Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-02-13
Domestic.

Young GflIIO, puSlLSL, is Qeciared
insane and sent to an asylum.
AIgernon Sartoris, grandson of u. S.
Grant is to become an electrical en-
gineer.
Jonathan Clark, a pioneer Chicago
builder, died at his winter home near
Fruitland, Fla.
Japan has promised to send an i'm
periaI commissioner to the st. Louis
exposition.
Operators refused the demands of the
miners union for an increase in the
wage scale.
The New York health commissioner
declared war on the use of sponges
by BARRIERS.
Charles w. Partridge and Miss
Bowen of Chicago were married at st.
Augustine, Fla.
Ex-Governor Leslie M Shaw of
iowa succeeded Lyman ]. Gage as
secretary of the treasury.
Francis E. Baker of Indiana took the
oath of office as United States circuit
judge for the seventh circuit.
Three young women were fatally
hurt and six others injured while
coasting at Cumberland, Nd.
Two blocks bought in New York city
for the terminal of the Jersey City and
New York railway company. =
Mrs. Leslie M Shaw gave her first
reception at the Arlington, Washing
GC-', and it was largely attended
A bill was introduced in the Iowa
legislature requiring railroads to report
earnings to the executive council.
Nordica's concert dates in San
Francisco were Cancelled because of
shock caused by railroad wreck.
Mayor Johnson of Cleveland was de-
eeated in his suit to secure a higher
appraisement of Ohio railroad prop
erty
The lower house of the Ohio legis-
fature defeated a resolution declaring
for the election of senators by popular
vote
Trustees of church at Newmarket.
Md. refused to permit ii to be used
9or the funeral of a tuberculosis
victim.
The profits of the Diamond Match
company for 1901 were $2,021 .O72, the
greatest amount in the history of the
company.
Merit Chism of Mclean County.
NIL, was convicted of wife murder and
sentenced to seventeen years i'm
orisonment.
Governor Van SAINT in a message to
Sae Minnesota legislature gave the de-
tails of the states fight against the
railroad merger
Coasting hobs, on which six boys
were riding at Peoria, ran into a
street car and all were badly hurt.
Three will probably die.
Chicago firemen responding to an
alarm found the body of a murdered
girl at 10 West Sixteenth street. Her
slayer attempted suicide.
The republican members of the
mousse concurred in the question of
southern representation, but post
poned action for a week
The laboratory, office building. and
the hotel conducted by the Leslie E.
Kelley company at Dwight, ILL.,, were
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000
View prominent railroad officials are
IN favor of Senator Elkins' bill to per-
init railroad pools. They prefer the
community of interest arrangements.
John and Edward Biddle. murder
@ess, who escaped from the Pittsburg
Da2l and were overtaken and shot, with
Mrs. Soffel, wife of the prison warden.
near Butler. Pa, both died of their
wounds. Mrs Soffels life is in dan
ger.
A merger of the Northwestern. St.
Paul, and Rock Island roads is said
TO be contemplated by the Vanderbilt,
Moore and Rockefeller interests.
a boy at Milwaukee revealed a plor
TO swindle big firms out of diamonds
He was kept prisoner three years
Dy the swindlers in the guise of
girl
Fire destroyed the university apart
uent house, at Sixtieth street and
Ellis avenue, Chicago, driving the
occupants of forIy-seven flats into the
street.
Walter Evans, an insane preacher.
escaped from the Elgin insane asylum.
but was captured badly frozen while
ON his way to his old home at Plain.
field, liz.
The federal treasury receipts for
january exceeded the expenditures by