Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-31

CuliOm was notified or MS election
as senator at joint session Of the Hi
nois legislature. He accepted in a
speech favoring ship subsidy and an
American canal.
DR.. Redermund Of Appleton, WIS,
rubbed smallpox virus on his face
and mingled freely with residents, ex-
posing many. Citizens are indig-
nant at his action.
The Virginia court of appeals will
not grant a writ of error in the case OF
Richard Phillips, colored, sentenced to
be hung for the murder of Artillery
man New at Phoebus.
Detectives are searching in the
west for Mary Schneider, daughter Of
the late DR. SCHNEIDER of New York,
who eloped two years ago. Her
father left a large property.
Elias Masuras, a Greek of Yonkers,
n. Y, was stabbed in the face by three
alleged anarchists in that city. He
says they brought him here to kill
public man, but he refused.
A movement in favor of Generals
Otis, Brooke, and Corbin may force
General Miles to retire next August,
so the others may be made lieutenant
generals and retired as such.
The Minnesota house adopted
memorial to congress petitionlng for
constitutional amendment providing
| for the election of United States
senators by a vote of the people.
Coroner Blood's verdict in the Ere
donna IN " normal school fire finds
that no officers of the school were
criminally to blame for the deaths of
the six students and the janitor.
The election of United States SEN
ators by popular vote and a plan to
stop the manufacture and sale of cigar
cites in the state were the subjects OF
bills introduced at Springfield, Ill.
Colonel Samuel A. Forbes was found
dead in mis- room at the Meinhart
building in Ashland, Ky. He was 81
years of age and had long been identi-
fed with the development of the Big
Sandy valley.
Col. J. B. Barry of Chicago, ar
authority on horse breeding, says he
can breed sorrel colts at will. He
declares that all blond men and wo
men are the victims of personal or in
herited disease.
Prof Witthaus's fee in the Bosschie
4 ter murder trial at Peterson, N. j., will
be $1,000, while Prosecutor Enjoys fee
will be only SIS, the same as if thu
conviction had been for any othe
crime than murder.
A conference of the house and sen
ate reached an agreement On the arm,
reorganization bill. Power is lef
with the president to increase the fore
and the provision for reforming tn
bureau staff is retained.
Bills to exempt mortgages from tax
, alton and to tax the surplus and un
divided profits of banks and trust an
insurance companies will be intro
duced in the New York Legislature
Gov. Odell favors them.
Representatives of the builders O
Boston's new cup defender have mad
. them to have the rope for the sails o
the yacht manufactured in the rope
walk at the Charleston hayward.
! The Ashaway Savings bank, of Asia
e way, R. l., closed it's doors pendin
f action by the depositors relative t
continuing business. 1t is said that
J.. slight scaling may be necessary if tn
: bank is to go on. The deposits of tn
o institution aggregate about $4,000.
A. G. Blair, minister of Canada
, railways and Canals, in an interview
, virtually announced that he will Pre-
pose legislation during the coming ses
sion of parliament for the appointment
g of railway commission to decid
freight rates and similar matters.
Edward Kelly, Chicago race hors
man, while on his way home, wa
stopped by footpads, who presented re
! volvers at his head and ordered hir
, to hold up his hands. He resisted an
was knocked down and brutally beate
! and robbed Of money and valuables t
, the amount OF $500.
+ Mrs. M. A. Milican, wife of the ed
tor of the New York Medical Journa
S was badly burned in fire which pa
t TALLY destroyed the house in Sa
4 Francisco in which she resided. N
hopes of her recovery are entertained
f She was rescued from the flames i
! an unconscious condition.
g After six months spent in negotis
tions the Pratt & Whitney compan
t of Hartford, Conn, passed into tn
hands of the Niles-Bement-Pond con
pany of New York, which has plant
in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jel
sey. F. w. Gordon, of Philadelphia
is one of the directors.
), William A. Murphy, a prominen
y grocery merchant of Tolono, ILL.,, an
' also prominent democrat political
of the thirteenth congressional dis
;, trict, was found dead in his bed whel
!. his daughter, Miss Gertrude, went int
i his room to awaken him. Death re
suited from heart failure.
Wilton G. Smith of Chicago, re
ceived a telegram announcing the al
rival of the steamer Vaterland in NeI
York, bearing the remains of William
A. Talcott of Rockford, who died il
:, Jerusalem Dec. 20. Accompanying.
. the remains were Mrs. Talcott an.
Wait, the only son of the decedent
. Mr. Talcott died while on a triI
through the holy land.
The schooner Kate and Ann, CaI
J.: tain Walker, which arrived at SAINT