Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-12-19

ice trust, said in an interview that
he owned eight banks in New York
and was now reaching out for similar
institutions in Boston
The preliminary hearing of the
negroes charged with participation N
the riot, in which two white men we've
killed, has begun at Andalusia, Ala,
under militia guard.
Mochs Hochstim. Tammany captain
and follower of Martin Engel, was SEN
fenced to serve from one to three
years in Sing Sing for violating the
election law in 1899.
Judge Newburger refused to quash
the Indictment against Roland B e.
| Molineux and the murder case must
! be tried again. 1t will probably come
before the court in January.
Officer Charles Armstrong, who has
been acting chief Of police Of Hough-
ton, Mich, for two months during the
illness of Chief Voetsch, was stabbed,
possibly fatally, by prisoner.
Charles Stokes was arrested at
Brooklyn upder suspicion of com
plicity in the recent robbery of the
Chicago postomce. Stamps valued at
$2,298 were found in his room.
H. J. Freshman, cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants bank of Los
Angeles, Cal, is missing, and a
shortage Of about 100000 has been
discovered in the banks funds.
A mass meeting of students of the
Hyde Park, H., high school declared
the girls of that school without peers
in beauty. Other high schools were
challenged to show their equal.
Henry Rueping, one of the victims
of the De Pere wreck of June "a, 1900
received a verdict at the hands of d
! jury at Fond du Lac Of $4,000 against
the Northwestern Railway company.
Miss Emma King of Brooklyn, who
permitted herself to be inoculated
with bovine tuberculosis germs, is
said to have developed the disease
| thus disproving DR.. Koch's theory.
Paul J. Derleth Of Lebanon, Ill,
father of Alderman Charles G.. Der
leth Of East st. Louis, is dead at the
age Of 80 years. He worked con.
! tinuously at his cobbler's bench for 70
years.
| J. Pierront Morgan advanced be
tween $1,0OO,000 and 81 800 900 to save
a prominent New York mercantile
house from failure, the supervision q
which would have hurt the stock
market.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Gage are said to be in sharp conflict
The impression at W9 shingtOn is that
the president is trying to make the
secretary SO uncomfortable that he
will resign.
Frank M. Smith, former cashier 81
the Citizens Savings bank of Ports
mouth, o., pleaded guilty to embezzle
ment of $4,000 of the banks funds and
was sentenced to eighteen months in
the penitentiary.
Fire which started in the supply
house of the Creamery package manu-
featuring company at Eleventh anG
Jones streets, Omaha, resulted in
serious injury to three firemen and q
loss of $4,000.
The reported assignment Of Mgr
Scalabrini, Of Placenzit, Italy, as the
successor of Cardinal Martinelli, the
papal delegate in this country, is re
garded rs very. improbable by officials
Of the delegation.
Transcontinental roads, especially
the Southern Pacific, are making q
hard fight to prevent the senate con
firming the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
Two or three northwestern senators
are leading the opposition.
Patrick Gibbons, of South Scranton
Pa, who killed his wife October last
by fracturing her skull with a water
pitcher and stabbing her seven times
with butcher knife, was acquitted
on the ground of insanity.
According to the census reports, the
school population Of the United States
for 1900 numbered 17,020,710, an in.
| crease Of 282,34S over the preceding
year. Those enrolled in public in
(
A new and wonderful natural cave
and boulevard, said to be one of the
largest known, has been discovered
in the canyon of the Jefferson river on
the line Of the Northern Pacific rail
way, so miles east of Butte.
Harvey E. Wellman, well-known
lumber commission merchant of
Providence, R. l., died suddenly in
his office. A physician stated that
death was due to an affection of the
lungs. He was 55 years old.
At Someryille, Mass, Rev. Hugh
B. Kelly, vicar-general Of the diocese
| of Ottawa. Iowa. is dead at the home
Of his sister. He was born in Somer-
vile in 1850, and was a graduate of
st. Marys seminary, Baltimore.
DR.. c. L. Wilbur, chief of the
Michigan bureau Of vital statistics.
has begun an investigation into the
wreck on the Wabash railroad near
Seneca, Mich, for the purpose Of
ascertaining the exact loss of life.
AT Philadelphia the grand jury re-
turned an Indictment against P. J.
Mcguire. general secretary-treasurcr
of the United Brotherhood of Carpen-
tiers, on the charge of embezzlement
Of $4,000 belonging to the association.
The Newton county safe at Decatur.
Miss, was robbed of $4,000 in pension
warrants, large quantity of school
| teachers warrants, 50, $50 in checks. a