Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-09
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
CONDENSED NEWS.

OF S1OO,OUU. odFdHudu anu JaSh0oh
vile sent aid.
Mary Thorne, of Napoleon, while
boiling soap, was fatally burned, her
clothes taking fire.
William Rens, of Wausau, Wis, com
mitted suicide by shooting while de-
spondent through sickness.
In a friendly boxing bout at Laparte,
Ind, one man was struck in the abdo-
men and little later died.
Postmaster Card, of West Lebanon,
o., was arrested on the charge of open
ing registered letters and taking con-
tents.
The river at Pierre, S. D., has
reached it's highest stage, feet Z
inches. Nearly all the ice has passed
out
Mrs James Murphy, wife of a
farmer was fatally injured by a run
away team of horses at Council Bluffs,
Iowa.
The 5~year-old son of Louis Hubert,
of Mexico, while assisting his father to
burn corn stubhle, was burned tn
death.
Samuel & Solomon Yantis, stockmen
of Ridge township, ILL.,, have failed
with liabilities of $40, 900 and assets of
$45, 900.
Clay Kitchen, said to be member
of an organized gang of postoffice rob-
bers, has been held to the grand jury
at Burlington, Iowa.
At Lloyd, Is miles east of Richland
Center, Wis, Charles Eastland and
William Keith were instantly killed by
the explosion of boiler.
The 500 photographers at New York
who have been on strike for seven
weeks. have returned to work pending
arbitration by Bishop Potter.
John W. Coon, a farmer and stock
dealer of Rushyille, Ind. has made a
voluntary assignment with liabilities
of $4,000; assets, $4,000.
The residence of George Rick95s,
wealthy farmer of Flora, H., was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
$4,000, with small insurance.
Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, has
made a requisition on the authorities
of Indiana for Robert A. McClain un-
der Indictment for embezzlement.
$75 900 monument to Thomas JET
ferson will be erected in New York. T.
Scott Hartley, who did the Puritan at
Springfield Mass, will be the sculptor.
Okeechobec in southern Florida, to
locate a colony of 1870 German families
from central Ohio. Many Catholic
priests are interested in the move
ment
Henry f. Gilmore, of Platteville,
Wis, and James r. McVicker, of
Sigourney, Iowa, rave been appointed
eadets at the United States naval acad
envy.
Theodore Lebus, convicted of breaking
plate glass front of a saloon at Louis
vile, H., causing damage of $50, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for one
year.
Frank Linkletter, aged %, of Wood
stock, ILL.,, who harbOred a delusion
that he was to be arrested for an mag
mary crime, killed himself with an
old mus1,et
Four schoolboys of Bourbon. Ind.
searching for articholes, found wild
parsnips and ate them One boy
named Swisher is dead and the others
are very i'll.
Representatives of seven Catholic
colleges from points as remote as st.
Louis and Ohio will build a home on
Chain-o'-lakes near Waupaca, Wis, as
a summer home for professors.
Dell De Forrest, the actress who
made fame by the "whirlwind' dance
is in Long Island insane asylum.
Her brain was affected by the long use
OF peroxide of hydrogen for the hair.
Most Rev John Hennessey, arch
bishop Of Dubuque who has been visit
ing Rome, will soon leave for home. It
is probably that Rev. Dr.. Tearnay will
be elected cOadjutor to the archbishop.
DR.. a. G. Abdelal, of Lawrence, Kan,
has sued the general counsel of the
Fraternal Aid association, alleging
that he was wTongfully charged with
trying to poison a member of the order
Henry Hill shot his wife and then
himself at their home at Kansas City,
Mo Death in each case was almost
instantaneous. Hill was % years old
and his wife 81. jealousy was the
cause.
nc NluONS VI the I'VE men WHO
were killed in the explosion of the
Latin & Rand powder mills at Rifton.
\, y, two weeks ago. have each been
paid $4,000 by the attorney for the
company.
The safe of the Metropolitan life in
surance company, whose offices are on
the third floor of the Jefferson building.
Brooklyn, n. Y. was blown open with
dynamite and $1,000 in money taken
No arrests have been made.
The superintendent of the mint at
Carson, New, reports Nevada's gold
output for 1895 as S1.7S0.200, an in
crease over 1894 of $3.50, 800 The coin
age value of the silver product of Ne
vada for 1895 is given as $1,052 900, an
increase over 1894 of S54, 500
Mrs Olga Deuss, at San Francisco
killed herself and three children, the
eldest being eight years old by gas
ssphyXiation. She was jealous of her
husband, who went out early the even
ng Of the tragedy and did not return
until ) o'clock in the morning.
Here is the way Frank Mckee now
talks Of his star baseball-actor: AN
son was such frappe that every time
he entered the theater the steampipes
perspired ice water. He is such chill