Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-29

wealthieSt men in the state. committed
| suicide by hanging herself to the door
| of her room with the hem of her skirt
She has been confined in an insane
asylum.
William Sylnons, ST., and J. r.
| Leayitt were killed in the Carlotta mine
Tuesday morning. They were standing
upon Il temporary platform built in the
| shaft for the purpose of making ce-
pairs, when the platform gave way
precipitating them to the bottom of
| the shaft.
John j. SnOtWell. manager of hc
Colorado Hammerbrick company "a
| Denver. has left for parts unknown.
and there is said to be a deficit of $40
| 900 on the books of the company. He
| is accused OF squandering the money
/ Ill gambling.
At Dublin dispatches says Father
| Humphreys, the nationalist priest, was
| released Tuesday morning from Jail, to
| which he had been committed on the
| charge OF contempt of court, and his
| examination on The original accusation
! of riOtouS conduct was set for hearing
at Tipperary.
| Mrs. Edward L. Potter was shot ard
killed instantly by her husband at New
| Haven, Conn. Potter, who was alone
with his wife at the time, says he was
! cleaning a rifle when the weapon was
| IN some way discharged, its contents
| entering his wife's back just below The
| right shoulder.
Samuel Raven was buried alive
! thirty-SiX hours at Jackson, Mich. He
was in the bottom Of a thirty-foOt well
when quicksand caused the walls u
| fall upon him. Just at dark on the sec
Ond day Raven was reached, terribly
crushed, but alive. The stones in the
wall had fallen upon him, forming an
| arch and giving him room to breathe.
In digging a sewer in Phoenix, Ari.,
WOrkmen have broken into an ancient
crypt and the find will settle many
| questions heretofore disputed by. the
| scientists. The fact that the extinct
| people who formerly inhabited that
| country cremated their dead is proved
| by the finding of several ulnS, contain
ing ashes, together with teeth and
| pieces of skull.
Prince Anton RadziWell has become
suddenly insane at LODI, in Russiau
Poland, while en- route to join the czars
hunting party at Spala. He appeared
at a window of the Grand hotel in
LODI armed with a rifle and two re
VOlvers with which he fired at the PEG
pie in the courtyard, wounding two
servants. He was overpoWered by
soldiers after a desperate struggle.
A passenger train on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe road was wreck
ed near Usage City, Kas., because Of
the defective condition of the track,
which had been thrown out of place by
train-rObberS. The train went over an
enbankment, and the cars were piled
together in the greatest confusion.
-Four employees on the train were kill
ed, and many passengers were injured.
A deputation from Kinsale complains
of the shabby treatment accorded W
the Liverpool board Of trade to the men
rescuing passengers from the steam
ship City of Chicago early in July. The
board Of trade awarded the men 1--WE
ShillingS each. The coast guard men
received eleven shillings each Fisher
man Dennis, who in a dense fog plotted
ashore four boats containing $50 PEG
sons, claimed so and received forty
two shillings He has sued for the
balance.