Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-16

earnings Of billion-dollar steel trust to
be $29,O00,0OO, assuring earnings for
the frs tyear of more than 100000
coo.
T. J. Moses, former governor of
South Carolina, was sentenced to i'm
prisonment in New York for stealing
an overcoat. He is victim of
opium.
At ST. Enine, France, a cook named
Tantale killed his wife with a revolver
and tossed her body in an oven and
cremated it. Then he committed
suicide.
J. V. Conklin, receiver of the
Canton, S. D., State bank, which
failed some months ago, has finished
paying the creditors so cents on the
dollar
At Volga, S. D., an opek safety-pfn
was removed from the throat Of the
infant OF John Woodward and the
child is now recovering after suffer
ing two months.
Six masked men held possession OF
the stock yards in East ST. Louis for
nine hours, gagged and bound several
persons and robbed the National
Stockyards bank
In his message to the Legislature
Governor Reckham says Kentucky
| has recovered from the bitter political
rivalry growing out of the Goebel
Taylor contest.
The remains Of woman, thrown
| from a West Madison street cable
| train in Chicago, were identified az
| those of Mrs. John B. Ashby, formerly
Of Beatrice, Neb.
At Beioit. Arson P. Waterman died
aged SO He was for thirty years {
resident of Beloit and was twice
mayor and for forty years trustee
Of Beloit college.
Near Aberdeen, Miss, William Ian
| Ter, convicted and sentenced to hang
for the murder of the Bittelle brothers
| in 1890, and who twice escaped from
! jail, was captured.
| John Miller, a negro, with a moose
round his neck and badly beaten
sought protection of the sheriff a
Tampa, Fla. He said he had escaped
from a mob Of lynchers.
Andrew Carnegie outlined the plans
Of his $1O,OOO,OOO Carnegie institu
ton and named it's trustees, who in
clude many well known men, Sena
tor Spooner among them.
Another water gusher has beer
| struck in Milwaukee county, this
time on the farm of Jacob Beusche1
ST., in German township, seventeen
miles northwest of this city.
The bill creating a fifth assistant
| postmaster general, introduced in tn
| house by Mr.. Watson of Indiana, give!
the new assistant charge of the free
delivery system, rural and city.
Charles H. Thompson, genera
manager of the olemargarine depart
| ment of the Hammond Packing com
pany, is charged with attempted bri
berry of Michigan pure food officer
Fifteen were killed and sixteen in
jured in a collision between two pas
senger trains in the Park avenue tun
mel of the New York Central road al
New York. Many of the injured may
| die
At a council meeting at Alma, Wis
a resolution was passed for holding
a special election for voting on bonds
not exceeding $4,000 for the erection
of a county teachers training schoo
| there.
A correspondent at Shanghai urges
I that the powers insist on Russia re
! storing at once the Chinese telegraph
line from Shanghai to New Chwang,
if the commercial status quo of China
is to be preserved.
A girl arrested at Baltimore dis
guised as a boy proved to be Mis-;
Caltha Eads, a school teacher OF
Springfield, H., who left there with
young Henderson, whom she said she
was going to marry.
At the Redwood Falls city election
H. M. Aune was elected mayor;
Joseph Chadderdon, municipal judge;
A. R. A. Laudon, recorder; Fl. A. Bald
A. Pease, aldermen.
An anonymous friend of the Post
graduate hospital of New York city
has offered to give 100000 to the in
stitution, providing an additional
sum of $1,000 Of the aforementioned
sum has been pledged.
At the annual meeting of the La
Crosse County Medical society, the
following officers were elected: Presi
dent, c. H. Marquardt; vice president
J. A. l.. Bradfeld; secretary and
treasurer, Edward Evans.
Officers have captured a man be-
lieved to be Harvey Logan, the noted
Montana murderer and train robber
The capture was made at Clifton
ArtZ., where he was one of four bad
men who were selling jewelry.
A load of lumber on which a. party
was riding capsized near Bay City
Mich, and instantly killed Mrs
August Demars. Her husband
| August Demars, and father and sister
Mr.. and Miss Christy, were injured.
The open-air treatment for persons
IN the early stages of consumption is
| shown to have been eff1cac1ous il
! about 81 per cent. of the cases treated
during the past year at the Mas
sachusetts state sanatorium, at Rut
land
Arthur Pue German and Chairman
Murray Vandiver of the democratic
state central committee were selected
as the democratic nominees for UniteC
| States senate and state treasurer re