Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-12
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DOMESTIC.
The Kansas Mutual Insurance com
pany of Topeka was declared insol-
vent
Vermont, a prohibition state for
more than fifty years, voted for Ii
cense.
Robert Beitlich shot Mrs. Mary Cor
Ian, New York cook, and then killed
himself.
Forty Bay City (Mich) fishermen
are believed to have been drowned IN
Saginaw bay.
A cyclone at Wilmington, Del, I'M
rooted fifty houses, injured two men,
and did $4,000 damage.
Kansas City municipal employees
have no right to sell their pay, accord
ing to a court Of appeals decision.
Many men were thrown out of work
in the neighborhOod of New York by
the closing of sugar trust refneries.
Tired of constant defeat by Gen.
Wood, President Roosevelt will take
singlestick lessons from a fencing
master
Opposition is developing in the
northwest to the Alaskan boundary
treaty it being argued there is nothing
to arbitrate
Charles B. Hart, native of Mary
land, has resigned as minist er to Col
ombia, and A. ~ Beaupre has been ap-
pointed in his place.
A sheep camp near Thermopo1is,
Wyo, was raided by masked men.
William Minnich, the owner was shot
and 800 sheep killed
The senate will not take I'D the
Panama canal treaty until it has dis
posed Of the Alaskan boundary and
Cuban reciprocity treaties.
Maj. Gen. Arthur Macarthur has
been assigned to the department of
California. Maj. Gen. John c.. Bates
will succeed him at Chicago.
Five Milwaukee fremen are dead
and nine i'll from inhaling nitric acid
fumes at IRE on Tuesday, Chief
James Foley is among the dead.
The cabinet settled the controversy
about the bids for cruisers by award
ing a contract each to the Cramps and
the New York Shipbuilding Company.
The naval affairs committee of the
house reported against Philip DobnI
alone after Investigating Representa-
tive Lessler's charges of attempted
bribery
Four bank robbers tracked through
the snow at Cambridge QII.) and cap
tured after they had blown open the
First National bank safe and secured
$4,000.
Jack Munroe. a Montana miner
pugilist, signed articles at New York
for twenty round fight with Tom
Sharkey before the club Offering the
best terms.
Frederick S. Flower. nephew and
heir of Roswell P. Flower of New
York, announced his engagement to
Miss Hilda Kathryn Clark. the comic
opera star.
Because of the serious rebellion in
Honduras the Pacific coast squadron.
consisting of four cruisers under
Rear-Admiral Casey, was ordered to
Amapala, Honduras.
Ed Uttley. the wealthy young man
convicted of killing T. B. Holdings
worth, hotel clerk, escaped from jail
at Fayetteville, n. c. He had been
sentenced to twenty years in the peni-
Tertiary
The American ship Florence. Ia
coma to Honolulu is believed to
have sunk with all on board Thirty
persons were drowned off Duraborg
reef by the wreck of the French bark
Van Stabel
A dying statement by Engineer
James Davis, read at the inquest at
Plainfeld, n. J., on the recent Jersey
Central wreck, stated that the steam
chest was leaking and this obscured
the signals.
banquet in celebration of the an
niversary Of the birth of Samuel J. Til
den was held at the TiIden club in
New York. Charles S. Hamlin of Bos-
ton, Cleveland's assistant secretary of
the treasury, was the principal
speaker.
DR.. George F. Shrady. in New York
Medical Record editorial, declares
fashionable American women do not
desire children, and fail to rear them
properly Aversion is spreading to all
classes of society.
st. Paul will be made the worlds
rice market center by James ]. Hill.
Mills to be built there for preparing
the Japanese crop, which new steam