Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-11-13


Butler, charged with paying nineteen
members Of the house of delegates
SAT 500 for their votes.
A modern History office building
will be erected at the northwest cor
ner Of Jackson and Michigan boule-
wards in Chicago, designed especially
for large railriad and steel companies.
It's cost will be 100000.
A trolley car on the Broadway line
jumped the track at Fifth street and
Broadway, Kansas City, Mo, and
crashed into a saloon Two pas
sengers, a woman and a negro, were
killed, and six others injured.
In his statement of the miners case
to the arbitration commission, Presi-
dent John Mitchell demands higher
pay for piecework, shorter hours for
day work, pay by the legal ton and a
signed agreement with arbitrator.
Officers of the Des Moines national
bank made public the loss Of $4,000
shipped by American express to the
bank of Irwin, Ia, October 20. When
the package was opened at Irwin the
next day it contained brown paper
The coal strike arbitration COM
mission ended the inspection of col
lieries by visiting the Panther creek
valley. 1t has entered a total OF
seven mines and will begin the hear
ing of testimony at Scranton Nov. IA.
At Portland, Oregon the grain
handlers union declared off the strike
at the Oceanic dock, the non-union
join the union, which was satisfactory
to both the exporters and the union
men.
At the beginning of the holiday
trade, with thousands of unfinished
orders at the factories, nearly 500
silversmiths in New York city have
struck for a nine-hour work day by Or
der of the Brotherhood of Silver
smiths.
Upon complaint from United States
Consular Agent Ignacio Baiz at BARGE
Iona, Venezuela, that he had been sub
jected to forced loan, United States
Minister Bowen, at Caracas, has dis
patched the United States steamer
Marietta.
At Denver, William D. Haywood,
secretary-treasurer of the Western
Federation Of Miners, and candidate
for state senator on the socialist
ticket, shot James Bramer, a special
policeman, who attacked him. Bramer
will recover.
The Pressed Steel company brought
suit in the United States circuit court
at Trenton, N. j., against the Ameri-
can Car and Foundry company, alleg-
ing infringement on patents on metal
lie cars. An Injunction restraining the
is asked.
Thomas R. Mann, formerly treas
urer of the Lock Haven Trust and
Safe Deposit company and recently
general manager of two mining and
milling companies at Boulder, Col,
committed suicide at Lock Haven, Pa.
Business troubles are responsible.
Thirty to forty Representatives Of
big wholesale grocery houses scat
tered through the states of New York,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota,
Ohio, Missouri and Indiana
were in secret session discussing
The Indictment charging J. P. Ste
wart, a banker Of Webb City, Mo-,
with being a party to the alleged
Buckfoot racing conspiracy to defraud
and with improper use of the mails,
has been quashed by a ruling in the
United States court of appeals in Min:
neapolis.
Senator Quay started with a party
Of friends for his winter home at ST.
Lucie, Fla, where he will remain until
congress meets. The party includes
Senator Penrose, Insurance Com
missioner Durham, Congressman Burk
and Foereder and several Philadel-
phia officials.
The house of Joseph Cordeck, in
Chicago Heights, H., was blown up
by dynamite, Mr.. Cordeck and little
child killed and his wife probably
fatally injured. Charles Smith, a
former boarder, who had been re-
jected by Mr.. Cordeck's daughter
Mamie, was arrested.
Rev. w. c. Rabe, pastor of a Ger
man Baptist church at Omaha, and
Miss Augusta Busch, the missionary,
were found dead in each others arms
in the formers church. The pastor is
believed to have turned the gas on to
end their lives. He was married and
Miss Busch was his assistant.
Mystery no longer surrounds the
strange discoloration which has
turned black the lower limbs and part
of the body of Patrick McGrath, a pa
tent in a New York hospital. He is
suffering from gangrene, caused, the
doctors have decided, by clot in one
of the largest arteries of the body
above the hip, probably the aorta.
Nothing can save his life, the physi-