar
tyrs." There was a great crowd il
Lenox lyceum. Thomas C. O'Sullivar
was the orator. His argument was
that parliamentary tactics were of ne
avail to help Ireland, and that force
was needed.
Manacled like an escaped convict
NJ. Bernstein Schroeder, Of the Folkets
Avis, Of Copenhagen, arrived in Chi
Cago. He is travelling around the
world on wager. Aug. %, Emil Rex
the editor-in-chief of the newspaper
bet him $2,700 that he could not trave
around the world, manacled and with
out money, in one year, and within
an hour Schroeder hal started.
Foreign.
June &c, 1902, is officially announced
as the date of King Edwards corona
ton.
The Paris Figaro is declared
wrecked by shareholders fight over
the property.
Germans fear reprisals by Russia
as a result of the new tariff bill now
before the reichstag.
Emperor William declares he viii
| dismiss any army officer who violates
his orders about dueling.
AS a result of the recent appeal tc
| the public to take the matter in hand
dueling in Austria is doomed. A SINH
lar movement is on foot in Hungary.
Colombian rebels left behind al
Colon documents showing that they
were in league with Presidents Castro
of Venezuela and Zelaya of Nicaragua
An agrarian leader in the reichstag
| in speech on the tariff declared
Europe in danger of becoming a com
mercial province of the United
States.
The announcement of the death OF
! Jonkherr Van Tets, who was reported
to have been wounded in a duel with
Prince Henry over Queen Wilhelmina
was unfounded.
The Duchess of Marlborough has
completed her arrangements fol-
spending the Christmastide with he1
father, W. K. Vanderbilt, and will sal
this week for America
The Medicinische Woche publishes
an article by a celebrated Russian
surgeon on the use of the violet
electric light as an anaesthetic fol
| surface operations, such as the sew
ing Of wounds. He says that the
rays have also healing influence on
wounds, burns, sores and skin dis
eases.