Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-11-21
LATEST.

John w. L. Matheney, a pioneer of
Chenoa, ILL.,, is dead, aged 70 years.
Mrs. BARLEY Coyne, the oldest resi-
dent of Chesterton, Ind, is dead,
aged 73.
A case of diphtheria has been dis
covered in the Terre Haute Jail, which
is full of prisoners.
Francis Murphy has commenced a
temperance revival at Rochelle, ILL.,, to
continue week
Charles Swanson fell from the fourth
story of glucose factory at Rockford,
ILL.,, and is still alive
Mrs. Morton Russell died at Rock
ford, ILL.,, aged 81 years. Her husband
died three weeks ago, at the same age.
Henry Becker, aged 65 farmer of
Carlyle, H., was found dead in the
road. His death is attributed to heart
disease.
A 4-year-old girl daughter of Mrs
Henrietta Powell, of Clayton, ILL.,,
played with fire and was burned 10
death.
Mrs. William Best and her daughter
Kittie were thrown out of a carriage
in a runaway at Rockford, ILL.,, and
badly hurt.
George Putnam, who killed A. s.
Crime, barber, at Carlyle, ILL.,, May 8,
1894, was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary.
Governor Altgeld has restored the
rights of citizenship to George Afford,
of Cropsey, who served two years at
Joliet for forgery.
Daniel Murray, a miner. was run
over and killed by a loaded coal car
in the White Breast compapy's mine
at Dunfermline, III.
Jesse Bauer, son of a wealthy steam
boat captain, was arrested at Metrop-
oils, ILL.,, for forging his fathers name
to a check for 800.
The Mexican government will soon
issue 20-cent pieces and call in the
quarters in order to make the none
tary system purely decimal
John d. Wilson, a contractor of Val
paraiso, Ind, and for fifteen years su-
perintendent of bridges on the Fort
Wayne road, is dead, aged sc years.
DR.. Conyers Herring, of New York,
won his suit in London for the recov-
cry of insurance money on his yacht
Mohican, the jury awarding him S15,-
900.
Mrs. Sarah Davis shot and fatally
wounded Mrs. Isabel Goodman, her
at Rockport, Ind. They
about their chickens Mrs.
Davis is in Jail.
Mrs. Anna Cox committed suicide at
Charleston, ILL.,. by taking morphine.
She was only 16 and was separated
from her husband, her father having
driven him from home.
In a country school near Larned,
Kan, Emma Malderscheid and Flora
Campbell, each Is years old, quar-
relied. The latter was fatally beaten
and the fo1mer arrested
Rev. l. ]. Swanson, of Odell, Ill,
pastor of the Congregational church,
has rendered his resignation, to take
effect Jan. 1, when he will take charge
of a church in Lima, Ohio.
Iduh MtituSy, an emplOye OF the
Kokomo, Ind, Wood Enameling COM
pany, was awarded $1,000 damages for
injuries sustained in the fall of an
elevator. He sued for S20,000
Edgar W. Sheldon, serving a six
sentence for larceny, and
John Wright, wanted at Manhattan,
ILL.,, for horse stealing, escaped from
the jail at Fond du Lac, Wis
Charles Biercc, aged %, son of
Judge J. NJ. Bierce, of Assumption, ILL.,,
was caught between the bumpers CT
two cars while making a coupling at
lola, sustaining fatal injuries.
Kim Taw Etaw, a Miami Indian,
suicide at the home of his
brother at Wabash, Ind, by shooting.
He had squandered a fortune of $4,000
in drink and was a physical and fnan-
cial wreck
1t is reported that the Congo free
state las paid $4,000 indemnity for the >
Unjust execution of the British trader,