Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20

il New York when the car cut off the,
safety valve of a portable hosting
engine that was too near the track.
The food fight in congress promises
to be long one. Graeme Stewart and
the other delegates from Illinois de-
clared their intention of remaining !
in Washington until a bill is passed.
Minnie Madden Fiske arrived at
Indianapolis from st. Louis. Her
manager said she had been but slight
ly injured at ST. Louis, and was able
to walk from the theater to her hotel.
Colonel Norman S. Dixie, who was
appointed successor to Sheriff Guden
of Kings county, New York, took pos
session of the office. Guden, however,
refused to give up his books and pa
pers.
The steamer Providence, plying be
tween Vicksburg and Lake Palmyra,
Miss, was capsized by squall at
Lone Landing, Miss, and twenty-one
of it's passengers and crew were
| drowned Only nine persons were
saved
| The steamer Newport from Meyi-
| can and Central American ports ar
| rived in San Francisco with the news
that much property and many lives
were lost as the result of tidal wave
which swept the coast from La Lib
ertad to Acajutla.
A movement has been started to
make Judge A. B. Parker, chief Judge
of the court of appeals of New York,
the democratic candidate for COVER
nor of New York next fall, and. if he
is successful, the democratic can
didate for president in 1904.
The list of dead who persisted in
the Cannon Ball Express wreck on
the Southern Pacific in Texas will
probably foot up to at least fifty.
The names of some of the lost will
never be known. Among the dead is
A. L. Boonse of Doylfne, Iowa
The earliest opening of navigation
on the great lakes since the Straits
of MackinaW became a factor seems
to be at hand. A resumption of bust
ness by April 1 on all the upper
lakes, two weeks earlier than usual
is now predicted.
Current gossip is that Secretary OF
State Hay will resign and be succeed
ed by Secretary Root; that Governor
Taft will be secretary of war; that
Governor General Wood of Cuba will
resign and be second in line tC
succeed Miles as lieutenant general
Macarthur being first
The cOrOner's jury, investigating
the Park Avenue hotel fire, New
: York, finds that the hotel was not
properly equipped for the safety oil
guests and occupants in that there
was no standpipe provided for the
: use of the fire department, and that
there were no ropes or fire escapes.
Chicago postoffice clerks union O
the American Federation of Labor, a
; a meeting yesterday, drafted an ap
peal to President Roosevelt and Post
master General Payne, asking thei!
assistance in behalf of the clerks
efforts to secure by legislation ar
eight-hour day and an increase in pay
), on the grade scale ranging from $500
;, to $1,000.
Il A meeting of the creditors of tn,
late Archbishop Purcell was held a:
a Cincinnati, when resolutions wer;
+, adopted to ask for the discharge o
1 the receivers and appeal to Rome TO
special collections throughout the
: United States to wipe out the in
s | debtedness OF which there is a;
: balance OF about $4,000, 900. including
the accumulated interest of man,
:. | years.
i Lieutenant Powell Clayton, Jr., y
3 S. A, son of the minister to Mexico
has recently been detached from tina
/ embassy and assigned to the cavalry
e Stationed at Fort Myer. He quarrelet
: with Mexican officer on the Ameri
can insular policy. The Mexican sen
a him a challenge, which he could no
e. accept because his commission for
: babe. Clayton fell in disgrace il
consequence, was expelled from al
i the clubs in Mexico City and his DO
f sition was so uncomfortable that he
a had to leave