Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-29

new trial to Bushrod Kelch, who has
been for some time in the state prison
awaiting execution for the murder Of
his wife in Cleveland.
The assignment Of the Conigsky Dry
Goods company of Peoria, H., was filed
No statement of assets and liabilities
has been filed, though the former are
estimated at $4,000.
Mrs William J. Bryan, wife of the
democratic candidate for president,
will receive a handsome Bible, the gift
of the Woman's National Democratic
league Of New York.
The steamer Argo of the Oregon
Coal and navigation company was
wrecked on the rocks at Coos Head.
Four of the passengers and eight Of
the crew we're drowned.
George Edwardes, Of the London
Gaiety Theatre, has decided to secure
a theatre in New York and will main
tain companies in both cities through
out the theatrical season.
At St. Joseph, Mo, Buffalo Bill was
fined $3.50 by Judge Carolus on the
charge Of giving an exhibition Of his
show in that city without proper
license. The case will be appealed.
Alfred Krogman, a saloon-keeper at
I Quincy, H., accidentally killed Hank
Riley. Krogman playfully pointed a
pistol at Riley, not knowing that it
was loaded. Krogman is under ar
rest.
Hagop Boggian, the Armenian mer-
chant of Boston, has telegraphed Sec
rotary Carlisle, offering to furnish
bond in any reasonable sum for the
landing of the Armenians in New
York
in Mansfield, Ohio, charged with caus-
The jury in the case of Celia Rose
ing the death of her father, mother
and brother with poison, brought in a
verdict of acquittal on the ground OF
| insanity.
At Akron. Ohio, the fire in the
| Whitman-Robinson company's stone
ware plant was of incendiary origin,
and in addition to the destruction OF
100000 worth of property, two lives
we're lost.
At Rockford, Ill, Judge Shaw over
ruled the motion for a charge of venue
| in the case of James French, indicted
! for the murder of his wife, and the
matter will probably be pressed to trial
| Immediately.
In a fit of jealous rage, supplemented
! by cOpious indulgence in liquor, Will
liam Nuttinger, a worthless character
shot and wounded his divorced wife
Mary Kerastings, and then committed
suicide, at ST. Louis.
The Kansas City & Southern rail
road, a line about 100 miles in length
which was operated as a branch of the
Frisco system until a few days ago
when it went into the hands Of re-
ceiver, has been abandoned.
James Lowe shot and fatally wound
ed Addie Schilling in the lobby of the
police court at San FRANCISCO and kill
ed himself. The woman was to have
been a witness against Lowe for send
| ing her threatening letters.
w. A Cummings, convicted of as
saulting Myrtle Rockwell and Bessie
Stephens, aged and Is years, respec-
lively, was sentenced by Judge Holmes
in Des Moines, to fifteen years i'm
prisonment on each charge.
Ladies representing all churches anC
societies in Anderson, Ind, met anC
thoroughly and legally organized ar
association for the establishment and
maintenance of free kindergarten
schools in every ward in the city.
At Salem, Mass, George L. New
combe, who has been successfully ex-
perrin enting with the X ray on his own
hand asserts that he has been Obliged
to renounce further investigation, as
it is affecting his hand like a vegetable
poison.
At Lancaster, Wis, Jack Webb, who
shot little Lily Blindert at British Hol-
low last spring and attempted to kill
J. w. Shiffman, pleaded guilty to MUIR
der in the second degree and was SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the peni-
Tertiary.
A farmer named Butka, who had a
large income from oil leases, was MUIR
dered on his farm, about seventeen
miles south of Toledo, Ohio, by rob
bers. His wife was seriously injured
All the bandits got was a watch and a
few dollars.
The American Christian Missionary
Society has elected M. M. Davies Of
Dalles, Texas, president. 1t was de-
cided to hold the next national con-
vention at Indianapolis in 1897. A
resolution against parochial schools
was defeated
The United States attorney general
has decided that Chinese Iaborers Ieav-
ing this country must secure certifi-
Gates from the collector of the port
previous to leaving here. Failing tc
do so, they should be refused admis-
sion upon their return.
C. F. PattibOne, a member of the
firm of C. J Pettibone & Co. dealers
in dry goods at Fond du Lac, Wis, and
prorrietors of the Pine Point summer
resort at Elkhart Lake, made an as
! sigEment. His assets are $4,000, and
his liabilities greater.
The Protestant Episcopal church of
the United States is about to organize
an army Of uniformed evangelists,
| who will be under military discipline