Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-11-06
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are found robbed.
Charleston, s. c., pesthouse burned
with four negroes in it.
: bandit he'd up the town of Oak
ford, Ind, and got So ,oOU.
Lady Henry Somerset, temperance
advocate, sailed for England.
Eighteen malleable iron concerns
are planning a merger with $20,000,000
capital.
The cornerstone of the $4,000 900
New York public library was laid by
Mayor Seth Low.
Rear-Admiral Bradford recommends
government control of all wireless
telegraph stations.
Anna Mitchell, aged II, was found
dead in q field at LoudonvilIe, N. Y,
her body mutilated
The Hudnut hOminy mills of st.
Joseph Mo, were destroyed by fire
The loss is 100000.
George L. Perry, colored, was held
under bond as a witness in the Jack
the Slugger" cases in Boston.
Duse wants to adopt Mignon Doug
las, an American child-actress, to
whom she has taken fancy.
Willie Coleman was shot and killed
who said he acted in self-defense.
The determination of Chicago school
teachers to join the federation of labor
has created a sensation in that city.
Frank Dwyer and David Patterson
were fatally injured near Brazil, Ind,
by being struck by Vandalia train.
The gold production of the United
States for 1901 reached $7S,666,700
Australia is second with SIG, 3SO,2OO.
A hot fight took place between
guards and cOnvicts, who mutinied, in
the Michigan state prison at Jackson.
American investors in the isle Of
Pines called the presidents attention
to conditions existing on that island.
i. w. Anderson, Jr., aged IA years,
son of Louis Anderson of Van Dyne,
Wis, was shot in the legs while hunt
ing.
Though 100000 tons of anthracite
are being produced daily, the output
of hard coal is still 10000 tons a
day short.
President Roosevelt and eX-Presi-
dent Cleveland made speeches at the
opening of the New York chamber of
commerce.
Northern Pacific railroad insurance,
amounting to $20,00O,OOO, expired Oct.
q, and the company now carries it's
own risks.
John H. Wright a brakeman, was
caught between two box cars in the
Vandalia freight yards at Brazil, Ind,
and fatally hurt.
Germany has decided to keep a naval
squadron on the Pacific side of North
and South America as we'll as on the
Atlantic side.
The will of Millionaire John M.
Gibson, who married a woman while
he was on his deathbed in AshevilIe,
n. c., is missing.
Anna H. SparkIin of Goshen, Ind,
has been granted a divorce from DR..
Charles c. Sparklin on charges of
cruel treatment.
The commissioner of immigration
decided that Mascagni's musicians
were not liable to deportation under
the alien law.
In his annual address to the Ameri-
can Banking Association at New Or
leans President Myron T. Herrick op-
posed branch banking.
Edward and Clarence H. Clark. Phil
professorship in Assyriology at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Attempting suicide, Detective Ed
ward Milan was carried to a Chicago
hospital, where he killed himself by
tearing open his wounds.
Attorney ]. B. Marcum and Moses
Feltner make affidavits that a Judge
of Breathitt county, Kentucky, was in
a plot to assassinate them.
The Northern Pacific railroad filed
an answer to the state of Washington
merger complaint and denied all
charges.
An Illuminating gas explosion in a
New York tenement house injured
thirty-nine persons, including fourteen
firemen.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
postofice at Spencer, S. D., securing q
quantity of stamps and jewelry which
had been stored for safekeeping.
The new d. B. Henderson library OF
Fayette, Ia, was formally opened
recently. Speaker Henderson de
livered the dedicatory address.
Pietro Mascagni, by agreement with