Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-12
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665 in February.
The president signed the army ap-
preparation and Philippine coinage
bills,
In New York Stuart Robson is i'll
and his engagements have been can
celed.
Jeffries and Corbett agreed to a
match at twenty rounds to be fought
next July.
The taking of the census of the
Philippine archipelago has com
menced. There are 5000 enumerators.
The appropriations by the fifty
seventh congress total $1,554 ,10S,518,
against 1,44O,489, 438 by its predeces-
sor
Prohibition in Vermont is believed
to be killed by the referendum adop-
ton of high license under a local OPP
ton law.
A resolution of the South Dakota
legislature urging the repeal of the
duty on lumber was presented in
congress.
After the hardest and closest fight
of the session the Utah senate has
killed the initiative and referendum
bill by a tie vote
Six New Albany Qnd) citizens
were locked in Jail on contempt for
failure to recognize Frederick Con
nor as a receiver.
Edwin L. Burdick, the Buffalo man
ufacturer, was murdered by woman
while asleep on a couch in his room,
according to the police.
At Marion, Ind, three inmates of
the national military home were drug
ged and robbed of their quarterly pen
sion money. Two are dead.
Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army
unfOlded a vast scheme for an inter
national university for the study of
social redemption as a science.
William Rockefeller has imported
Japanese workmen and builders to
construct two villas for him in the
Adirondacks on Japanese models.
At Chicago Mrs. Annie Nelson,
crazed with hunger, fought the police
desperately when they attempted to
remove from her side her dead child.
Roosevelt is half an Irishman and
extremely proud of it." Secretary Tay-
lor of the Dublin conference reported
on returning from a visit to America
Six men are thought to be dead
and twenty-five or thirty others are
injured from an explosion at the
Edison cement plant at New Village
N. j.
At Ithaca, N. Y, the election result
ed in an overwhelming victory for
city ownership of the waterworks
Nineteen Cornell students are dead 81
typhoid
Nine-year-oId Emma Rauch died at
New York Sunday-schoOl, strangled
by a toy she had in her mouth, while
the pastor led the 800 pupils in prayer
for her soul.
On board the steamship Lain
which arrived at New York, was the
body of Hubbard Taylor Smith, late
United States vice consul at Cairo
who died at Genoa.
The sale of Mount Ayri, Md, the
home of the lords of Baltimore, vii
Miss Halle Erminie Rives, the
authoress of Hearts Courageous.
A. C. Bird, third vice president oil
st. Paul railroad is slated for traffic
director Of all the Gould railroads
comprising $4,000 total mileage. j. H
Hiland is his probable successor.
Rear Admiral Crowninshield asked
to be retired because his flagship, the
Illinois, was taken away from him anc
the ten-year-old cruiser Chicago sup
piled instead. The request was
granted.
Fred ]. COngdOn, crown prosecutor
in Dawson, has been appointed com
missioner of the Yukon to succeed J
H. Ross. who was elected to repre-
sent the Yukon in the dominion par
lament
In regard to the reports of trouble
graphs the department: Fighter
men absent without leave, having left
the ship while in dock. No one shot
or shot at"
At Hamilton, Ala, a comparison o.
the dates of Stranger Knapp's periods
In prison with those of the five crimes
to which he confesses shows that he
was free on each of the days he says
he killed a woman.
In Columbus, Ohio, failure to carry
out the provisions of the will of the
late David w. Brooks, is the charge
made against Governor George X
Nash by Thomas s., David w, Faith
and Herbert Brooks.
President Roosevelt says he il
amazed at the cutlery in the south
against his negro appointments, de
claring that it was originated in Nel,
York and that the race issue has
never been considered.
Robbers who had drilled the safe Of
the bank of Runnells, Iowa. and plug
ged it preparatory to setting off I
charge of dynamite were frightened
away. A few hundred dollars was
taken from the desk till.
A hotel to cost S3,000,O00 and to out
shine in splendor the new Auditorium
Annex, is to be erected on the McCor
mick property, now occupied by the
Victoria hotel, Chicago, if the plans O.
Levy Mayer do not go astray.
Edward Madsen, Is years old, o.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, was electrocutet
by live wire at the top of an electric
pole. He fell from the pole after
L. Il.