Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-06-12
DOMESTIC.

Richard Davenport Harlan was in
augurated president OF Lake Forest
college.
The Virginia constitutional con
vention completed it's work and al
journed.
Trouble with the Yaquis, just over
the boruer, may lead to prolonged
Indian war.
A supposed extinct volcano is said
to be in active eruption near Grant,
New Mexico.
An explorer who visited Mount
Pelee says that he can foretell vol
canic eruptions.
President Roosevelt opened the ma
tional convention OF American mill
tary surgeons.
With seven tons of valcano dust tor
ballast the British steamer Lena
reached New York.
Several ineffective shots were fired
at the Paris project of police as he
was leaving the hospital
The remains of Lord Pauncefote will
be conveyed to England on the Brook
Ign the last of the month.
Oregon held it's state election and
democrat was elected governor. The
republicans won all else.
w. Boukre Cochran addressed ali
immense mass-meeting in Chicago lii
opposition to coercion in Ireland.
The New York borad of trade ap-
peal to President Roosevelt to attempt
to end the coal miners strike.
W. K. Carter and Benjamin Ward
were burned to death in fire at
Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
A cloudburst near Joliet flooded the
city, drowned three persons, and
caused property loss of $750,0O0.
James H. Anderson, the crank who
claimed Miss Helen Gould as his wife.
was placed in Jail at White Plains,
N Y.
The Kenosha city council granted a
franchise for the Chicago-Milwaukee
trolley line. 1t has been fought nine
years.
The Illinois Audubon society warn
ed Chicago milliners that prosecutions
will follow if birds are used on fall
hats.
Mount Blackburn, southeastern
Alaska. is reported to have suddenly
belched ashes, smoke and muu,
April II.
The United States supreme courI,
which closed Monday, made no head
way towards clearing its docket of
343 cases.
Mark Twain, in address at Missouri
University, Columbia, declared he
would retire from the public platform
forever
The Chicago city bacteriologist will
test the edibility of the seventeen year
locusts, whose advent to the parks is
feared.
Mrs. Emma Williams and Chris
Schweiger were acquitted in Chicago
Of killing the formers husband, Kin
ley Williams.
Whitecaps near Marengo Qnd)
horsewhipped Mrs. Alice Hanger,
farmers wife, and told her to treat
her stepchildren better.
Charles Ross. of Chicago, was ar
rested at Tahlequah, l. T., charged
with stealing carload of cattle and
shipping it to Chicago.
Mrs. +. P. Dole, a former school
teacher OF San Francisco, will seek a
divorce from her husband, the at
torney general of Hawaii
The weekly crop report found crops
checked by the cool weather. Cora is
making slow growth and was hurt by
frost in the lake region.
The case of Thomas Edison VS.. the
Mutuscope company, involving moving
picture patents has been pracucally
decided against the former.
Mayor z. L. Baldwin of Niles. Mich,
assaulted Justice Theodore c. Beaver,
70 years old, because the latter
criticised his appointments.
In London, Waterbury, an American
polo player. is being prosecuted for
cruelty TO animals in using sharp
spurs during the game at Birmingham.
Ten volunteer soldiers imprisoned
at Leavenworth, kas., were released
and given tickets home as a result OIL
the decision in the Captain Demlng
case.
Count and Countess Rochambeau
visited the University of Chicago as
official guests during their stay in
Chicago. They reached the city on
Friday
At Tampa, Fla. dynamite placed
under the choir loft of the Oak Park
Methodist church caused considerable
damage and seriously injured five
people.
In the Pennsylvania anthracite coal |
region rs per cent. of the pump hands
went on strike and $511, 500. 900 worth !
OF coal mines are threatened by
water.
Michigan disbarment proceedings |
against E. S. Roos of Kalamazoo de- |
veloped the inside history of the |!
recent military fraud Clothing was
bought from fictitious company by
the state for $4,000 which the
military officials, who backed it. paid |
S10,500 for. Arrests for perjury may
follow.
Five deaths from lockjaw have oc-
CURED at the cyclore-stricken town |
OF Goliad, Texas, and a number of
other persons are suffering from the
disease.
Albert V. Taylor landed in New York !,
with his little daughter, Margaret. !
who was kidnapped from Cincinnati |
by her aunt in 1898 and was recently !
found in Italy.