Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-01-30


the Chicago Woman's club has elected
Mrs Fannie Barrier Williams, the
well-known colored woman to full
membership.
The houses o. Maurice S. Wormser,
banker, and Julius S. Sands, dry goods
dealer, were entered by New York
thieves and robbed of large quantities
of silverware.
During an experiment with acety-
lene, the new illuminant, in Phleghar's
machine shop at New Haven the re-
tort exploded, killing three men, injur-
ing four others and causing a destruc-
tive fire.
John and Thomas Mossengale,
wanted for murder and horse stealing,
were shot and killed by a posse in the
Racoon mountains, Tenn, while re-
sisting arrest.
The National Divorce Reform league,
at its sixteenth annual meeting at
Boston, reelected Ri. Rev. William
Lawrence president and Rev. S. W.
Dixie, Ii. D., recording secretary.
W. c. Baker, supposed to have
jumped from the suspension bridge at
Cincinnati, and to have been drowned,
has been heard from in Kentucky,
where he went to escape his creditors.
William A. Posto, at one time deputy
attorney general of New York, died at
the Presbyterian hospital in New York
city after an operation for appen-
dicitis.
The Des Moines, Iowa, grand jury
has continued the Krekel murder in
vestigation and will ask the governor
to offer & reward for evidence.
Friends of ]. B. Lambert and Miss
Pearl Prouty, of Beloit, Wis, have
been greatly surprised to learn that
they were married in October.
r. o. Bailey, former member Of the
Montana Legislature and a western pio-
neer, died at Deadwood S. D., as a
result of falling from a hotel window
At Lancaster, Pa, Ezra F. Bowmen,
wholesale jeweler and watchmakers
supplies, made an assignment. His
liabilities are $4,000. 1t is believed his
assets will aggregate that amount.
The athletic team of the University
of California has received a challenge
from the Yale team to engage in a
number Of contests next May, when the
coast athletes expect to go east. The
challenge will probably be accepted.
City Treasurer George Johnson Robb
of Moncton, Neb., is said to be de-
faulter to the extent of $4,000, said to
be due to speculations in the New
York stock market He is i'll and
probably will die.
Sunday baseball is an issue in the
Burlington, Ia, local election. Hun
dreds of Endeavorers have asked the
candidates for mayor what they are
going to do about it.
Professor T.. Robarts, of Perry
county, Ind, claims to have discovered
the long-sougEt rule of trisecting any
rectilineal angle by elementary geome-
try-that is, by means of a straight
line and a circle.
Stephen Andrews, of Providence, R.
l., is dead. He was 80 years old and
weighed SIS pounds. His chest meas
urement was 6 feet inches, his biceps
q inches around, and the calf of his
leg 80 inches and his waist So inches.
Representative Gamble and DR..
Eastman had an interview with the
secretary of the interior to plead for
the privilege of leasing surplus land
of the Flandreau Indians.
The Duluth retrenchments COM
mittee, which is devising a means Of
reducing municipal expenditures, will
make report recommending reduc-
tions that will save the city $22S,O00
annually.
The farmers of Dodge Center, Mimi,
are discussing the advisability of
building farmers elevator. Commit
tees were appointed to canvass the
matter and report at an adjourned
meeting two weeks from today.
Both the Swift and Armour COM
panies have now settled the Superior
oleomargarine cases brought recently
and both state that oleo will be with
drawn from the Wisconsin markets if
any further attempt is made to en-
force the law.
Charles Acknowledgment, was ar
rested and taken to Avoca, Iowa,
where he will be tried for forgery and
the embezzlement of $4,000 from the
Seifert & Weise Lumber company.
President A. G. Spalding reported
that the profits of the New York and
Chicago cycle shows would put $40,
900 into the treasury of the national
board Of trade cycle manufacturers.
Lord Sholto Douglas, son of the Mar
quis of Queensbury, found fauItw1th the
orchestra leader of Lady douglas
troupe at Orville, Cal, and as result
was thrashed by the musician.
Frederick w. Sutterle, the head of
the Keen-Sutterle company of Philadel-
phia, whose sensational failure was re-
ported last week and who has been
missing since the assignment, is in
New York.
At St. Joseph, Mo-, Robert Morrison
an expert bridge builder of Chicago
was found in a dying condition at his
hotel. A gas jet was open. 1t is
I thought to be suicide.
/ Adjt Gen. Robbins, of Commander
in-Chief Walkers staff, announced
that Buffalo, Cleveland and Philadel-
phia are the. three cities that want the
G. A. r. encampment if it is taken
away from st. Paul.
At Lafayette, Ind, David Johnston
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