Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-11-06

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The two upper floors of six-story
building at Philadelphia, occupied by
the Philadelphia Baby Carriage Com
pany, were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
The American Bankers association
at New Orleans elected Caldwell
Hardy, Norfolk, Va, president. San
Francisco will be the next meeting
place.
Tom Grignon was shot by George
Huykes at Amigo, Wis. Huykes had
just been discharged by the court
from the charge of assaulting Orig
mons wife.
Alan G. Mason, who has been held
in Boston as a suspect in the Jack
the Slugger'' cases, was released, and
George F. o. Perry, colored, was held
in his place.
William Coniber, on trial at Albion,
N. Y, for the murder Of Horace Hal
pin, pleaded guilty after the prosecu-
ton had rested, and was sentenced to
prison for life.
The Lansing (Mich.) jurors who &C
quilted Col. Eli R. Sutton of con-
spiracy in the military fraud case was
accused Of corruption and arrests are
threatened.
At Chicago William E. McHerry, one
Of the oldest members of the Board of
Trade, was expelled by the directors
on charges Of dishGnorable and uncom-
mercial conduct.
Mrs. Helen Costello of Buffalo tried
to commit suicide by jumping into
Niagara river at Goat island, but
caught on log at the brink of the
falls and was rescued.
Thomas Stewart, alias ''Hoosier
Kid" who escaped from the Toledo
jail with Topeka Joe" a year ago, has
been indicted by the federal grand
jury for postoffice robbery
Prince Hohenlohe is eager to sue
Barrister O'Brien for SANDER because
Of the charge that the Prince agreed
to pay $4,000 for an Introduction to
Miss May Goelet, the heiress.
Arnold Scherland, aged II years, of
Black Wolf, Wis, shot and killed him
self while hunting ducks on Lake Win
nebagO. In stepping out of boat
the gun slipped and was discharged.
Miss Louise Hoge, Evanston, Ill,
who died under Christian Science
treatment, was shown by the autopsy
to have had pneumonia and not
typhoid fever, as the healer claimed.
An engine went over an embank-
ment at the Hinckston run dam, north
of JOhnstOwn, Pa, and crashed into a
| crowd Of Workmen, killing two and
fatally injuring one and seriously in
| juring several.
Charles Price was killed, James Ross
fatally injured and three others slight
| ly injured in the collapse Of an old
building in Wilkesbarre, Pa. The
building was beng torn down and a
floor gave way.
DR.. w. II. KimberIin, Kansas City
was shot and killed by John Scanlon
eX-pOliceman, who then committed
suicide. A note left declared that
the doctor destroyed his sight instead
of curing him.
Harry Planer, aged IA years, son of
F. c.. Planer, a sand dealer Of Madi-
son, was buried alive in sand, the
bank from which he was loading a
wagon caving in on him. He was
dead when found.
Fire on top of the Manhattan pier
of the new East River bridge at De
lancey street, New York, did probably
10000 worth of damage and de-
layed the completion Of the structure
for perhaps a year.
Jean B. Fourier, aged so years, who
recently was liberated from an in
sane asylum, was shot and killed at
Cumberland Hill, R. l., by Walter
Fiske, a farmer, who caught him steal
ing grain from his barn.
The federal salt trust is believed to
have received a death blow by refusal
of United States court at San Fran
cisco to dissolve the injunction
against it. 1t is held to be a combine
in restraint of trade.
A Northwestern passenger engine
and two cars were thrown into a ditch
at Desplaines, Ill, because the engineer
failed to observe a danger signal at
the Wisconsin Central crossing. Four
persons were seriously hurt.
Forty prisoners confined in the Jail
at Camanea, Ariz., Overpowered the
jailers and escaped in broad daylight
This is the second Jail delivery in
month and new prison is being cut
out of the side of the mountain.
Emerson Kinnison, brakeman on a
Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight
train was killed at Findlay, Ill, by
falling from box car while setting
brakes. He was a son Of John
Kinnison, section foreman of Altamont.
Roland B. MolineauX Of New York
was acquitted of the alleged murder
of Mrs. Adams by a jury after thirteen
minutes deliberation. He has been in
jail four years and condemned to
death. The judges charge apparently
placed Harry B. Cornish on trial
United States Senators Beveridge of
Indiana. Dillingham; of Vermont and
Burnham of New Hampshire, members
of the subcommittee on territories, are
making tour of the territories of the
southwest with reference to their ad-
nilsson to statehood.
President Samuel Gompers at
E+American Federation of Labor con-
vention, New Orleans, declared that
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