Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-13

subsidy of $4,000 from the home
government and promises of further
aid as needed.
John Flynn, superintendent of the
Chamberlain, S. D., Indian school,
denies in the most emphatic terms the
charges recently made in a resolution
offered in the senate that the Indian
schools are conducted in a loose and
improper manner
At Oswego. Kan. Mrs. Carrie
Kearney was arrested charged with
aiding prisoners in the Jail to plot
escape It is alleged that she gave
pistol to Will Geary, in for burglary,
and DR.. G. A. Calhoun. wife murderer.
Mrs. Kearney was sent to Jail in
| default of bond
At West Superior a summons has
| been served on Attorney F. A. Rose in
suit against him for $4,000, brought
by Judge Danielson. who says that
certain statements regarding him
made by Attorney Rose in a paper of
! "reminiscences read at the bar banquet
are false and libelous.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, ex-City At
torney Liant K. Salisbury and Stilson
Y. Mcleod pleaded guilty to the
charge of violating the United States
banking law 1t was charged that
they obtained something more than
$4,000 from the Old National bank
Upon fraudulent checks.
Governors Van SAINT Of Minnesota,
| of oiY nr
South Dakota and Cummins of Iowa
have Joined with the governors OF
thirty states IN agreeing to act with
a committee to secure the change of
date of the presidential Inauguration
from March 4 to April 80
The subcommittee of the committee
on interoceanic canals has agreed tc
recommend that the legal compiled
lions surrounding the Panama Offer
are such that the United States should
not accept it Senator Kittredge
said that he reserved the right tt
make a minority report to the full
| committee.
The senate. committee added 1913.
$50 to the executive, legislative and
judicial bill as it passed the house
making the total S25,490,195. An
amendment was inserted providing
for the transfer to the classified ser
vice of the clerks temporarily EN-
plCyed during the war with Spain
and providing for their permanent
retention in their present places.
The president has decided to sign
the census bill after he has reached
a decision as to the best means OF
preventing the census office employees
from stepping into the way of other
applicants who have passed the civil
service examination. This he will
accomplish by instructing his cabinet
to accept no transfers from the cen
sus office until approved by the civil
service commission.
At the American Photographers
tournament, the Andrew Carnegie
medal far the best all-round tele
grapher was won by F. M McClintic
of the Associated Press, Dallas, Texas
who sent SIT words in ten minutes
establishing a record. H. V. Manuel
sage receiving on a typewriter break
ing the worlds record by taking 50k
messages in thirty minutes.
The war department has received
the record of case tried by court
martial at Fort Assiniboine, Mont
which contains an extraordinar!
feature, that of the longest sentenc,
ever imposed by an army court upon
a soldier. The offender was charged
with misconduct, which was com
mitted under such circumstances a:
= allowed little defense The sentence
which was Imprisonment for ninety
nine years was communted to twenty
five years confinement by the review
ing authority.