Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Domestic.


Ind, killed the girl who Tilted him to
marry another.
School children of McKeesport, Pa,
had terrific street fight and one girl
was fatally injured
The American Institute Of Archi-
tects elected Charles F. Mekins of
New York president.
b. f. Filbert has succeeded William
Il. Dudley as president of the Bank
Of Willow Lake, MINI.
The New York ice trust is secure
from competition by reason of a re
Gently secured injunction.
State troops are preparing to go
to Oxford, Miss, where a NOR
threatens to lynch four men.
At Crookston Louis Young was
sentenced to three years in the pen1-
tertiary for grand larceny.
A bill to re-establish the army
canteen has been introduced by Rep
resentattVe Kern Of Illinois.
At Littel Falls, MINI. Peter Gravel
Of Portland, Oregon, was killed while
stepping from a moving train.
At Providence, r L, Governor
Charles Dean KimDau and other
state officers were inaugurated.
Publishing the pictures of beauties
of the Marinette high school brought
them several offers Of marriage.
Edmond Palmer. the Desplaines
banker, lawyer, and liquid air en-
thusiast, was arrested at Pittsburg.
The Hereford bull which won first
prize at the international live stock
show was sold in Chicago for $4,000
The senate committee on military
affairs exonerated General Corbin and
Colonel Heistand in the hemp inquiry.
The United States and it's colonies,
according to a census bulletin issued,
had a population of "a .233,069 in 1890.
DR.. James N. Vann, of Goshen, N.
Y, who has been married 10 times
already, has selected his fourteenth
wife.
President Roosevelt gave a diplo-
matte dinner in the east room of the
white house. 1t was a brilliant af-
fair.
A New York thief broke a big plate
glass show window of a jewelry
store and escaped with jewelry worth
$1,000
At West Superior Principal King,
Of the Allouez school, was taken 20
the detention hospital suffering from
smallpox.
The tax rate in Wheeling, w. ",
has been raised from SO cents on the
500 to $1.35, the highest rate in it's
history.
The senate committee on COM
merce authorized a favorable report
on the bill to create q department of
commerce.
The Dakota Central Telephone
company has purchased of S. H.
Jumper the Aberdeen local telephone
exchange
The treasurer Of Harvard uniyer-
sity reported the invested fund of the
college increased 100000 during the
last year.
Sugar cane growers of Louisiana
held meeting at New Orleans to
protest against tariff concessions in
favor OF Cuba
President Havemeyer of the sugar
trust in his annual report said the
duty on raw sugar amounts to $4,000
600 year.
Senator Hanna prefers the Panama
TO the Nicaragua route and urged the
senate to consider the Panama COM
pany's offer.
There is growing sentiment in con
gress to adopt some plan to relieve
the president from the opportunities
OF office-see&ers.
Former Governor James B. Nc
Creary was nominated for senator by
the democratic caucus of the Ken
lucky Legislature:
The action of state legislatures may
force an amendment to the constitu-
ZION providing for election of senators
by popular vote.
Chairman Cooper Of the house com
mittee on insular affairs introduced a
bill providing for civil government of
the Philippines
The United States Construction
company of Cleveland was granted
concession to build electric railway
lines in Palestine:
At Managua, Nicaragua, General
Santos j. ZelaNa was declared re-
elected president unanimously for an
other four-year term.
A student at Princeton university
is afflicted with smallpox and eleven
are under quarantine. All students
are to be yaccinated.
Perry Belmont, democrat, was de
feated for congress IN the New York
seventh district by Montague LESSER
republican, by S94 votes.
DR.. Frank p Haggerty OF Vienna,
n. J., is 2 victim Of J0ckjaw. said to
have resulted from vaccination which
he performed on himself.
Huntington. w Va, will erect a
$4,000 free library building Andrew
Carnegie telegraphed that he will give
$4,000 toward the institution.
RearAdmiral Schley will file With
President Roosevelt j formal appeal.
The president has said he will not
sign any bill indicating Schley.
Professor Nicholas Murray Butler
acting president of Columbia univer-
sity since the resignation of Seth
Low, has been elected president.
Minnesota's attorney general made
a formal plea before the United State,
supreme court asking it to enjoin the