Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-04-09
Diagrams in Brief
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Milton D. Purdy took the oath of
Office as assistant attorney general.
Almost the entire town of Pacolet,
S. c., was destroyed by fire.
The flow of immigrants is beating
all records.
The postof1ce at Wellington was
broken into, the safe dynamited and
$500 in cash and stamps stolen.
Alice Roosevelt sailed for New
York after strenuous fornight's
visit in Porto Rico.
Splitting on capital sidewalks is
prohibited by the Washington CON-,
missioners.
Samuel Mcdowell Of New Rock
ford, n D., was robbed of $500 in
cash and $500 in drafts on a Northern
Pacific train at Fargo.
A fire entailing a loss of $4,000
and destroying fully half of the town
occurred at Single house, Potter
county, Pa.
The total debt of the United States
increased 1851 ,921 in March. This
was due to the decrease of cash on
hand.
Two negroes were killed, two
seriously hurt and nine slightly in
jured by falling walls in a brick
tenement-house at Louisville, Ky.
General William Dudley will IN
Testigate the charge of polygamS
against Reed Smoot by Rev. J. S.
Leilich before the senate.
Grover Cleveland has issued an
emphatic denial of the report that
he is to make a tour of the west this
year.
In New York William J. Peppler
was shot and killed by his wife's
admirer, BROKER William Earl
Dobson.
John D. Rockefeller offered
financial backing to DR.. William w.
Jacques of Boston for experiments in
producing electricity directly from
coal
Thomas Laugh1in of Philadelphia
is held in $1,000 bail on complaint OF
Ina Thomas, an actress in Nc
Fadden's Row of Flats, that he struck
her with an egg.
A certificate of incorporation was
filed at Dover, Del, for the Ohio
Steel Erecting company of Steu-
benville, O., to erect and construct
buildings, etc, Capital, $4,000.
A thirty thousand dollar bid for
the Jeffries-C orbett heavyweight
championship fight was sent by
Paddy Carroll, Chicago promoter,
to Harry Corbett at San Francisco.
At San Francisco Major General r.
p. Hughes, retired from active SER
vice. He turned over the command
Of the department of California to
Major General Macarthur.
Uncle Sam is feeding the rats in
Chinatown, San Francisco, a sort Of
Welsh rarebit, in order to decrease
their numbers and thus lessen the
chances for bubonic plague.
At Cincinnati Colonel Jack Chinn
assaulted Attorney Theodore Hallam
Chinn claims that the lawyer started
a story to the effect that he (Chinnl
was the assassin of Governor Goebel
At Sandoval, H., five men were
killed and four fatally injured by an
explosion in a coal mine. The acct
dent was due to an accumulation OF
gases from imperfect ventilation.
The use of alcoholic beverages i'll
the United States has increased from
1000 gallons per capita in 1880 to
19.48. The total liquor bill in 1902
was $1,369 ,O9S,276
At Campbell Hill, H., part of the
farm of d. f. Keller has sunk six feet
and a crevasse of great apparent
depth has appeared on one side of the
sunken part.
Ten officials of the North Jersey
Street Railway company pleaded not
guilty to the Indictment charging
them with causing the death of nine
children.
Mark Twain wrote to ex-Gov
Francis of Missouri urging a race of
Orleans to st. Louis as an advertise
ment for the worlds fair.
The Seattle mayor, chief of police,
justices, and several prominent
citizens were indicted by the grand
jury on malfeasance, neglect, ana
embezzlement charges.
DR.. Lorenz will return to Chicago
On the 18th of this month to remove
the cast which he placed on the limb
of little Lolita Armour when he set
the dislocated hip. The result of the
operation is awaited anxiousIy.
Philadelphia will become New
York's suburb when the projected
Pennsylvania railroad terminal and
tunnels are completed in the latter
city, according to Samuel Rea, vice
president of that road.
At Paterson, n. J., Thomas F. Stot-
hart and his bride of few months
committed suicide with carboic acid.
The young mans parents had opposed
the marriage and the couple feared
they would withhold their forgive.
Eighteen men. many of them
strikers, have been arrested in
Waterbury charged with assault on
non-unionists Police believe some
of them murdered Policeman Men
delssohn.
Count Reventlow wrote to a Berlin
paper that Germany's first squadron
eight battle-ships) could 'Esmash
Dewey's Heterogeneous assemblage" oil
sixty-one fighting ships on the Cario
bean sea.
American Bridge company officials
refuse to confer with President
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