Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-24

The merchant marine committee is
deadlocked on the ship subsidy bill
and neither a favorable nor an I'M
favorable report is likely at the pres
ent session.
Vincent st. John, president of the
Telluride (Colo) miners union, was
indicteI and arrested on murder and
robbery charges in connection with
the recent riot.
William Michaels was conviced of
manslaughter at LockpOrt, n.
Michaels stauOed William Robbins,
fellow-workman, at Niagara Falls. He
will be sentenced this week.
John Decamps of Marion, Ind, 80
years old, was discovered at his home
Of his niece, where he had been guard
ed since last February as the result
of a contest over his 100000 estate.
Samuel Stanton, accused with Laura
Biggar Of Conspiracy to obtain Henry
NJ. Benefits estate, testified in the
Freehold IN. j. trial that he married
Bennett and Miss Biggar Jan. 2, 1898.
Ms. Leila Monson, an Ashwood,
Conn, nurse, was arrested for the
alleged murder by poison of Mrs.
Julia A Wilson, an aged and wealthy
woman over whose son she was de-
cIared infatuated.
Joseph Johanek pleaded guilty at
WausaH to the charge of assault and
was sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment His victim was the 5-year-old
daughter of Charles Schlais, a saloon
keeper near Athens
Futon (Mich.) citizens headed off a
hotelkeeper who planned to open a
barroom by Incorporating as a GENE
terry association and locating a plat
eighty rods away A law forbids
saloons within that distance.
A lively snowstorm swooped down
on Detroit, and a 33-mile-an-hour wind
rapidly drifted the fine, light snow,
causing considerable trouble to the
| street railway company, but little to
| the telegraph and telephone compa-
MES.
Sitting in snow with her back
against a sleigh, Mrs. William E.
Moore, quarter-breed sQuaw, was
| found Death at LAnse, Mich. The
woman lived alone on the bay shore,
her husband being in the woods near
Duluth.
Gertrude Athertons claim that she
| defeated the Danish West Indies sale
to the United States makes her liable
! to a $4,000 fine and three years i'm
prisonment for treason. State de-
pa.tment officials do not believe her
statement.
The mutilated body of Private Roger
Hamburger was found near ort Sneri-
| dan, and the murder by two prison
ers he was guarding is indicated. The
latter ere Privates Christian Walker
and John ROllenberg, who are still
missing.
The John w. Meyer bank at CIa--
ence, H., was robbed of $4,000 by
thieves, who cut the telephone and
telegraph wires blew open the safe
and escaped on a handcar. This is
the twelfth illinois country bank
robbed N 1902
The testimony against Miss iona
Dunlap in the Aledo Qll.) murder trial
was concluded The defense will try
to prove that Miss Dunlap also was
i'll, and that Allie DooPs death was
accidental. The discovered strychnine
was sold to a relative Of the store
keeper from whom she bought candy
three months before Allie Dool's death
iona Dunlap's apparent indifference
to Allie DOol's death was explained
through her belief in foreordination.
Judge LOring in the supreme court
at Boston granted the motion OF
Amos Bartlett and others, executors
of the will of Horatio n. Slater the
multi-m1llionaiIe mill owner to dis
miss an appeal taken by Mrs. Mabe
Hunt Slater, his widow, for herself
and as guardian of her children. from
a decree of the Worcester probate
court allowing the executors to mort
gage certain property which is to &C
into a corporation. The ground of the
motion was that due notice. of it ha(
not been given to the interested
parties.