Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-14

10 the law as wrong in principle.
In his annual report Second Assist
ant Postmaster General w. S. Shallen-
berger recommends faster mail serv-
ice to the orient and the re-establish-
ment of the pneumatic tube service.
Antonio Livenro, member of the
Bresci group Of anarchists in New
Jersey, was arrested charged with the
murder of Frank Panizzone for the al
| legged betrayal of secrets to the police
At Nebraska City John Mccormick
a plasterer, shot and killed Mrs. Mag
gle Dinsley and then turned the weap-
on on himself and inflicted a serious
wound He was infatuated with the
woman.
Rev. S. c. Swallow of Harrisburg,
Pa, once candidate for president, was
Gnfrocke0 by a jury of Methodist min
listers for lying The trouble grew out
of ali attack on Mckinley while he
was dying
1t is believed that Edward S. Stokes
the slayer of Jim Fisk in New York
left a will. Miss Barclay, who says
she is his wife, will contest it if the
| document does not recognize her dow
er rights.
Governor Toole has announced that
he would not call an extra
session of the Montana legislature for
the purpose of appropriating money
| for state exhibit at the st. Lousi ex-
! position in 1903.
Secretary Wilson, of the department
! of agriculture, proposes to make a de-
termined effort to develop silk culture
in the United States if congress gives
him the $4,000 he has asked for ex-
perimental work.
A posse Of residents of Franklin
county who are searching for Wiiliam
Hale, the negro desperate, had a fight
with Hale and his brother-in-law Lar
kin Saunders. Saunders was wound
! ed, but Hale escaped.
At Charlotte, Mich, the Phoenix ho-
tel was destroyed by fire and several
of the guests had narrow escapes. A
| w. Brookins of Ionia was taken out
unconscious, but may recover. Loss,
| $4,000; party insured.
| The presidents sister, the wife of
| Commander COwles, either lost or was
| robbed of a $4,000 diamond brooch,
which was last seen when she was Wis
iting at Pennington, Conn. Detect
ives are searching for the iewelIy.
! At Whining, on, H., Daniel Hogan,
| so years Old, a bOOkmaker who had
| operated on all the prominent race
tracks in the country, was killed by
! his 10-year-Old son while the book
maker was beating the boys mother.
| A Pittsburg detective has made an
arrest that may lead to the detection
of those that robbed the Chicago post
| office The man under arrest is Harry
| Jones, who says that he is from Mo
nessen. There were 500 2-cent stamps
found on him
! Burglars set fire TO the heads Of
three members of an Ohio family to
force them to surrender valuables.
AdOlphus Busch, chairman OF the st.
Louis fairs committee on foreign reIa-
lions, thinks the fair should be held
later than 1908.
Father J. j. Crowley, the excommu-
nicated priest, of Oregon. H., proposes
10 sue, for $4,000 damages for libel,
Cardinal Martinelli, Archbishop Fee
han and others prominent in his eX-
communication, if he has to appeal to
the supreme power in the Roman hier-
archy to 90 it.
-Four hundred and fifty convicts at
work on the new federal pententiary
at Fort Leavenworth attacked their
guards, killing one and wounding
three, and after one of their number
was slain and another fatally wounded
twenty-five prisoners escaped. Troops
were called upon to restore order.
In New York Frederick V. Bowers
has received a decree of absolute di-
vorce from Blanche Louise Bowers,
from Judge McAdam, in the supreme
court. Mrs. Bowers was an actress at
one time. and George Pullman. one of
the sons Of the late George M. Pull
man, the Pullman car magnate, was
! named as correspondent.
In New York Anthony Eickhoff is
dead at the age of "a. MIR. Eickhoff
was Westphalian, coming to this
| country when he was 10. He became
successfully a teacher in st. Louis
Jesuit school, founder of the st. Louis
zeitung,. founder of the Northwest
| lichen Demokrat, Dubuque, Iowa, edi-
| tor of Louisville German paper, edi-
tor of the New York Abendpost, edi-
tor of the New York Stats Zeitung,
state, member of the state assembly,
| coroner, auditor in the treasury de-
partment at Washington, and fire com
| missioner in New York city.