Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-21

train near Savannah, Ga, on the tlOr-
ida Central and Peninsular railroad.
Pitcher J. B. Wood, who was signed
at the opening of the season TO play
with the ST. Louis Browns, has been
A J. Speckert, president OF the de-
funct German American Title company,
has disappeared from Louisville. His
affairs were in a muddled condition.
Rev. DR.. G. B. Stricken, pastor of
Central Presbyterian church, Atlanta,
Ca, has accepted the chair of theology
in the Union seminary at Richmond
Va.
The saliva ton captain in Washing
ton, D. c., is organizing bicycle bri-
gade, with which she will travel
through the states under her jurlsdic-
ton
Fires are raging in the Pennsylvania
oil region about Bradford, causing
much damage. Thousands of acres of
timber are being burned in New Jer-
sey.
Judge Jenkins orders the payment Of
and Rouse, the old receivers Of the
Northern Pacific They worked II
years.
At Huron, S. D., Prof. George Van
derstein is dead aged 40. He resided
in Danville, H., for 80 years and was
a well-known music teacher, critic and
writer.
The Metropolitan restaurant in St
Louis, Mo, was damaged $4,000 by
fire. Several firemen were injured, one
of whom, Adolph Hunt, had his back
broken.
Amid solemn, impressive and re
splendent ceremonies, Rt Rev. John I
Kahn, archbishop of the ST. Louis do
cese, was invested with the order OF
the pallium.
Eleven lives were lost by the explo-
sion of the boilers of the towboat Harry
Brown, of Pittsburg, Pa, on the
Mississippi river near Vicksburg late
Sunday night.
An attempt was made by inCen
diaries at Wardner Junction, Idaho, tc
burn the mammoth Bunker Hill con-
contractor The militia is now guard
ing the property.
The supreme court of Indiana hole
ticket scalping illegal. The ticket
brokers maintain that after a twenty
years fight they will not give up with
out a further struggle.
The southern Baptist convention, il
session at Chattanooga, Tenn, con
cluded its business and adjourned
The next convention will be held al
Wilmington, n. G.
The third annual congress of the In
ternational Divine Science association
convened in Kansas City with nearly
200 delegates, representing nearly
every state i'll the union.
AT Tyndall, S. D. Albert Schoupp, Il
years Old has been convicted of rape
ON a 13-year-old girl. Cbatfield, man
so years of age, is now ON trial fo1
incest with his daughter.
The supreme court of Illinois has af-
firmed the decision of the lower courts
in granting ex-Congressman r. W
Durham divorce. Maj. Arthur w
Allyn was the correspondent
J. H. Stahl, a Minneapolis agent, in
the absence of the doctor at Fall
Creek, drank the contents of a u0ttle
thinking it was alcohol. The stuff the
man drank contained nitrate of silver
Charles r. Deacon, of the Philadel-
phia and Peading Railroad company
and secretary of the Glover Club, died
at his home, in Overlook, suburb OF
Philadelphia, of cancer of the stomach
In Boston court a 17-year-old boy
of Lynn has been awarded $35 900 by
the jury for the loss of leg. He was
pushed from the footboard of a car by
a conductor and fell under the car
wheels.
Edward COnery, Jr., of New Orleans
merchant, and president of the indie
pendent Oil company, made an assign
ment of his property for the benefit of
creditors. Assets s2S7, 900; liabilities,
Sac, 900.
Joseph Graham, late of Freehold, N.
j., a carpenter by trade shot and Killed
Annie Anderson, domestic, in Tren-
ton, n. J., ON Saturday, and then COM
mitted suicide. Jealousy is the sup
posed cause.
The extensive steam saw-mill in
Peru, VT, known as the upper mill,
owned by S. L. Griffith of Danbury, was
burned with contents and 1000 900 feet
of lumber. The loss is $4,000, with
insurance of $4,000
The federal grand jury has found in
dictments against John J. Riethman.
Sr., John J. Riethman, Jr., Charles Nc
Clinton and Charles Kunsemiller, Jr..
officials of the defunct German Ma
ttonal bank, Denver.
The branch of the Green Bay. Wi
mona & st. Paul system, running be-
tween Stevens Point and the village of
Plover, was sold to Mark T. Cox, of
New York, for $4,000. This completes
the sale of the property
John w. Bookwaiter, the democratic
candidate for governor of Ohio in 1887.
predicts that Grover Cleveland will be
nominated for the fourth time at the
Chicago convention in July and make
the run on war platform
At South McAlister. [. T. Austin Pus-
ley, negro, received 100 lashes, and
John Prola, an inter-married white
citizen, 80 lashes on their backs. Pus-
ley was charged with larceny and
Prola with selling coal contrary to law.
Robert Foote, 20, of New Haven, one
of the largest and most prominent