Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-03
PERSONAL.

Stokes new trial will occur In OCTOBER next.
His counsel have decided to make no EFFORT 10
bail the prisoner 1t is said the defense VIII
relv upon the medical testimony so effective III
the first trial, and will raise the plea of self
| defense.
| Lewis Tappan, prominent worker IN the
| anti-slavery movement in its earliest days, dled
at his residence in Brooklyn on the 2lst, aged
| So
DR.. J. H. White, President of the North
western Associated Press, and business man
| ager of the Davenport Gazette, died very sud
denly at his residence in Davenport on the 2lst,
of apoplexy.
| Miss Alta NJ. Huett, an interesting young
| lady, has made her debut in Chicago, as
| a practicing lawyer. Her first appearance
before court as an advocate was IN
successfully prosecuting case for poor
landlady as. a non-paying tenant. This event
marks an epoch in legal annals in the State OF
Illinois, because, for the first time, woman
conducted suit in court, and conducted it by
her own right under the law.
The trial of young Walworth for shooting
his father commenced in the New York Court
of Oyer and Terminer on the oath. The court
room was crowded.
Washington's headquarters at Morristown,
n. j., was recently sold at auction and bought
for presentation to the State at the purchase
price of S25, 900. The sash worn by Washing
ton when he was Grand Master of the Masonic
Lodge sold for $1,000.
Mr. John H. Daniels, a banker of Whining
ton, H., suspended payment Oh the 10Th. HIS
liabilities range from S25O,000 to s2'5,Uo,
| The cause of the insolvency is stated TO be the
failure of the Kankakee River Improvement
| Company to pay the July interest on its bonds,
which he had guaranteed to the extent of
$4,000. If given time he promises to pay
| sevcnty-five cents on the dollar.
The following unique oath of office has been
filed in the Secretary of States office at Spring
field, H.:
! State of Illinois, Knox County: 1, Alfred NJ.
Craic Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of
Illinois elected in the Fifth Judicial District, do
socmnIy swear that will support the Constitution
of the United States, and the Constitution of the
State of Illinois and that | will faithfully discharge
the duties of the office Of Judge of the Supreme
Court of the State, according to the best of my
ability: that will administer justice without re-
spect to persons and do equal right TO the poor
and to the rich. without sale denial, promptly,
without. delay. conformably to the laws, without
favor, objection, or partially, to the best of my
Judgment and abilities ALFRED NJ. CRAIG
Subscribed and sworn TO before me, the 14th day
of June, 4. d., 1913. LEWIS ANDREWS, Justice
of the Peace.
James NJ. Pattee, lottery manager Of Omaha,
has been arrested at Leavenworth on charge
Of obtaining money under false pretenses. He
was on his way to Europe.
The jury in the Woodruff Clafin-Blood case,
under the instruction of Judge Batchford,
have returned verdict Of " not guilty" The
Judge decided that newspapers were not in
Guided in "obscene publications" i'll the act Of
1872, under which the Indictment was drawn.