Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-10
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DOMESTIC.
There is great activity anticipated
at the Norfolk navy yard.
An elevated railroad train was
burned on the track in New York.
More than 10000 persons called %
see the new snake-fsh at the
aquarium.
The president is contemplating a
horseback ride of 100 miles through
Wyoming.
A general strike of machinists on
the Union Pacific railroad has been
declared.
Besides the appropriations congress
passed only eight bills of any i'm
portance.
Sir Thomas Upton was sued by
David Barrie, his former American
representative.
Miss Jane Eleanor Corcoran, the
actress, was married to J. Emmett
Baxter of Brooklyn.
The gunboat Marietta was ordered
from Porto Rico to Cape Haytien to
protect Americans.
The Kansas socialist state conven-
tion nominated A. S. McAllister of
Herington, for governor.
D. K. Pearsons added $4,000 to his
already large gifts to Whitman college
at Walla Walla, Wash.
Mrs. Carrie Nation arrived at
Peoria IN minutes after a prohibition
convention had adjourned.
Senators Plat of Connecticut and
Hanna of Ohio oppose the Elkins plal
for annexation of Cuba.
Democratic congressional committee
at work on campaign plans in an
ticipation of a hard fight.
The Cook county real estate as
sessed valuation is fixed at $252,7S4,
$50 by the board of assessors.
II is said the president directed At
torney General Knox to investigate the
alleged anthracite coal trust.
Advices from Rome indicate that
Bishop Farley will be selected to
succeed Archbishop Corrigan.
Minneapolis gamblers testified hat
they had paid money to Chief o,
Police Ames for protection.
The Pittsburg district soft coal
supply is now in the hands of CON
bine designed to control prices.
A commission was named to select
a naval station on the great lakes
and Chicago way be chosen.
President Roosevelt signed the
isthmian canal bill and will hurry for.
ward the execution of the law.
Miss Christine Nissen of Jamaica
Plain, Mass. tells how she escapel
murder at the hands of Jane Toppan.
Edward Roadway and Catherine
Smith, of The Chaperons company
were married at a. IN. in New York.
John r. McLean's eighteen-y ear-old
son is said to be under guard in
Washington because of threats to kid
nap MIN.
In Wilkesbarre, Pa, the citizens
alliance offers large rewards for men
who intimidate or maltreat working
miners.
In Washington President Roosevelt
laid the corner stone of the New
Grace Memorial Reformed Dutch
church.
There is talk of merger of all
independent shipyards of the great
lakes, where steel vessels are built
or repaired.
At Guthrie, Okla, George Dickey, a
graduate of Carlisle, while intoxicated,
shot Judge Petit. The latter then
killed Dickey.
The Swift and Armour companies
are entering a battle for commercial
supremacy and talk of combination
is denied.
William Heffner was arrested at
York, Pa, charged with beating one
of his tenants, Mrs. George Light, and
her infant.
Hundreds of delegates were in
Pittsburg attending the meeting OF
the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science
Maj. Gen. John R. Brooks is pro
pairing to give up his quarters at
governors island, New York, on his
retirement July 81.
Bids received for asphalt paving
were much lower than under the
former city administration. The
paving ring is broken.
The pubic debt at the close of the
fiscal year, June so, was 1859, 457, PA,
less cash in the treasury; decrease
for the year, $13,012,332.
June fire losses are estimated at SILL
100000, compared with SS,200,00Q IN
1901. The loss for the year ending
June 80 was SS3,0O0,0O0.
Congressman Cowherd Of Missouri
said tariff reform and economy in
national government will be the Lead
ing issues in his state.
The father of Marshall Hard, the T.
year-old boy killed by Matthew J..
Lyons, Chicago Waterman, because
she boy jeered at him, threatened to