Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-09

100000.
Five robbers tried to loot the Noun
louisville (Pa.) Electric Light COM
pany's safe. Engineer BLY, killed one
and wounded two others.
Gould interests have consolidated
New Jersey electric roads and will
probably build complete system up
the coast and across the state.
Secretary Shaw's order permitting
national banks to increase their credit
liability, it is expected, will release
$40,O00,000 for use in New York City.
Either dead or unconscious from a
blow, John Muller, non-union miner,
was left on the street car track at
Smithville, Pa, and run over and be-
headed.
At South McAlester, l. T., Emile
Hartmann, a fugitive ex-member of
the house Of delegates, has been ar
rested. There is state reward OF
$500 for his arrest.
The Para Rubber Plantation com
pany has been incorporated in New
York with $5,OOO,00O capital, and has
bought 100000 acres of rubber
! forests in Venezuela.
Thomas J. Sharkey accused Of the
murder Of Banker Nicholas Fish
pleaded not guilty to the indictment
in New York. His bail was reduced
from 5000 to $4,000.
Miss Alice Evelyn Hay, daughter OF
the secretary of state, was married al
tho in, To- pCIirn n
James W. Wadsworth, Jr., son OF
| Congressman Wadsworth.
| At New York A S. Rosenthal & Co
are sued to recover $1,035,899, the
amount, including penalties, the gov
eminent is out through fraudulent
i entries of Japanese silks.
Evelyn B. Baldwin, arctic explorer
reached New York and declared his
| troubles due to Norwegian ice pilot
and a Swedish sailing master who
! couldn't get along together.
At La Porte, Ind, it has developed
that Surl Fletcher, who accused his
wife of arson, himself committed the
crime, and he has been sentenced te
fourteen years in the penitentiary.
Two rival airships made successful
! trips at Manhattan and Brighton
beaches. Eachc was successfully
steered against the wind and an
swered her helm without difficulty.
The monument at the grave Of
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the president
mother, was dedicated at Lincoln
City, Ind. Gov. Durbin and Gen
John G.. Black, Chicago, delivered 40
! dresses.
Julia Kachiny, 10 years old, was
found strangled to death and buriec
under blacksmith shop at Menom
inee, Mich. Joseph Beck, proprietor
was arrested on suspicion. Lynching
! is threatened.
! The government weekly crop repor1
showed temperature conditions gen
orally favorable east Of the Rocky
mountains; cotton was hurt by the
rain, except in Carolinas and Texas
! Illinois corn is safe.
| After traversing wilderness
! where white men had never before
| ventured the United States geological
! survey has completed a preliminary ex
animation of the country lying be
tween Cook inlet and the Tanana.
I The st. Louis bribery trial Of
Robert M. Snyder, a banker, brought
! testimony from F. G. Uthoff, former
, councilman, that Snyder offered hin
$4,000 to vote for a traction bill anC
100000 when he returned the $4,000
Commissioner of immigration Will
Jams has made a long report TO the
treasury department on the admins
tration of his predecessor, and de
clares that immigrants were black
live in insanitary quarters.
Throwing 10000 love letters under
the sofa and hustling his wife ant
sick child into a closet, Isaac R
Warn, alleged proprietor of &
matrimonial agency at AZ Parl
avenue, Chicago, slid down a rope
from the third-story window, just il
time to escape the police.
! The coroner's jury in the case OF
the murder of Captain James B. Graf
in New York returned a verdict thai
| Craft came to his death by violence
at the hands of Thomas Tobin, Alex
ander McAnerney and Robert S
Kelly. The headless body and the
partly burned head of the captain
was found last Saturday.
Frank Langowski of Detroit, who
claims to be an exiled Russian noble
! man, received a letter from Official
circles in st. Petersburg informing
| him that $4,000 will soon be sent him
as the result of seven years of Legal
technicalities with the Russian gov
eminent. According to Langowski il
j represents the interest on his $1,000,
600 estates, which the Russian govern
ment confs Gated in 1863.