Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-12-26

to a statement made by Lieutenant
of the late president.
Walter Ames. former manager of
the Mutual Building and Loan associa-
ton at Dubuque, convicted of en-
bezzling funds, was sentenced to one
year and nine months.
Three persons were killed and
twenty-five injured in a collision be-
tween a Southern Pacific passenger
Trains at Uplands, Cal Some all
American ball players were hurt.
Lowell Spence, a detective, arrived
at Knoxville, Tenn, from Chicago, and
identified the unknown man under ar
rest there as Harvey Logan, one of the
alleged Great Northern express rob-
bers.
For the past few weeks probably
fOur-fifths of the potatoes reaching
New York have come from Europe.
Not for eight years had this country
bought potatoes abroad in any great
| quantities.
At Winona, a. A. Ryen, who was
! held in the county Jail on the charge
of larceny and finally released, was
arrested again on the charge of Sc
curing money and goods under false
| pretenses.
The new knitting mill plant of
Meeker e Link at North Hoosick, n.
Y, was destroyed by fire. The loss is
| 200, and the insurance covers half
the loss. Machinery valued at S12,-
900 is ruined.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones has decided to authorize FOR
the first time the leasing of grazing
lands on the Cheyenne reserve and
Standing Rock Indian reservations
in the Dakotas.
At Walnut Grove, Mimi, Will
Brady, a 17-year-old boy. was shot
through the right wrist by the ac-
cidental discharge of a shotgun.
Tetanus has set in and he is in a
critical condition.
The pope said to a correspondent:
''You see that it is not all over with
me. | work six or eight hours a day.
and my work is not easy, for it en-
braces the whole church Please say
that am not yet dead"
Reports from various parts of Wis
consin tell Of an increasing number of
| timber wolves in the more unsettled
districts. Even as far south as Bara-
boo there were three huge brutes shot
in barnyard in daylight
An east-bound fast mail train on
the Union Pacific crashed into the
rear end Of a freight train near
Rawlins, Wyo. The passengers were
shaken up and the fireman, Charles
Brown, was seriously injured
Senator Thomas G. Plat of New
York says he has decided to bring a
libel suit against William Allen White
of EmpOria, Kan, and McClure's
Magazine, on account of an article
published in the current number.
Chicago opened a municipal Iodg-
ing house. Honest men who need a
bed and food and tramps and Ioafers
who apply to the police stations for
shelter will be sent to the lodging
house and be assisted in procuring
work
Postmaster General Charles Emory
Smith resigned and Henry G. Payne,
republican national committeeman
for Wisconsin, was appointed as his
successor. Mr.. Smith will resume
the editorship of his Philadelphia
Press.
A syndicate headed by DR.. William
Seward Webb sOn-in-law of w. H
Vanderbilt, is to build the finest
MOTEL in New York city on the south
west corner of Fifth avenue and
Forty-fourth street It will have 400
guest rooms.
4 heater exploded in a private car
in which j. w. Middendorf Of Balti-
more, yice-president of the Sea
board Air Line railway was travel
ling in Georgia William Hall,
colored, a servant. was probably
fatally injured.
The municipal council of Dublin has
voted to bestOw the freedom of the
city of Dublin on John Redmond, the
! nationalist leader in the house of COM
mons, who returned to Ireland from
a visit to the United States on behalf
of the United Irish league
At West Duluth C. E. PeasIee, re-
ceiver of the defunct Manufacturers
bank. has been given an order by the
district court permitting him to sell
at public sale all the assets of the
institution. The liabilities amount
to $5,630.92, and it is believed that
this will be realized.
AS a result of the negotiations that
have been in progress between Secre-
tary Hay and Mr.. Brun, the Danish
minister, the last obstacles to the
preparation of the treaty of cession
whereby the United States will be-
come possessed of the Danish West
Indian islands, have been removed.
Information has been received from
Constantinople that NJ Constans, the
French minister there, has again
/ threatened to break off diplomatic re-
| latiOns with the porte The suspicious
: movements of Turkish troops in
Tripoli near the frontier of Tunis is
said to be the cause of the complied
! lions.
The Austrian government proposes
a novel step to countcract the Ameri-
can shoe competition. The ministry
of commerce will buy American shoe
| l-2hi0g machinery and will supply it
gratis TO Austrian manufacturers.
| This measure is regarded as the only