Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
DOM ESTiC.

The Vermont legislature probably
will renounce state prohibition of the
liquor traffic.
The president intimated at a confer
ence on antitrust legislation that if
need be an extra session will be called
to take up the matter.
Gerald Birney Smith, professor of
systematic theology in the University
of Chicago, was ordained at the Hyde
Park Baptist church, Chicago.
The ministerial alliance of Salt Lake
had adopted resolutions strongly op-
posing the proposed election to the
United States senate of Reed Smoot.
A sixteen inch coast defense gun
shipped from Watervliet arsenal to
Sandy Hook is forty-nine feet long and
shoots 2,370 pound projectile twenty
one miles.
At Hesperia, Mich, Mrs. Walter
Knickerbocker, aged 6S, living at Men
acreek, Mich, was burned to death and
her husband, aged 80, was fatally
burned
DR.. Loarenz visited little Lolita Ar.
mour, Of Chicago upon whom he had
operated. She was able to walk, and
he will remove the plaster cast next
April in Vienna.
British merchants in India alarmed
at threatened invasion of steel in
dustries by American capital; Bengal
Iron and Steel company will import
plant to forestall it.
Officials of the Santa Fee railroad
company are said to have closed a con
tract with French mills for 10000 tons
Of steel rails of of so pounds weight
The price is given at $22 ton.
At Centralia, H., Dora Ment, who
after a quarrel with her lover, fifty
six days ago, Immediately Iapsed into
a somnolent trance, has not during
that time evinced consciousness.
Walter MOrshead, an Englishman
sued the estate of c. P. Huntington
for SOB, 100000, alleged to have beer
unlawfully converted in the cOnStruc
ton OF the Central Pacific railroad
Booner T. Washington, in a letter to
a Birmingham, Ala, newspaper, de,
clared his interest in politics confined
to the issues affecting his race and
advised negroes not to seek office
]. G. Phelps Stokes, New York
millionaire, brother of the Rev. Arson
Phelps Stokes, took up his residence
in the university settlement and will
work for the betterment of the poor
William s. Vanderbilt Allen, a great.
grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt
is still confined at a New York SAM
tarium a sufferer from incurable para
noia. Attempts to poison him is one
Of his illusions.
Postmaster General Payne's annual
report recommends free mail delivery
in all cities of 5000 population or
$4,000 gross receipts. The postal de-
ticit for the year ending June 80, is
$2.937 GAG.
The frances" is the name Of new
camation which Fred Dorner, a La
fayette. Ind, florist, has just disposed
Of to a Chicago company for $15 900.
It is the result Of nearly twelve years
Of care
John Mitchell and miners attorneys
repudiating Wayne MacVeagh, their
attorney, and violating their own
agreement in refusing to accept
strike settlement.
Clint I. Osborne, a Warren (Mich)
merchant was killed by bank robbers
whom he discovered. Five thousand
dollars was stolen by safe robbers
from Morgan (Tex) bank. and $500
from Clark's Hill QndD postof1ce.
Western Nebraska land frauds. in
yoIving S,952,S44 acres are under in
yestigation by Col John S. Mosby at
President Roosevelt's instigation. Cat
tie barons are accused of fencing pub
lie land and paying widows SIS for Sc
curing it under the homestead act.
Mary Baker G. Eddy explained her
advice for the nontreatment of con-
tagious disease by Christian Science
healers, and declared the latter should
use Judgment and remember that the
law does not specially protect them.
At a conference between the indie
pendent coal operators and the presi-
dents Of the anthracite railroads it was
decided to discontinue negotiations
with the miners for a private settle
ment and to leave the whole matter to
the coal strike commission
The Vanderbilts are said to be seek
ing control of the Chicago Great |
Western railroad to provide an in |
dependent Kansas City line for the
Northwestern system, and to remove
Edgar Means shot and killed his
younger brother Claude during a fam
ly quarrel seven miles from ALBANY,
\. Y. After the killing Joseph Means
mother brother, shot at Edgar five
ines, but missed him. No arrests have
'een made
Ethel Barker, the 14-year-old daugh-
er OF Alderman Barker of Evanston.
roved herself a heroine when. by
laying a lively march on a piano in
he Lincoln school during a small fire
4 the basement she averted a panic
mOng 400 scholars
The Commercial Cable Company has