Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-06

| raised the liquor license from $500 to
| $1,000 The vote of the council was
| divided equally and it required Mayor
| Tillatson's vote to decide the ques-
ton
Cardinal Martinelli declined to take
personal action on charges rejecting
on the managemnt Of ecclesiastical af-
| fairs in the archdiocese of Chicago.
Investigation will be left to his sue
! cessor.
At Hanover, Pa, heavy ice broke
an electric light wire. which fell on a
! telephone cable and started a fire
that burned the telephone exchange
and damagd the Git building and it's
occupants about 5000
| President Roosevelt will ignore the
! insult of Lieutenant Governor Tillman
Of South Carolina, whose act is
repudiated by the people of his state.
/ The president will go to the Charles
ton exposition as planned.
Memorial services for Mckinley
we're held in the house of representa-
tives, Secretary Hay delivering the
, euIogy before distinguished audience,
(which President Roosevelt and
T Prince Henry were the central fig
! ureS.
By decision of the United States
supreme court, Gerhard Terlinden has
lost his last hope of remaining in this
: country, and he soon will be returned
to Berlin for trial on tne charge Of
defrauding several banks of 10000
marks.
, Fletcher R. Barnett killed MISS Eva
| Wiseman. teacher of a school neal
Camargo. H.. because she refused to
, marry him. One Of her pupils was
; wounded while attempting to defend
her. The murderer committed
suicide.
A new union station, with adequate
: facilities, to cost from $4,000 900 to
$15,000000, is proposed for Chicago by
the Pennsylvania Railroad manage
: ment. The plans contemplate superb
ornamental buildings and immense
| terminals.
At Hankinson N. D., in a family
row between Louis Gemette and J.
Shipe and wife and Miss Maude
Gemette, revolvers and clubs were
used. Shipe had his scalp laid open
and his wife had her head cut by
broken glass. Gemette was arrested
Lieutenant Governor James H. Till
man of South Carolina, nephew OF
Senator Tillman, sent an insulting
+n1,a 10
l questing the withdrawal of his ac
ceptance of an invitation to make a
sword presentation to South Carolina
:, officer.
Legal steps were taken preliminary
to filing a damage suit for $4,000
} against the Park Avenue hotel com
pany Of New York by relatives OF
Esther Schlessinger of Chicago. who
was killed in the fire The hotel is
[ charged with not having f1rescape APP
r pliances
1 The New Jersey assembly has
passed the mosquito exterminating
t bill. 1t appropriates $4,000 to the
: state experiment station for the pur
Y pose OF making a scientific investiga
ton of the habits, origin and breeding
: places of mosquitoes and their relation
t to malarial and other diseases
a General Horace Porter, ambassador
in France, will return to this country
Y this summer, having accepted an invi
/ tation to deliver the Grafton in con
: nection with the centennial celebra
0 ton of the founding of the United
States military academy, which viii
d occur at West Point on June u.
: The proposed change of the rura
: free delivery system from the salary
I to the contract basis has been EN-
bodied in a special bill ordered re
:, ported by the house committee or
e postoffices and post roads The bill
prohibits the subletting of rural de
f livery routes or the taking of more
than one route by any one person
The mysterious woman inmate OF
the Kankakee insane asylum who gave
; her name as Frances Agnes Ross
when she arrived in Chicago from
Portland, Oregon, and who was ad-
judged insane last Christmas, has been
identified as Rosa Mcdonald, a mem
Der of prominent Boston family.
She is wealthy and a victim of unhap-
Ply love.
Mrs Kate Soffel, wife of the Pitts
burg jail warden, and who assisted in
the escape of the Biddel brothers, was
brought to Pittsburg. Three charges
have been made against her. one al
leging the crime of aiding in the es-
cape of murderers and two alleging
felonlous assault and battery. Mrs.
Soffel gave bonds for $4,000 She
then left with her father for his home.