Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-28
kilograms In Brief
INSUlAR.

Lieut.. walker OF the Cebu con
stabularly, reported missing, was
killed by Pulajanes, along with two
privates. Thirty-five natives were
slain. The uprising is serious.
A party of Americans stormed the
stage of theater in Manila anG
stopped a seditious play. The piece
has a climax in which the heroine
throws the American flag to the
ground and raises the standard oil
Katfpunan secret society.
DOMESTIC.
There was snoWstorm throughout
Montana
Smallpox appears on the La Pointe
Indian reservation in Wisconsin.
The body of man, packed in a
store box, was found in the river al
Warsaw, Ind.
The international machinsts' con
vention adjourned to meet in Boston
in September, 1905.
An attempt was made to poison
Curtis Jet, in jail charged with the
murder Of J. B. Marcum.
Mrs. Ida B. Weed Of Kansas City, il
is understood, will become the wife OF
Governor Bailey of Kansas.
A Chicago railroad freight handlers
strike is threatened June / unless de
mands for higher wages are granted.
Indian Commissioner Jones says
that the government is buying much
less supplies for Indians than for
merly.
Governor Mickey of Nebraska says
he has been offered $1,000 each for
four positions under the state govern.
ment
Hermis, the champion 3-year-old of
1902, has been sold by L. V. Bell to
Edward B. Thomas, the most recent
newcomer on the turf.
At Monticello, La, Mrs James Lane
a member of one of the leading
families, shot and killed a negro who
was attacking her husband
John Muir of Beath. Scotland, has
sold the American rights to his inven,
ton by which cushion tires are made
from pigskin instead of rubber.
At Johnston, Pa, Albert Palmer
aged 81 years, shot and killed Mollie
Beck, aged 80, and then killed himself
MOllie had declined to marry him.
Near Connersvile, Ind, Van Moore
a married man, and Miss Clara Sher-
wood, daughter of a saIoonist, com
mitted suicide with carbOIic acid in a
grove
The ship subsidy bill would have
passed if the large shipowners had
been reasonable in their demands
according to Representative Miner OF
Wisconsin.
At Rye, n. Y, Frank Daniels, the
comedian, was thrown from a horse
and so seriously injured that it will
be many days before he can return
to the stage.
Advertisements for city folks who
desire summer work en- farms, are
bringing hundreds of answers from
men but none from women. The
most are inexperienced.
At Douglas, WyO. Deputy Constable
YOland was killed and Constable
Graham was seriously injured by an
outlaw named Smith, who is being
pursued by a posse.
At St Louis, Mrs. Elsie Strieb and
Mrs. Sophia Wunch were seriousl.,
burned by having acid thrown into
their faces by Frank Strieb, husband
of the former woman.
Near Warsaw, Ind, the mutilated
body Of a man was found in the
Tippacanoe river. The police believe
the body was shipped in as no one is
missing from the locality
James Milliken university will be
dedicated by President Roosevelt on
June 4 at Decatur, III. 1t is named
for a pioneer banker of that city, who
gave $55O,O0O in cash and a site.
The estate of Sam Moy, late king of
Chicago Chinatown and supposed
millionaire, is estimated at only
$4,000. Mrs. Lille Moy. the American
widow, declares the fortune is due
her.
Twenty persons were injured by the
explosion of a gasoline tank on
Thomas D. Dewitt's automobile at
New York. The chauffeur was taking
it to repair shop because Of the
leak.
A woman in Buffalo wrote to Mrs
Roosevelt that she was the mother of
twelve children, and the presidents
wife sent her a check for SIS, but
fat
impostor.
Major A. NJ. Marchant of the
Georgia military academy has been
forced to resign because he punished
cadets who refused to march behind
a negro drum corps in the Memorial
day parade.
A man armed with a six shooter
revolver was captured by a Sacra-
mento (Cal) citizen during President
Roosevelt's visit, following his alleged
remark that Zone has died, and an
other might as we'll"
The Breedsville (Mich) murder
mystery" is solved by the return of
missing Willie Harrison. the supposed
victim, and the removal of the social
ban on Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Harrison.
The boy has been rowing since his
disappearance in 1901.
The .enver (Colo) Gas and Flee
trio Light company's employees en-
Joined against declaring sym
pathetic strike. The company is held
under the courts jurisdiction as being
in a receivers hands.
Quick marriage for clippers and
others is advertised in newspapers by