Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-11-27

embodied in a bill to be introduced |
by Senator Cullom the first day of the |
session.
The Panama canal treaty or proto- /
col will be signed before congress
meets. Secretary Hay and the Col
ombian minister reached an agreement.
The excavation is expected to require
fifteen years.
Norman l.. Baker, superintendent OF
schools. and William Bergland fought
pistol duel at Kenosha while hunt
ing for William Scully with
citizens posse. Baker was mistaken
for Scully.
Refugees from the Guatemala vol
canic eruption reached San Fran
cisco. The miles of plantations are
reported buried under ashes, and many
Indians killed. Residents are threat
ened with starvation.
The marriage Of Miss Margaret Nc
Dermott and Terence Sheehan, Ne
wark, n. J., was declared off because
Sheehan discovered at the beginning
of the ceremony his bride elect wore
open-work stockings.
Herman B. Wickersham, former
president of the Lincoln park board
and Marquette club in Chicago was ar
rested charged with embezzling $40
| belonging to a Bohemian orphan. An
additional charge involves $4,000.
James billiard, a Kentucky negro
was lynched by a mob near Sullivan
| Ind. for an attack on two women. He
was taken from the sheriff's carriage
to the scene of the crimes and identl
| fed after his arrest at Lawrenceville
Ill
Scranton and Wilkesbarre physf
clans, in testimony before" the
anthracite strike arbitrator, declared
that miners lives average only 5C
years. Nearly all are anaemic and
suffering from asthma and rheuma
tiSm.
A corset belonging to Mrs. Robert
Livingston Beekman Of New York, lef
in a Cincinnati hotel and packed by
mistake in a travelling mans trunk
started divorce proceedings by the
latter's wife. Explanation cleared i
up.
President T. J. Shaffer failed to sub
stantiate his charges against Samue
Gompers, American Federation of La
Dor president, at the New Orleans con
ventiOn. James Duncan and James
Lynch are possible candidates agains
Gompers.
John Mitchell concluded his testi
mony before the anthracite strike com
mission. He declared that the miner:
who refuse to obey the commission
will be expelled from the union. Non
union men are recognized in the hear
ing over the miners protest.
American farmers are planning emf
grafton to Ontario, Canada, must clea
forests from their land and undergo
the hardships of pioneers. No free
rants made till fifteen acres are
feared and cultivated, and two acre:
ire titled annually for three years.
Thirty thousand American farmers
settled in Canada in twelve months
an increase over 1901 of so per cent
Oakotas, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota
Nebraska, and Kansas furnished the
bulk of the exodus. The oath of al
legiance to King Edward is required
for free grants.
The Missouri supreme court affirmed
the Judgment of the circuit court O.
| Butler county, which found Steve
Clark of Poplar Bluff guilty of murder
and fixed his execution for Dec 10
902. Clark was convicted of killing
lis reputed wife by .stabbing her las
June because Of jealousy.
The Panama canal treaty is delayed
~ the Colombian governments feaI
TO give the United States police power
over the canal and the cities O.
Panama and Colon during construc
ton. Such jurisdiction is necessary
to prevent disease among workmen
| rhe isthmus is a deathtrap.
Policeman Patrick T. Mahoney an(
Daniel Curran, a Chicago saloon
,eeper, were indicted for completely in
1agamann jewelry robbery Thorn
IS Barry and James Clark, safe
lowers, testified that Mahoney stood
guard. cared for the proceeds, and
, then "squealed.''