Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-01-29

Frank Gummow had his skull frac-
tured and Allan Sanford had his arm
broken in three places.
James E. Wilcox has been found
guilty of the murder of Ella Cropsey
at Elizabeth, n. c., on the night OF
Dec. 20, 1901, and has been sentenced
to thirty years Imprisonment.
The attorneys for the Times-Mirror
company in the suit of Katherine
Tingley against the Los Angeles Times
for libel filed notice of inten-
ton to move for new trial.
Caroline Olcheski of Green Bay,
Wis, over 70 years of age, has been
granted a divorce from her husband,
Gustav Olcheski, on the grounds or
cruel and inhuman treatment.
A bill was introduced in the Michi-
gan senate making the PRONUNCIATION
of criminally anaTchistic doctrines a
crime punishable by a $4,000 fine or
ten years imprisonment, or both.
Congressman Crester I Long was
nominated by reclamation by the Kan
sas republican legislative caucus as
candidate for United States senator
All the other candidates withdrew.
The Chicago & G-eat Westerns st.
Paul passenger train was wrecked by
broken rail at South Freeport, Ill
The engineer, fireman, and one other
person were killed and twenty injured.
Frank H. Sanderson, president of
the Sanderson nitroglycerine works
at Boulder, Col, was blown to atoms
and a tool dresser named Fred Krebs
was badly shocked by an explosion Of
nitroglycerin.
Governor Nash of Ohio and ex-
Speaker Keifer of Cnio called on
! Speaker Henderson. They will invite
President Roosevelt to attend the cen
tennial celebration of the state OF
Ohio at Chillicothe next May.
President Roosevelt has accepted
an invitation to attend the bicenten-
NAL celebration of the birthday of
John Wesley to be held in New York
Feb. &c. He will be one of the prin-
cipal speakers at the celebration.
A lone highwayman entered the
| Southern Pacific ticket Office at Reno,
New, and held up the agent at the
point of revolver, securing all the
cash in the money drawer, amounting
to $1,000.
Edgar l.. Marston of New York has
founded a new scholarship at Brown
university, to which he has given
$4,000. The income is to be available
Of oh,
school in ST. Louis who may be recon-
mended by the principal.
The Canada Settlers company, in
corporated by Illinois capitalists to
locate colonists from the United
States on 100000 acres, received
license from the Ontario cabinet to
begin operations; the maximum p,ice
of land will be So an acre.
McKeesport, Pa, will be flooded
with $3.50 900 in cash, which is to be
distributed by the United States
Steel corporation among 107 property
Owne.s in exchange for the ground
upon which the new 100000 tube
works are to be erected.
Congressman Babcock CWis), chair
man of the republican congressional
committee, in an interview declared
that President Roosevel's election and
republican success in 1904 depends on
antitrust legislation and tariff revision
by the next two sessions of congress-
Owl. S to the prevalence of smallpox
III Ohio the Indiana state board Of
hno hoe h.
panies whose lines cross the Ohio-In-
diana state line to instruct their en-
poyes who run into Ohio to be vacci-
mated at once to prevent the disease
from spreading.
George Van Buren,, one of the most
noted characters of the northwest
committed suicide after a protracted
spree. Van Buren,, who was so years
old and claimed to be a Iineal de-
scendant of President Van Buren,
acted as scout under General Howard
during the Nez Perces trouble.
The Nebraska supreme court in an
opinion by Chief Justice Sullivan de-
clares the reading of the bible in pub
lie schools of Nebraska permissible so
long as it does not take the form OF
: 2ctacian instruction. This is a prac-
teal reversal of a previous decision by
the same court.
Senator Foraker yesterday intro
duced bill renouncing on the part OF
the United States all right to the
church lands in Porto Rico The bill
grants the right Of naturalization to
Porto Ricans and to lne people in
habiting other possessions OF the
United States similarly situated.
The Nebraska supreme court Or
dered the dismissal of the suit against
the Union Pacific Railroad company
for So55, 900 for alleged violation of
the Nebraska maximum freight rate
law. This declares unconstitutional
the act creating the state board OF
transportation, which assessed the
penalties against the road.
The grain elevator belonging to the
Spencer Grain company of Minneap-
oils and the Hunting G Gilchrist ware
houses, all on the river bank at Nc.
Gregor, Iowa, were destroyed by fire,
together with 92,700 bushels of grain.
Foreman Davidson of the elevator was
seriously injured by the explosion of
boiler. L he estimated property loss
is 100000.
William E. Wren, whose parents live
near Bloomington, H., killed himself
at Indianapolis, Ind, yesterday by fir
ing one bullet through his head ana
another through his heart. He was
formerly in the navy and served