Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-05-14

age was done to rolling stock and
freight
The report of an accountant work
ing under instructions from District
Attorney Jerome in New York shows
that there is no foundation for the
scandal in connection with the man
agement of the Metropolitan. street
railroad.
Charles NJ Schwab was reelected
president of the United States steel
corporation. All the other outgoing
officers were reelected. John F.
Dryden Of New Jersey was elected
director in place of the late Abram S.
Hewitt.
Several hundred tons of limestone
rock, a part of the high cliff bounding
the railroad yards in the west bottoms
of Kansas City, fell smashing a frame
house below and killing Mrs. Fronie
Dibble, a negress, aged % who was
sick in bed
Benjamin Sippe better known as
big BilI' Mason, was arrested at the
gate Of the penitentiary at Philadel-
phia, where he had just completed a
sentence Of five years. He is wanted
in Washington, D. c., on a charge of
house-breaking.
Joseph Trepani, the alleged head Of
gang of New York Italians who de-
frauded insurance companies by bogus
deaths, was sentenced to not less than
two years and not more than four
years and eight months in state
prison at hard labor.
Seymour w. Tulloch, the Washing
ton postoffice cashier, answered Post
master General Pavne's roast by de-
claring the formers charges of ir-
Irregularities in the local office can be
substantiated. His superior had
called him "windbag"
Final permission reached the Italian,
allies representatives to sign with
Bowen, Venezuela's plenipotentiary,
the protocol submitting the question
of preferential treatment to The Hague
tribunal for arbitration.
By a decision of the surrogate Mrs.
Alice Hull Burdick Of Buffalo, n Y,
will get the custody of her three chill
dren. The surrogate declared void
the provision in Mr.. Burdick's will
which directed that the children
should be under the guardianship of
his executors.
Judge Halsey OF Milwaukee re-
leased John Connors and Alexander
McCarren of Springfield, ILL.,, who were
accused Of swindling by means of
bogus fights and fOotraces, on the
plea of their attorneys that they had
been luTed to the state in order to
secure their arrest.
Former Mayor A. A Ames of Min
neapolis was convicted of accepting
a $500 bride while in office. Motions
for a stay and arrest Of execution were
made. Ames denied all charges
against him and declared he never
had seen the alleged list of disorderly
houses. He also claimed to be sick
and incompetent
SiXty-five French seamen who left
st. MalO, France, on the fishing brig
Sans Souci, reached New York on the
steamer st. Andrew, having been
rescued from their craft April %. They
reported most perilous trip. Six
members of the crow were washed
overheard and drowned in gale April
25 and one man died
By locking Tom Cockrill in the
negro compartment of the smoking
car, the conductor of a Louisville e
Nashville train prevented a meeting
between the sole survivor of the
Cockrills, a young man not far in his
twenties, and Alexander Hargis. Cock
rill killed Ben Hargis a year ago. when
the Hargis-CocErill feud was especial
ly bitter, and James Cockrill, the
deputy marshall who was assassinated
in the courthouse at Jackson last July,
was his brother.