Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-05


years old, born in Nova Scotia. He was
about to visit his son in his Florida
winter home.
The board OF education at East
Liverpool, O., has been petirioned to
restore the bible reading in the schools,
and two teacher have declared they
will read it anyhow.
Mrs. Florence Faun was sentenced
at Fonda, n. Y, to life imprisonment
at Auburn for the murder of Charles
Landry. Her conviction was O. MUIR
der in the second degree.
James n. Clutter, proprietor Of a
cooper shop in Terre Haute, Ind, was
arrested on the charge of sending sour
rilous postal cards through the mail to
Frank Barr, of Indianapolis.
President Cleveland has nominated
the following western postmasters:
Charles Laurence, at Owosso, Mich !;
Edmund G. Burke, at Virginia. MINI. !;
Sloan E. While, at Hopkins, Mo.
The free silver democratic state CEN
trail committee met in Omaha to fix
the date for selecting delegates to the
Chicago convention. April p was the
time named and Lincoln the place
The faculty of the University of
Missouri has given 400 students the
alternative of signing a pledge to re-
frain from creating disturbances in
the future or of being expelled.
The business men of Mitchell, S. D.,
burned the plant of the Mail news
paper in the street. The editor had
assailed prominent people and the
management of public institutions.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida
Fisher Stevens, secretary of the Eth
ical Culture Ladies' Aid society, were
held at her home in Chicago. She was
the wife of Lester w Stevens.
Judge Badger in the common pleas
court at Columbus, O., decided that
receiving money in Ohio to be sent to
a poolroom in Kentucky to pay racing
bets was in violation of the laws of
Ohio.
Rev. William H. Luckenback, presi-
dent of the New York and New Jersey
Lutheran synod, and eX-president of
Hartwick seminary, died at Hudson, N
Y, in his 68th year from a paralytic
stroke
The Badger Transportation company
was organized at La Crosse, Wis, with
a capital of $4,000, for the purpose of
carrying on a towing business. The
company has purchased the Lizzie
Gardner
Nineteen sailors of the w. G. Davis
arrived at New York on the steamer
Curacao. The Davis was wrecked in
mid-ocean by a storm. She was bound
from Maurilla to Philadelphia with q
cargo of sugar.
The Detroit white lead works were
partially destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of between $4,000 and $75 900; in
sured for $4,000 The fire was caused
by the bursting of pipe, the oil from
which was ignited by gas jet.
At Superior, Wis, Deputy Sheriff
Rice returned from a trip through Hi
noiS and Wisconsin, where he has been
searching for G. B. Randall, the alb
scOnding treasurer of Superior lodge
l. o. o. F. He came without his man
w. w. Harris, an undertaken at Sioux
City, Iowa, is in danger of losing his
right arm as a result of a scratch on
his middle finger received while en-
balming the body of a woman. A
serious case Of blood poisoning ensued
Arthur Gilman, a well-known Cam
bridge, Mass, teacher, who has been
connected with the Radcliffe college
since it's organization as the Harvard
annex, has resigned the position OF
regent of that institution because of the
pressdl OF work.
The house elections committee has
held South Carolina registration laws
unconstitutional, and reported in favor
of the sitting members in the cases Of
Williams VS.. McLaurin, from the sixth
district and Norman VS.. Latimer
from the third district.
At Eau Claire, Wis, the 12-year-olG
daughter of Bradner Marshall, {
wealthy farmer, has been enticed from
her home. She left a letter saying she
was going away with friend. Wher
| last seen she was with a young mar
who is unknown.
/ Mrs. Richard Worrell and her sor
Robert, of Mexico, Mo, took possession
of the Palace hotel in Macon, Mo.
under their mortgage against James
NJ. Worrell's interest, worth 5000
Mrs. Worrell is the widow of James M
WorrelIs brother.
! John Nase, SO years old, was arrested
/ for bigamy at Waterloo Iowa. Wife
No. came from Nebraska. Nase
says she is to blame, as he married
her before she had a divorce from hel
/ second husband. She had beer
married three times
Robert Dolan, waiter in a loca1
/ restaurant at Seattle, Wash, shot and
fatally wounded his employer, J. M
Snyder, and then inflicted a dangerous
wound upon himself and fed. He was
found in clearinghouse a few minutes
later and is now in Jail.
The national spiritualist convention
is in session in New York. Tests are
/ given. Letters were read from Rev
Minot J. Savage of Boston, Rev. DR.
I Heber Newton of New York and Mrs
Isabella Beecher Hooker of Hartford
Conn
A six-inch Johnson cast steel shell
was fired entirely through a seven-inct
harveyized nickel steel plate, through
the heavy oak backing and II feet il