Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-12-05
KILOGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC MATTERS.

revenue Officers III euneSS6e SeIZeu
still run by deacon.
Peter McGeoch, the famous Milwau-
kee SPECTATOR, committed suicide.
The Evanston life saving crew res
cued a large number of sailors.
Secretary Olney says that Americans
in Turkey are being protected.
A costly freight wreck occurred on
the Great Northern at Spicer, Mimi.
Counsel for Durrant, the San Fran
cisco murdered, moved for a new trial
A Montana robber was shot dead by
a deputy sheriff whom he tried to kill
At Greeley, Col, an earthquake
shock lasting fifteen seconds was felt.
A sound money resolution was intro
duced in the trans-Mississippi COM
mercial congress.
Yale defeated Princeton at football,
20 to 20 1t is estimated that 10000
persons saw the game.
Mrs. Johnson Montieth, wife of a
prominent contractor, died suddenly
in Rockford, ILL.,
r. S. Houston, Of Kenosha, seems to
be much concerned over the condem-
nation of thirty-eight OF his COWS
e. P. Ripley, third vice president of
the Milwaukee, was chosen president
of the reorganized Atchison.
Mrs. Helen l.. Johnson was held for
attempting to set fire to the Winona
apartment house, New York.
Designer Watson will not talk about
Dunraven's accusation, and will not
come to New York if invited.
John Louden was arrested in Amity-
vile, l.. l., on the charge of illegally
combining lunatics in Louden hall
Fred Banker fatally wounded Cora
Harrison and himself at Amsterdam,
New York after she had Tilted him.
Bretano's establishment, IN Union
Square, New York, was broken into by
burglars, and safe robbed of $4,000
The government lost it's conspiracy
case against McCord and others of
Ashland because of the statute of limi-
tations.
A steam pipe in Hammerstein' new
Pleasure Palace, New York city, bursts,
killing two workmen and badly burn
ing several others.
Annie Mathers shot and wounded her
father, while the latter was attempting
to kill his wife, at Archville, near
Scarboro New York.
The jury in Recorder Goff's court,
after celebrating one hour and a quar-
ter, convicted Attorney Walter L. S.
Langerman of assault on Miss Aub in
New York
Fires are still burning in the
sWamps along the line of the Green
Bay railroad between Green Bay and
New London.
Harry Hayward, under sentence of
death for numbering Catharine Cling,
the Minneapolis dressmaker, will hang
within a fortnight
The Milford Counter company, at
Milford, Mass, employing nearly 200
hands, has assigned, with liabilities of
about 100000 and assets $4,000.
Count Alexander Won Finckelstein
fought a duel with blank cartridges
with John Keller, Jr., a restaurant
owner, near Albany, N. Y.
Antitrust tobacco people are putting
a penny in a package of twenty cigar
cites and selling it at five cents. They
have also ordered a $2,000,000 factory
at st. Louis.
A gas explosion, followed by fire,
wrecked Conklin's Bowery museum
and threatened the London theater and
large buildings adjoining in New
York.
John d. RoCkefeIer's daughter was
married to Harold F. Mccormick at the
buckingham hotel, New York, the
bridegroom being too i'll to go to
church.
James B. Skehan of New York, part
ner of the defaulting A. G. Bernheim,
shot and killed himself while tenn
porarily insane from worry over his
business troubles.
At Columbia City, Ind, William E.
Merriman is dead, aged 70. He was
elected clerk of the county in 1859,
representative in 1876, and appointed
county auditor in 1881.
DR.. Henry r. Rogers, the fraudulent
New York medium, was held in 1900
bonds. Mrs. Mathilda Chadwick, his
accomplice, testified against him and
was discharged.
BY the will Of Charles Bathgate Beck
Eyre $125,000 has been given to the
West Farms Presbyterian church, n.
Y, to erect a new edif1ce in memory of
his mother
The Mobile e Girard railroad was
sold at public cutlery, at Girard, Ca,
20 Julian I. Davies, of New York for
100000
A mass-meeting in New York avow-
ed sympathy with the Cubans' struggle
for independence, and declared that
this government should recognize the
reyolutionists as belligerents.
President Cornell of the Iron League
put non-union men to work on the
Vanderbilt Clinic building, New York
and sixty union men quit out of sym
pathy with the housesmiths.
Indictments for murder in the first
7egree were found against Herschkopt
2nd Dietschek, who are accused OF
starting the fire at No. 131 Suffolk
street, n. Y, in which Lizzie YaegeT
was burned to death.
Thomas o. Colt attempted to kill the
daughter of the late Henry D. Plate
of Arlington, n. J. Then he fatally
wounded himself. They had told