Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-27


has made his final report After the
debts are paid the widow receives S612.
His investments in mining stocks are .
worthless.
August Schultze Of New York in
vented a new process for tanning. /
Leather men laughed at him for years, /
but he finally found purchaser. The /
patents now bring in S750000 a year IN |
royalties.
Miss Myrtle Thurlow, actress, has
brought suit against Mr.. Adams, the 1,
chewing-gum manufacturer of New
York for 100000 damages for breach
of promise to marry. Mr.. Adams says
blackmail.
Thomas Hill, a landscape painter CT
national reputation, was stricken with
paralysis a few days ago at his studio,
and is now lying at the point of death.
Hills studio is in remote part Of the
Yosemite valley, Cal.
An attempt to capture a whale as
founded the summer resorters Of
Amagansett, L. l. A dozen boats filled
the sailors and harpoons went for
him. He upset one boat. Six years
ago a $4,000 whale was captured.
Farmers near Ottawa, ILL.,, just south
of Marseilles, are greatly excited over
a new disease which has spread in
three herds of over 100 head, and many
OF the animals are hopelessly blind
and others are rapidly losing their
sight.
The Georgia republican executive
committee has decided not to nominate
a state ticket. It was also decided not
to fuse with the populists, and the in
dividual members of the republican
party will vote as they please in the
state election.
Gov. William J. Stone of Missouri
says that he will not be chairman OF
the national democratic committee. He
could not accept a position on the COM
mittee, he says, without resigning the
governorship of Missouri, and this ne
did not care to do.
The Washington mills, at Lawrence,
Mass, started up on full time. The
plant has been running eight hours
per day for about six weeks. The mill
employs about /, 800 hands. The Pacific
Mills print works resumed operations
after a weeks shutdown
Three men were killed, two fatally
! injured and twelve others badly hurt
! by the collapse of the partly disman-
| tied music hall at Eau Claire, Wis.
! The dead are Halvor Oleson, William
! Dean and Nicholas Roach. John Thor
! son and James Dean will die.
SalO w Roth, formerly a member of
the city council of Chicago, has been
! arrested on a charge of embeZzling
$4,000. The charge is preferred by
the officers of the National Building
and Loan association, of which Roth
was at one time secretary.
Six cars of Rock Island stock train
were spilled near Topeka Kan. Four
men riding in feed box under one
car were crushed to death. Three were
identified as E. H. Mandenhall, Sum-
merville, Mich; B. H. Miles, Okla
homa; George Canf1eld, of Jacksonville,
H., or Kansas City.
Topeka, Kan, has passed a curf9W
ordinance. Ali children under the age
of Is years found upon the streets
after 8 o'clock in the summer and
o'clock in the winter months, unaccom-
panied by their parents or guardians
will be fined not less than S. or more
than $25.
In the United States circuit court at
San Francisco Erwin T. Earl has been
granted an injunction against Philip
/ D. Armour and Robert Graham who
Earl alleges, had used an infringement
of his patent ventilator for fruit cars
The injunction will tie up all Armour's
cars and force the use OF Earls cars.
William Mazick Miles, a Well-knoWn
club and society man of Seattle, Wash.
committed suicide in his rooms, at the
Rainier club. Miles came of a prOmi
nent South California family, and his
father was for two terms attorney
general of the state. Despondency
over his ill-health prompted his sui
eide
Senator Stewart is preparing an an
swer to the speech of Senator Sherman
The Nevada senator explained his re
marks in which he (StewarD had said
the gold standard was the only proper
standard. He said that he meant
what everybody meant at that time
specie or coin, and gold was the only
coin.
Obituary: At Narragansett Piec,
Joshua w. Lippincott of Philadelphia,
50.-At Montgomery, Ala, DR.. Jerome
Cochran, 65.-At Winchester, ILL.,, Will
liam Condit, 70.-At Shelbyville, H.,
William Chew.-At Wheeler, Ind, T.
4 Henry Humes, 6O-At Humboldt, Ill,
Alexander finch, 71.-At Columbus,
Ind, Captain Samuel Harris, 77.-At
Palmyra, Wis., Owen Crawley, S0.-At
I South Bend, Ind, Harvey c. Deacon
At Portland, Me, Professor F. Nicoils
Crouch, author of Kathleen Mavour-
neen, sat San Francisco, Flora
Finlayson.-At Ellsworth, Wis, Hans
! B. Warner, Sat Hartford Conn,
! Olivia Susan Clemens, daughter of
Mark Twain, pat Havana, Ill, Rev.
E. B. OMahony.-At Shelbyville, ILL.,,
Captain S. B. Robertson, 74-At
Springfield, ILL.,, ex-Mayor Frank
Kramer.