Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-22
Sparks from the Wires.

The general staff of the army has
adopted the French straight and curb bits
for the use of the cavalry.
An order for the winding up of the
affairs of the Dominion Mills Company of
Bracebridge, Ont, was issued at Toronto.
Foreign ambassadors in Washington
have abandoned their plan of sending an
official wedding gift to Miss Alice Roose-
welt.
James Hazen Hyde has been sued by
the Equitable Life Assurance Society for
$4,000, representing alleged syndicate
profits.
The Grand Trunk Pacific railroad will
ask the Canadian parliament for fran
chises for twenty-three branch lines in
Canadian Pacific territory.
A member of the Westminster Country
Club, near New York, is being sought as
the abductor of the daughter of a titled
Englishman from Honolulu.
Mrs. W. NJ Barton, wife OF a Wash
ington %. c. physician, was attacked
by ''slasher." Her gown was badly
cut, but she escaped injury.
Women of the Minerva Club. New
York. have secured the Endorsement of
college presidents and are framing a law
to make hazing in colleges a crime.
Dr. Henry S. Conrad of Johns Hop
kfns university says that the sundew. a
plant growing in swamps, can see, feel
and taste, but lacks the sense of hearing.
In a street crowd at San Francisco
William Walbridge, laborer, shot and
seriously wounded his wife, slightly in
jured two bystanders and killed himself
Father L. L. Conrady,. who succeeded
Father Damien, in charge of the Ha-
waian colony. is completing plans in New
York for establishing leper colonies in
China.
The trustees of the Carnegie School OF
Technology at pittsburg have received a
letter from Andrew Carnegie thanking
them for naming the woman's department
after his mother.
Justice Joseph NJ deuel., who lost his
libel suit against Norman Hapgood re-
Gently, declares the Town Topics suit has
destroyed his usefulness and he will re-
sign from the New York bench.
After six years work a New York AIer-
chants Association committee has asked
for thorough revision of the customs
administrative act and has sent is rec
concentrations 10 Secretary Shaw.
Afidavits flied in support OF new trial
for Albert T. Patrick. the lawyer SEN
fenced TO die for the murder of William
Marsh Rice. say that Charles T. Jones
repudiates his confession duplicating Pat
rick
Edward \. Vaughan was arrested at
Denver on the charge of using the mails
to defraud in a commission business in
Minneapolis. He was indicted with Hen
~ T. Raymond and three others at Min
neapolis last May.
: lone masked bandit held up Frank
McGuire's saloon in the center of the
business district at Hamilton. Ohio, fore
ed the bartender to open the register,
took out $40 in money and, making ev-
erybody present drink to his health, es-
capped.
The demurrers of George ". Beavers
to the indictments charging him with
conspiring with former State Senator
George f. ureen of Binghamton, \. Y,
and W. D. Doremus. to defraud the gov
eminent in connection with the furnish
ing of postoffice supplies, and also TO the
indictments against Beavers individually
charging him with bribery we're overruied
by Justice Gould in Washington.