Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-26

OF the Meteor.
The missing mail pouch, containing
checks, money and RATS amounting to
$4,000 that has caused the postof-
fee officials at Indianapolis, so much
concern, has been found at Cincinnati
with contents intact.
At Philadelphia members of the firm
Of Cassatta &, Co.. bankers and brok-
ers, charge that Howard T. Goodwin,
confidential man of the house, who re-
Gently committed suicide in his of
fee, was a defaulter.
Miss Lulu Cole of York, Pa, receiv-
ed on Valentine day a vial of poison
by mail and since has had eight let
ters threatening her life. She thinks
the letters were sent by a young wo-
man out Of jealousy.
From present indications it seems
that the amendment proposed by Rep
resentative Tawney permitting the ex-
portation and shipment of timber and
wood pulp from Alaska will be incor-
poraed in the Alaska bill
The Washington legislature has
passed law involving the referendum
principles but affecting municipal cor
porations only. Both houses have
passed memorial asking congress not
to repeal the duty on lumber
A concurrent resolution addressed
to the president recommending the ap-
pOintment of Senator Chester Rowell
Of Fresno as a member Of the isthmian
al
adopted by the California house.
The Philadelphia residence of Viii
liam c. Bullitt. who is member Of the
firm of Cashier. Curran e Bullitt, coal
operators in the Pocahontas fields,
was entered by burglars, who carried
off he family plate, valued at $4,000
A big suburban electric car crashed
into a WestbOunG Lake Shore fast
mail train at a crossing IN Sandusky,
o., resulting in the Wrecking of the
electric car and the serious injury of
four persons on it. All will recover.
A New York and Brooklyn tunnel
one and a quarter miles long will be
built by q $4,000 900 corporation or
ganized by D. H. Louderbach. The
distance will be covered by electric
cars in five minutes for a cent fare.
While carpenters wer building a
bridge acrOs sthe Manistique river at
Germfest, Mich. the rope that lifts the
pile driver hammer broke and Will
liam Daniels. a famer, was killed and
John Rose. a carpenter severely III
jured.
Illinois state representatives in eau
Gus agreed to vote themselves $500
apiece extra fer clerk hire" The
total cost to the state will be S76,5OO.
Their salary is now $1,000 and an in
crease during a term Of Office is for
biddan
\ rear-end collision between a Great
Northern witch enbgine anu Bur
lin@tCn freight train at St. Paul re-
sul-ed in the death q P. II. Kelly. cot
dugJ0 OF the freight train Fire fol
lowed the wreck and KelIy's body was
oremated.
Steps having BEEN taken to save
10000 starvinl elk on the Jeton-Yel-
lOwstone reserves in Wyoming. Snow
seven feet deep covers Their feeding
ground and temperatures as low as 40
hel5w zero have added TO their sui
feTiLEs
The pending disputes between thc
United States and Canada probably
will be taken up soon by the high
Joint commission. A modification of
the RUsh-Baeot treaty will be sought,
to allow building Of war vessels on
he great lakes.
Wisconsin pOstmasters appointed
Hoaz. RichIand county, ]. B. McGrew;
Bright, Clark County, Benjamin Chase;
Waupaca county, Ann
Beedle; Lily. Langlade county. VII
Lam E. Priem; Luxembourg, Kewau-
nee county, Albert Liebel.
Because he refused a glass of water
Thomas Butler is lying dead at the st. |
Louis. Mo, mOrgue with a bullet in
the heart. Andrew Laumer, q bar
keeper who offered the water and then
shot Butler when he threw it on the |
floor. is under arrest.
Attorney William Abbott Lewis of
Spokane will go to the penitentiary for
eight years and six months The state |
supreme court of Washington has
ruled against him on every count. He
was charged with embezzling $225 in |
trusted to him by d client.
Chicago is to have the finest mu-
scum in the world, and Marshall Field |
is to provide the funds, according to |
plans now under discussion by the
South Park commission The lake
front is to be the site, and the maxi |
mum cost is to be $1O,OOO,0OO
The trial of G. W. Vanderwelt, the
retiring county auditor of Marion
county, Iowa, charged with altering
the returns so as to accomplish his
reelection, resulted at Des Moines in
acquittal on one count. The trial on
the second count will be deferred.
James G. Bailey, secretary of lega-
ton at Guatemala City, has been
granted leave of absence and is return
ing to the United States in company
with ex-Minister Hunter. 1t is not
expected he will go back to Guatemala,
as the state department desires to al
low Minister Combs free hand to re-
cast the personnel of the United
States legation in Guatemala.
The United States circuit court of
appeals has sustained Judge Smith
Mcpherson in holding that the east
half of the Union Pacific railroad
bridge across the Missouri river at