Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-12-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Domestic.


throat trouble.
Ex-President Cleveland has been
confined to his bed since Wednesday
with a bad cold.
The governor of Montana onered 10
join Minnesota in the fight against lie
big railroad consolidation.
Western roads resolved to issue
masses as usual during 1902 in spite Oh
action Of the easten roads.
Increase in the postal revenues the
last year resulted in the free delivery
service becoming seIf-sustaining.
Helen Gould and Mrs. Fred Wander
bIt gave Thanksgiving dinners Tor
poor boys at Irvington and Newport.
Miss Estelle Reel, superintendent OF
Indian schools, in her annual report
urged teaching Indians how to farm.
Judge Kohlsaat sentenced a striking
Chicago machinist to thirty days IN
Jail and fined two others for contempt
CAPTAIN Terrens of the steamship
Agnes from Port Antonio, Jamaica, to
Savannah, Ca, shot himself Whlle at
sea.
Senator Allison does not believe any
general reciprocity treaties will be ne
gotiated during the coming session OF
congress.
The governor of Oregon Informed
Governor Van SAINT that his state has
no laws regulating the combination OF
railroads.
DelH Edouardo Francisco, titled
italian, is to be deported because he
arrived in America in unsound mental
condition.
Edward Gregory of Moweaqua, Ill.
died there, aged "a years. He was
father of j. E. Gregory, the postmaster
at his home.
DR.. Joseph Luckie, at one time pres
ident of the Missouri Dental assocla
ton. is dead in Mexico, Mo, at the age
of 20 years.
The defalcation of City Treasurer S
r. Young of Louisville, KY, will eX
coed $4,000. Young suicided. He was
a high roller.
President Roosevelt, with Mrs
Roosevelt and baby Quentin, wen
down the Potomac on yacht for
short cruise.
Congressman Tawney says that /
Cuban sugar is admitted free the
American Refining company will prCh
millions annually.
The wife of DR.. McNeal of Ann ar
nor was swept overheard from th'
steamship Belgenlad by big wave ant
drowned at sea.
At Detroit, Mich, 26 men were killed
and "a wounded by the explosion of {
boiler in the factory of the Pemberth!
Injector company.
Miss Fanny McComb will marry he,
artist sutton, Louis HerZog in New
York, and forfeit 100000 according
to her fathers will.
Striking miners re-established {
camp near Nortonville, Ky, and de
fed the state troops to dislodge them
A union miner was shot.
A young man of Salt Lake City
craZed by the use of cigarettes, liquor
and opium, shot w. s. Haynes of Chi
cage, VINO Will pfODaDly ole.
Police Commissioner Diamond OF
New York is on trial at Albany
charged with neglect Of duty in sup
pressing disorderly houses.
w. V. Morris, formerly an insurance
agent at indianapolis, Ind, has been
arrested on charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
The jury in the Johnson murder trial
at Indianapolis returned a verdict for
life sentence. Johnson, a negro,
killed Joel Combs in a quarrel.
Young COrbett knocked out Terry
McGoyern in the second round of their
fight at Hartford Conn, by a clean
cut blow on the point of the chin.
Mrs. Fred Gerhard, who recently Sc
cured divorce from her husband in
South Dakota, married Henry Clews,
Jr.. son of the New York financier.
The estate of George Bancroft, the
historian, worth about $600,000 which
mas been tied up for ten years, will
soon BE distributed among the heirs.
There, is q strong probability that
tSae department of Justice will attack
the copper, sugar and new railroad
trusts under the Sherman antitrust
act.
Mrs. Josephine Ormsby of Chicago,
the mother of bankruptcies and of four
teen children in seven years. has sued
for divorce, declaring marriage a fail
ure.
Capt. William Crozier is the new
chief of ordnance, having been pro-
NOTED by President Roosevelt over the
heads of 81 officers ranking ahead Of
him
Victims of the Wabash wreck at Sen
eca, Mich, are now believed to num-
Der so, although the officials of the
road declare not more than 20 were
killed
Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay an
nounced the engagement Of their cid
est daughter. Helen Hay, to Payne
whitney. son of WILTON @ whitney of
New York. The marriage win occur
in February.
DR.. David H. Greer, rector of ST.
bartholomew church, New York, de
clines the bishopric of western Massa-
chusetts. to which he was recently
elected.
Martin Hogan, who was convicted
with John Boyle O'Reilly by the Brit
ish government of treason and was res
cued in Van Diemen's Land, is dying in
Chicago.
Amos Buck shot and killed his com
panion Harry Burwell in Helena