Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-11
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed is at
the point of death from Bright's dis
ease.
Peter Maher knocked out by kid"
Carter in two round bout at Phila-
deIphia.
The United States Brewing company
plant, II Grant place, Chicago, was
damaged $4,000 by fire.
Miss Ada King of Richardson's Mills,
Del, was chloroformed by robbers,
who ransacked her fathers house.
Dr. Adolf Lorenz left Chicago to
visit cities in the east. where he will
disease.
Twelve workmen were killed and
over forty hurt at San Francisco by
an oil tank explosion on the steamer
Progreso.
Hunters near York, Pa, assaulted
Albert Golden, breaking both the boy S
jawbones and ripping his mouth from
ear to ear.
The Missouri supreme court SEN
fenced William Gatline and Charles
Gurley both negro murderers, to be
hanged Jan. 8.
The anthracite strike arbitration
committee resumed hearings at Scran-
ton, Pa. The sitting is expected to
run into 1908
Porch climbers secured from the
residence of William Miller of Roches-
ter, N. Y, jewels and money to the
value of nearly $4,000.
E. H. Harmon testified that
though he held $78,0OO,OOO of stock,
he Just trusted" J. P. Morgan in the
Pacific merger deal.
The plant of the Brooklyn Manu-
featuring company at Brookville, Ind,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $780,
900 with insurance of $4,000.
A railroad employee federation to in
clude all brotherhoods probably will
be formed at St. Louis Jan. 5. About
10000 men would be included.
Sheriff John S. Dudley of Sullivan
county, Ind, Issued a statement deny
ing that he took the negro who was
lynched from Illinois without requist-
ton.
Henry F. Smith, prominent young
farmer, was killed and Henry Hennis
seriously injured by the Northwest
ern fast train at State Center, Iowa,
crossing.
A New York jury gave Mrs. Jennie
Legs verdict for 100000 in her suit
against the New York Central Rail
road for killing her husband in the
tunnel disaster
Major Glenn, who was tried for u.s.
ing the water cure" has. been ordered
to trial, again for putting to death
native guides who misled American
troops in Samar.
William H. Murray, who had lived
for more than a decade under the
name of Howard at Dunlap, Tenn,
was arrested for a murder committed
in Illinois 2S years ago.
DR.. William H. Stayner, 4S1 East
Forty-ffth street Chicago, committed
suicide by shooting and throwing
himself before an Illinois Central
train at Forty-third street.
The Pacific coast limited, west
bound on the Rio Grande Western rail-
road, ran into rock slide two miles
east of Westwater, Utah. One train
man was killed and two injured.
The appraisers appointed by the
superior court to place a valuation on
the property in San Francisco left by
the late John w. Mackay have re-
ported that the estate is worth S173.-
400.
The st. Louis police are investigating
the peculiar death of the stepfather,
two brothers-in-law, brother, sister,
and sister-in-law of Mrs. Louis
Fischer, a saloonkeeper's wife. All
but one is insured.
The commission for designing and
erecting a $4,000 monument in Pitts
burg to Colonel Alexander L. Hawkins
Of the tenth Pennsylvania volunteer
regiment was awarded to William Cou-
per, sculptor of New York.
The requisition for John w. Rob-
bins, who is under arrest in New York,
was issued by Gov. Yates at Spring
cago on charge of conspiracy to de-
fraud W. J. Block out of $4,000.
Capt. G. w. Streeter of Chicago was
convicted of manslaughter in killing
of Waterman John S. Kirk Feb. II in
District of Lake Michigau;" William
McManners and Henry Hoeldtke, CO.
defendants, we're also declared guilty
5,,4r
for s123,0OO,OOO against the c. P.
Huntington estate and allied interests.
Safe-blowers made a successful raid
on the State bank at Stanford, H.,
and $4,000 was taken. The thieves
escaped.
Barry tombstone, who killed Kate
Hassett, an actress, in Philadelphia,