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

Mayor Lows new budget in New
York is s97, 9,O31, a decrease of
81 500, 900, due to nearly 100000 !
reduction in state tax.
AS a result of a freight wreck Oh |
the Erie road in the southern part Of |
Cleveland, three men were badly in /,
jured, two of them fatally.
At Salem, Ala, Sam Harris, negro, |
VINO fatally assaulted Mrs. George
Meadows and her daughter, was rid
died with bullets by neighbors.
John H. Heaton of Havre de Grace,
Md, died suddenly in Springfield,
Ohio, where he went to receive large
fortune that had been left him.
President Cassatt Of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad promises eventually a
schedule of three and a quarter hours
from Baltimore to New York.
At Marion, Ind, Ferdinand Young,
16 years old, says his father has com
PEELED him to commit fifteen burg
laries within the last six months.
Edward S. Bragg, formerly United
States consul general at Havana, and
who was recently transferred to
Hongkong, has arrived from Cuba.
Laura Biggar has given herself up
to the sheriff at Freehold, n. j., be-
cause of the charges against her in
connection with the Bennett estate.
After he had struck a planters wife
and daughter in the head with an ak,
Samuel Harris, a Selma (Ala) negro
was captured by mob and lynched.
Owing to ill-health it is not ex-
pected that Rev. Thomas Bouquillon
will return to the Catholic univer-
| sity as professor of moral theology.
| Government figures indicate that
cattle shipments from the west IN
| September exceeded those of the cor
responding months in 1900 and 1901.
Millionaire Corey Of Braddock, Pa,
who is a Methodist, has written to the
pope asking him to prohibit progress
sive euchre playing at church socials.
| Dora Morrison, an inexperienced
aeronaut of Galesburg, fell from a ba-
! loon, at Anna, Ill, and was killed.
She had assembled to height of 1000
/ feet.
Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, in a Chi
cago lecture, said there was some
thing wrong with the women's club
that did not make better mothers and
wives.
1t was announced that Mgr. Fal-
COMO, the new apostolic delegate to
| the United States, will arrive at
Washington the goth and assume his
new office.
The Export Lumber company, with
liabilities of nearly $2,50O,O00 and
nominal assets of a million more, ap-
piled for a voluntary receivership in
New York.
The report of the postoffice in
spectors' department shows that the
number of robberies of postoffices
and mail boxes increased the last
fiscal year.
Fire in the warehouses of the Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea company in
West street, N. Y, has damaged the
building and stock to the estimate of
$125,OOO.
| A cablegram announces the death
in Belgium of Rev. Thomas Bouquil-
|
theology at the Catholic university in
Washington.
The president was advised by many
leading statesmen, calling or wiring,
| to go ahead with the Panama canal
even if Colombia breaks off right-of-
way negotiations.
John Lawrence O'Brien, for seven
years confidential clerk in the employ
of Frank Hume, a Washington whole
sale grocer, is accused of being a de-
frauder in the sum of $1,000.
| Burglars broke into the New York
room where lay the body of Miss
Mary A. e. Carter Money and silver
ware were untouched, but a will and
deeds may have been taken.
At Whatcom, Wash, three men
! were killed while engaged in clearing
out a tunnel where a cave-in occurred
on the Chuckanut creek cutoff divi-
sion of the Northern Pacific.
The Pacific Mail Steamship COM
! pany announces an advance in rates
on flour from San Francisco to Cen
trail and South American ports. The
| increase amounts to 81 a ton.
Charles J. Glidden of Boston sent
the first cable message around the
world, to himself, by the new circuit.
! 1t came back in thirty-nine hours and
| twenty minutes after it was sent.
A certificate of consolidation has
been filed by the Cincinnati and East
ern Traction and the Cincinnati SUI
burban Traction company at Column
| bus o. The total stock is $4,000, 900.
News has been received of the
| death in Havana of Walter NJ Jones,
who was superintendent of the harbor
police at Havana from the close Of the
| Spanish war until few months ago.
| The trial of Chief Edward F.
| Croker of the New York fire depart
| ment on various charges was ended
| by the fire commissioner, and he an
nounced that he would reserve his de-
cision.
Alan G. Mason, the Boston murder
suspect, was held without bail in spite
of his alibi. A conductor and park
superintendent identify him as being
at Waverly when Miss Morton was as
| saulted.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded to John PIERCE of New York
the contract for the completion Of the
granite walls, roofing, etc, of the New
York custom-house at his bid of ST.
$50 $50