Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-27
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DOMESTIC.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued new bank notes to banks or
ganized since January /.
The Duluth, Virginia & Rainy Lake
road viii be the most important log
ging road in the country.
Pension Commissioner Evans is eX-
pected to resign within few months,
to accept higher position.
A supposed anarchist attempted to
kill Rev. Mr.. Honet, German Luthe-
eran minister of Elizabeth, n. ].
Geronimo the Indian chief who has
been in prison II years, has petitioned
the government for his release.
The schooner yacht Endymion,
owned by George Lauder, Jr., nephew
of Andrew Carnegie was wrecked off
the coast of North Carolina.
The Rapid Transit Subway constuc-
ton company will fight the proposed
tunnel of the Pennsylvania road
The Iowa senate passed a bill to
limit the employment of children to
those whose parents require help.
Fifteen fishermen were carried out
into the lake on an ice foe at Mari
nette and are believed to have per
ished
An unknown woman in the gallery
contradicted congressman who were
denouncing the British policy in south
Africa
Rear-Admiral Winfield S. Schley
was the guest of honor at a dinner
given in Boston in honor of evacua-
ton day
The Louisville and Nashville road
was indicted by federal grand jury
at Louisville for giving rebate to grain
shippers.
The democrats of the house may
fibuster against the Crumpacker
.esolution to investigate southern
election methods.
While playing COW the 4-year-old
child of Charles Haners of Parkers
Glen, N Y. was almost butchered by
his older brother.
At the invitation of President Roose-
welt, Algernon Sartoris. General
Grants grandson. viii accept a com
mission in the army.
The California supreme court de-
clared invalid the trust clause of
James G. Fairs will Three heirs
are to get $9,OOO,0 900.
Misses Olive and Carrie Cropsey
testified at Elizabeth City, n. c.. in
the trial of James f. Wilcox. accused
of numbering Miss Ella Cropsey.
Seven members of the Iife-saving
crew and five sailors were drowned
off Monomoy station, Mass, in the eff
fort to rescue the Wardenas' crew
Denbigh Hall, at Bryn-Mawr col
lege, which was burned. is to be re
built 1T once. Girl students had
$4,000 of personal property burned.
Unknown men have been threaten
ing to lIidnap and murder the children
of Alexander r. Peacock. a Pittsburg
steel magnate. unless ne pays $4,000
Eight refractory Cherokees. deaf 20
all other appeals. were forced by
threats of a haircut to enroll them
selves at Muskogee, I. T., according to
law
Defense in the Patrick case in New
York came to an abrupt end Lawyers
of the accused man declared it due to
the browbeating tactics of Recorder
Golf
Congressman w H. Moody. who has
just been appointed secretary of the
navy, was given an ovation by the
citizens of his home town. Haverhill
Mass
President Roosevelt will take les
sons in the Japanese system of wres-
Ting in self-defense called jujutsu and
which is taught only to mobiles in
Japan.
General Miles appeared before the
senate military committee in opposi-
ton TO Secretary Roots plan of re-
organizing the army staff depart
mentS.
George Patton saved the lives of
number of Chicago women by letting
them down from burning apartment
house by means of rope made of bed
sheets
Several women testified in a New
York court that they were with
Albert T. Patrick at the time Jones
said Patrick gave him the chloroform
that killed Rice
The cases of Greene and Gaynor,
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the government, have been continued
in the Savannah court. as the accused
men remain in Quebec.
Fire which started on the Phoenix
pier, Hoboken, destroyed the steamer
British Queen, number of lighters.