Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21

lieved to be insane.
The Colonel H. G. Jordan dairy farm |
COW barn at bingham, Mass, was |
burned, causing loss Of between $780, |
900 and 100000. Besides farming I'M
plements 40 head of cattle ana seven
horses were burned.
The senate's policy viii be one OF ex-
IRENE caution in dealing with tariff re-
vision, reciprocity and reduction of in
| ternal revenue taxation. Probably
| only part of the war taxes will be abol-
| ished at the coming session.
! Frank Kidwell of Elizabethtown.
Tenn. aged % years, shot and killed
his sweetheart, Ada Thompson, aged
16 years, and then committed suicide.
Refusal of a proposal Of marriage is
SAID to have been the cause.
The Erie Yacht club, one of the fin
est structures OF ite kind on the chain
If lakes. was destroyed by fire at Erie,
Pa. The sleeping inmates Of the club
made their escape in nightgowns over
. 4 piazza IOO1s US lOoS ID pAO5OVOs
The plant of the Logan Milling com
pany and the First Presbyterian
church building of Logansport, Ind,
we're destroyed by fire. Milling com
Dany's loss. $4,000; insurance, &c.
900; church loss, $4,000; insurance,
$1,000.
Five persons were injured, one IA
ally, by jumping from a runaway trac-
ton car on the hill above New Home
stead near Pittsburg. Mary Ellen
Roach, agen 10 years, suffered a skull
fracture and will die. The car didn't
leave the track.
The Northwestern Securities COM
pany, with capital OF $400,000,000,
was incorporated in New Jersey to
take over the properties Of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific roads.
The incorporators are representatives
Of the Morgan-Hill interests.
The 100000 estate of Isaac S. HoI-
!, brook, rich New York stock-broker,
has at last been traced after twenty
five years. He invested his wealth in
J lands, placing the titles in the names
Of others. Suits will now be brought
by the family to secure his property.
} An order has been filed in the feder-
al court at Omaha, Neb., by Judge Nc
| Pherson requiring the sale of the Mil
lard hotel of that city to satisfy the
claim of Paul Sorg, the Ohio tobacco
, king, who leased the lot to the hotel
: association. The upset price is set at
$4,000.
President Roosevelt. in his message,
/ it is believed, will discourage the idea
; of revision of the tariff. He will not
come out fiat-footed against it, but the
inference may be very broad. He will
touch this subject in connection with
his recommendations in favor of reel
procity.
The United States court Of appeals
at Cincinnati reversed the decision
in the case against Banker J. NJ. Nc
knight Of Louisville, who was twice
convicted of emhezzlement and given
a sentence Of five and three years re-
spectively. Mcknight was given a
new trial
In New York James F. Caldwell. the
starter of race horses, obtained a
judgment for $3.50 against the estate
of William Campbell, millionaire wall
paper manufacturer. The Iatter's
daughter Estelle was for years mem
Der of his household and the judgment
is for an unpaid board bill.
A strike was declared at the plant
of the American Car and Foundry
company at Jeffersonville, Ind, by the
, bottomers in the erecting shops of the
passenger department. The strikers
are members of The Amalgamated
WoOdwOrkers' union. The trouble is
over reduction of wages.
At Chicago, rather than plead guilty
TO a charge of which he claimed he
, was innocent, Frank Matson, son of a
, we'll known Milwaukee clergyman,
took a twenty-year sentence to the
, penitentiary on a charge of burglary
under the habitual criminal act.
A call has been sent out from the
Chicago Federation of Musicians ask
ing for the united effort of all must
! clans in the United States to make a
fight on music of the rag-tima variety.
The local union declares rag-time com
position is Immoral, obscene. degrad-
ing and unworthy of production"
Alice Nesenbauer, under conviction
: of murder of her husband last year,
has been saved from the gallows by
the decision of the supreme court of
Missouri that there were no grounds
for conviction. Mrs. Nesenbauer was
also accused of the murder of two of
her own children in order to secure in.
/ surance money.
2 Nearl 500 machinists employed by
the Fulton Iron works at San Francis
CO., Cal, have returned to work after
having been on strike for several
months in an effort to obtain ten
{ hours pay for nine hours work. 1t is
, unders tood that they return to their
benches on a schedule Of nine hours
pay for nine hours work
Foreign.
Storm and food did much damage in
! Britain.