Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-02-27


tent of 100000, fully covered by insur-
ance.
President Blanchard Of Wheaton col
lege, St Louis, ha3 welded lady ply
sician, d.. Cauthers, of Des Noines,
Ia. He is the author of an expose Of
Masonry.
New York and Brooklyn people at
mass meeting favor 4 national confer
ence to urge arbitration of all differ
ences between the United States and
England.
Debs will accept the porulist nomi-
nation for governor Of Indiara on a
platform fayoring the free coinage Of
silver and in opposition to corpora
tons
The Southern Pacific is said to have
deliberately set about impoverishing
the Central Pacific in order to force
the government to settle it's claims on
easy terms.
In the five years since he has been in
Washington, Chief Justice Fuller has
lost five daughters by matrimony. The
last one married Theodore L. Beecher,
of Rochester.
S. E. Taubeneck, chairman of the ma
tional committee of the peoples party,
says there will be $500 delegates in
attendance at the national convention
next June.
The blackballing of Andrew Carnegie
by five votes in the Cleveland chamber
of commerce has excited much COM
ment there An effort to reconsider
will be made.
At Topeka, Kan, w. P. Emery has
received letters patent for a pavement
brick made of straw. It is One-third
the weight of ordinary brick, and can
be made at half the cost.
G. Y. Johnson, proprietor Of John
sons bank, at Normal, Ill, announces
that he will permanently close the
bank, having determined to go out of
the banking business.
/ The twentieth annual bench show of
the Westminster Kennel club has
opened in New York. The entries,
botn in number and quality, far eX
/ ceed those of previous years.
/ The second Christian church at Kit
! terry Foreside, Me, was burned. The
/ loss is STE, 5000, with insurance of $4,000,
/ The fire is supposed to have caught
from a defective furnace pipe.
At Clinton, Wis, the feed mill and
/ hay barn of James Irish burned, with
80 tons of hay and all machinery
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000. The
/ Northwestern road lost some cars.
The report of the New York board
of inspectors of steam vessels on the
/ grounding of the St. Paul has been for
warded to Washington. 1t holds that
Captain Jamison was not blamable.
The funeral of Nellie Cole, the fat
/ girl known as the Kentucky beauty"
took place in Chicago. There was no
/ hearse large enough for the casket.
/ The pail bearers were museum freaks.
Prizes amounting to $4,000 have
been awarded to six architects for
| plans for a new municipal building in
| New York. The 12S unsuccessful COM
! petitors will have their plans returned
Nearly the entire stock of mustard
and spices in the wholesale house of
J. E. Burns & Co., Al and 43 South
Front street, Philadelphia, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss Of $780,
600.
Henry S. Fox, Jr., son Of Banker
/ Fox, of Houston, Tex, was acquitted of
the murder of his mistress, Daisy
Douglass, whose proper name was
Daisy Threlkeld and a native of Kan
sas City.
A verdict of not guilty has been re-
turned at Milwaukee in the case of
Frederick T. Day, indicted in connec-
ton with the alleged wrecking of the
PIankinton bank, of which he was
president.
] J. Jackson was waylald shot and
killed near the Halfway house at
Middlesboro, Ky. He usually kept a
large sum of money about him and evil
robbery No clew.
Obituary.: At Jeffersonville, Ind,
DR.. David Mcclure, eighty-one.-At
Rantoul, H., John Weeks Dodge,
/ eighty.-At Bloomington, Ill, William
. arr, seyenty-three; Ralph T. Stocking
. Y al SCNSuly III &C, Lld1pu l. SIoChAi1So,
/ siXty-seven.
/ At Superior, Wis, title to property
held unattached 80 years has just been
claimed by H. P. Marsh of California
Little credence is put in Marshs claim
the statute of limitations and court
decisions in general being against such
claimants.
At Mukwonago, Wis, John F. Pot
ter, Wisconsin's famous ex-congress-
man of ante bellum days, was seriously
injured while exercising in his room,
and as his health is very feeble his
friends are apprehensive of the result
of the shock to his system.
Among divorces granted at Fargo
was that of Mrs Alvesta G. Tully, of
New York city. Chas. H. Tully was a
weil-known figure in New York city
and is now residing in Utah. Mrs.
Tully is a daughter of the noted oil
dealer Joseph H. Suggett.
The Brooklyn, n. Y, hospital doc
tors say there is a fair chance for the
recovery of Bernard Schwab and his
9-months-old baby, who were shot by
Demands father, Franz Michael
Schwab The father admitted the
shooting, and did it, he says, because
no loved I,ic wife whom he shot dead