Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-30
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The crown prince of Siam called on
a Philadelphia girl he met aboard
ship.
Prof. Edmund James James was in
stalled as president of the Northwest
ern university.
At Carbonate, Ill, large bodies of
kaolin and salts will be developed by
an eastern syndicate.
The University of Chicago trustees
voted to segregate men and women
students for two years.
The subscription fund for the pro-
posed Boss Shepherd memorial in
Washington exceeds $4,000.
The public schools of Grantsburg,
Wis, were closed on account of a num-
Der of cases Of scarlet fever.
William Layman of Chesterton, Ind,
in attempting to shoot a dog shot his
wife, infiicting fatal wounds.
Fire destroyed the dyehouse and en-.
gine-room of the Springtine mills at
Chester, S. c.. Loss, $4,000.
The confession made by a bum" in
Nebraska duplicating Pat Grove in a
train hold-up, proves to be hoax.
Lieutenant w. H. Buck commanding
the presidential yacht Sylph, has re,
signed to engage in private business.
Frank Norris, the novelist, was
operated upon at San Francisco fol-
appendicitis. The operation was sue.
cesSful
Realestate men urged Mayor Low
of New York not to carry out his full
valuation scheme which they declared
is dangerous
At Forest City, Ark, Young, the
negro charged with assaulting and
numbering Mrs e. Lewis, was burned
at the stake.
John C. Kyle, who shot and killed
Joseph Daley, a prominent contractor
of Parkersburg, w. Va, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
John Peterik, owner Of the Aber-
deem hotel at Manitowoc, shot himself
through the right temple with %
caliber revolver.
Marion Nolan, the California
Venus" was shot and killed in Frisco
by Edward Marshutts, a stenographer
The murderer then shot himself.
Rev. c. NJ. Starkweather, pastor of
the Methodist church of Milton juno
ton, Wis, has started q crusade for
the suppression of gambling and other
vices.
Irishmen of the United States and
Canada pledged 100000 at a United
Irish league convention, Boston, to be
raised in six months for the islands
freedom.
J, B. Billiard Topeka, Kas., sued for
injunction against the board of edu-
cation to stop bible reading in the pub
lie schools. His son was expelled for
inattention.
Six indictments were returned
against Earl Whitney and Claude
O'Brien in Lexington, KY, charging
them jointly with the murder of A.
B. Chinn
The Missouri Valley Homeopathic
Medical association at Lincoln (Neb.)
convention agreed that kissing is as
uhLls SlSulS DIS II DIS PHEASANT. DlSSdS6
is often transmitted by the lips and
the practice should be stopped. Hand
shaking is preferable
United States Judge Humphrey at
Peoria sentenced a man to the pen
ltentiary instead OF to Jail because Ill
inois jails are unfit from a sanitary
standpoint.
Winnie. Breese, aged 20 years, of Be
lott, was arrested in Racine, charged
with forgery. Breese said he forged
the checks in order to get enough
money to marry.
William Coates, aged Is years, of st.
Joseph, Mo-, who murdered his mother
six weeks ago in order to get possess
sion of her property was condemned
to be hanged Dec. s.
For the year ending June so, 1902.
exports of cheese were less than dur
ing the last twenty years, and butter
shipped abroad decreased 7,241,357
pounds since 1901.
In an elevator accident in Philadel-