Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-19
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOM ESTIC.

stage.
William PHmley was appointed As
sistant United States treasurer at
New York.
Plans to challenge Germans leader,
ship are being laid by democratic
senators.
The condition of Beriah Wilkins,
owner of the Washington Post, is inn
proved.
All Mississippi river flood records
were probably be broken this spring,
according to New Orleans officials.
Sycamore, H., farmers report many
hogs dying from whooping cough,
which has been caght from children.
F. w. Z. Steinbach, aged so, Of
Chicago. wants an injunction to pre-
vent his young wife from pulling out
his Whiskers.
1t is thought that Alexander Mel
Vile a guard at Fort Sheridan, ILL.,,
has been murderd by two prisoners
who have escaped.
Dr.. Herbert w. Fisk, principal CT
Northwestern academy, Chicago, who
was stricken with apoplexy is in
critical condition.
The Taft-Peirce manufacturing com
rany OF Woonsocket, R. l., makers CT
fine machinery by contract, is in lie
hands of a receiver.
Bertha Lally, aged Is years, was
killed at Indiana Harbor by being
struck by a train. She was a dear
mute and we'll educated.
In New York Thomas ByTnes, one
of the men arrested in the recent RAID
on 'get-rich-quick" concerns, was SELL
fenced to ayear's Imprisonment.
Fire in the Yorkshire Hotel, 1887
Michigan avenue, Chicago, caused rs
guest to fee from the building scant1-
ly attired The loss is $4,000.
At Syracuse, n Y, after shooting
around promiscuously and holding the
Friend, aged &c, shot himself in the
heart
At Belleville, H., Mrs. Mary Zinl-
norman, wife of a nOn-uniOn coal
miner, was badly beaten while assist
ing her husband to repel the attack of
two union men.
Representative Barthoid, of St.
Louis. told the president that ST. LOUIS
would endeayor to secure both the re-
publican and democratic national con-
ventions next year
At Belleville, H., Warren Fleming,
years old, committed suicide by
shooting himself. The boy mad fought
,Ttit, tn +N
have him arrested.
At Buffalo, n Y, five small boys
lighted stick of dynamite which they
found 1t is feared that sevral of the
boys Will die, while those that survive
will be marked for HE
A Pennsylvania railroad capital
stock increase from $3.50, 100000 to
$400, 100000 was voted by the direc-
tors. The proceeds will be used in
fourtrack and other Improvements.
Mrs. Henry Hamilton of Marinette,
Wis, saved three of her children
from her burning home on lowering
them to the ground in sheets and then
jumping out OF the secOnd-stOry win
dow
Ed Murphy, an employee at Mercy
hospital at Webster City, Iowa, crawl
ed into the hospital furnace while in
toxicated and when dragged forth five
minutes later was found to be fatally
burned.
John Butler, proprietor of the Mich
igan house at Houghton, Mich, has
been arrested, charged with assault
with intent to kill Joseph Leclair, a
bridge contractor, who he attacked
with an ice pick.
The monitor Arkansas, commanded
by Comdr. Charles E. Vreeland, left
Annapolis for Hampton Roads, on her
way to ST Louis to take par in the
dedicatory ceremonies Of the Louist-
ana purchase exposition, April 80.
Arthur B. Pencil, murder suspect
and correspondent in !he divorce case
brought by Edwin l.. Burdick Of But
mesfalo, was killed in an Automobile &C
cident and his wife so badly injured
that she died. 1t was an accident
Miss Lulu Kerr, daughter of ex-
Health Commissioner w. R. Kerr, of
Chicago declared the report of her ap-
preaching marriage to Daniel w.
Kaufman, Grand Rapids capitalist, is
true, While Mr.. kaufman denied it.
The Isaac M. Wise endowment fund
committee Of the Hebrew Union cCf
lege of Cincinnati, has rendered the
position of director general Of the
fund to Dr.. Joseph Krauskopf Of Phil
adelphia and it is believed he will ac-
Cept.
The Norwegian steamer Medicines,
which arrived at New York from
Port De PaiX Hayti, confirms the re-
ports that the fire at Port de Pafx on
February % destroyed all except a
few houses o. the outskirts of the
town.
The local board of improvements for
decided to recommend the establish
ment Of a park and memorial to Henry
Ward Beecher The board of alder
men, it is believed, Will take favorable
action
Bishop James E. Quigley Of Buffalo
was installed archbishop of the Chi
cago archdiocese of the Roman Cath
Ole church in the presence of a great
throng crowding every foot OF space
in the huge cathedral Of The Holy
Name in Chicago.
Princess Bernard of SAKE Weimar
died suddenly Wednesday near Han,
over. She was seized with convul-