Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-13

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president of the Corn Products com
pany, Chicago, with a salary of $780,
O0O year and 100000 bonus.
Congress will probably authorize
the construction of three new battle
ships. two armored cruisers, six gun
boats, and eleven other naval vessels.
One robber is dying and Chief OF
Police Lyons may lose an arm as the
result of a desperate battle between
police and three burglars at Nation,
III.
At Waseca. Mimi, while handling
shotgun, the 6-year-Old son of Frank
Davis, policeman, accidentally dis
charged it, blowing off the top of his
head
Representative Heatwole has been
selected to represent the republicans
OF Minnesota on the republican con
81 essional committee to succeed
Eddy.
The Union Loan building, on
Toronto street. Toronto, the center OF
a number of big business houses, was
partially destroyed by fire. Loss,
100000
Seven Jockeys were suspended at
New Orleans because of fraud in
steeplechase racing. w. H. White
was orderd to return money won by
Dagmar.
1t is understood there will be no
reopening Of the Alaskan boundary
dispute Great Britain retaining the
territory ceded by this country tenn
Dorarily.
At GAINESVILLE, Ohio, the large plant
of the J. B. Owens Pottery company
| has been burned. causing a loss Of
! 100000, with an insurance about
one-half
A rear-end collision occurred two
miles east of Cylon, Wis, on the Wis
consin Central, between two freight
trains. The only person injured was
a fireman.
Mrs. William, klump of Lowell,
Mich, was fatally poisoned by sample
headache powder sent to her through
the mail Strychnine was found in
the package.
| Republicans of the house held all
other caucus to consider Cuban tariff
matters, but the beet sugar interests
again prevailed and no agreement
was reached.
| At Reading, Pa, Lichty's music
store and Mrs. ROlands umbrella
| factory were wrecked by a gas eX-
plOsion. Two persons were killed.
Loss, $250OO0.
| DR.. O. S. Burnett, of Chicago, who
failed to commit suicide with Mrs
Nichol, was convicted as accessory to
her murder and sentenced to fifteen
years Imprisonment.
The First National bank of Mont
gomery, Ind, was robbed of $7,10O
in money and government bonds
while two townsmen looked on, fear
ing to give an alarm.
| DR.. Lawrence Flick, the Phila
delphia expert, declared to a com
mittee Of the New Jersey Legislature
that consumption is durable and can
eventually be wiped out.
The Metropolitan Street railway
company, New York, announced its
intention of giving pensions to all
employees who have worked for the
company twenty-five years.
| The mother of Walter Brooks
| states that the comb found in the
room in which he was murdered in
the Glen Island hotel, New DIRK
| belongs to Florence Burns.
The name of Senator w. A. Clark
OF Montana is mentioned as chair.
man of the democratic congressional
| committee, to succeed Representative
James d. Richardson, who will retire
At KEENAN,, Wis, Sylvester Nussel
dropped dead in his own barroom. Ii
| consequence of the peculiarly of his
| death, two young men named Tony
DIN and John Kenear were arrested
The consolidation of all the street
car lines in Philadelphia has been
agreed upon, and the new company
| will also hold franchises for all the
streets on which no lines are now
| built
Colombia, Nicaragua, and Costa
RIGA are believed to have formed a
combination to make the United
States pay an exorbitant price for the
privilege of building an inter-oceanic
canal
n. W. Gale of Waterloo, Iowa, has
perfected an improved disk used in
cream separators and has sold the right
to manufacture the machines to the
Clinton Separator and Engine Works
for $S3 900
In Paterson, n. j., the flood made
700 families homeless, in Passaic $50
more, and in Wellington nearly every
one is destitute. There was but little
Improvement in the situation on the
railway lines.
Jacob Reynolds. who kidnapped his
daughter from her mother at Hodge
vile, Ky. last October, jumped from
a train with the child at Greencastle
Junction, Ind. 10 escape arrest, but
was recaDtured
new telephone corporation has
taken the franchise of the Osseo Tele-
phone company in Eau Claire The
new company is the Wisconsin and
Minnesota Telephone company. with
headquarters here.
Twelve lives were lost by the flood
in Wilkesbarre, Pa. and several more
persisted at other points In eastern
and central Pennsylvania and in New
York state the damage by freshets
was widespread and heavy.
After being detained on a Colon
bian rebel gunboat nearly a month.
IL spite of repeated protests. Fred