Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-09
Frederick 2. Young, formerly

Frederick P. Young, formerly of &
Springfield, Mo-, confessed at Denver, 7
Col, that he had been thief for TWEEN
ty years.
Burglars near Weeping Waters, Neb., {
shot and killed Matthew Akerson and
wife and wounded the son and hired
man, robbing the house and escaping.
Eva Collins, ID years old, was run
over by an electric car at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, and died soon after. She
attempted to cross the track in advance
of the car.
George W. Powell, whom the new
mayor of indianapolis appointed chief
of police, has had no police experience
and hesitated a good while before e.
cepting, lest it might ruin his so3l
standing
Supt Hughes, of the Hygeia Mineral
Water company, said: THE COM
pany's plant cost S1,OOO,OOO, and during
the exposition it sold no less than %
100000 glasses of water. The enter
prise has been highly profitable
NILS. JOulI IAtluS. VI Mics. ". titto
sued the New York, Pennsylvania "
Ohio and the Cleveland & Mahonfng
Valley railroads for $4,000 for injuries
received in falling from the station
platform.
The hardware store of A p. Boswell
& Co. at Coffeygille, Kas., was entered
by thieves and S163 in cash, negotiable
personal notes to the value Of $1,000
/. and certificates of deposit amounting to
over $4,000 were secured. Several re-
yolvers and raZOrS We're added to the
booty.
/ DR.. Elliott Cents, the eminent sci
enlist of the Smithsonian institution, Is
in Tacoma, verifying the report made
5 of the northwest by the Lewis and
0 Clark expedition in 1904 and 1906, and
e is locating the exact route followed by
them.
n Of the four men who pleaded guilty
l. at Danville ILL.,, to the murder OF
o Henry Helmick the night of July p
last, Pate and Starr We're sentenced t
= be hanged December and SmOOt an(
+ McJunllins to the penitentiary for life
- Messrs Bull, owners of the waite
works at Quincy, H., claim a balance
due them from the city, and the waite
) supply at the city hall, fire engln
l. houses, and public schools was shut OF
pending a settlement.
IT There is trouble between RI AntOl
ID palitSchek Won PalmforSt and a numbe
o. of the exhibitors in the Austrian sec
ton of the manufactures building
y They want to remove their goods with
= out any delay, and secured an injunt
, ton restraining DR.. Palmforst from il
terfering with them.
k. The diamondiferous meteorite, Whic
b was given for hand piece to be use
in the ringing of the new liberty be
q at the fair, has received a polishing
NJ 1t is 50 hard that ordinary steel WORK
ing machinery would not make q
impression on it and the work wa
- done in a similar manner to that en-
., ployed in polishing a diamond. Th
'i piece of ore was polished by rubin
the powdered pieces together.
TX Sanoe1a, one of the little brown
al skinned men who has played for month
upon the tinkling instruments in tn
80 He was talking to his comrades an
:, laughing at the thought that in a fe'
- days he would start on the homeWar
Journey, when he fell on his face wit
st a groan and died almost Instant.
II, Heart disease was the cause of SAM
lie era's death, the doctor said.
The Columbian chair company at til
10 fair has closed UP its affairs. Eigf
nv hundred and fifty men were paid o
fl and dismissed, and the company foun
it still had 1850 chairs, the numbt
it started out with. The young NE
1T who pushed tie chairs may enter int
lie business on their own account by hi
at ing the chair for a day from the con
pany at a reduced rate and trust
es, luck for enough business to recon-
III themselves.