Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-10
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John V. Miner, pioneer hardware
merchant, died at Bloomington Ill,
aged IA
Ten aldermen Of Wheeling, W Va,
were indicted on the charge of solicit
ing street railway ordinance bride.
L. g. Parsons dropped dead in the,
union depot in Minneapolis after tell
Ing friends that he was well and fat.
James r. Garfield, son of the late
President Garfield has accepted the
position of civil service commissioner
A famine In whiskey is predicted
because there are only 10000 900 gal
ions, where 25,000,0O0 are used an
nUally.
DR. Edward Everett Hale was pre-
sented with purse of $4,000 at the
celebration of his eightieth birthday
IN Boston.
Warden James S. Reid of the
Michigan City penitentiary will ask
that the cruelty charges against him
he investigated.
The British ship Whitleburn. 1914
days out from Table Bay, mas arrived
at Port Townsend, Wash, after an
eVentfuI voyage.
Mrs. j. Silone Yates, national PIES
ident of the Association of Colored
Women's Clubs says the colored
with white women.
The statue of liberty torch in New
Work harbor is to be dark hereafter
because the house refused $50 900 ap-
preparation for lighting 1t.
The earnings of the United States
Steel company for the first year were
Sill OCT 1876. The surplus. after divi-
dends are paid, will be $24,449,717.
Major General William d. Whipplc
(retired> is dead in New York. He
was II years old and for thirty-si.
years was in active military service
The New York court OF appeals de-
cided that labor unions have a right
to refuse t0 work Win nOn-union men
and to order a strike for that reason.
AT Hot Springs. Ark. Manson U.
Johnson of Anderson Ind. who is
alleged to have forged paper to the
extent of 100000. has been arrested
The Southern States Portland
Cement company, with a capital Of
$2,O80,00o. has been organized in
Georgia by Michigan and Canadian
capitalists.
Wesley r. Elkins. an Iowa boy who
murdered his parents on his eleventh
birthday, was paroled by vote OF the
state senate. He has served ten years
for the crime.
Brakeman Michael O. Furey of
New Philadelphia and fireman were
Killed in a freight collision at Strass-
burg on the Cleveland. Lorain and
Wheeling road.
Reports from nearly all the coun-
ties in the wheat belt say that the
wheat crop in Kansas this year is in
good condition and that the yield will
be very large
A railroad train near RooseviIle.
kas.. struck a carriage containing a
bridal couple and a bride and groom
elect. The latter two and the bride
groom We're killed.
A company has been formed to mine
Ice from the Arizona. and supply the
towns on the Santa Fe and other rail-
roads with the product during the
Ions. oppressive summers.
All antitrust laws of Texas were
made invalid by a decision of Texas
state court of appeals. They are
held to be class legislation. based on
the recent Illinois case decision.
The law of primogeniture which
EXISTS among the Chippewas is to be
tested in the Minnesota supreme
court as regards inheritance of land
hello in absolute fee by Indians.
Owing to the increased receipts from
customs and to expected reductions in
government expenditures, the treasury
officials believe the surplus will reach
800 100000 by the end of the pres
ent fiscal year.
New York policemen are in revolt
against blackmail and refuse to per-
jure themselves on the orders of their
superiors. The revolt is considered
by the mayor as step in the direc-
ton OF reform.
Sanford B. Dole, governor OF
Hawaii. has arrived to explain con-
ditions IN the islands to President