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


feet CT a cats bite.
Coroner William O'Meagher died in
New York from pneumonia.
T. L. Jackson, one of the earliest
settlers in Boone, Iowa, is dead.
Mrs. Blythe, mother of J. E. Blythe,
is dying at her home in Mason City,
Iowa.
Ex-Gov. Boies said he was not
candidate ana urged the cause Of Tree
silver.
At Pierce, Neb., Rear Admiral Joseph
Fyffe, retired, died after a three weeks
illness.
Frank Caya, a deaf mute, says that
he saw Professor Eglau murdered in
New York.
Thomas C. Plat had a severe fall On
a slippery sidewalk, and is quite Sc
rously hurt.
r. E. Hayes, ex-congressman fl ON
the seventh Iowa district, died in
Knoxville, Ia.
Princess Amelie Rives Troubetzskoy
is quite i'll at Castle Hill, the home of
Colonel Rives.
Don Dickinson has been hung in
efigy n Lapeer, Mich, the result of
postmaster squabble.
Eva Miller, 8 years old, was burned
to death at Terre Haute, Ind, by the
explosion of a lamp.
The New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio railroad was sold for $10000000,
and will be decided to the Erie.
Robbers killed the cashier of the
City National bank of Wichita Falls,
Tex, and escaped with booty.
Funeral services over the remains Of
the late M. D. Harter were held at
his late residence in Mansfield, o.
Matthias Miller one of the Oldest
settlers Of Lake county, Indiana, is
dead at Grown Point, aged IA years
Judge William Russell Smith, author
of many poetical works and classical
TRANSACTIONS is dead in Washington,
D. C.
Nick Denessen, II years old, of De-
pere, Wis, was instantly killed by the
accidental discharge of a gun he was
handling.
Two sisters of Mrs Osborn, aunts of
the late Howell Osborn husband of Fay
TempletOn) are seeking to break their
sisters will.
G. w. Smith has been sentenced to
be hanged at Pekin, H., for the muir
der of Lewis Perrill, his son-in-law
July /, 1895.
Coal miners of the Des Moines, Iowa.
district have decided to strike at once
unless the old rates of so and 80 cents
gre restored.
Mrs zerelda G. Wallace, temperance
lecturer and worker in the w. G. T. u,
is dying at Cataract, Ind. She is 81
years of age.
r. J. Moore, eX-seCretary of the Cen
tralia, H., Building & Loan associa-
lion, is short $14,SO0 in his accounts
and he has fed
William H. Pearson, of Chicago,
Nilled himself by inhaling gas. He
previously made full arrangements
with an undertaken
Prof. William C. Russell, aged 80, is
dead in Yonkers, N. Y. He graduated
from Columbia in 1882 and for years
taught in Cornell.
Gov. Altgeld suggested that in view
of Mr.. Cleveland's three nominations
Secretary Olney would be a good
democratic candidate
Four robbers bound and gagged Den
mis- G. Ferguson and his granddaughter
in Long Island City, and stole diamonds
and jewelry worth $4,000.
Colonel F. w. Blees, millionaire and
democrat, will decline the nomination
of both the democrats and republicans
for mayor of Macon, Mo.
Elizabeth Flagler, the Washington
society girl who shot negro boy steal
ing fruit, has been sentenced to three
hours in Jail and a fine of $500
Miss Eva Booth, daughter of Gen
Booth, of the salvation army, the new
American commissioner took charge
of the forces in this country.
S. e. Williams has been convicted of
murder at Dallas, Tex. He killed his
wife May IA, 1894, and has been sen
fenced to life imprisonment.
Mrs. Catherine Huffman, relict OF
Colonel Louis Huffman, the wealthiest
woman in Christian county, Illinois, is
dead at Pana, aged GO years.
James Sarran end Pearl Nimms were
found dead near keystone, w. Va,
where a general fight occurred Sunday
night among 200 colored miners.
Rev William H. Boole, one of the
leading Methodist ministers of New
York state, died at his home, Prohibi-
tion park, n. Y, from heart failure.
Mabel c. Carver died at Reedsburg
of appendicitis, aged % years. Stroud
Babb, an old resident, died of con
sumption. He was 80 years of age
Prof H P. Pratt, of Chicago, claims
to have discovered in the common
horseshoe magnet power of photo
graphing through Opaque substances.
Mrs. Alphabetski, of Carbon Hill, Ill.
eloped with Pole of that village, TAX
ing 500 of her husbands money. The
couple were located at Baraboo, Wis.
William H. Duckenbach, D. D., pres
ident of the New York and New Jer-
sey synod of the Lutheran church, is
dead at Hudson, n. Y, aged 67 years
Rev. ]. T. Mason, for seven years
pastor of the Baptist church at Am
boy, H., is dead. He had served fol-
nearly fifty years in the Baptist min
istry.
]. w. Hildreth, Herbert Plato, Theo-
dore Hubbard and Fred Bristol, the
how IrrocI-orc, bo1