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

the whereabouts of friends or relatives
to claim the body and give it burial.
1t is not even known if Hoyt is her
real name.
The Washington assessor Of the dis
trict has rendered an opinion in which
he holds that churches which it is
customary to rent for the purposes of
giving lectures and entertainments
are subject to the regular license taxes
usually levied on buildings rented for
amusement purposes.
William Wilkingson, a farmer near
Palmyra, Wis, and two relatives are
believed murdered and the bodies
burned in the formers house. The
robbers are supposed to have stolen
$500 recently drawn from a bank. The
bodies and tin money box were
found in ashes.
Mayor Harrison pardoned Gus
Bretzke, GAINESVILLE, Wis, farmer,
from the Chicago brideweIl. Bretzke
declared he had been fined sS5 and
imprisoned~for merely being robbed.
The police charged he had been drunk
in a saloon.
At Oxford, Ohio. the express for
Chicago over the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton and the Monon routes
collided with two runaway freight
cars here last night Engineer Ed
ward Conn and two unknown tramps
were killed.
Cuthbert J. Cad, New York min
ing man, says he has been swindled
out of $4,000 by the sale to him of a
sailed placer mine at Nome. He
bought the property for 100000, pay
ing $4,000 down. r. J. Macarthur
and J. F. Ray are alleged to be re
, Secretary Hay protested to Colon
bia because the latter's minister re
fused to obey his government S in
| structions on the Panama canal
treaty. The Nicaragua route may be
| chosen, or the Panama route taken
without consent
One thousand six hundred Douk-
hObOrs left their farms and cattle in
Manitoba and started out to convert
the world. They are marching to
| Winnipeg. The Canadian police are
trying to prevent suffering, and the
women and children are under govern.
| ment care.
| Millard F. Rose, former resident OF
st. Paul, committed suicide at Brown
ton, Mimi. Rose was a straightforward
performer and gave an exhibition il
the schoolhouse at Brownton. Aftel
the performance was over he was
found in a room in the rear of the
schoolhouse with his throat cut
1t was announced by Dean Russell
OF the New York Teachers college
that the sum of $4,000, upon the
raising of which the recent half-a-mil
lion-dollar gift Of John D. Rookie
Teller was made contingent, has been
practically secured. The situation is
that the Teachers college will be
richer by $4,000.
The Western Union telegraph com
panys central cable office at New
York has been advised by the Mexi
can government that, because OF
earthquakes, all Geographic com
munication with Mapastepec
Huixtela, Tapachula, San Benito
Chicharro, Montozint1a, Monte Cristc
and Tensiquo is interrupted.
Attorneys for Frank C. Andrews
the convict vice-president of the
wrecked City savings bank at Detroit
announced that they had secured
three bondsmen to make up the 500,
600 bail fixed by the supreme court
for Andrews's release, pending the
hearing on a motion for a new trial.
California green oranges are not tt
be sent to the east this season, ever
though the first shipments must be de
layed two or three weeks. The Los
Angles Fruit World announces a com
pact between local orange shippers moi
to rush out green and immature
oranges in order to be first on the
market.
Warden McTague of the state peni-
tertiary and Fred Morrow, a convict
were at Miles City, Mont, and, follow.
ing Morrow's directions, recovered
$4,000 in money which Morrow stole
May 20, 1900, from the Northern
Pacific Express company and con-
cealed near the Tongue river bridge.
The package originally contained
$4,000, but Morrow has used $500 1t
is probable his sentence will now be
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