Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-23

| the st. Regis Inn, at Defereits, N Y
Mrs. Pike Dickey, a wealthy recluse
living at Lansing, Mich, was found
| dead at her home She had been
| dead some time and the body was
partly eaten by rats. Near her was
found box containing large sum of
| money.
At Wichita, Kan, Nellie Corneilson
the 11-year-old daughter OF George
Corneilison, cut the THREAT of her g.
year-old sister Laura The child is
dead. Her fathers razor was the
weapon used. No Eotive was ap-
parent.
At st. Louis C1aud Cross, aged 25
| fatally shot his wife three times and
then sent bullet through his heart
The couple had been married four
years, but separated five months ago
owing to Cross indisposition to sup
port his wife.
J. '. S. Oddie, secretary of the New
York Yacht club, died at his residence
in that city. Mr.. Oddie had been ill
for about two weeks with kidney
trouble and had also ben a sufferer
from nervous troubles since the yacht
races Of 1898
One of the last official acts of Gov
ernor Shaw was the paroling of A. L.
Wood OF Winterset, Iowa, who has
been confined for perjury. Wood
served in the legislature, was promi-
nent editor and was postmaster at the
time of his conviction.
At Kansas City, two young men
entered Henry B. Chicks poolroom
and with drawn revolvers commanded
the proprietor, cashier and three
other employees to lie down on the
floor. They secured between $150J
and $4,000, and escaped.
Tom Horn, a Cheyenne scout and
stock detective was arrested on a war
rant charging him with the murder of
Willie Nickel, the 13-year-old son of
Ranchman Kels P. Nickel Of Iron
Mountain, who was assassinated near
his fathers house in July
Judge J. E. Cochran returned to
Ashland from a trip through Canada
and announced that during his jour
ney he had married his stenographer,
Miss Mamie Mitchell The ceremony
was performed at st. Stephens, Cana
da, the home of the bride.
George E. Graham, a war CORES
pondent who was on the Brooklyn,
has written book in which he tells
how Sampson ignored Schley's singal
of victory and Schley's megaphoned
request to have the honor of receiving
the surrender of the Colon.
The four story building at 1908 st.
Charles street, ST. Louis, occupied by
the Premium Shirt Manufacturing
company, was burned and the con-
etnts destroyed, causing an estimated
loss of $25O,O00. This loss was par
TALLY covered by insurance.
George Kline, ACCUSED of the murder
| of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Caroline
Klein, was acquitted in Baltimore, on
the ground of insanity. Klein knocked
| the woman down and kicked her to
| death because she threatened to have
him arrested for abusive language.
William E. Ems a Brooklyn police
man, shot and killed his wife and
fatally wounded her mother, Mrs
Alice German, at Mrs. Germans
home. Ennis was arrested. The
policeman had separated from his
wife and had refused to support her.
At Canistota, S. D., Mrs. J. P.
Schaller filled a flower pot with
frozen dirt from her garden and
placed it in warm room. In a very
short time the earth was fairly alive
with grasshoppers, the dirt having
been filled with the eggs of these
pests.
Evidence was found that proves al
most beyond a doubt that the crucifx
found at Frankfort, Mich, last sum-
foundation for the Ann Arbor sum-
mer hotel there was the property of
Father Marquette, the famous Indian
missionary.
At Winchester, KY, Patsy Golf, a
white girl aged six years, was &C
cidently shot and killed last night by
a toy rifle in the hands Of a colored
boy with whom she was playing.
The little girl was daughter of Pro
fessar John Golf, formerly president
Of Jackson college.
President Roosevelt is very much
worked up over the revelations which
have been made to him concerning
the Japanese silk frauds in New York
He has taken the entire matter en-
tirely out of the local New York ma
chinery and will push the investiga-
ton along Independent lines.
The British government has no in
tention of talking over the British
Chartered South Africa company at
the conclusion of the war. The di-
rectors of this company, however, are
preparing an important scheme to at
tract new capital with the view of
further development of Rhodesia.
Thomas Hardin, aged 80 years, died
yesterday in Tacoma, Wash. He was
a member of the constitutional con-
vention of Maryland, was colonel of a
union regiment from Missouri during
the civil war, twice mayor of st.
Joseph, Mo, and prominent in rail-
road banking enterprises in Nebraska.
At San Francisco the first biennial
convention of the United Brotherhood
of Railway Employees assembled. The
following officers were elected: First
vice president, H. G.. Smith. Portland.