Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-15

made in a cross bill filed by Mrs
Kirk Mr. Kirk is accused IN Dill
of having been an unfaithful husband
and is declared to have treated Mrs.
Kirk more as a housekeeper or govern
ess than as a wife.
During the last three months more
than 1000, 900 tons of steel rails have
gone into Mexico by way of Galveston.
Tex, caused by the railroad building
now under way in the southern re-
publi'.
The last government report found
crops thriving east Of the ROCKY
mountains, helped by rains and favor
able temperature. Rain is needed IN
the middle and southern Rocky noun
tain regions.
Margaret Taylor, the Cincinnati girl
kidnapped four years ago by her aunt,
was found in Italy. and her abductor
will be arrested. Her grandmother
and an aunt are now under sentence
for conspiracy.
The South Bend watch company was
ORGANIZED by Clement Srudebaker and
others to fight the alleged Elg1n-
| WaItham trust. It is capitalized at
81 600, 900 and will have a factory a;
Columbus co..
1t is rumored that Senator John l..
McLaurin's final break from the dem
ocratic ranks will be followed by a
federal appointment. Senator Nc
! I,aurin announces that he will run as
! an independent candidate for re-elec'
ton.
Corliss, Wis, was terrorized by a
drunken gang of Italian railroad la
borers, who began by shooting at
woman and ended by attacking OF
ficers who came from Racine. TWO
were arrested and the others es
| capped
Federation of Woman's clubs ended
the Los Angeles meeting. Mrs. DIMES
T. S. Denison of New York was elect
ed president. Mrs. Platt-Decker re
fused the use of her name. Mrs. g
W. Noyes of Milwaukee was made
auditor.
The federal grand jury in Chicago
will be drawn this month from com
munities strongly antagonistic to the
beef trust, and it is thought will like
/ ly indict the packers for conspiracy
Retail butchers are forming a $4,000,
900 company to establish packing
house of their own.
Congressman Hopkins was Endorsed
for United States senator by the Hi
nois state convention. Joseph G
Cannon. Joseph V. Graft, and William
A. Rodenberg were renOminated TO
congress by Illinois republicans. Johl
A. Sterling was nominated in the neV
seventeenth district.
!. Charged with desecrating propert,
in the South Nashua IN. h cemetery
Arthur G. Marion, Howard Bennet
, and Edward Speigel, students at tn
Lowell textile school, are under arres
at Nashua. 1t is alleged that tn
, young men were members of a part,
which visited the cemetery and de
: stroyed or pulled down % headstones
Four cents is the legal street-ca
{ fare in Indianapolis. A decision reI
! dered by the state supreme court hold
that the three-cent fare is invalid an
: that four cents is the legal fare. Tn
! case was carried to the supreme cou1
r by Charles F. Smith, president c
the Interurban terminal company, VIII
caused himself to be elected from
street by refusing to pay nor
than zee cents and then sued fo
] damages.
The British brig Alice arrived =
I New York yesterday from Barabon;
Santo Domingo, which she left Apr
D., 10. Her master, Capt. Inness, report
: that while his vessel was at Barabon
the rebels came down from Azt1s
4 seized the town and Jail, and liberate
several prisoners. The governmen
! troops appeared soon after and tn
? rebels retired. A large sugar plant;
ton near by was also destroyed b
! the rebels. Much excitement prevail
= ed at Barabona, and the whole tow
] was under arms