Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-26
DOMESTIC.

may strike.
The dress of Miss Belle Dillon of
Galva, H., caught fire and she died in
two hours.
Addicks, members if the Delaware
legislature, rejected the offer of the
regulars.
Like Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Knox has
broken down under the strain Of her
social duties.
Two masked women dressed in
pajamas created a sensation at the ball
of the Brooklyn bakers.
Cole Younger" the pardoned out
law. is under arrest, charged with
threatening to commit suicide.
The entertainments planned for Miss
Alice Roosevelt and Miss Root at New
Orleans are almost continuous.
The New York Chamber of Cons
mercs adopted a resolution for state
building and exhibited at the st. Louis
exposition.
John Mitchell, president Of United
Mine Workers union, refused a $4,000
offer from Chautauqua alliance for lee
ture series.
Nelson Bahke and George o. Under
ahl stockmen Of Rio, Wis, blew out
the gas and were nearly asphyxiated
in Chicago.
Hope Temple, the Milwaukee chorus
girl who was found i'll and on the verge
of starvation in her New York room
was sent home.
President Roosevelt is going tc Den
yer as the guest il the chamber OF
commerce while on his western trip
during the spring.
According 10 New York friends.
Richard Croker has reconsidered his
intantiin Of going to New York for
visit before 1904.
The Cornell college officials offer t.
build a $t50.O00 filtration plant f0r the
ithaca IN. " water supply was az
copied by the city.
Mrs Henry Green says that she vii,
foreclose GU the fifth Presbyterian
church in Chicaso If the money due is
not forthcoming.
The New York and Florida express
on the Southern Railway was aelaiieU
by wreckers near Washington and Jwo
trainmen were killed.
The CONTRASTING plant OF the
Dominion Iron and Steel Company al
Sydney, C. b.. was destroyed by fire
The loss IS estimated at $200..00o.
Eight schoolchildren were killed at
Newark, n. J., and thirty persons in
iured by collision Of a trolley car
and a Lackawanna railroad train.
The New Mexico legislature passed
bin creating Quay county in honor
OF Senator Quay's fight for statehood.
Tuasumcari Will be the county seat.
The republican senator's i'll confer
euea resolved to give the Panama
canal treaty right of way over all other
legislation and to press it to ratifca-
ton
Thomas J. Nayin of Detroit, who
served a dve-year term in prison for
forgery, has been appointed by Cover
ror Bliss a member of the prison
board
The residents of Jackson county,
illinois, have started a movement,
supplementary to that of the school
children, to erect a monument to Gen
aral John A. Logan.
A bill to prohibit football in the Hi
nois state university and other
PRODUCED at Springfield by Represen-
tative Underwood. A 500 fine is pro-
yided as a penalty.
The National Civic Federation in
reply to the criticism of President
Baer says the offer made last week by
him to the miners would have ayerted
the coal strike.
Lieut-Gen. Miles on returning from
an official tour around the world re-
ceived a message from King Edward
VII, replying to a wireless message
sent from the Lucania.
Ex-Mayor Ames, implicated by the
exposure of wholesale corruption and
blackmai1 by Minneapolis officials, has
been arrested in New Hampshire on a
charge of attempted bribery.
Eight new cases of typhoid are re
ported at Cornell university. The total
of deaths now twenty, including eleven
citizens. Physicians are unable to
cope with the $50 cases now under
treatment
Yale university records support the
low birth rate statistics of Harvard;
1926 married graduates of the former
college have TAP children. The class
records of 1910 show 636 children to
159 marriages.
James B. Davey, instructor in
botany at the university of California,
has been appointed chief agriculturist
and botanist of the Transvaal govern
ment, at an initial salary Of $4,000
year and expenses.
Miss Katharine White, daughter of
selected by a Joint resolution Of the
two houses to christen the new ar
mored cruiser West Virginia to be
launched in April.
Orlo G. Pepper, a freshman dental
student in the University of Michigan,
shot himself through the brain, dying
instantly. A letter was found bidding
goodbye to his mother and saying L
am insane"
Nine persons have been bitten and
hundreds terroriZed by a dog supposed
to be suffering from rabies, that ran
about lower Broadway, New York.
Those bitten were sent to the Pasteur
institute