Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-03
DOM ESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Yale college gave diplomas to $50
graduates.
The Newport News Knitting mill
was burned.
Cuban veterans will make demand
for pensions.
Natural gas has been discovered III
Roanoke, Va.
Fire at Portland, Ore, Tuesday
night destroyed block of frame
buildings.
James Hubert, pit boss at mine No.
L, Fraser. Iowa, was instantly killed by
q fall of slate.
Senator James K. Jones is men
toned as one of the proposed canal
commissioners.
Application was made for a receiver
for the Standard Butterine company,
of Langdon, d. c.
The republican league clubs
national convention will be greatest
gathering of 1902.
Tars from the battleship Massa 2h l.
IL
in an eighuoared race
May Hendrickson, Brooklyn
schoolgirl is said to have died from
the effects of a terrifying dream.
The tobacco trust is believed TO
have won victory in it's effort TO
control the Chicago retail stores.
A lively debate over civil wa"
nntf tot hxr h.,
Philippine bill discussion in the house
Two hundred more census Office en-
ployes, including Assistant Director
Wines, will be dropped from he
service
Ex-Governor Lowndes says there is
political reconciliation with Senator
Wellington.
1t is reported to be the intention Of
the Federal government to spent as
much as 100000 900 in improving
Fortress Monroe.
Estes c. Rathbone, who has ar
rived in New York from Cuba, blameS
General Wood for his conviction On
charges of fraud.
President John Mitchell in an ex-
tended statement presents the miners
side of the anthracite coal strike, and
offers to arbitrate.
The western immigrant bureau has
practically collapsed; Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas, and Wabash railroads
withdrew recently.
A cowboy tried to shoot through the
hat of John Casperson, at Hennessy.
Okla, but hit him in the head with a
bullet and killed him.
O. e. Miller, president of st. Luke $
society, accused of responsibility for
the sanitarium disaster was released
from jail on $4,000 bond.
Leo Pepperman, of the Philippine
civil service commission, says there
is plenty of good native material to
fill government positions.
At Fremont O., five masked robbers
bound and gagged the night Waterman
at the Fremont Brewing plant and
robbed the safe of 81 900.
New fast New York Chicago-St.
louis trains resulting in great gains
to postal service; New York mail for
st. Louis closes six hours later.
Albert L. Sechrest, who was shot at
his home in Kansas City, Mo-, by L..
Louis Zorn, died of his wounds and
DR.. Fora was held without bail
Mrs. NanetCe Heath McKernnon, a
bride of year, committed suicide
with poison at Lexington, Ky. Her
husband is a druggist of Waco, Tex.
Miss Lucy Bridges and her brothe.,,
Rev. John J. Bridges, of Newark, n.
j., are on their way to Manila, where
she will be married to R. NJ Shearer
A storm did $S,000,000 damage in
Indiana, Iowa. and South Dakota
killed six persons, and injured scores
A tornado in central Indiana ruined
crops in Hancock, Marion, and Hamil-
ton counties.
The senate failed to act on Mr.
Quay'S motion to discharge the COM
mittee on territories from further con-
sideration of the omnibus statehood
bill
The fire losses for 1901, according
to Insurance Chronicle tables, were
s166, o88 .080, an increase over 1900 Ct
s13,o00,Ge8; total of S0,379 fires -
ported.
Mrs. Marion Thornton Egbert, OF
Chicago, after travelling 10000 miles
in search of her child, which was
kidnapped by the father, found her lii
Madras, India.
The directors of the Winona as
sembly at Warsaw, Ind, yesterday IN