Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-19
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recently committed suicide by heating
a poker red hot and thrusting it into
his bowels.
John A. Logan Jr., is said to be
growing very much like his father, and
promises to develop many of his sturdy
traits of character.
A large alligator, measuring ten feet
in length, was shot quite near Palatka,
Fla, by two young lads who were Out
hunting for birds,
Mrs Don M. Dickinson has made o
good impression in Washington. She
IS considered handsome, and the wo'
men call her stylish"
John OUTLAW, of Chester County.
North Carolina is the Oldest man in
that state. He was born in 1873. He
was a soldier in the war of 1912.
A well-known citizen of Augusta.
Me-. is excessively polite. The other
day he backed through $50 plate
glass window while bowling to a lady
IN the street.
There are over one hundred claim
ants to the estate of Millionaire Blythe,
on the Pacific coast, who was supposed
to have no heirs. The latest accession
WIS from Scotland.
It is found necessary to ship two
plates of glass from Pittsburg tc
Philadelphia by water via New Orleans,
as they are so large that the railroad
can not manage them.
England has begun the erection of q
monument over the resting place of .
number of officers and men who died
at the battle of Waterloo. England is
about as slow in the monument way as
New York.
The prize for the effectual destruc-
ton of rabbits offered by the New
South Wales Government is being
warmly contested. Already $50 in.
Ventions have been sent in to compete
for the $250,000.
President Eliot of Harvard SAYS
again that the boys are having too
many contests and too little exercise.
He talks of abolishing freshmen con-
tests altogether and wants the univer-
sity athletes to try conclusions with
Yale only.
Harriet Bcecher Stowe saws she
hopes she will never be too old to 90 to
church and hear her boy Charles
preach. Charles graduated at har.
ward College few years ago and is
now pastor of Il Congregational church
at Hartford.
Robert Porter, an eccentric citizen of
Stoughton, Mass, aged 90, has fol-
twenty-five years bathed every day in
an open spring on his farm. One morn
ing recently he took his customary
plunge when the mercury was 15 de-
grees below zero, and claimed to en-.
Joy it.
Farmers living near Bakersville Cal.
built jack rabbit corral, shaped like
the letter V, recently and then secured
the fields on horseback, driving the
animals before them into the trap.
Then for two hours general massacre
of the pests took place, in which 5,075
Vt them were killed.
Yellow House, Berks County, Pa, q
farming settlement among the Num-
tawney Hills. had population of
siXty-fivc, according to the last cen.
sus, and has increased but little since
then. Among the inhabitants of the
place are twenty-siN persons between
seventy and ninety-tn o years of age.
Tennyson feels kcenly the stings OF
adverse criticism. He once said: 81
am like Il traveller in Il lonely desert,
when suddenly there appears on the
horizon Il figure which shoots an arrow
that reaches me, enters the flesh and
rankles there, and although the wound
is small, tbs smart | cannot forget"
Flowing in California has it's disad
yantages. At this season especially,
farmers who are ploNing new ground
turn up numerous tarantulas and rat
tlesnakes, the latter being in d dor.
mant state. but the former as lively aS
possible. One farmer recently killed
rattlesnake which had nineteen
rattleS.
Samuel Spencer, the remarkable
young Georgian who has SO long been
the real president of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad system, fifteen years ACC
entered the companys service as 5000
clerk. To-day he receives $4,000
year salary. He is small, modest
looking man, with reddish brown mus
tache and imperial, and a low, geh{lt
voice.
Prof. G. F. Wright, on his last trip
TO Alaska, studied a missionary's trans.
lation of the Psalms into the aboriginal
language. There being no domestic
sheep in Alaska, the translator was
puzzled by the words, The Lord is
my shepherd, but native helped him
out by making the sentence read
THE Lord is first-class mountain
sheep hunter"
Atlanta's black-listing of drunkards
is no new thing. In 1876 E. H
Grouby, the proprietor and editor of
paper in Blakely, black-listed himseli
IN the following order: ION and after
date the undersigned gives notice thai
he will prosecute any person selling
him intoxicating liquor of any kind tc
the full extent of the law. This is moi
for the purpose of injuring whisky
dealers, but to get sober and stay So"
At the canonization of the new saints
IN Rome, after the Pope's speech, the
Cardinals presented his Holiness with
the customary gifts for the newly
canonized saints, which consisted of
thick wax candle, two bowls, one sill.
yer and the other gilt; three cages, one
containing pigeons, another doves.
and the third canaries and greenfnches
There were also two small barrels, one
filled with water and tue other with
wine.
A government agent travelling in
Alaska says that the American citizens
in some portions of that country still
pray for the Emperor of Russia. In one
town only one man was found who
knew the name of an American n;tr-