Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-14
DOM ESTIC.

The republican campaign book for
1902 has been issued by the republi-
can congressional committee.
It is alleged workmen unearthed
human bones while making eXcava-
lions in the white house basement.
Charles Gardner, kidnapped ten years
ago from Quincy, ILL.,, has found his
father at Wichita, Kas, by accident.
The Siamese crown prince and suite
will be in Washington on Oct. and
S. Their itinerary later will include the
west.
At Chicago four were seriously in
iured while escaping from a fire in
the Sir William Hotel, on Randolph
street.
Miss Elsie Macomber of Des
Moines was chosen by Gov. Cummins
to be sponsor for the new cruiser Des
Moines.
The Alabama republican state ex-
ecutive committee adopted a resolu-
ton to ignore colored delegates to
state conventions.
Arthur H. Swift, member of the
Brown university class of 1882, is said
to be victim of leprosy, contracted in
South America.
Judge Clarence J. Campbell, tried
at Amherst, Va, on charge of ma,
licious assault on Rev. G. H. Craw-
ford, was acquitted.
At Montross, Va, John Horner, alias
Lomax, colored, was convicted of
criminal assault, and sentenced to be
hanged September 8.
A board of inquiry will be ordered
to hear the case of Rev. Etheloerr
Talbot Protestant Episcopal bishop
of central Pennsylvania.
Members of the greater New York
democracy who bolted the Tammany
ticket last fall are planning, it is said,
to capture the organization.
At Cleveland Senator Hanna, as
president of the City Railway company,
was the recipient of a valuable cane
from the 500 employees of the system.
Mr.. Jackson H. Ralston, who IS to
represent the United States before
The Hague arbitration tribunal in the
Pious fund case, will sail August Is.
Harry Tracy, the escaped Oregon
convict, committed suicide near Cres-
ton, Wash, after citizens had wound.
ed and chased him into a wheat field.
Harold HartshOrne, years old, of
New York, has been sued for $4,000
DANCES by his former governess, who
says he administered beating to her.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has an
nounced the engagement of her son,
Reginald, and Chthleen Nelson, young
est daughter of Mrs. Frederick Neil
son.
At st. Louis Mrs. L. D. Cabanne,
in her automobile, chased and cap
tured a girl who had decamped with
two diamond rings, and secured their
return.
At Clarksburg, w. Va, Judge Cot
heard the habcas. corpus cases of
strike leaders for violating an injunc-
ton His decision was against the
strikers.
Harry de Windt, the explorer,
travelling overland from Paris to New
York found village in Siberia where
outside news had not arrived for
thirty years.
B. L. Levinthal of Philadelphia has
been appointed to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Jacob Joseph
chief rabbi of the orthodox Jews of the
United States.
Emerson Gray, aged Is years, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself
at his home in Dravesville, H. No
cause is known except old age and
bad health.
Violence attended the strike of the
motormen of the Camden interstate
electric railway and tied up the line
between Guyandotte, W. Va, and
Hanging Rock, Ohio.
The steamers City of Venice and
Seguin collided in Lake Erie of
Rondeau, Canada, and the former sank
in deep water. Three persons were
drowned and three injured.
At the convention of the National
Retail Butchers and Meat Dealers
Protective association the alleged
meat trust was vigorously denounced
by President w. G.. Wagner.
Indiana Knights of Pythias, en- route
to California, narrowly escaped death
by cloud-burst near Florence, Colo.
The engineer put on steam and two
empty sleepers were wrecked.
The robbers who held up a Burling-
ton west-bound limited train near
Savanna, H., at midnight Tuesday be-
lieved to be hiding in the woody Miss
issippi bottoms escaped
The Italian steamer Sardegna, from
Genoa and Naples, arrived in New
York with the schooner Notice. which
she had picked UP at sea, in tow. On
the Notice were Ga persons
The proposition by the American
Tinplate company to it's employees to
accept a reduction in wages in order
to secure some large foreign contracts
has been rejected by the men.
John B. Mccoy and Aaron Howe,
manufacturing chemists of Indianapo-
lis were arrested, with three women,
on the charge of stealing corn silk +,
which they made into medicine.
Poker on the steamer Kaiser Will