Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-18

Dakota SJOckm6n gave James MIX
| bride $4,000 to keep while they were
on a drunk, and he has since been
unable to locate them.
Rear Admiral Sumner won the first
victory in the United States naval
war game by entering Mayaguez,
| Porto Rico, harbor and laying mines
! to shut out Rear Admiral Higgins on's
| fleet.
Capt. Lewis Whalen threw two chill
| dren IRON a coal barge to a tug by
swinging them over his head, during
q gale off Clinton, Conn. He then
tied his wife to line and was drawn
on board after her.
John Loyett and Arthur Aldridge OF
| Onarga, H., were arrested at Buckley
| by United States marshals, charged
with robbing the pOstOfice at Buckley
July II, of 500. Bail was fixed at
! $4,000 in each case.
Fire destroyed the building occupied
by Nathan Wolff & Sons, dealers in
! hides and oils, at Buffalo. John
| Kaufman, a Waterman employed by
the company, is believed to have been
burned to death. Loss $4,000.
There is great apprehension among
the friends of Attorney General Knox
about his health. He left the capital
for the south at the command Of his
physicians, who think they have dis
Coverd symptoms Of kidney trouble.
Before the strike arbitration COM
mission at Scranton, Pa, a miner
testified that eviction in the rain
caused the death of his wife. A
widow testified that it took the work
Of herself and sons for 13 years TO
pay back rent.
One fireman was killed and three
fatally hurt at Toledo, in the turning
of KEEPER Bros furniture factory.
The property loss is $4,000. In a
$4,000 fire at Bird Island, Mimi, a
boy was caught by his foot under
the building and burned to death.
The James S. Kirk & Co. soap
factory, Chicago, will be reported to
the factory inspector as a suspected
! Violator Of the child labor law. A
Woman's club committee discovered
twelve girls in the wrapping depart
ment believed under IA years old.
Republican leaders practically aban-
doned hope Of legislation on the tariff,
trust, financial or reciprocity at the
present session Of congress. The
action will lie postponed one year.
! The wide difference of views prevents
consideration at the short session.
A matter that is giving great con-
Germ to the republican leaders in con-
gress, particularly in the senate. is
the Dill for an eight-hour-da 1t has
passed the house and is now Icing
considered by the senate committee
on labor, which evidently proposes to
report 1t faVOTably to the senate.
Reuben P. BeaIl, stockman of
Rosendale, Mo, while under the in
Huence OF liquor attempted to murder
his wife and two sons. Bean ex-
changed shots with officers and was
BADLY wounded in the arm. He
swallowed a tWo-Ounce bottle of
caOnite and died in a short time.
Benjamin Wagner shot and killed
his nephew, D. w. Bair, and then Blew
Cut his own brains at st. Louis. Six
weeks ago Bair was married. and
Wagner grew melancholy because his
close association with Bair was there
by somewhat severed, and the
tragedy followed.
Walter Watkins left Paducah. XIV.
Tor Philadelphia with an old lease ne
has guarded fourteen years. He
claims it gives him, as one of the
baker heirs, the title to twenty-five
acres of ground on which some of
PhlIadelphia's business buildings
stand.
In New York, Herbert REGINALD
Bishop, retired merchant and banker
is dead after lingering illness. Mr.
Bishop was director Of the st. PAM
Minneapolis e Omaha, the CHICAGO
Rock Island & Pacific, and the Duluth
q iron Range railroads. He also was
one OF the organizers of the iron
properties III the vicinity Of Duluth.
AT San Francisco the strike at the
SDreckles sugar refinery has been
amlca5Iy settled, all of the men who
walked out have returned to work.
Inc employees whose DISCHARGE caused
the strike will be reinstated. some at
once and others as soon as there is
work for them.
AT st. Louis the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association ORGANIZED
ana ADJOURNED to meet April 20. 1908.
III Washington. The following officers
were elected: President, E. c. Fos-
burg, Norfalk, Va; vice president,
Edward Hines, Chicago; secretary. G.
X. Smith. st. Louis; treasurer, J. A.
Freeman, st. Louis
William Parr, who is in charge of
ImberIng at STATIONS Independence
mine, Colorado, has been notified by
catleSram Of the death Of an uncle
SIT Thomas Petkin, in England. Parr
is one of nine heirs among whom the
estate, valued at $7.500.000, will be
divided
Archbishop John n Farley presided
at a mass meeting of the Ancient
Order Of Hibernians in Carnegie hall
at New York for the purpose of rails
Ing POUNDS for the erection of a build
ing which is intended to be a per
manent home for Irish societies.
About $4,000 was subscribed after
the meeting.
National bank reports on business
to Nov, IS show New York 3.41 above
the % per cent. reserve limit. against
j below on Sept. Is; Philadelphia.
l.59 below; Boston, Z above; Chicago.
so below