Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-03-19
KILOGRAMS IN BRIEF.
DOMESTIC NEWS.

# the river docks.
William Beihl of Huntington, Ind,
yho was wounded by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun, is dead.
Merlin VaIlean of Pine Grove, Mich,
went insane through religious excite
ment while attending revival services.
Canadian Pacific earnings for the
week ending March were $345, 900, an
increase of S81, 900 over the same per-
iod last year.
Harvey Farmer, who resides near
TIRE Haute, Ind, found a note from
his wife saying she had decided to
leave him.
The Paxton, jill, city council has
under consideration a civil engineers
estimates on a city sewerage system
to cost $4,000.
viii Bolin, while out hunting near
Arthur, H., accidentally shot his
brother Dave through the base of the
brain with a rife. He cannot live.
Despondent, his wife and boy being
in Norway visiting, Carl Bosted, a
matchmaker at Eigin, ILL.,, committed
suicide with poison.
Herbert Case, missing from his
home at Quincy, ILL.,, for several days,
was found in the river. He had been
rowing and fell out of the skiff.
Claude Peck, a miner at the Superior
mine of the Seller Coal company, at
Brazil, ILL.,, was fatally injured. He
was caught under several tons of slate
and horribly crushed.
At Elkhorn Wis, the Mccormick
Implement warehouse and the Troy
steam laundry adjoining were de-
troyed by fire this morning. Loss,
5000, with an insurance of $3.50.
The directors of the ST. Paul railroad
nave declared the Isemi-annual divi-
dend of 1-2 per cent. on the preferred
stock and a dividend of per cent. On
the common stock for the half year.
Elk NicOlson, a 14-year-old boy OF
Perry township, Ind, was terribly
injured by vicious horse. The ami
NAL attacked him and bit one side of
his face off, besides tearing one eye
from it's socket. The boy will die.
A fire at GAINESVILLE caused a loss of
$40, 900 to Crummey & Brooks hard
ware store, J. M. Bostwick & Sons
drygoods store, Samuel Henderson's
meat market and the Schottle Electric
company.
AS a result of his severe structures
upon the morality of the town, Colonel
Holt, a temperance lecturer well
known throughout Iowa, South Dakota
and Nebraska, was egged at the close
of an address at Elk Point, Iowa.
Judge Woods of the United States
circuit court at Indianapolis has Or
dered the Grand Rapids and Indian
apolis railroad to be sold at public
auction at Grand Rapids, Mich, at
time to be fixed by the master in
chancery, John f, Lawrence.
The Wisconsin state board of fire
underwriters has resolved against
acetylene gas, and declare it a dan
4 Gus explosive. Similar action was
:, en- against a new hydro-incan-
.4escent lamp, involving the use of
gasoline
John p. Whiting, aged % years, one
Of the youngest mayors in the United
attend college. He entered the Ann
Arbor law department. but will return
once a week to try and perform his
duties as mayor.
Five hundred land agents are said
o have gone from the various south
ern states to the northwest since the
first of this year with the purpose of
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tons they represent to the northwest
ern farmers and inducing them to To-
cate in the south.
fine deposit of marble has been
discovered in the bed of Treaty creek,
one mile from Wabash, Ind 1t is, in
color, both notified and blue, and the
quality is pronounced first-class by
exports. Three heavy charges of ,dy
Mantle blew out large fragments
weighing a ton or more, and this will
be worked up in monuments.
The portrait of Gen. Harrison, re-
Gently added to the white house collec-
ton, is considered one of the best
works ever done by the veteran artist,
Eastman Johnson. The gray, cold
background is peculiar, vet the effect
is strikingly successful, so paid and
~olorless is the face of the eX-presi-
mt
The grand jury returned q true bill
against Elizabeth A Short of Verona
Pa, charging her with being a COM
mon scold. The charge is strange
one in the county courts, and is not
heard of very often. Many years ago
persons convicted of this crime were
punished with the "duckiug" STOOL C.
J. Mathewson of Verona brought suit
After thirty-eight years of married
life Floyd has begun a suit at Chicago
Tor divorce from Martha A CLANCY.
who became his bride in 1S49. and left
him without warning in 1887. He says
he has waited for her return these
nine years past, but she will not and
he wants to be free once more He
does not explain why Martha left him
Count Henri Bremand OARS is a
prisoner at Chicago in the detention
hospital for the insane He imagines
he is being pursued by Englishmen
and when the foe is near the count
shoots paper wads at his own image
in a mirror, crying Back! or I fire.
His relatives in France have been mott
fed and his brother will come to Chi
cago to care for him.
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