Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-05-30

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Spiceland was accused of plagiarizing
a speech Of W. J. Bryan.
number of Chicago millicnaires
have volunteered their services as
street and alley inspectors.
Approximately $4,000 machinists are
out in a strike for higher wages and
shorter working hours.
Colonel T. F. Barr, appointed Judge
general with rank OF brig
adler general, is TO retire.
Lawyer Percy L. Johnson OF Bridge
port, Conn, was convicted of en-
bezzling $4,000 of trust funds.
The mayor of gainesville, O., was
fined 5000 for resisting the levy Of the
sheriff on the city patrol wagon.
A national tax conference assembled |
at Buffalo to discuss reforms in fed |
eral, state and municipal methods.
Formal notice was sent ID Con-
gregational churches to take FaTU ID
the Heron trial at Grinnell, June L.
The residents of st. Clair county
Mo-, threaten to mob a judge If he
orders tax levy to pay railroad bonds.
At Erie, Pa, Contractor John Kane
shot and killed William Harrington.
Kane says Harrington threatened him
Rear Admiral Schley arrived in
New York from London to visit his
son, DR.. Winfield Scott Schley, who is
ILL.,
Several hundred workmen employed
on the New York rapid transit subway
struck. The whole work may be tied
up.
The Washington murder mystery
was cleared up by Mrs. L. l. Bonine
confessing she killed James Seymour
Ayres.
Horace w. Means of Lexington. KY,
one of the best known tobacco dealers
in central Kentucky, committed
suicide.
Refuse from a distillery at Hodge
vile, Ky, intoxicated thousands of
fish, wagon loads of which were
caught.
The Baldwin polar expedition will
start for the Attic regions Il June
with armed guards. 1t fears being
followed
Andrew Carnegie gave $10OO0,O00 to
establish free university educational
scholarships for fellow countrymen in
Scotland.
President Mckinley was entertained
by the knights Templar at San Fran
cisco. His trip to Carton was begun
Saturday.
Addison Pigbam of Liberty, Ind,
was caught under a pile of failing
lumber at Kewanee. H.. and crushed
to death.
The pope has made Alexander Nc
Donald, king Of the Klondike,' a
knight CT St. Gregory in return for his
benefactions.
Howard Gould is to build a country
house at Sand Point, Long Island. II
will be on the line Of the famous
Kilkenny castle.
Miss Elizabeth CahiIl, daughter OF
the postmaster at Ramsey, H., was
married to Joseph c. Bllt5cLt e
Vandalia, Ill
Charges that domestic manu-
features are sold cheaper in foreign
markets than at home creates inteIes
in Washington.
: The District of Columbia improve
? nla4t commission is going to Europ'
r to st ideas for beautifyinG tbs
national capital.
j. PicrponJ Morgan had an inter
| Wv WITH President Loubet of France
, tLau!.iaS him for the decoration OF Ii;
5 Legion Of Honor.
Ex-senator Charles A Towne was
r given $3,O0O,000 worth Of stock in {
f Texas oil company for conserving K
D become q director.
. Two children of julius Poss, aget
2 and years, were burned to death a
Y Ida, Mimi. They were playing will
/ matches in a barn.
n 1t is reported that Mgr. Eugene A
4 Garvey of Pittston has been appointe'
S bishop Of the new Catholic diocese 0
D western Pennsylvania
S A delegate to the African Methods
/ church conference at Harrisburg, Pa
declared Booker T. Washington dit
more harm than good.
The Northern Pacific warehouse a
Glendive, Mont, was consumed b
y fire, supposed to have been caused b
sparks from a locomotive.
+ A jury in a Chicago court declared
Princess Chimay a spendthrift and he
n uncle, Thomas R. Lyons, was appoint
ed conservator Of her estate.
:, The Rev. Mr. Greene, a Presbyterian
missionary declares the United State
:; soldiers in Porto Rico were immora
and given to drunkenness.
+ A new sect of agnostics is to b.
formed with headquarters at Cincin
f natl. The marriage pledge will con
tain some startling provisions.
T Heavy rains caused floods a
Asheville and Baltimore, N. c., an
j ! serious damage in Southwestern
:. Virginia and eastern Tennessee.
Frances Ring, aged u, employed i
: at button factory at Dubuque, Ia, fel
5 against a revolving shaft. Her hal
caught and she was scalped. She ma
2 die.
: The northern Presbyterian genera
assembly at Philadelphia received
L report favoring an anti-polygam
+. amendment to the constitution.
A temperance committee of TIL
Presbyterian general assembly sug
n gests that the government establish
substitute for the army canteen.
: Miss Helen Grantley of New Yorl
1 has sued manufacturing firm TO
$4,000 damages for displaying he,
g portrait in a corset advertisement.
E One man was killed, one fatally in
iured and six others injured by the