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


the emphasis of fundamental truths.
A deficit of $227,3 300 was discovered
In the postoffice department because
of Supt. A. w. Machen's unauthorized
expenditures and his disobedience OF
the postmaster generals orders. NJ
action is taken by the latter official
Displeased over the outcome of z
case in police court, Mrs. A E. LIE
land, aged SO years, of Cincinnati
tried to blind Judge William H. Lue
ders by throwing cayenne pepper into
his eyes. He will not lose his sight
The United Confederate Veterans
lannual reunion begun at New Orleans
with a demonstration for Gen. Gordon
commander in chief, Mrs. Stonewal
Jackson and John H. Reagan, sole
survivor of the rebel cabinet, were
jpresent.
Ann Arbor, Mich, police are trying
to solve the disappearance of Albert
Patterson, senior, whose blood
stained hat and lock of hair were
found on the campus. The murder
mystery is laid to his promise to wed
two girls
At Little Rock, Ark, Governor JEFF
Davis has announced himself a can.
didate for a third term, and says he
means to be reelected as a vindica.
ton, because the legislature sought
to impeach him but was too cowardly
to do so.
Charles Broadway Rosseau, the II
year old son of the late Charles Broad
way Rousseau, the blind New York
millionaire, was awarded $780, OO
and $5,766 interest by the state
supreme court, on proof of his
: parentage.
| Frequent strikes in Chicago are
causing the abandonment of proposed
! 100000 addition to the Allis- Chal-
mers' works is given up. Over 1000
restaurant keepers allied to resist the
employees demands.
The long and short haul clause of
the interstate commerce act was
killed by the federal supreme court in
a Louisville and Nashville rate case.
Competition is held a justification for
higher rates over comparatively
shorter distances.
The will of George w. Todd, the
capitalist who carried his money to
the banks in a WheelbarroW, has been
filed at Syracuse, N. Y. He given all
his wealth to a woman at Brockton
Mass, whose pocketbook Todd con
! fessed he stole in 1883.
An anti-spitting ordinance will be
enforced by Chicago police. and the
health departments following a com.
plant by A. B. Gilbert of the
Monadnook building, who declared it
worse than smoke and commoner in
Chicago than elsewhere.
At Osceola, Neb., during a per
Torrance of Uncle Toms Cabin
several rows Of seats collapsed, in
juring a number, three perhaps
fatally. The most seriously hurt are
Mrs. Clyde Hutton, Mrs. Jospeh Miller
and a daughter of DR.. Shaw.
At Lancaster, Pa, Virginia Thomas
and Belle Berry, young colored WON.
en-, have been arrested on the charge
of having murdered Jesse M. Richard
son, an infant. also colored The baby
had been placed in the charge of the
Thomas woman by it's parents.
Walter VrOoman, founder of the
| Peoples Trust, the Western Co-opera-
tive company, and other gigantic
Utopian schemes, in which he spent
! hundreds of thousands of dollars, is
! the defendant in a divorce suit at
| Trenton, Mo, brought by his wife,
who supplied him with a quarter of a
million dollars to carry on his plans.
! At Fall River, Mass, one woman
was killed and two persons severely
! injured by the collapse of a veranda,
on the third story of house on King
| Philip street. Five others, who were
on the veranda at the time had
miraculous escapes from injury or
death. The dead woman is Mrs
Vitaline Vergernon and the injured
are Mrs. Octave Frenette and Eugene
Vergernon.
Mayor Doyle declared the city of
| Newport, R. l., to be in a state of riot,
|
police stationed on Broadway and a
gang of tracklayers employed by the
! Old Colony street railway who intend
ed to lay switch in face of an order
not to do so. The fifty workmen were
scared by overwhelming numbers,
fully 5000 persons standing ready to
back up Mayor Doyle and the police.
The city council made permanent the
mayors order forbidding the OLD
Colony Railway company to lay the
turnout.
Clarence H Venner, a wealthy
broker of Boston and president of the
New Waterworks company, the Bos-
ton Water and Light company and the
Alton Waterworks comapny, all big
concerns, was fined $1,000 and SEN
fenced to serve six months in the
Sangamon county, Illinois, Jail of con-
tempt in the federal court. Venner
placed himself in contempt of Judge
Humphreys court when he refused to
produce certain books in the fore
closure suit of the Farmers Loan
and Trust company against the Alton
Waterworks company.
FOREIGN
The duchess of Marlborough is
going to Germany to visit her friend,
the Princess Henry of Pless, at
FurStenstein.
A farmer named G. Fontaine was