Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-02-06
DOMESTIC.

Rev, D. S. Bradley of Grand Rapids
WIS elected president of Grinnell Col
Iege.
Miss Ance Roosevelt will attend
King Edwards coronation as the guest
Of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
Admiral Sampson is to be retired
Feb 8.
Andrew Carnegie made a formal
transfer Of $10,000,000 to the trustees
of the Carnegie institution.
Paderewski arrived to make an
American tour and supervise re
heaTsals for his new opera.
The house Interstate commerce com
mittee approved the bill providing for
a government Pacific cable.
The house ways and means COM
mittee reported a bill repeating all
that remains of the war tax
New York capitalists will construct
a $10,000,000 bridge across the st.
Lawrence river at Montreal
Before leaving for Washington Gov
Shaw det-'~"nd he was worth $125, 900
aud not 100000 as reported.
Fire in he town of Rippey, Iowa,
destroyed the business portion OF the
place. 'ng a loss of $4,000.
The house committee on agricul-
tnre will return majority and minority
reports on the oleomargarine bill.
Senator Aldrich says he is in favor
of reduction in the war revenue tax
at the present session of congress.
Three persons were killed, another
fatally injured, and many hurt in a
street car wreck at Wilmerding. Pa.
A report on the operation of the
steel trust said the orders now on
hand will keep the mills busy year.
Miss Gertrude Spencer, II years old,
died in New York of injuries received
while acting as anchor in tug-ofwar
team
4 North Carolina postmaster who
defended his office against four rob-
hers is to be rewarded by the govern
ment.
At Wichita, Kan, Calvin A Black,
"a Chicago travelling man, fell over a
0anister in hotel stairway and was
Killed.
AT Philadelphia, Werner LUCKNOW,
aged % years, a we'll known newspa-
per man and magazine illustrator. is
dead.
sheepmen in the Salt river valley of
Arizona took place. More than 500
coyotes We're surrounded and slaugh-
terrell
In Chicago the Daunchy Iron works
auo the L. B. Smith Shoe Dressing
company buildings burned; loss,
$50 eco.
] 3. Lyons of Chicago seized one of
the finest sugar plantations in
louisiana to satisfy a mortgage of
$150,0o0
Two negroes were lynched in dis
>ant portion of West Carroll Parish.
La, for the murder of G.. n. Grant,
police juror.
The Chicago board of education has
tiXe6 upon s6,344,201 as the total to
Ne expended upon the public schools
OF Chicago.
/. B. Schofield, member of a promi-
nent stock broking firm of Boston.
SO01lhiIiGi SuiCluG because OF IMAM
cial troubles.
a ST. Louis court decided that Cath
olic archbishop could sell church
property despite the objection of
parishioners.
Governor Van SAINT of Minnesota de-
&hned 50 drop the fight on the railroad
merger at the request of Minneapolis
business men.
The governor Of Nebraska is threat
ened with mandamus suit unless he
appoints new fire and police commits
sIoners for Omaha.
An arbitration board of preachers
awarded a Baptist pastor at Ports
mouth, Va, $3.50 for 202 sermons lost
IN q railroad wreck.
At Pittsburg, Mo, Mrs. Addie Rich
ardson has been acquitted Of the
charge Of numbering her husband,
Frank w. Richardson.
At Dubuque Luke Connolly, while
drawing a bucket of water from the
river, was pulled under the ice by the
current and drowned.
at Akeley Mimi, war has been de-
ciared against the illegal sale of liquor
A number of bootleggers have been
advised to leave town.
The mystery Of the strange disap-'
Dearance of E. A. Goodchild, one of