Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
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IL lS SIhJCu CildL JuS SIeSI LIuSI Will
spend $8.0OO,O0O on improvements in
the Pittsburg district.
The grand jury at Elizabeth City,
N c., will take up the Cropsey
murder case today.
At saltwater, fire destroyed the
store building at the Atwood "B"
mill. Loss, $1,000, insured.
Commander J. w. Hawley, of the
navy, says some of the assertions are
attributable to short rations served
seamen.
James ]. Hill declared the govern
mont charges against the Northern Sc
curieties company false and mali
ciouS
Professor Thompson of Chicago uni
Versity denounced Mrs. Astor's state
ment that only college bred men are
gentlemen.
L'Ambassadeur, a bulldog worth
$1,000, died recently at the Coliseum
Chicago. where the dog show will
open today.
Friends o. Senator Hanna say he
viii not seek the republican nomina
ton for president in 1904. but will
help Roosevelt
The Iowa senate passed a bill re-
curing railroads to post bulletins
giving the time of arrival and de-
parture of trains.
Awakened by large shepherd dog,
Mrs Rosalie Pressfick and her seven
children escaped from their burning
house at Baltimore
Directors of the Pennsylvania road
authorized a $50,OO0,00O bond issue
for building tunnels under the Hud-
son and East rivers.
Attorney General Knox filed suit in
the United States circuit court at St
Paul Mimi. to break the North
western railroad merger.
The senate committee on isthmian
canals decided to report in favor of
the Hepburn bill which provides for a
canal through Nicaragua.
At Beaver Falls Pa the Hanold
block was destroyed by fire. The
tenants, Smith & Finklehor. pants
manufacturers, lose $4,000.
C. ID. Thompson of Port Huron.
Mich, formerly supreme finance
keeper of the Maccabees, was ar
rested Tor embezzling $1,000.
William StOothoff, who 20 years
ago owned S1,000.000 in real estate at
Far Rockaway, n. Y. is now serving
sentence in jail for vagrancy.
Secretary of the Navy John ID.
Long has retired from the cabinet and
has been succeeded by Representative
VIM. H. Moody of Massachusetts,.
Simmons college. which is to be
established in Boston with a fund of
$l,500,000. is to be devoted entirely
to the education of working girls.
The main building of the Unity
Collar and Cuff company. in North
bennington. VT. was burned The
loss is $4,000, insurance $4,000.
The Boston strike now involves
more than $4,000 men. The rail-
roads refuse to arbitrate and 10000
more workers may join in the fight.
Fire destroyed the storage ware
house of the Brunswick Bake COLLEEN
der company at 151-l6l Superior street,
Chicago, causing a loss of S175.000
The United States supreme court
declared unconstitutional the Illinois
antitrust law because it exempts
agricultural products and live stock.
A strike of 10000 Illinois miners is
threatened by the failure of United
Mine Workers to adopt the scale
agreed upon by joint scale committee.
Benjamin d. Green and John F.
Gaynor, defendants in the Carter con-
spiracy case. Savannah. Ca. are re-
ported TO have disappeared COM
pletely.
Thomas A and William Edison.
sons of the wizard" were arrested
in Elizabeth City, n. c., and fined On
the charge of being drunk and dis
orderly.
Foreign Ambassadors, it is said,
threaten to stay away from the
capitol during formal affairs unless
they are given precedence over the
supreme court judiciary.
Rev. George w Brownback.
graduate of Moody Institute. Chicago.
has left Reading, Pa. to select a wife
from ten candidates for his hand.
representing half a dozen states.
More than fifty persons were in
jured in a Madison avenue trolley car