Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-10

the colonel was compelled to dismiss
the audience.
One of the legal advisers of the Aston
family authorizes a denial OF the re-
ported engagement of Mrs. Charlotte
Astor Drayton to George Haigh OF
London and Dublin.
William B. Given Of Columbia, Pa,
was appointed receiver for the Penn
sylvania Traction company, which
operates SO miles of trolley railway in
Lancaster &C lnty.
Rev Joseph P. Wilson, of West Vir-
ginia, and Mrs. Catherine Stead are
contesting the will of Jacob z. Davis.
of San Francisco, who died recently
in Philadelphia.
The residence of Edgar Lockwood,
a banker of New York, was entered
by burglars. Jewelry of the value of
| several thousand dollars was taken, be-
sides a sum of money.
Isaac Swope & Co., wholesale dealers
in watch cases at II John street, New
York, failed and confessed several
| Judgments The liabilities are $4,000;
nominal assets $4,000.
| Richard Rowe, who was extradlted
! from Mexico charged with completely
/ in looting the Poweshiek county treas
ury in 1895, was found guilty in the
district court at MonteZuma, Iowa.
A man who had registered at the
Kimball hotel, Chicago, as E. L. Bryan
committed suicide by taking laudanum
and left a letter describing his sensa-
tions while dying from the effects of
! the drug.
Pittsburg-All the factories under
the control of the Pittsburg Plate
| Glass company in the country resumed
/ operations in full after long idleness.
Each factory employs hundreds Of
hands
Mrs. Mary B. Colt, 72, widow of
Judge James B. Colt of Hartford coun-
| ty, brother of the inventor of the Colt
revolver, died at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. George Edwards, in
| Berkeley, Cal.
President Roosevelt of the New York
police board asserts that members of
the police force had been collecting
a fund to bride members of the next
legislature in order to prevent legis-
latiOn Objectionable to them.
In Washington two more places were
determined upon for making the ex-
pertinent of free mail delivery in rural
precincts, and they are Brunswick, in
Cumberland county, Maine, and sm2I
villages in WestmO reland county, Pa.
A movement is well under way look
ing to the erection in Washington of
one of the finest railroad terminal sta
tons in the country, to be used by
the Pennsylvania, the Chesapeake and
Ohio and the Southern railway com
panies.
The New York Herald reports that
Mrs. Charlotte Astor Drayton, the di-
vorced wife of J. Coleman Drayton of
New York, will marry Mr.. George Haig.
a Scotchman, but one of the legal ad-
visers of the Astor family denies the
report.
The frs, naval officer to fall a victim
to wk@t IS known as the Chandler
aI"cadment to the last naval apprOpri-
alton act is Lieutenant J. F. Meigs,
retired, and his resignation has been
accepted, to take effect at the erd
of the last fiscal year.
Harrisburg, Pa.-The state geolog-
ical servey commission, which was or
ganized twenty-five years ago. COM
pleted it's work, handed in its final
report to Governor Hastings and dis
banded. The state has appropriated
/ $643 900 for the work
Mrs. Fred l.. Reynolds of Hallowell,
Me-, left the supper table saying she
would be back in a few minutes, went
to the river and jumped in Her
screams aroused the neighbors, and
her body was soon recovered. Life
was extinct Temporary insanity is
/ the cause.
Peoria is threatened with water
famine. The receiver of the water
company threatens to petition Judge
| Grosscup for leave to cut off the city's
supply because the city has refused to
pay for such service. The mayor says
he will seize the company's plant if
the supply is cut Off
! Commercial Agent Sawter reports to
the state department from Glauohau.
Germany, on recent experiments by
Professors Pfeipper and kalle with
"typhus antitoXine." If the hopes Of
the professors are realized medical
science will receive a most valuable
accession through their discoveries.
John Schweigert, so, farmer and
well-known cattle dealer near North
Wales, Pa, was sold out ty the sheriff.
becoming respondent over his losses
Schweigert went to the railroad station
and shot himself He died in a few
minutes. The deed was committed in
the presence of a large number of per-
sons.
Washington-It is probable that
early in the next session of congress
one of the inches in the wall of the
senate chamber made for the reception
OF busts of those who have held the
office of vice president will be filled
by a marble bust of John c. Breckin-
ridge. 1t is the work of James Voor-
hes and has just been completed and
turned over to the architect of the
capitol
New York.-There has been no aban-
donment of the inquiry into the cause
of the death of F. P. Arbuckle of Den
Yer, Col, in this city two weeks ago.
Michael Ryan, bartender. was held at
the station-house for a time yesterday
as a SuSDiciOuS DerSon Detectives