Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-23
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DOM ESTIC.


presidents messages were sent by
President Roosevelt to Pope Leo as
jubilee gift.
Captain Horace Hollingshead, one
of the best known pilots on the Miss
1ssippi in his day, was drowned near
Lansing, Iowa.
The Gloucester fishing feet is still
imprisoned by the ice off Newfound
land. me loss on spoiled herring
will total $4,000.
Newton C. Dougherty, former presi-
dent of the National Educational as
sociation, was badly injured while
horseback riding at Peoria.
A negro accused Of killing a Joplin
(Mo.) policeman was lynched from a
telegraph pole after a fight between
two mobs for his possession.
Moses Fowler Case, a Lafayette
0nd) youth, alleged to have been
kidnapped and imprisoned in a French
sanitarium, reached New York
battle between Outlaw James
Mckinney and Keysville (Cal) of
ficers resulted in the former being
During a severe northeast gale the
scow Hughes capsized in the Della
ware river off Marcus Hook, Pa, and
four men of the crew were drowned.
Contest over Moses Flower Chases
guardianship and the custody of his
$750,000 estate was begun at
Lafayette, Ind, on his arrival from
Paris.
Montgomery, Ind, citizens received
an anonymous warning that the town
will be burned unless $1,000 is placed
as a ransom in a jar on a secluded
bridge.
An investigation of railroad coal
freight agreement will be started by
the interstate commerce commission
as a result of the anthracite strike
inquiry.
Negotiations for purchase of the
ST. Louis and San Francisco railroad
by Rock Island ended, supposedly
because of the Northern Securities
decision.
Rev Henry Roberts of Phila-
delphia was censured by the Kansas
City (Mo) presbytery for his
equivocal position on temperance
questions.
Proof that Mrs Frank E. Knight
of Omaha, was killed by her husband
is claimed by the police in a letter
to Mrs. Stiles declaring he gave Mrs.
Knight a dose"
Francis Copartelo and Guadeloupe
Mendoza, Mexican miners at Santa
Rita, N. M, wero shot and killed Ly
Deputy Sheriff Muse while resisting
arrest for disturbance.
EX-Sheriff John Robert Payne and
two brothers named Stigler engaged
in fight at Asheville, Ind, and one
of the Stiglers stabbed Payne three
times. His condition is critical
A department store in the Marion
Qnd) Presbyterian church is planned
by A. f. Norton, who operates several
grocery stores in that state as he
believes Christ would conduct them
Prof. Adolf Lorenz's operation on
Lolita Armour of Chicago for a dis
located hip is shown on removal of
the cast by him to have been success
full. She is able to walk with slight
limp.
The boiler of the Charles Bevans
sawmill at Ruby, O.. exploded, killing
Charles Bevans, Richard Houck,
and two boys named Houck and
Gotridge. Several others were badly
injured.
Andrew P. DucQ, a night collector
for the Detroit postoffice. was held to
the grand jury under $1,000 bail
having confessed the theft of a num-
Der Of letters containing Enclosures
of money.
The arrest of native Caroline
island missionaries by a German war.
ship captain is reported to the
American board at Boston. I'm
prOpriety toward the German gov
eminent is charged
The United States governments
weekly crop report shows tenn
perature favorable to growth east OF
the Rocky mountains. Farm work il
the lake region and Atlantic coast
Is delayed by rain,
million dollars loss was inflicted
by fire in the Hogg-Swayne oil tracr
on Spindle Top, Tex. The twenty
concerns are bankrupted The up
setting Of lantern by a careless
workman started it.
Grover Cleveland in an address a
a New York mass meeting held fo1
the Tuskegee negro institute ad
mitted that the negros faults existed
before his emancipation, but pleaded
for aid and encouragement.
The murder trial of Henry Swear
ingen Of South Bend, Ind, for stab
bing Michael Schricker Of East 81
Louis. H.. ended at Goshen, Ind, in
verdict for manslaughter He wa
sentenced to fourteen years.
Six state senators and six rep
resentatives are threatened with in
dictment by the st. Louis grand jury
for bribery Over $1,000 in Doodle i
said to have been pocketed by a MAJ
for whom it was not meant.
The general offices of Wells
Far~o Co., which have been main
tanned in San Francisco ever since
the establishment of the compan!
over half a century ago are to be re
moved to New York next month.
Consolidation of parallel and com
peting railroad lines only is affected
by the Northern Securities merge
decision, according to department o
justice officials. Trusts as such ant