Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-14


ness of his mother, widow of the war
governor of Illinois.
A committee of the Michigan house
will have an advalorem tax bill ap-
piying to the railroads ready to be IN
troduced this week.
Pearle, the 13-year-old daughter OF
William Childers, a Metropolis, Ill,
farmer, was burned to death while
standing near stove.
John Burg of Warsaw, Ind, killed |
himself with morphine, leaving note
saying that his wife's suing him Tor |
divorce was the cause.
A banker of Pine Bluff, Mo-, re
ceived a letter ordering him to place
$4,000 in an alley on pain OF having
his boys eyes burned out
Senator Chandler estimates that
instituted proceedings against Captain
Madden and two policemen VINO
shared an eagle in a park.
Mrs. Frank White, Linton, Ind, was
given life pass over the southern
Indiana railroad for preventing the
wreck Of a passenger train
Chicago Irishmen enthusiastically
cheered John Daily and Maud Come
when they called for a revolt and war
with England to free Ireland.
A corner in the coffee market is
thought to be among the possibilities,
with Lewisohn Bros, of New York,
and the Rothschilds back of it.
| Senator Fairbanks is regarded as
the first choice of the republican
managers for the next presidential
nomination, with Gov. Odell second.
The order allowing Russian war YES
sells to purchase supplies of United
| States bonded warehouses was sus-
pended by the treasury department.
George J. Gould denies that the
Missouri Pacific has any interest in
st. Louis and San Francisco or the
! Kansas, Fort Scott & Memphis roads.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland in a
letter to the Young Mems Democratic
Club of New York warns it's members
against the temptations that come
with political power.
Fifteen Senators were reelected
five former senators were returned
and eight new men were chosen
Bailey of Texas takes Beveridge's
place as the youngest senator.
Francis L. Pettus died at Montgom
cry, Ala, of rheumatism. He was
speaker Of the Alabama house of rep
resentatives and the son of United
States Senator E. w. Pettus.
Recorder Golf of New York re
versed his ruling in the Molineu2
case and now restores the 129 amend
ments which he disallowed. The
case may come to trial in June.
John E. Searles, New York, late
! president of cotton trust, made an as
, signment to Edward P. Dwight. Liza
bilities estimated at $1,000,000 to So,
100000; assets believed to be large.
> A new rule is reported in the senate
to bring that body to a vote on an!
particular measure in a reasonable
time, and much is expected of Vice
: President Roosevelt in this connection
The grand jury of Anderson, S. G.
indicted four prominent citizens TO
J holding negroes in slavery under thu
= convict lease system. COlOred labor
ers We're kidnapped, bought, sold am
threatened with death.
g S. NJ. Colgate of New York, WIZ
figured in a sensational divorce cas-
:. several years ago, has had AleXande
: Dardurand summoned to court on
charge of writing an anonymous AM
abusive letter to him.
IoIrp
sentative Cannon of Illinois show tn
I. total expenditures by the fifty-sixtl
t congress to have been S1,440 ,062, "a;
being $12S, ,091 under the amour
Il spent by it's predecessor.
4 The national supreme court decide
that the Minnesota railroad commits
: sion has the right to compel owner
+ of elevators and warehouses on rail
road lines, but not at terminal sta
+ tons, to take out licenses.
. At the head of a mob of 200 citizens
of Corsicana, Texas, Conway Younge
: is pursuing a negro who assaulted hi:
i wife and cut her throat. The can
ture of the fugitive is but a matte
of time, for bloodhounds are beins
: used.
Near Beaverly Furnace, Wytht
county, Va, Gus Hager, Grant Pear
[ man, and Bud Park were blastin.
rock on the Norfolk and Western ex
tension, and had fired a blast, but NJ
, report followed. They began pickins
the charge out. when it exploded
One was killed instantly, the other
two dying in few hours.
Fernando Yznaga of New York dice
of diphtheria. He was mem
, Der of the banking firm of H. B
Hollins & Co., and his residence was
at Tuxedo, N. Y. He was a membe,
of rich Cuban family, one of whom
married the late duke of Manchester
and is the mother of the present duke
He married for his first wife Miss
Mary Virginia Smith, sister of Mrs
, .. H. P. Belmont. She obtained a
divorce from Yznaga and married
George E. Tiffany A few years ago
Yznaga married Miss Mabel Wright
In 1895 she obtained divorce rom
4znaga and married Count Bella
Zicky of Hungary
Foreign.
Pierre Benoit, the composer, died