Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-24
DOMESTIC.

A dispatch from Gate City, Va,
says a large force Of heavily armed
men is in pursuit of the Wright ana
Templeton gang Of outlaws.
A Burlington railroad train in
Colorado broke all speed records,
covering las miles in nine minutes
equal to 98.7 miles an hour
The Illinois supreme court declared
the 2 per cent. tax on foreign insur-
ance companies is unconstitutional
Miss Sarah Julian of Charlottesville
Ind, was killed by a Big Four freight
train which struck her at a crossing.
FitzsimmOns offered to meet Jeffries
for match in California. the only
state where interference is not likely
First government weekly crop re-
pert showed d general improvement in
winter wheat, and a good fruit out
lCoA.
Julian w. Mack and BIewett Lee
will quit the Northwestern law faculty
for the new University of Chicago
school
Near IrvingtOn, Lancaster county,
Va, one man was killed and four
others injured by the fall of a brick
chimney.
Squire Amentrout was shot and
Killed while leading a posse in pursuit
OF the Waters gang in Webster county
West Virginia.
Capt. Charles T. Witherell was
tried by cOurtmartial at Detroit on
the charge of duplicating his paw
vouchers.
Benjamin f. Marsh was nominated
TOT congress in the fourteenth Illinois
dlstrict and Judge Oh aries c. Fuller in
the twelfth.
W. H. Means, a reputed banker of
Lexington, Mo, killed his niece, Miss
Lydia e. Means, and then surrendered
anG confessed
me house rules committee decided
70 place no limit on the debate on the
senate amendments to the oleo-
margarine bill.
Presbyterian creed revision com
hlttee finished its work. It's report
VIII be made to the general assembly
IN New York in May.
The Maryland legislature held q
special session to correct it's tax bill
error. The session lasted less than
one day but cost $4,000.
FRANCIS Esney of Frederick "a
was arrested at York, Pa, CHARGED
with kidnapping the five children If
John Ford of Frederick.
Rose Bayles hanged herself at Terre
nau'e' IND, because Ernest Clark q
returned soldier, failed to keen an on.
sagement to elope with her.
william Pratt, colored. is in iaiI
charged with breaking a club ovar
he mead of his former emplover
James Anderson. near Laurel. Del
Ex-Governor Hogg of Texas reached
re" YORK from London and said he
was not presented to the king because
ne could not wear court costume
me government has notified steam
snip lines that they will be held re.
sponslble for the escape of Cinnamon
Ecu at San Francisco for deportation
Chicago boy witnesses of the r, w
smith murder by Allis-ChaImers
st'lNe pickets were beaten and
threatened if they identified tbe
eufprits. 'ne
I'D Chlcago a Irish setter dog saved
inc children of Assistant States At
lCFney Sprogel and Grant Williams
from death under a train and 1os+ So
swu life, ioS' its
Inc National Association of Mann.
iacturers elected D. NJ Parry of In.
annapolis, president. and petitionea
congress not to pass the anti-ininnc.
tion bill. III unc'
Carl Woltschlaeger pn;or,
machlnist and a Allis-Chalmers strile
pioheS was arrested for the murder Of
W. Smith, non-union workman
III Chicago. - 'ii''' L
Two hundred Illinois Central mo.
thihlsts struck at Waterloo 10 ond
ASKED Chicago machinists to onit o1so
wage increase and shorter hours ia.
strikers at the Allfs- Chalmers r-on,-,
chicago were forced nv nrhTio -. ne
~ Withdraw pickets. The nolico
threaten arrest for vagrancy if tbev
are caught. Il tney
ne steamship Marco arrived from,
naples with the baggage of S35 stoor,
ase passengers burned The go
concealed the fire from the passan ~
and saved panic. N'>'N'-'l : q ;
me republican primaries 50 for =
west Virginia have been favorah1e - -
,Ie aspirations of J. l. Caldwell ~ ~
4lun'ington, for United States son.+,-,
10 succeed N. B. Scott ''oi
Negro emigration from tbo so,,.,
noFtnern cities will be investiao+o. ~
conference in Chicago June o. IA, ~
n ne population of Chicago incrooa =
$4,000 in ten years --'>- e''Sec
Ralph D. Clark. Josepb Whit
William Beacon were run Go n1.e anu an
hlIied by Royal Blue line trai. SAliu
lne Philadelphia and Readine ra oil oll
near Langhorne. Pa Oil dy
The ship subsidy bill recently n,.
:" oy the senate will be sbeITod pass
republican conference of both ' -, a
s aecloed that the bill could not s 10
passed II reported back De
wesley Elkins, the Iowa how ~
murdered his parents twelve vo @no