Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-12
KILOGRAMS IN BRIEF.
HOME HAPPENINGS.

ftrgers is working st. Louis.
Mrs. Della Parnell, mother of the
late Irish leader, is in New York.
St Paul, Chicago, Milwaukee and
st Louis brewers formed beer pool.
Dick Moore and Paddy Purtell were
arrested while prize fighting in Mis-
souri,.
The city marshal of Owatonna shot |
a man, perhaps fatally, who had shot |
him.
In st. Joseph, Mo-, Robert H. Cham
bers, a wealthy merchant, dropped
dead.
The schooner Caroline, with her
crew of five hands, was lost off Gaul- |
tots.
Herbert Shaffer, young farmer of
CoIburn, Ind, was accidentally killed
while hunting.
Mai. J. c.. Post succeeds the late Col.
Poe in charge of improvements on the
Great Lakes.
George W. Gilkey, an early settler of
Hastings, Mimi, died of heart disease
aged IA years.
Mrs. Johanna Fisher, a pioneer of
Cass county, Illinois, is dead at Vir-
ginia, aged 81.
Mrs. Elva Klinwood, of Boscobal,
Wis, died suddenly of pneumonia,
aged 70 years.
At Rockford H., w. 1. Hart, for
years commissioner of streets, dropped
dead of apoplexy
Coor0a aoad S0
died at Bridgman, Mich. He was the
founder of the town.
In Sioux City, Iowa, George Wilcox,
a commercial traveller, shot and in
stantIy killed himself.
The New York Central runs the
fastest regular train in the world
nearly mile a minute.
Corbett again declared that he has
retired and refused to sign articles for
a fight with Fitzsimmons.
G. Wise, a Michigan philanthropist,
is erecting a house for old soldiers on
his farm near Berrien Springs.
Roman Catholics of Philo, H., dedi-
Gated a new church. Bishop Spalding,
of Peoria, assisted the pastor.
The housesmiths and bridgemen's
strike in New York will close in a par
GiaI victory for them employers.
Six hundred Swedes and Norwe-
gians from the west started for the
motherland to spend Christmas.
Heavy defalcations in the American
Church Missionary society are dis
cussed at a meeting of that body.
At Marion Ind, John n. Hart, tried
for embezZling $4,000 from Armour e
Co, Chicago, was found not guilty.
At New Hampton, Iowa, G. F. Phil
lips, druggist, committed suicide. He
was troubled by business reverses.
Miss Georgia EIliget the young
woman burned at Adrian, Mich, by a
gasoline explosion died of her injuries.
Owing to the prevalence of measles,
all the public schools at Cumberland
Wis, have been closed until Jan. 1.
Jacob Vanry, of Holland, Mich, who
shot his wife and himself, has died OF
his wounds. His wife will recover
3ohn Laugh, an aged and prominent
citizen Of Greensburg, Ind, who lost
his reason through religion, is dead.
At Franklin, Ind, James Mcbride
was probably fatally shot while hunt
ing by his companion, Art RedmOn.
AT Jacksonville, ILL.,, John Robertson
vice president of the largest bank, and
interested in many enterprises, is dead
William Abel and James Sherman,
negro convicts at Jeffersonville, Ind,
quarreled and the former was fatally
hurt
NIarinette, Wis, has secured the To-
cation of a tannery which will involve
the expenditure of a half million dol
lars.
Rev. Helen G. Putnam, the noted
of Central Georgia railway SIS has
D., of pericarditis. She was very we'll
Unitarian minister, died at Fargo, S
known in the northwest and New Eng
land.
James Hickey, a produce commits
sion merchant Of Dallas, Texas, took
Ehe wrong medicine and died in his
store.
Every member of the family of VIII
liam Pfeil, of Wabash Ind, was
poisoned by eating cracked wheat and
milk.
AT Dubuque, Iowa, John Casutt was
fatally injured and two other boys
seriously hurt while coasting They
ran into cutter
At Muncie, Ind, David Curea, aged
II, had his left arm torn off at the ell
bow by the accidental discharge of a
gun, and will die.
While Maggie Norris was rehears-
ing song for a Brooklyn church fair
she broke down, and at that moment
her mother died.
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James Beadsmore, of the Muncie
Ind, football team, is dying from the
effects of injuries received in a game
Thanksgiving day.
The second annual convention of the
Women's American Protective ass0cla-
ton closed with an open meeting in
Oshkosh Wis.
George Higgs, arrested for counter
feiting, and who escaped from officers
at Richmond Ind, last June, has beer
taken at EIwood
At Prairie Ridge, Wis, Samuel Tu,