Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-17

The bribery charges anent the sale
Of The Danish West Indies begin to
tumble.
The hardware jobbing interests of
the United States will combine on
capital of $120,000,O00
Senator Hanna declares most en-
rel with President Roosevelt.
A Rome (Ga) negro was lynched
and his body filled full of shot, the re-
suit of an assault on a white girl.
The Iowa senate passed the railway
merger bill, raising the limit of single
track mortgages to $4,000 mile.
Ratifcations of the trade mark con-
Vention between the United States and
Guatemala were exchanged April 8.
Kenosha health officials are kept by
an armed posse from building a quar-
antine hospital on Washington island
Gustaf larson confessed to murder
ing Johnson, the Alexandria (Minn.)
farmer, and implicated his employer
Charles T. Kaufman, Omaha, rose
IN court and pleaded guilty to an en-
bcZziement charge against his father
The government crop report gave
the condition of winter wheat April
| at 1871, compared with GIT in 1901.
Sanford S. Small of Minneapolis
who was charged by a Chicago man
with larceny as bailee, was exonerated.
The house judiciary committee
Ned a favorable report on the anti
conspiracy bill and anti-injunction bill.
O. B. COPYRIGHT, the opponent of
Speaker Henderson in Iowa congress
sional campaign withdrew as candi-
date.
Sensational charges of brutality to
prisoners are made against the
deputy warden of an Indiana peniten-
tiary
Principal Muncie of Brazil, Ind. &C
cused of trying to kiss girl pupil.
las been reinstated on petition of the
parents.
Santos-Dumont, en- route to st.
Lonis, declared he expects to see the
commercial use of airships for ocean
passage.
Baron Hengelmuller, the Austrian
minister, presented to the president
the officers of the Austrian training
ship Svigetvar
Henry II. Roelofs, a PHILADELPHIA
hatmaker, sued the members of a
United Hatters' association for $3.50
600 for conspiracy.
The seventeen-year locust plague is
sae this summer in eastern Illinois.
Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, accord
ing to Indiana State Geologist.
Nine buildings on Cottage Grove
avenue, between Thirty-ninth street
and Oakland Boulevard, Chicago were
wrecked by fire. Loss $4,000.
Justice Gaynor of the New York
supreme court has decided that it is
not ltbelous to publish of a person that |
he has consumption or that he once
had it.
lgnatius A. Sullivan, clothing sales
man, astonished Hartford, Conn. citi- |
zens by his election as mayor. HeI
was the candidate of the workingmen's |
league
A large portion of the town of |
Chesterton, Ind, including the postof-
ace and one hotel, was DESTROYED bv
hre. Loss between $4,000 and
100000.
Miss Coruelia Ballard of Kankakee
has married Isadore MERCER of San
antonio, Tex, after a TWENTY-FIVE
years separation due to death-bed |
promise
Chicago insurance general liability |
rates will be advanced about rs per
cent May Is. Department stores
meaters, hotels, and Office building
are affected.
James Wright. negro criminal |
with party of friends stood off a |
tennessee sheriff and posse. killing
nye men and wounding two. He was
captured, but escaped.
The Louisville and Nashville rail. |
road is believed to be planning a Chi |
cago entrance through control of the
Eastern Illinois and the Evansville |
and Terre Haute lines.
me gunboat Marietta, which has
peen watching American interests AT
Colon. has sailed for New York The
cruiser Philadelphia still remains at !
Panama on the Pacific side,
Roosevelt day was celebrated az