Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-01-09

placed under charge of a committee
of Cleveland bankers representing the
creditors. This is due to the inability
Of the syndicate to meet approaching
obligations.
Wild horse meat is the principal |
article of food for the section men on
the desert districts of the railroads |
in southern Utah, according to reports ,
which come from there. The section |
pecially when it is the only fresh
meat ottainable.
One hundred and thirty-seven days
at sea, during which time two Of her
crew died and a score or more gales
were encountered, imperiling the lives
of the survivors, is the record of the
ship Paul Revere, which has just ar
rived at New York from Japan by
way of Cape Horn.
A package said to contain bones and
dried blood of st. Magnus, a Roman
centurion, and st. Bonosa, a Roman
virgin, who were martyred in the time
Of Nero, has arrived at Louisville
from Rome. The relics will be placed
under the altar Of ST. Martins Catho-
lie church in this city.
The Sacred Heart college attached
to st. Joseph's church, COhoes, n. Y.
was destroyed and ST. AIMS convent
which adjoins it, was badly damaged
by fire. The loss is 100000. An over
heated boiler is believed to have
caused the fire. Seven hundred stu
dents are thrown out.
Miss Estelle Reel, government
has decided to have the annual con
vention of those interested in Indian
education, including the teachers
held in Minneapolis next July in con
nection with the session of the
| National Educational association.
Lawrence Hex, colored, was sen
! fenced to be hanged in Pueblo, Col.
during the week of April 10. Hex was
convicted of killing William White
and Mrs. Lizzie Allie, both colored,
death sentence since the restoration
of capital punishment in Colorado.
Hiram Smiley, SIS, employed as a
trackman for the Lehigh Valley rail
road, and Cornelius Dugan, so, were
! killed by a train near Park Place, Ma
| hanoy City Pa, last night. The men
were walking upon the railroad track
in the face Of the rainstorm Their
umbrella hid the approaching train
Rev. Constantine Maria Won Droste
! Huelshoff, son of Baron Won Droste
Huelshoff Of the diocese of Westphalen
Ger, died at the ST. Francis hospital
in La Crosse. He gave up the life OF
nobleman to enter the priesthood
| He came to America 80 years ago and
! had lived in La Crosse for the past IL
years.
The governors and legal officers of
seven northwestern states, in confer
ence at Helena, decided to make a le-
gal fight against the Hill railway mer-
ger Judge Lochren at Minneapolis
dissolved the injunction against the
Northern Pacific reorganization. The
decision is said to recognize the legal
ity of the merger.
The first definite information con
| corning the wreck of the Pacific Mai
steamer San Bias and its cause has
/ been received at San Francisco by the
| KOsmos liner Herodot. The officers
of the Herodot state that the disaster
was caused by an attempt to round
Remedies reef before the vessel was
far enough out to sea.
Nine. Sibyl Sanderson has an
nounced her engagement to Count
Henri de Fitz James. The ceremony
will take place in Paris some time in
January. De Fitz James is an Officer
CT cavalry in the French army. He is
a son of Edouard Due de Fitz James
head of the second or French branch
of the Berwick family
William McMillen, 76, an eccentric
mineralogist, who had been missing
for four days, crawled down the noun
tain near Barton, Md, and died soon
after he was found. He was in the
habit of carrying his savings on his
person, but when his clothes were
searched no money was found upon
him. 1t is thought he was murdered.
At Huntingdon, Pa, Frederick
/ Ruper, aged IS years, had his head
blown off by the accidental discharge
Of his gun. Young Rupert had tried
| to shoot hawk, but the gun failed 20
| discharge. He attempted to locate
the trouble by blowing into the
muzzle Of the gun, when the weapon
| exploded, the entire charge entering
| Rupert'S mouth.
| A bill OF chancery was filed against
the city of Paterson, n J., to restrain
that city from emptying its sewerage
| into the Passaic river There are 100
complainants, all of whom own
property along the river between
Paterson and Newark The amounts
Of damage claimed range from $500,
600, asked by the Botany worsted
mills, down to $4,000
At Denver an unknown man at
tackled Harold Friedborn, aged Is. and
Florence, his sister, aged Is, while
they were skating. The boy was struck
on the head with an ak and instantly
killed. The girl was then assaulted.
She gave fair description of the man.
She says she bit his finger severely
and the police hope this may aid them
in his apprehension.
Gen. Frank Armstrong as agent Of
the war department is at Fort Sill