Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-22

1dLel NY FIeSluouC roosevelt, IL nnally
succeeded in having the agency re-
established. A similar movement is
now on foot in connection with the
recently abolished Indian agency a,
Yankton.
DOMESTIC.
A race war is reported at Braggs
ii. T.
May Irwin is suffering from nervous
prostration.
Sir Julian Fauncefote, British am
bassador, is dangerously ill.
Pat Grove, the Omaha abductor
has bobbed up in q newspaper inter
view.
Mrs. Helen Sharp of Burlington, N
j., shot and killed her son and then
cut her throat.
An amalgamation of folding DO,
concerns has been completed, with
100000 capital
B. L. Meyer, the New York pro
moter charged with conspiracy, sur
renders to the sheriff.
Former United States Senate,
Roach of North Dakota is ill from ar
operation for tumor.
The James G.. Fair estate was or
dered finally distributed. Some ST..
100000 will go to three children.
The explosion of naphtha at Shera.
den, a Pittsburg suburb, is known tc
have killed % and injured POP.
A granite column intended for the
tomb of Carrot A. Hobart crushed two
miles of streets in Paterson, N. J.
The weekly crop report found win.
ter wheat satisfactory and early
spring wheat making vigorous growth
Nephews and niece of the late
Edward Kemp of New York are fight
ing for a share of his $4,000, 600
estate.
Mrs. Lille M. Walker has filed a
petition in court to place Oxford col
lege, Ohio, in the hands of a re-
ceiver
Charles M. Schwab has bought
Richmond Beach on Staten island and
will found a great pleasure resort for
the poor.
The Ford brothers were buried side
by side in the family burying place.
in Sleepy Hollow cemetery, larry
town, N. Y.
Missouri and Kansas bankers, at a
convention, adopted resolutions
against the branch banking bill be-
fore congress.
J. P. Morgan & Co. distributed So
100000 additional profits to the mem
bers OF the syndicate that underwrote
the steel trust.
Roland B. Molineux, under death
sentence in New York, has written
two plays that have been accept "a
for production.
julius Newton, once wealthy and
well-known in Wall street, respondent
and absolutely penniless, shot him.
self at Blue Point, l.. 1.
Student Vincent Noll, who was re-
fused license to preach by the New
York Presbytery because he believed
Adam was a myth, is dead.
Former Receiving Teller Harry &.
Bell was arrested in Philadelphia
charged with taking $4,000 from the
Riverside bank, New York.
An Iowa supreme court decision
practically ended prohibition in sixty
counties, opening the way to liquor
sale by express companies.
The Indian soldiers monument at
indianapolis was dedicated in the
presence of $4,000 visitors. John w.
Foster made the chief address.
Rev. William T. Brown of Plymouth
congregational church. Rochester, N.
Y, who married Professor Heron and
Miss Rand, has left ,le ministry.
At Minot. N. D., Lacy Grooms,
farmer, shot both his hands with
shotgun, blowing off two fingers of his
right hand and tearing a hole in his
left.
Because Mrs. Lena Crocker. 255
Watch street. is ill with SMALLPOX.
5000 employees of the National Watch
company at Elgin were ordered vac
cinated.
The will of Potter Palmer appoints
the widow as head of the estate, esti-
ly to her and their sons, Honore and
Potter Jr.
John Wanamaker is said to have
made an offer of s2,5OO,OOO for the
Metropolitan opera house in New
York, which he would turn into de-
partment store
Jim Underwood, negro. was
lynched at Decatur, Tenn. He boosted
that he killed two men and threatened
to kill two prominent residents at the
earliest opportunity.
The senate committee on pensions
heard arguments by General w. w.
Dudley and others in support of
service pension policy 1t would
cost $25,O0O,00 to s30,O0O,0OO.
Miss Minnie Rice, one of the pref
test society bellies of New Rochelle.
N. Y. who was badly injured in the
New York Central wreck on Jan.