Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-05-21
the Southern California at Barstow or

master OF WOOdmont, Conn, came be-
fore the United States commissioner at
New Haven. Hitchcock was bound
over to the United States district court
in $500 He is charged with embezzle-
ment
Redden H Williams, a white farmer,
residing near MAINTAIN, Green county,
Ala. was lynched by mob of forty
masked white men Williams was
charged with making a criminal as
sault upon his siXteen-year-old
daughter
+ The dead body of DR.. James E. Wood
ward, who disappeared in Milwaukee
Wednesday, May 6, was found under a
workman's bench in the factory of the
Morehouse Manufacturing company on
West Water street. He had committed
suicide by shooting.
4 Col. George w. Balm, of Lexington,
Ky, the temperance lecturer. who was
suggested for the prohibition nOmina-
ton for President by Miss France E.
Willard and others, says positively he
will not be a candidate and would not
accept if nominated.
On decoration day an immense con-
course of soldiers and their friends
will come FROM the north to visit
Chickamauga park, Lookout Mountain
and Missionary Ridge battlefelds and
assist in decorating the graves in the
national cemetery.
United States Minister to Turkey
Terrell, who has been visiting his
family in Texas for several weeks, was
called post haste to Washington by 4
telegram from President Cleveland
Mr.. Terrell refuses to explain the
cause of his summons.
William Quinn, a Helena pioneer
shot himself through the head with q
Winchester blowing out both eyes
Financial trouble drove him to the act
The Castle road, with which he had a
contract for furnishing ties, owed him
several Thousand dollars.
At Duluth the grand jury, after
wrestling for several days with the
case of F. A. Stratton, of Tennessee
recently arrested for the alleged
swindling of the Merritts in coal lane
deal of several hundred thousand dol
l..
A cyclone passed five miles north Of
Sterling, Kan, in the very center Of
Crow Creek, demolishing everything in
its path. The houses of Logan Zerbe
Levi Wagner, Robert Deemez anC
others were badly wrecked. Three per
sons are reported slightly injured.
At Grand Forks, N. D., Silas Haight
was arrested for obstructing the street
by making a free silver speech and
drawing a crowd. Geo. Everhardt at
: tempted to prevent an officer from
making the arrest, and used violence
and was fined $25, which he could mo-
pay.
Obituary: At New York, H. c. Bun
ner, editor of Puck, Al; Richard A
Storrs, deputy comptroller.-At Des
Moines, Iowa, Richard Rollins, 95-
At Little Prairie, Wis, Rev. George
Haycraft, 79.-At Topeka, Kan, Darius
Tingham.-At Joliet, ILL.,, John Scheidt
ST., 68.
The professor of geology of Penn col
lege, Iowa, and a number of his stu
dents went into az Evans coal mine
and two students got lost in the mine
Search is being made but it is feared
. that they have wandered into some de-
serted room and suffocated from black
damp.
The cruiser Brooklyn or as she has
been more appropriately dubbed, "the
!, greater New York" returned tri,
umphant to her dock at Cramps ship
yard, Philadelphia. Her journey UP
the Delaware river from the capes was
almost one continuous ovation. She
made 21.07 knots.
Walter Scott Hobart, the young min
ing millionaire and famous horseman
was married in Frisco to Miss Hannah
Neil Williams, daughter of Pay Di-
rector w. w. Williams, U. S. A, and
niece of Brig. Gen. J. w. Forsythe, U.
S. A, commandant of the department
of California.
The southern Baptist convention.
which has been in session at Chatta-
/ nooga, Tenn, has adjourned. 1t was
announced that the gymnasium at the
Theological seminary at Louisville, to
which Joshua lowering, of Baltimore,
contributed $4,000, would bear the
name of that gentleman
The rear wall of the new Dickes-
Schaub three-story building being
erected at Freeport, fell yesterday
afternoon, carrying with it five work
men, one of whom, Howard Heiter, a
carpenter, died directly afterward. The
/ others were seriously injured and one
! of them, John Arno, will probably die
The grand jury found in San Fran
cisco true bills against Charles Becker,
known for 20 years as the prince Of
forgers," and James Creegan, who has
no equal as a negotiator of spurious
paper Frank L. Seaver turned states
evidence, told a dramatic tale to the
grand jury and was promised on behalf
of the district attorney immunity from
the operation of the law.
There will be held at Washington, On
June Is, competitive examination of
candidates for appointment to the posi-
ton of assistant surgeon in the United
States marine hospital service. Candi-
dates are required to be not less than
Fl years of age and no appointment is
made OF any candidate over 80 years
OF age. They must be graduates Of a
reputable medical college.
By the Iowa prohibition state conyen-
ton the following delegates t-Iarge
were selected: B. F. Wright Floyd
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