Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-02-27

will have to be decided by the courts
because of doubtful ballots.
The postmaster general has re-
ceived a conscience contribution nf
S27 in currency from Chicago.
A cut in the price of distilled
spirits is announced and now the
basis for finished goods is SIPS.
In New York ex-Police Chief Devery
invested s35O,00O in real estate, but
declared he acted for friend.
The Denver city tramway lines
were sold to the Whitney-Widener-
Elkins syndicate for s8,500,000.
The condition of Theodore Roose-
welt, Jr., who is recovering from
pneumonia, continues to improve.
Phillip Stein Miller of Terre
Haute became insane from brooding
over killing a man in self-defense.
About two-thirds of the business
portion Of Woodbury., Cannon county,
Tenn, was burned. Loss, $4,000.
The senate foreign committee
made a Favorable report on the bill
to reorganize the consular service.
Charles M. Schwab, president Of
the United States Steel corporation,
returned to New York from Europe.
The factory of the Hampden Corun-
dunn Wheel company, at Springfield
Mass. was destroyed. Loss, $4,000.
Elias Holiday was nominated for
congress at Greencastle by the re-
publicans of the fifth Indiana dis
trict.
Albert o. Klein of Chicago, a stu
dent at the University of Michigan,
committed suicide by taking prussic
acid
One of the worst storms of the
winter ragged along the Atlantic
coast. There was a blizzard in New
York.
Nine convicts escaped from Shelby
Farm, Bolivar county Jackson, Miss.
by saving their way through the
cage.
At Spring Valley, MINI, Charles
Cady, aged II years, accidentally shot
himself with a rife. His recovery is
doubtful.
Superintendent of schools at Koko
mo, Ind, reported that 400 boys out
of 1900 in the city schools smoke
cigarettes.
Suffrage association reelected Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait of New York
president.
A dock-tailed horse was exhibited t.
the Maryland legislature to further
the bill prohibiting such inhumant
mutilation.
Twelve Princeton students were ar
rested at Trenton, N. j., for painting
the class number on battle monument
and houses.
The honor list Of the senior class
at Vassar college was announced
Clara Eliza Axtell, of Nashville
Tenn, leads.
Topeka gave saloonkeeprs $1,000 in
settlement of damage suits against
the city growing out of Carrie
Nations raids.
John R. Wolff, formerly controlle
of Milwaukee, who was released from
the insane asylum, has again beer
put under restraint.
Mrs. Charles Purdy of Toledo, VIII,
kept a hotel in the Klondike ant
dealt in mining claims, has made !;
fortune of $1.OOO.O0O.
The Riverside Company's Ashland
(Neb.) ranch. in which is the larges
herd of Hereford cattle in the world
was sold for $4S1 900.
A footpad pressed a pistol agains
the pocket of ANNA Anderson, San
Francisco girl, and fired, infiicting {
probably fatal wound.
Alfred Witherspoon, president of {
bank at Lawrenceburg, Ky, wa:
fatally shot in a street duel will
Judge Porter Walker.
At West Superior, Wong Sun, ;
Chinese laundryman, was arrested OF
the charge of being implicated in thu
murder of Charley Vim.
Masked men overpowered the
jailer at New Madrid, Mo-, and took ;
negro, Louis Wright, short distance
from town and hanged him.
The underwriting syndicate of thu
United States Steel Corporation ha!
declared it's first dividend and WI:
distribute $l0,OOO,OOO in profits.
Prof. o. A. Hillyer of Atlanta, in {
lecture at Milwaukee stated that the
negroes in tho south have twice thu
educational facilities of the whites.
1t develops that Lieutenant
Clarence M. Furay committed suicide
at Columbus barracks because hi!
sweetheart at Omaha became blind
d. S. Rhodes killed a large bea
just north of the city limits of Benz
idI, Mimi. 1t measured over eigh
feet long and made a desperate fight
In the Patrick trial Valet Jones ad
mitted he killed Millionaire Rice
carrying out the instructions of Pat
rick. The victim was chlOrofrOmed
a house republican caucus decidcC
to ask the committee on rules to ar
range for the appointment of a com
mittee to investigate suffrage in thu
south.
EX-Secretary of the Treasury Ly
man J. Gaga is to become presideI
of the United States Trust company
of New York, with a salary of $4,000
| a year.
The foreign relations committee o
the senate decided that the re
ciprocity trade treaties are not dead
but can still be acted upon by tt,
| senate
An explosion of gas in the house o
E. Elmer Gould West Brookfeld
! Mass, killed Mrs. Could Mrs. Mary