Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-02-27

| him by relative in st. Louis
Public buildings will probably be
provided for in an omnibus bill. A
member of the committee says ex-
penditures on this account will be be-
tween $4,000, 900 and s5O,OOO,0OO
| Secretary Long has approved the
sentence in the case of George II.
! Washburn, pay clerk, Z. S. n. recent
| ly tried by courtmartial and SEN
fenced to be publicly reprimanded.
Before the senate interoceanic
canal committee C. c. Colne OF
Brooklyn said a DrexeI- Morgan syndE-
cate had been willing to pay $1,000,
900 for the Panama railroad property.
Engineer E. c. Taylor was fatally
and Fireman J. A. Johnson and Brake
men A. T. Flynn and A. w. Sawyer
seriously injured by the collapse of u
Burlington coach near Guernesy,
Wyo.
1t is not often that catholic priest
and Protestant minister take part
in the same funeral service, but this
was the case. when the funeral of
Mrs. Herbert West was held at Sioux
City.
The president demanded the
resignation of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow for using
inspectors to investigate the charac-
ter of a man merely mentioned for an
Office.
Annie Anderson, employed as a
domestic at 204 Ashbury street, San
Francisco, was shot and probably
fatally wounded by a masked foot
pad. He escaped and is still at
large.
At Norfolk, Va, Levy D. Walker,
aged 20 fatally shot William O.
Shipp and Walter Gray, the latter &C
cidentlly and the former because, as
he says, Ship ruined his (Walker' >
sister.
Fire at Cedar Falls, Iowa, destroyed
! property valued at $4,000. A large
lumber shed belonging to the Town.
) send and Merrill Lumber company
and a livery barn belonging to De-
5 Burr were consumed.
The cracker factory of Frank
Goetz, in North Manchester, Conn,
was destroyed by fire. A boarding
house connected with the factory and
a large coal shed were also burned,
the total loss being $4,000.
One person was killed and six il
jured in a fire that destroyed the
Battle Creek Adventist Sanitarium
} and Hospital. Three hundred pa
r tients escaped in their night clothes
The property loss is 100000.
After serving seven years of a life
: sentence for murder in the Mas
sachusetts state prison. Patrick Foley
t was pardoned by Governor Crane
only to die a few hours after at the
home of friends Of consumption.
At Ashland Herman G. Fahrig, in
, ventor of Fahrig metal, committed
suicide. He was an expert worker
in metals in Germany, and a few
years ago invented a metal upor
which he had worked all his life.
AT Kansas City, William Prince
r has been sentenced to two years in
4 the penitentiary for completely in
4 the murder of his brother-in-law, P
H. Kennedy. Princes sister, who die
} the killing, was given a ten-year sen
| tence.
a At Little Valley, n Y, Mrs
Shanning Strickland, who shot and
/ killed Willie Hawkins, aged II years
t September 16 last year, was indicted
, for manslaughter in the second de
gree. She mistook Hawkins for {
t burglar
l At Butler, Mo, Judge w W
Graves in the circuit court held the
whisky tax law, passed by the last
4 general assembly, to be unconstitu
$ tional. This act levies a tax of Il
l cents a gallon on all whisky sold in
Missouri.
a At Sparta, Wis, a violin of grea
4 value was discovered by Professor
e Schlyther. who was repairing it. Pro
fessor o. Peterson. the renowned
, yiolinist. pronounces it genuine
, Nicholas Lupot, made In Paris over E
o century ago.
Bert Tules, ]. S. Campbell ana B
M. Skyles were caught in a snow
slide, near the head of Smith Gulch
! Idaho, on the route to Thunder
mountain, and killed. Ben Hamilton
was caught and buried in an ava
lanche of snow a mile wide.
The snow is the heaviest of the
winter in many places in the south
Charlotte reporting Is inches, Nash
vile II inches, Knoxville 10 inches
Chattanooga, 10 inches and Atlanta
5 inches. In Atlanta street car traffic
was seriously interfered with
r Sleighing was INDUCED in.
I At Marshalltown Iowa, four lives
t were lost in a head-on collision on tie
= Iowa Central railroad. The dead are
: Wallace Frew. of Kenithsburg, Ill.
), engineer: John White, Oskaloosa, en-
: gineer of the passenger train; Frank
|. Patton, Of Marshaltown, fireman, and
l Elmer Ogle, of Marshalltown, fire
man.
: Certain members from the north
e west are vigorously opposing the bill
authorizing the leasing of unoccupieC
: public lands for grazing purposes
1t directs the leasing of the public
: domain at 2 cents per acre per year
} The members claim it would impede
the development and progress of the
I states concerned.
: The secretary of the interior, al
!, the suggestion of the acting governor
e of Hawaii, has sent to the senate
plans for a regulation to determine
[ the terms of the senators to DE
/, elected in Hawaii next November Il
is proposed that the candidates re