Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-07
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Vice Gov. Luke Wright was well
coined at Manila by 10000 troops.
Bernard Doyle, aged IS years, was
suffocated in a fire in the River View
motel IN Wyandotte, Mich.
Direct cable communication be-
tween the United States and the
Philippines will be opened July 4.
A package containing $4,000 was
stolen by two masked robbers from
the United States express agent at
Britt, la.
Nine men were killed and twenty.
one hurt by blowing up Of the
Crescent Power cOmpany's plant near
Hollidaysburg, Pa.
The New York special franchise
tax law, providing for assessment by
state commissioners, was upheld by
the state supreme court.
In a collision between a freight
and an accommodation train on the
Burlington at New Hampton, Mo,
five men were injured.
The contract for transporting naval
officers and men from Chicago to the
Pacific was awarded to the Union
Pacific at $22.71 for 100 or less.
Chicago laundry workers struck
last night with over two-thirds of the
city's weekly wash unfinished A
famine in clean linen is threatened
Railroad earnings for March show
large net gains; Union Pacific in
creased 1873 per cent; Reading, 264;
Ontario and Western, 1879; st. Paul.
rs.
Rev Ralph Maclay Crissman of
the Mccormick theological seminary,
Chicago, received a call to the old
First Presbyterian church of GaIena,
Ill
President Roosevelt dedicated a
Y. NJ G. A. building at Oskaloose, Ia,
kissed four babies at Des Moines, and
met Gov. Cummins and other state
officials
Mrs William Thaw, mother of
countess Of Yarmouth, says her daugh-
ter's fortune has been greatly over
stated and does not exceed half a
Million
EX-AIderman Frank j. PaIica of
Racine, who became insane over
business matters, leaped from
second-story window at his home and
was killed
John A. Lee, former lieutenant
governor, confessed to the St. Louis,
Mo, states attorney his connection
with legislative boodling. The details
are secret.
Prof. stephen M. Babcock of the
University of Wisconsin has evolved
an atomic theory which if accepted,
will prove an explanation of the law
of grayitation.
Bishop William E. McLaren is
seriously i'll at Atlantic City. He has
been at the head of the Protestant
Episcopal diocese of Chicago for
twentyseven years.
Because smallpox is epidemic at
Holyole, Mass, the Home National
bank of that city will call in its issue
of 81 and 81 bills, to lessen the
danger of contagion.
One million dollars damage was
caused by Pennsylvania forest fires
near Bradford. jacksonville is report
ed destroyed and several lives lost.
Oil wells are in danger.
The Minnesota state pardon board
committed the death sentence Of
Louis Cariveau to life imprisonment.
Cariyeau was convicted of. killing d
saloonkeeper near Two Harbors.
Benjamin. Campbell, chief clerk of
the imperial council of the Modern
Samaritans at Duluth. Mimi. was ar
rested charged with the embezzle-
ment Of $2,795 belonging to the order
Gen. Baden-Poweu, hero of Mafek-
ing, who has been inspecting the
American military establishment,
says that United States cavalry is IN
many ways inferior to that of Eng
land
Reinhard Schneider, one of the
most prominent manufacturers and
capitalists at Newark, Ohio, and eight
workmen were killed in a boiler ex-
plosion at the Scheidler machine
works.
The International Salt company s
docks and three grain boats at South
Chicago were damaged S1,25O.000 by
fire. Sixteen acres of warehouses
and 100000 tons of salt were de-
stroyed.
Miss Elsie Barrett, in testimony
before a Chicago judge, declared that
she shot her friend. Bessie Palmer
a dancer, while under the influence
of liquor and scufhng with J. h.
Wright.
Dr.. w. t. Councilman Of Harvard
university, reported TO the Boston
Medical society that the smallpox
germ discovered by him is micro
organism which links that disease
with malaria.
Eighty-three blue jackets on the
United States receiving ship Wabash
were placed in irons at Boston fol
mutiny. Outbreak was started by the
captains effort to stop a drunken
celebration.
The governments weekly crop re