Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-21
POLITICAL,


Booker T. Washington's bed in an In
dianapolis hotel.
President Roosevelt took part in
Manila monument dedication at San
Francisco and was given doctors de-
gree at Berkeley; banquet held in his
honor by university club, start made
for Yosemite.
Bill increasing Illinois Circuit and
Superior court judges salaries to
$1,000 vetoed by Gov. Yates because
of increased expense Chicago judges
were not affected; repeal Of indeter
inmate sentence law under advise
ment.
DOMESTIC.
Martin Walls millionaire of Pitts
burg, believes his son was slain by
kidnappers.
Mrs Mabel Baer, favorite niece of
President Mckinley, will go on the
vaudeville stage.
American automobilists who visit
Canada hereafter must pay 25 per cent
duty on their machines.
At Railway, N. j., Patrick Moore, a
f1agman, picked up q check for $21 900
dropped from a passing train.
At Wilkesbarre James Sweeny was
sentenced to twenty years for the MUIR
der of Joseph Cullen, a striker.
Appropriations at the last session
of congress totaled 1888 ,058,5O6. Some
9,501 new offices were created.
At Indianapolis a boiler in the
hominy mills exploded, killing the fire
man and injuring seven others.
The installation of Henry G. King, as
president of Oberlin college was at
tended by thirty heads of colleges.
The grand jury has been ordered to
investigate alleged frauds in tie re-
cent municipal election at Baltimore.
At Buffalo, Herman NJ. Blaisdell and
wife were fatally burned in a gas ex-
plosion due to a leak in the supply
pipe
DR. Joseph Feisler of Chicago was
elected president of the Dermatologi-
cal association in convention at Wash
ington.
Judge Dickinson issued a restraining
order against political scheme to in
: crease the Omaha wards from nine to
thirteen.
Hilton Hayden. former treasurer of
West Lafayette, Ind, who was found
to be short in his accounts $15,OOO has
disappeared
Twenty dredging companies Of the
great lakes have combined in an as
Oh e
Duluth as manager.
At Colorado Springs Chief of
Police King and David Joel Atkinson
have been indicted for conniving at
the escape of bunco men.
Miss Dora Wenholz, a student in a
training school for nurses in Brooklyn.
was secretly married to Charlie Lang,
a Chinese laundryman of Newark
Three masked men battered in the
door of Laurence GregOry's home, five
miles northeast of Monroe, Mich,
bound Gregory and robbed him of $4O0
At Colorado Springs J. c. St. John,
president of the city council for eight
years, Is under arrest charged with
having unlawful interest in public
contracts.
Charles Summers, aged so, commit
ted suicide by jumping in front of a
train at Pope's Station, near Pana.
III. He is survived by his wife and
two children.
Raymond Dixon, 9-year-oId son of
John Dixon, West Baden, Ind, was
killed by falling upon the drive belt of
an engine in the ice plant Of the
Springs hotel
Frank Barnett, clerk in the bureau
of ethnology has been arrested for
forging names to private checks alb
stracted from mail 10 employees in the
department.
Archbishop Kahn, who arrived at Bal
timore from St. Louis and became a
patient at st. Agnes sanitarium. is
reported by the resident physicians to
be much improved.
Former Lieutenant Governor Lees
statement of boodling to the st. Louis
grand jury contains about 1000 words
and charges prominent legislators and
others with bribery.
The plaster cast has been removed
from the limbs Of 11-yearoId Charles
Willett of Washington operated on
last fall by DR.. Lorenz for club feet
A perfect cure is shown.
Since the duty was removed the ex.
ports of hemp from Manila to the
United States have increased 10000
tons, while those to the United King.
dom have decreased 37.377 tons.
The Deering harvester works strike
strike ended through nine hour work
ing day and permission to join labor
unions are given by the company
Other differences will be arbitrated.
Lewis Yeager, a Kokomo Qnd }
murder victim is said to have been
lured to death by a jealous woman
Frank Burns declares he saw Yeager
in company with two women and two
men.
Legal papers in the suit of the heirs
of the late Governor Durkee against
the Central Pacific Road were served
on E. H. Hartman at Evanston, Wyo
after his special train had run past
Ogden
At Yazoo City, Miss, T. A Kenney
clerk of the circuit court, his brother
and David Dorsey were fatally shot in
a street duel with R. F. Birdsall, edi
tor of the Yazoo Sentinel, and his two
brothers-in-law