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


were refused admission into the |
on their way home. They have been
placed under police surveillance.
The navy department has decided
that Admirals Crowninshield and
Sumner shall return to their former
stations after the close of the winter
maneuvers in the Caribbean.
At Freehold, n. j., the jury in the
case of Laura Diggar, on trial for con-
spiracy to get the estate of Henry M.
Bennett, rendered a verdict of not
guilty. Hendricks and Stanton were
convicted.
Senator Cullom in an interview de-
clared the interstate commerce law
pooling Of railroad rates. The com
mission also needs authority to en-
force it's rulings.
The condition of the coffee trade
and the loss of $S,OOO,OOO that is be-
lieved to have been sustained on the
"bulI' side of the market formed a
general subject Of comment in
financial circles.
Chase & Sons candy factory, at st.
Joseph, Mo-, was burned with a $685.
900 loss. Two girls were fatally hurt.
The Beatrice, Neb, business district
was damaged $4,000. 100000
damage done at Bellaire, o.
Western railroad officials retaliated
against eastern lines for refusing
passes by declining free transporta-
ton for agents of freight lines af-
filiated with eastern roads. Lake
Shore net earnings for 1902 were
$9,849, 900.
An American syndicate, headed by
! G. K. Bellings, will invest S3O,OOO.-
| 600 in Paris (France) gas company.
| A thirty-five year franchise is offered
in return for introducing American
gas stoves and ranges in place of
| charcoal.
Governor-elect Bailey of Kansas
will reply in a courteous letter to the
several hundred women who have
asked him to marry tnem, saying that
he is not a candidate for matrimony
Fifty photographs will be returned to
! the senders.
Mrs. Catherine Tingley's Port
Iona (CaL) school was accused by
DR.. J. A. Anderson with starving
babies to drive out their lower
natures; barefoot ceremonies and
moonlight parades were also told of
in libel suit hearing.
President Mclean of the Iowa state
university at Des Moines announced
that the Investigation into the recent
student riots had practically closed.
The sophomore class has agreed to
pay the damages, apprc- iimating 5000.
resulting from the riot
d. B. Farley, chairman of the re-
| publican state committee at Denver.
Col, was advised by telegraph that
President Roosevelt will visit Denver
about the middle of March. From
Denver, it is said, he will go to New
Mexico and Oklahoma.
N. S. Beardsley, president of the
National Salt company, announced
that on account of the more con-
venient location of Ithaca with
reference to the company's salt plants
the general offices of the company
would be moved there from Scranton,
Pa, Immediately.
Deeds of conveyance naming
$4,000 as the purchase price were at
Oneida, N. Y, filed with the county
clerk, making the formal transfer OF
the property of the Omaha Street
Railway company and integral
properties to the Omaha and Council
Bluffs Railway company.
The Pennsylvania limited crashed
into the rear end Of the Leetsdale
accommodation at Quaker Valley, Pa.
The engine of the limited ploughed
into the rear car like knife through
paper, and the car pushed through
the one ahead of it, making two cars
the length of one. Many were in
jured, some probably fatally
The steamer Amur, which arrived
from Skagway, brought news of the
massacre of Salmon Indians and the
murder of storekeeper whose store
was looted and burned by the Pelly
river Indians. Dispatches from
Dawson state that the Little Salmon
Indians were on their way out to sell
furs when attacked by the Pelly
Indians.
Police Commissioner Partridge of
New York rendered his decision in the
case of Inspector Adam Cross, Cap
tain John D. Herlihy and Captain
Charles A. AlbertSOn who were
charged with neglect of duty, grow
ing out Of the riot at the funeral of
Rabbi Joseph. The commissioner
found the defendants not guilty and
dismissed the complaint
William Potter, the member of
company F, second regiment,
Schenectady, N. Y, who was ex-
PEELED from the local painters union
because of his service in the Hudson
railway strike, was reiLstated by that
organization and he immedia tely ap-
piled to his former employers to re-
employ him. His request was &C
coded to and he was put to work
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad hospital at Albuquerque,
N. NJ, has been destroyed by fire.
One OF the patients, whose name was
not learned, died form exposure and
fright. The railroad company had
just completed an addition costing
, $4,000 to the main building and this
addition had been occupied only a
month. The total loss amounts to
I $4,000.