Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-04-16

millionaire held for alleged completely
in the death of Annie McGrath, whose
body was found in his apartments, has
been released by the coroner because of
a lack of evidence.
Pingree's potato patch plan is to be
tried in Pittsburg for the relief of the
worthy poor, if it is to be tried in
worthy poor, if it is possible to arouse
proper public interest.
Attempts have been made to burn
four large buildings in Savannah, Ga,
including the postofice. 1t is thought
the recent fire, in which property worth
thousands of dollars was destroyed, was
the work of incendiaries.
Populist leaders in Kansas, including
Chairman Breidenthal and Ex-Governor
Lewelling, favor fusion with silverites
at the national convention in July at
St. Louis. and to that end are willing
to drop the party name.
Never before has so large crop OF
strawberries been known in Florida as
that which is now being harvested.
From Plant City alone no less than
$4,000 quarts have been shipped, and
the season is not yet nearly over.
One of the six graduate students of
the West Penn Medical college blew
out the gas in hotel bedroom in Pitts
burg, Pa, the other night. All six
students were sleeping in the room and
all came very near being asphyxiated.
The schooner Good Intent, said to be
the oldest craft registered in the official
list of merchant vessels is about ready
to start out ON her eighty-fourth year
of cruising, from Belfast, Me-, where
she has been tied up during the winter
In one county of California it is es-
timated that rabbits and hares caused
a loss of 100000 in a single year, and
the question of Kidding themselves of
such pests has become one Of vital in
tereSt.
Firemen called to extinguish a blaze
in Salem, Mass, found the bodies of
Josephine Manning, milliner, and
Charles Flynn, dead from pistol
wounds. 1t is thought to be a case OF
murder and suicide.
Three fish were caught on one hook
by a fisherman at Ellsworth, Me-, the
other day. The apparent catch was an
unusually large pickerel, but in dress
ing it another pickerel was found in it's
stomach, and in the second pickerel was
a fve-inch smelt.
! Both houses of the Maryland legisla-
ture have passed hill to protect news
paper men from being compelled to
divulge either before a court CT grand
/ jury the source of any confidential in
formation given them in the course
of their employment
/ Some boys have discovered a coun-
I terfeiter's cave in Elkhart county, Ind,
on an island. A partially concealed
! signal wire led the way. Coins III all
stages of manufacture with the face
! value of $4,000 were found. The coin
was cast then plated and milled
After being separated more than
forty years a brother and sister were
reunited at Middletown, N Y. The
n an is resident of Hartford, Conn,
the woman of Middletown. When
children they were sent to an asylum,
were adopted by different families, and
thus lost track of each other.
A stone weighing 125 pounds, sup
posedly meteor, fell near Quanicasse,
Mich, a few days ago. When discov-
cred few days ago, after striking the
earth, it was so hot as to burn the
fingers of those who touched it. Snow
and ice for several feet around it had
melted.
The board of trustees of the Presby-
terrain church at Junction City, Kan,
for the fiscal year just closed, was COM
posed entirely of women, and it is stated
that their term of Office was marked by
the most careful, economical and gen
orally satisfactory administration of the
church's financial affairs that it has
ever had
! Eagles are reported to be unusually
j numerous just now in Curry county,
Oregon, and they are very destructive
to young lambs. One eagle, measuring
more than seven feet from tip to tip
of its wings, was shot near Wedderburn
a few days ago. The birds are wary
and the stockmen have to suffer with
little chance of retaliation.
A white sea otter, whose pelt would
be worth quite $4,000, was seen by two
fishermen in the bay at Santa Cruz,
Cal, a few days ago. The men say
there is no doubt whatever as to the
Identity Of the animal. A number of
boats at once set out to hunt for the
otter, but at last accounts had not
caught it.