Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-11

WOrkmen were clubDed by the police.
The United States supreme court
granted the motion made by Solicitor
General Hoyt two weeks ago to ad-
vance the case of the Northern
Securities company. The court fixed
Dec. IA next as the date for argument.
Joseph P Miller of Columbus, o.,
was convicted of using the mails to
defraud in connection with an alleged
scheme of Matchmaking prominent
business men. His wife is serving a
term in the penitentiary for a similar
offense
Hope of reassembling of the
Canadian high joint commission has
again been abandoned. Chamberlain S
speech in the British parliament last
week, it is said here, is largely re-
sponsible for the new attitude Of
Canada.
A Baltimore antiquarian claims to
have the original death warrant of
Charles l. of England. 1t is written
on thin parchment, but has the mis-
fortune to be dated Jan "a, 164S, while
Charles I. was not beheaded until
Jan. 80, 1649.
At Frederick, Nd, dying from a
self-inflicted pistol wound, Samuel
Belts confessed that he and his
brother, Josiah, murdered their father,
seventeen years ago, presumably to
inherit $4,000 which he had &C
cumulated.
The Wisconsin board of managers
for the st. Louis fair decided to raise
between 100000 and $4,000 by popu-
lar subscription for printing 100000
copies, for distribution at the fair, of
booklet calling attention to Wis
consin's advantages.
1t is reported at Little Rock, Ark,
that Henry G. Caldwell, federal Judge
of the eighth circuit, will retire from
, the bench in June. Judge Caldwell is
the only surviving appointee on the
bench of President Lincoln, he having
been appointed in 1864.
Mrs. E. OBrien of blackberry, La,
is dead and her husband and two
children are dying from the effects of
poison administered by a negro. Am
brose Comeaux, whom O'Brien had
thrashed. After arrest Comeaux made
a futile attempt at suicide.
The international conference of the
German Baptist Brethren (Dunkards)
at Bellefontaine, O., went on record
as opposed to life insurance. The
delegates who favor life insurance
declare, that the agitation will be re-
newed at the next conference.
A two months strine and lockout
that involved 1000 glove workers in
Fulton county, N. Y, and has cost
over 100000 in wages, has been
settled. The lockout Of table cutters
is declared at an end, the manu-
facturers agreeing to arbitrate.
r. H. Adams, aged 80 years, who
was burned on April IS in a gasoline
explosion at st. Paul, died, after
several weeks of intense suffering.
Adams was cousin of President John
Quincy Adams, whom he visited in
the white house when a small boy.
New York police have discovered in
Little Italy" a band of men who
make a business of kidnapping young
girls and holding them for ransom.
A league of fortune tellers are work
ing with the kidnappers to get black
mail from parents of the stolen girls.
Edwin Wadsworth LongfeIlow, son
.Of the poet, arrived at San Francisco
on the steamer American Maru from
the orient. He has been on a tour Of
the world and is now returning to his
home in New York. Mr.. Longfellow is
an artist of considerable distinction.
William B. Carleton, William o.
Rowley and G. Gordon Ware, re-
spectively president, treasurer and
secretary of the defunct North Ameri-
can Realty company, who were con-
victed Of fraud, were sentenced to two
years in the New Jersey state prison.
Harold G. Mills of Chicago has he
come reconciled to his wife who had
him arrested for abandonment. He is
held, however, for having been re-
sponsible for Miss Laura Stickler's
desperate act in leaping from an
upper window in a hotel to escape
him.
Harold H. J. Barring, member of the
London family of bankers of that
name, arrived at San Francisco from
the orient. In company with Mrs.
Barring he is making a tour of the
world. Mrs. Barring is a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Churchill of New
York.
At Chicago the police found two
boys tied about the neck with a rope
in the cellar of Joseph Stazyk's
saloon. Stazyk claimed they tried TO
rob him, but when the boys were
taken to the station he declined to
prosecute them and they were re-
leased.
George Washington Todd of Wad-
dams Grove, ILL.,, who died recently
and who was looked upon as a pauper
for twenty years, begging an existence
from the farmers of western New
York and lower Canada, has been
found to be rich. On his body was
found $4,000 in government bonds.
The Indiana supreme court affirmed
the finding of the Vanderbury county
jury sentencing William Jackson to
hang and he will be executed in the
Michigan City prison June y unless
Governor Durham grants respite.
Ore Copenhaver, the Indianapolis wife
murderer, will be hanged the same
night
At San Francisco a rich haul was
made upon examination of the bag
gage of Henry S. Potter and wife,
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