Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-26
Staff officers of the Salvation army

Staff officers of the Salvation army
in Wisconsin will meet at Sheboygan
March 26 to decide whether they will
stay with the old organization Or join
Burlington Booths new society, Gods
American Volunteers.
When the horses belonging to the
estate of the late R. P. Pepper are sold
this spring the famous sire Onward
will not be among them. He is the
only horse owned at South Elkhorn
farm that will be kept at the old home.
A rattlesnake measuring eight feet
in circumference and four feet six
inches in length and having thirteen
rattles and a button was killed near
Phoenix, Ari., last, week. It was the
largest rattlesnake ever seen in that
region.
Charles Yocum, James Redmond and
Samuel Chancellor, of Vincennes Ind,
have been sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary for completely in the
murder of Moses Latta, who was killed
by John Edaline, who has never been
captured
James J. Corbett has wired Richard
K. Fox to tell him what is meant by
the denial of the National Sporting
club of London that it had not author
lied Corbett and Fitzsimmons to sign
papers to fight there. Corbett sup
posed the papers were as represented.
1t seems probable that cycle mail
carts will soon meet with extended use
in the larger cities of the country. The
general use of such carts would save a
great deal of time and expedite the
handling of mail matter in the large
city postoffices.
Miss Russell, dam of Maud S. and
Nutwood, has over $50 descendants
that have trotted in 2:30 or better,
while Green Mountain Maid, dam of
Electioneer and others, has 700 de-
scendants that have records from
2:04 ga to 2:30.
A Ludlow, VT, merchant encourages
thrifty habits among the boys and girls
of that town by offering to those who
deposit IS cents in the savings bank
the necessary amount to make their
account 81. Several children have
taken advantage of this offer.
At Green Bay, Wis, John Bo1ena lies
at st. Vincent's hospital dying from
in-laW, Nicholas Engels. The affair is
the result of a family quarrel, and
Engels claimed to have caught Bolena
trying to poison his cattle, when he
fired upon him.
The Hanover national bank of Bos-
ton has brought suit in which it is
shown that Abraham White secured
$1,300,000 of the recent issue of bonds
for an investment of forty-four cents
in postage stamps, and when he dis
posed of his option he speculated on
Russell Sage's ''tip" and lost all.
Pines are said to be getting exceed
ingly scarce in the pine tree state. In
deed, it has been advocated that a
grove of pines just outside of Au-
gusta, Me-, should be purchased for
park purposes, in order to preserve a
few specimens Of what was once the
monarch of the Maine forest.
The Northwestern road has con-
tracted for fifty-seven miles of railroad
extending from Gillett, Oconto county,
Ga station on the Oconto branch of the
Northwestern, to point in Forest
county a few miles south of Cavour, a
station on the $500" road 1t runs
through hard wood timber and touches
fishing points.
The graduating class of the Mason
City, Iowa, high school decided that
they would have none of their mem
bers appear in public at the gradual
ing exercises, and instead will have a
lecture delivered by some noted per-
son. The board has just ordered every
member of the class to appear in the
program, and with an original pro-
duction, either an grafton or an essay.