Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-02

Stock companies are said tC De
organizing in southern China with
capital of 81 900 900 to issue stock TO
Chinese coming TO America so they
may show officials to the port of
entry that they belong to the exempt
class Of merchants.
Charles Won Baumbach of the whole |
sale drug firm of Baumbach, Reichel |
{. Co, Milwaukee, died from paralysis |
Of the brain, aged siXty-One years. He
was well known throughout the United
States. He fought in twelve battles
during the civil war.
At Louisville, Judge Walter Evans
| made permanent the temporary in
junction against the United Mine
| Workers, preventing the union men
| from interfering with nOn-un.on en-
the Chinese 0 Gals who were mixed
ment of union camp.
The United engineering and foundry
company of Pennsylvania, capital
stock S5,500,000 whose principal Of
fee is at Pittsburg, has qualified to
DO business in Ohio, with its Ohio
quarters at Youngstown. Of its cap
ital stock $366,9S0 is to be used in
Ohio
Col. w. A Hemphill, president Of
the Southern Industrial association
announced that the convention of that
society called for Memphis during
January had been postponed. Col.
! hoe Ia 1via Isl
dents and other officers Of the organ
ization.
Post Office Inspector w T Fletcher,
CT indianapolis, is preparing for a
trip to Havana, Cuba, as witness for
the government in the case against
Charles F. W. Nicely, charged with
, fraud in Cuban postal affairs. The
case is to be called at Havana
: January 2.
At Buffalo the board of aldermen has
accepted the resignation of City Treas
urer Philip Gerst, whose accounts are
now undergoing investigation. Gerst
: has publicly admitted that there was
recently shortage in his accounts of
Y over $4,000, but claims it has been
, made good.
John Alexander Dowie, in defending
the suit, in Chicago, against him Tor
l receivership for the Zion Lace IN
l dustries, declared he was not tyrant
surrounded by hordes of willing
slaves. He gave SteyensOn's testi,
J. mony fat denial and said that his
S brother-in-law lied
: Negotiations between the govern
| ments Of the United States and Den
mark for the cession Of the Danish
/ West Indies are dragging. The latest
: suggestion from the Danish side is that
= the people of the islands shall deter
= mine by plebiscite whether or not
). they shall be coded.
Sir Albert de Rutzen, who has sue
ceeded Sir Franklin Lushington as
, chief magistrate of the London metro
politan police courts, is 70 years old
He has been a metropolitan magis
trate since 1870, first at MaTylebone
5 then at Westminster and recently at
/ Marlborough street and Bow street.
Judge S. C. Pedden. enc OF The
I three st. Clair county (MissomD
judges who have been fugitives and
have been imprisoned because the5
have refused to vote certain railroad
bonds in violation Of the order &
: the federal court in Kansas City. have
l agreed to obey the order OF the court
l An investigation Of the state 81
affairs in Kansas regarding prohibit
l ton reveals the fact that in 100
: cities saloons are running. and IN
{ ninety-two they are not. In One-fourlI
j OF the cities where liquor is sold thG
5 saloons are openly licensed. and in
one-half they run without any
| license.
Judge Dunno at Chicago Quashed
the two indictments found several
months ago against John A Hinsey
ex-secretaIy Of the endowment rank
supreme lodge, knights of Pythias
> The charge was that Of making false
afidavits. and resulted from the in,
vestigati0n of the management Of the
funds OF The order. Judge Dunno held
that The afldayits could not constitute
perjury.
The Holland Submarine TopedO-
Boat company has withdrawn its re-
quest for permission to make an oral
argument before the hOard on CON
struction in support of its application
for modification of the speed require
ments Of the contracts under which six
submarine boats are being built The
company now declares it will be able
to not only meet the requirements,
but to exceed them,
William Ellery Claiming, the last of
the brotherhood including Thoreau,
Hawthorne and Emerson, who made
Concord famous, died yesterday at
Concord, Mass. He was born in Bos-
ton, Nov. %. 1913. He was an author
Of marked originality and poetic
| power. His published volumes num-
Der nine, and he left copious manu-
scripts from which selections will be
made for publication later. He mar
ried Miss Ellen Fuller, sister of Mar
gaEet Ossoli, in 1912 and leaves five
children.
Foreign.
! Inc Chinese court arrived at TN