Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-23

no amendment to the constitution
being necessary.
James R. Keene has engaged
Jockey Lucine Lyme for next season
at a salary of $4,000, the highest
ever paid on the American turf
Col. A. L. Mills, superintendent OF
West Point military academy, report
ed only one case of hazing there in
year. The offender was dismissed.
DR.. Adolph Lorenz, of Vienna,
operated successfully on J. Odgen
Armour's daughter for disIocation of
the hip and earned a fee of $15000O.
Ex-Secretary Of the Treasury
Charles S. FairchiId was severely i'll
jured about the head by being knock
ed down by a trolley car in New York.
A destructive fire visited the town
of Klamathon, Cal, and wiped out
the entire business portion of the
place, doing damage estimated at
$350,000
Earl Whitney and Claude O'Brien,
arrested at Louisville, confessed to
the murder of Asa B. Chinn and
the wounding Of his son at Lexington.
Robbery was the motive.
Archie Woodin Of Mount Pleasant
(Mich.) murdered Joseph Gulick, his
father-in-law, and the latter's wife,
his 10 months old daughter, and tried
to shoot himself and failed.
Charles G. Dale, cashier of the New
York County National bank, com
mitted suicide. Oyerwork is said to
have unbalanced his mind. His &C.
counts were correct to a penny.
The Illinois Board of Health sum-
moned DR.. Lorenz, the famous Vienna
surgeon, before it, examined him and
made him take out a license before
continuing his work of healing in
Chicago.
! The Pullman company report shows
net earnings for the year of 100000
| and $11,OO0,000 surplus; manufactured
products for the year are valued at
19,416,02O; 19,1O3 persons are in the
company's employ.
! The conductor and the motorman
! Of the car which ran into the presi-
dents carriage at Pittsfeld, Mass,
| killing Secret Service Agent Craig,
have been blamed for the accident by
the coroner's jury.
German reciprocity treaties with
Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Italy
! SerVia, Switzerland, Roumania and
Russia increased the formers exports
81 per cent. in ten years and the i'm
ports 10 per cent.
Eugene L. Bradford, a married man
OF Kingston, Ill. was arrested on a
perjury charge. Mrs Ollie Bradford,
OF Knoxville, Tenn, convinced the
pension officials that she is his civil
war time wife.
A Chicago horse attached to a milk
wagon collided with an automobile,
and when they were separated the
animal was@ready to proceed, but had
! kicked the bubble" so effectively
that it was laid up for repairs.
Alexander G. Young, corporation
counsel Of Hudson county, New Jer-
sey, was arrested on a charge of kid
mapping his child. preferred by his
divorced wife, Mrs. Louis McAllister
Young, niece Of Ward McAIlister.
i'OoOlfSI IuO1HdS, OIL the General
Carriage company, says he will bring
suit against Joseph Letter and others
! to find out how the $20,00O.OOO stock
! or the concern was disposed of with
out adequate returns to the company,
! What was declared by Bellevue
New York, doctors to be probably
! the smallest baby ever born in this
, country was brought there by it's
father IN a paper bag. 1t weighed %
ounces, and was put in an incubator.
The parents of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr, who is i'll in the Pocantico Hill.
New York, go up to see him by ex-
press train every day. A fast team
is kept at the door all the time to
carry his wife to the drug store for
medicines.
Forty horses were burned to death
and three men had narrow escapes
from a Ike fate in fire that started
in the ffye-stOry structure at 339 West
sixteenth street, New York, occupied
by the Ganzeyvoort livery and board
ing stables
Senator BuXtor says Boston mis-
sionaries went to Hawaii and gave
the natives certificates guaranteed to
admit them to heaven in exchange
for their lands. A number of the
more ignorant natives have beer
swindled in this way.
The Plus fund controversy between
Mexico and the United States was de.
clded at the Hague arbitration court
in favor of the latter Mexico must
pay $1,42O,6S2 to the United States
tor California Jesuit missions, besides
$43,O50 yearly forever.
The annual meeting of the COM
mercial travellers home association of
America was held in Binghamton. n.
Y. George F. Swigert of Carbonate.
Pa, was reelected president, and w.
a. Rally Of Albany was reelected Sec
rotary and treasurer
A. E. Schroeder, whose wife is
sister of Mrs. Roland B. Molineux.
shot -.mself dead on a train in
Florida, leaving a letter accusing him
self of crime for which he said the
law could not punish him and of
cruelty to his wife
R. G. Leeds, the 16 years old son
OF the Rock Island railroad president,
who ran away from Andover academy
to join the Colombian insurgents. re-
turned to New York. The American
consul stopped him at Colon on the
tamily's instructions and sent him
home.
AT Peoria, H., G. H. Simmons.