Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-11-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
POLITICAL.
DOM ESTIC.


American Federation of Labor con-
vention at New Orleans. President
Shaffer of the steel and tin workers
organization declared he refused to
give financial or moral aid in the
1901 steel strike.
President Roosevelt's hunt ended
without his getting a shot at a bear.
Dave Mitchell, colOred, was hanged
1t Mayersville, Miss, for wife murder.
The authorities of Newport are con-
yiuced that Robert r. Remington COM
mitted suicide.
WI Ting-fang, the retiring Chinese
minister, left Washington on his re-
turn to China.
Hundreds of persons have applied
for treatment by DR.. Adolph Lorenz
during his visit to New York.
Rear-Admiral Henry c. Taylor will
be Admiral Dewey'5 chief Of staff dur
irg the West Indies maucuVers.
Chicago department stores were told
by the state equalization board that
they must pay a capital stock tag.
New York bankers favor Congress
man Cannon for speaker. Standard Oil
dividends for the year total S39, 487 800
Charles Ortell, farmer, was killed
in a runaway while on the way from
Racine, to his home near Franksville.
A torpedo fired from a submerged
Holland boat struck between the flags
marking the Dimensions Of battle
ship.
A twenty per cent. increase
in freight rates is planned by
enlarge profits.
Harry Green was drowned in the
Flambeau river near Tony, Wis, by
the capsizing of boat. He had been
hunting deer.
Reports from the lumber camps OF
northern Maine show the beginning OF
a smallpox epidemic A camp at Noleb
is under armed guard.
Director w. F. Clough testified to
New York that the Northern Securities
company owns $150,O0OOOO OF
Northern Pacific stock.
Eleven Denver aldermen are ar
rested on contempt charges for grant
ing a street railway ordinance after
being enioined by the court.
President Roosevelt returned to
Washington and will summon party
leaders for a conference on Cuba
tariff and trust questions.
Arthur Rusch, 10 years old, a
striker at the Conkey printing plant
in Hammond was shot and seriously
hurt by private detective
Wage increases granted by nineteen
railroads amount to $25 900, and
other lines are expected to follow suit
until this aggregate is doubled.
D. X. Pearsons offered a $4,000
gift to Chicago city mission work if
the Congregational club will raise
100000 additional by Jan. /, 1904.
1t is reported President Roosevelt
will approve any action by congress
aimed to reduce the numerical strength
OF the south's delegates IT. the house.
Trunk line railroad presidents
agreed to continue the anti-pass ex>
change agreement through 1908. EN-
ployes must pay fare over other
roads.
A Minneapolis gambling house was
held up by two robbers, who shot
Harvey Howard, a porter, and stole
$1,943 from the players and proprie-
tors.
High water in the Chippewa river
Claire, leaving over 800 men idle and
doing considerable damage in the
flume.
Judge Moore decided to remove the
trial of James Wilcox, charged with
the murder of Ella Cropsey, from
Elizabeth City, N. c., to another
county.
An anonymous letter to Aldermen,
strengthens the belief that the New
York Central is back Of the opposi-
ticn to the Pennsylvania tunnel fran
Ct Sc.
President Roosevelt and Vice Gov.
Wright of the Philippines were enter
tanned at Memphis by breakfast, recep-
tons, and banquets, one reception was
by negroes.
Florence X. MacFarlan of Rochester,
N Y, was stabbed to death by Mrs.
Lulu M. Youngs, wife of a former city
official. Jealousy was the motive.
Mrs Youngs was arrested.
Rufus Cantrell, the indianapolis
grave robber, told Mayor Bookwalter
that a lump of coal was placed at head
of graves where bodies were unde-
s1dable to warm other ghouls.
Gen. Adna r. Chaffee and Vice Gov.
Wright of the Philippines, who fought
against each other in the civil war
were received by the Union League
club committee in Chicago.
Capt Edward Williams, the Masonic
temple manager who disappeared after
conviction, returned to Chicago and
testified against President Gormley,
also accused of conspiracy.
George j. Gould, H. c. Frick, and
other eastern capitalists will estab-
lish an exclusive summer resort on
Two Mile Beach island, near Cape
May City, at a $4,000, 900 cost.
The families of Anton Haessley, b.
D. Romano and E. Haskin at Camp
bellsport, Wis, are i'll from ptomaine
poisoning caused by eating head
cheese" butcher shop product.
Foxhall Keene and family threaten
to quit New York permanently for
England because an Oyster Bay Justice
fined him $40 for driving an auto
faster than twenty miles an hour.
Carrie Nation visited the New York