Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03

Robert o. Johnson shot and killed
his divorced wife, Mrs. H. S. Lane, at
San Pedro, CAL, and then shot himself
twice through the head, dying soon
afterward. Jealousy at the woman's
remarriage is believed to have been
JohnsOn's motive.
The California state bank commits
sioners have declared the Bank of Ma
tional City insolyent and placed G. B.
Whittlesey, cashier, in charge. The
directors have been ordered to make an
assessment of 10 per cent. on the au-
thorized capital of 100000.
Miss Florence Sears, known in the
operate world as Nine Selma, was at
tackled and bitten in the right arm by
a copperhead snake in the hills back Of
Cranstons-on-the-H Hudson. Her silk
dress held back most of the venom in
the fangs and she will recover.
The United States minister to Tur-
key, Alexander w. Terrill, has notified
the Turkish government that the lat
ter's answer to the demands of the
United States for indemnity as a result
of the burning of the American mis-
sions at KharpIt and Marash is not sat
isfactory.
The returns indicate that Judge Earl,
the candidate against Evans for SEN
ator in South Carolina, has developed
surprising strength, but Evans may
pull through when the country pre-
mated for governor by an overwhelIn-
ing majority.
Andrew Anderson of Chicago, assist
ant boss canvasman of L. B. Lent's
circus, was run over by the cars and
killed at Mckenzie, Tenn, at an early
hour Thursday morning. Anderson
was 80 years old and unmarried. The
remains were buried at Mckenzie in
the afternoon.
/ Fears are entertained by Candidate
Bryan that the mine owners are pre-
pairing to abandon him and concen-
/ trate their attention upon congress,
! spending their money to hold their lead
in the senate and be able to make a
formidable showing in the house of
| representatives.
! The Globe referring to the political
/ campaign in the United States eX-
presses the opinion that the avoidance
| of spread-eagleism" by Major McKin-
ley and w. J. Bryan may be accepted
as a sign that the Monroeism advocated
by Messrs. Cleveland and Oiney no
| longer dazZles American minds.
/ Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of
the late Gen. W. Tecumseh Sherman,
! has made his final vows of purity,
chastity and obedience at St. Peter and
/ the presence of a large congregation,
/ St. Paups church at Detroit, Mich, in
| and was forever joined to the Jesuit
order, when he entered in Maryland IN
1878.
Thomas Watson, of Georgia, populist
candidate for the vice presidency, will
begin a campaign of oratOry in behalf
of his claims to support by populists.
The gold democrats of New Jersey
have elected the following delegates at
large to Indianapolis: William J. Cur
tbs, George L. Record, James Parker
and Charles Carlton Lewis.
Capt. ]. w. Goshen, editor of the Will
mington Union-Republican, the organ
of the republican party in North Caro-
lima, attempted to step from a street
car uefore it stopped and was thrown
violently on the macadamized street.
His head struck a stone which pro-
duced conclusion Of the brain and
caused his death. Capt. Goshen was So
years old.
Obituary: At Indianapolis, Rev
John Mckinley, 7S.-At Mackinac Is
land, Max J. Becker of Pittsburg, 6S.-
At New York, Charles S. A. Davis, 81.
AT London, Charles Frederick Ash
ley Cooper Ponsonby, Baron de Mauley,
S1.-At Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, Absalorl
Leeper 10S.-At Hot Springs, Ark.
Colonel Thomas H. Harris of Rush
vile, Ind, 67.-At Bloomington, ILL.,,
Cassius Gilbert, Sat New Castle,
Col, J. F. H. McKibben, auditor Of
. the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railWay.-At Atlantic City, n. J., Judge
Arthur Macarthur, S1.-At Mt. Carroll,
ILL.,, William Finlayson, STAT Mason
City, Iowa, Judge w E. Thompson.