Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-03


Calumet harbor.
Venezuelan government troops were
forced to abandon the effort to re-
capture La Vela; Gen. Ayala, COM
mander of Casters army, surrendered
with nearly 1000 men.
The Nebraska democratic and
populist conventions united on w. H.
governor; the populists got five places
and democrats three.
The Americn Seed association at
Minneapolis yesterday appointed a
committee to seek a solution of the
embarrassments to seedsmen arising
from the present tariff rates.
The state department announces
that justice will be done if Great
Britain attempts to make the oath of
allegiance the price of freedom to
Americans captured with the beers
Assistant Secretary Darling of The
navy will leave on July 1 on the
United States steamer Dolphin to
make an inspection of the navy yards
and stations between here and Kitte1y,
Maine.
Miss Roberta Wright of Colorado
christened the cruiser Denver, which
was launcDud at Philadelphia MISS
Hull named the torpedo-boat destroyer
Hull, which was launched at Whining
ten, Del.
The navy department has received d
| cablegram from Rear Admiral Evans
| announcing his departure from Kobe
| for Nagasaki, Japan, aboard his flag.
ship, Kentucky, accompanied by the
| cruiser New Orleans.
Hamun Garland, in university OF
Chicago lecture, called Longfellow d
poet for women and children and
| Whittier lacking in scholarship and
art. american poetry till Poe's time
| he said were better unwritten.
The president has given assurances
to Representative McCleary, of Mime
sofa, that he would stop at Mankate
on his Washington trip this fall A
similar assurance was given a com
mittee of Dallas, Texas, citizens.
The house surrendered to the senate
on the isthmian canal; the Spoonel
bill will go to the president 1oi
signature; the Panama route provides
for, but the Nicaraguan will be chosen
if good title to former cannot be got.
At New Kensington, Pa, Dominica
Sandolf, Tony Madrid and Louis Mad
rid, Italians, narrowly escaped lynch
ing at the hands of a mob. Davlt
James, his son, was mortally wounded
1t took 100 special officers to save
the murderers.
The biennial congress of the Gen
eral society of the War of 1912 elected
DR.. A. K. Hadel, of Baltimore, reg
istraf-general DR.. James D. Iglehart
of Baltimore, member of the eXecutiv,
committee, and A. Leo Knott, OF Balti
more, judge Acknowledgements.
President Roosevelt was given tn,
degree of LII. D. at Harvard; in {
speech at the alumni banquet he de
Tended Secretary Root, Maj. Gen
Wood, and Judge Taft, and declared
they worked for the good of peool,
without hope of reward
Mrs. Harriet Flower of Chicago
!
coverer of the new thought" filed {;
bill for separate maintenance am
charged her husband with cruelty an:
desertion; the latter is manager 0
the Psychic Research company.
A passenger train on the Sioux Cit,
branch of the Chicago, st. Paul
Minneapolis and Omaha railroat
jumped the track near Ashton, Iowa
G. J. Robinson, of Sioux City, AM
Fireman Barrett were killed, @ivt
others were seriously hurt and mum
Der Of passengers received minor n
juries.
Great packing establishments arr
said to be planning to settle severa
hundred thousand acres of cheap Lane
If northern and northwestern Flord;
and southern Alabama to cultivate
cassava root and use it in feedins
cattle and hogs. If the plan fully Re
velops, the southern states may be
come the center of the cattle-raisins
industry.
The district supreme court na!
ordered that the restraining orde
issued by the late Judge Bradle,
against the Postmaster General pro
hibiting the latter from charging
third-class postage rates against mum
Der of publications be continued unit
a further hearing. The courts actor
is based on lack of time fo
adequate consideration of the law.
The States says that a story ::
going the rounds of the boardin:
houses where the sailors ant
muleteers were recruited for the
British during the south African wal
that the diseases now raging amons
the live stock in south Africa are due
to NEGOTIATIONS made in New Orlean,
by boer sympathizers and disgruntle,
muleteers playing even" with the
British.
INSULAR.
The war department is advised that
Sergeant Lewis Steward, Corporal Ed
mOnd J. Finnegan, Trumpeter Charles