Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-03

Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio passed |
through ST Paul on their way to
new homes in North Dakota and Min
HesOta.
Samuel Flower, paying teller OF the |
Hibernian National bank of New |
Orleans. was sentenced to five years !
in the penitentiary for stealing |
$4,000.
The Garfield law, which aimed to
prevent corrupt practices at cleo
lions, was wiped off the statutes by
the Ohio senate passing the bill for
It's repeal.
After a chase of eighteen months
Sheriff Potter OF Carbon County,
Mont. has arrested in Lincoln, Neb..
Loren NJ. Ringer. who broke Jail
Sept 2, 1900.
At La Crosse Mrs, A A. Gibson Of
st. Paul, who is visiting La Crosse
friends, is seriously i'll with blood
poisoning resulting from a bite of a
pet cat.
Lawyer Albert T. Patrick, after a
trial lasting nine weeks, was declared
guilty Of the murder of Millionaire
William NJ Rice in New York on
Sept %, 1900
Former President Cleveland. ac-
companied by Prof. John H. Finley
and Dr. ]. D. Bryant Of New York
left Princeton on an Easter pleasure
trip TO Florida.
Florence Burns, after examination
by Justice Mayor on the charge of
having killed Walter Brooks Feb. the
18th. in New York, was discharged
from custody.
The double receiVership Of the Osh-
kosh Water company has ended with
the retirement of c. B. Salmon of Be
lott w. G. Maxey of that city re
mains receiver.
Mayor Edwards Of Helena, Mont,
appointed a new police force in place
of the one resigned because of the
mayors alleged order to interfere
with the primaries.
Instead of waiting to avoid the APP
pearance of making a martyr of Gen
eral Miles it is said that the presi-
dent will retire the lieutenant general
within two weeks
The latest name mentioned in con-
nectiOn with the office of the secretary
of the interior to succeed Mr.. Hitch
! cock is that of Representative Victor
H. Metcalf of California
At Eau Claire the city democratic
convention nominated Alderman J.
! H. Forrest for mayor. John c. Fen
1essey for clerk and Clarence A.
| Chamberlain for treasurer.
| At Washington, n c., James
Walker the negro who poisoned the
whole family of DR. David T. Taylor,
of the state board of medical ex-
aminers, has been lynched.
! Edmund Furthman a Chicago
| lawyer, threatened to kill the district
attorney in trial at Kenosha when
the latter attempted to arrest Furth.
mans client without a warrant
! F. c. Andrews, vice president of the
wrecked City Savings bank of Detroit,
! shown TO have speculated, accused of
securing 100000 by forgery in New
| York, was arrested in Philadelphia
| George Kucera, a Bohemian farmer,
! living near Clatonia, Neb.. was shot
! dead by George Herzoc, son of a
neighbor. Will Herzoc. a brother of
| George, is said to be fatally wounded.
At independence, Iowa, the Gedney
hotel and street car line have passed
! into the hands of a syndicate c. w.
Williams, the former owner of the
! famous racer, Axtell. was the owner.
Henry Watterson, in replying to
critics, declared it would be easy for
the party in power to establish a
military despOtism in the United
States with Roosevelt as a second
| Diaz
The Grafton upon Alexander Hamil-
ton. delivered by Ambrose c. Grace,
representing the Milwaukee normal at
the contest at West Superior. is under
| investigation. He is charged with
cribbing it.
The, coroner's jury in the case of
George Herzog, the 15-year-old boy
charged with killing Anton Kucera
at Beatrice, Neb., brought in a YER
dict of justifiable homicide and the
boy was discharged.
At Clinton, Iowa, while watching the
high school track team at practice,
Hugh Callahan, an S-year-old boy, was
struck on the head by a shot thrown
by Tim Clark, captain of the football
( team and died soon after
At st. Louis. George Smith, adopted
: son of James Smith, founder of the
/ Smith academy, by his will left $780,
| 600, the bulk of his estate, to Harvard
university. The money is to be used
in building three dormitories.
| Thirty-seven American artists have
entered the competition for the con-
struction of the proposed Grant
statue or memorial to be erected in
Washington for which there is an
appropriation OF $250.O00
At La Junta. Col, W. H. Wallace
the cOlored sleeping car porter who
=, criminally assaulted the aged Mrs.
Miller, of Los Angeles. Cal. was
lynched When his body was strung
Up it was riddled with bullets.
The senate judiciary committee
made a favorable report on the bill
providing for an additional United
States circuit Judge in the Chicago
district. The measure will pass the
senate, but may be opposed in the
house
The military and naval movements
intended to strengthen the defenses of
the United States in the Caribbean
sea regions will begin at once bv the !