Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-11-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
HOME MATTERS.


and Tennessee are off.
Good Venezuelan material is found
by Prof. Baer in Europe.
Lillian Russell denies the story that
she is to wed Walter Jones.
Mrs. Mary White OF Chicago COM
mitted suicide at Indianapolis.
lyman, one of the alleged Phoenix
Park murderers, reached New York.
General F4tzhugh Lee has given up
his proposed visit to his home in Vir-
ginia.
Oliver Dalrymple of North Dakota
made 100000 on the recent rise IN
wheat.
George J. Schweinfurth, the Mes
siah," returned to Rockford, ILL.,, with
his bride.
Williams Stevens, one Of the Oldest
members of the Kansas City bar, Is
dead, aged So.
Henry Shafer Quick, formerly a
well-knoWn actor, died at Fond du Lac,
Wis, aged IS years.
Fire at Milwaukee, Mich. destroyed
property of the Central Lumber com
pany valued at $175,0O0.
Two men were killed and five were
injured by an explosion of nitro
glycerine near Hutton, Pa.
Henry w. Cornell, son of eX-goV-
ernor of New York, was arrested on
charge of grand larceny,
Fire destroyed two grain elevators
of the Pacific company in Chicago,
causing a loss of about $1,O0O,OOO.
w. T. Rambusch, the defaulter, who
committed suicide at Fredericksburg,
Va, was buried at his home, Juneau,
Wis.
Henry H. Morange, once a promi-
nent New York lawyer, but who for
the last ten years led a strange life, is
decd.
The hearing of the Chicago Lake
front case, involving lands Of immense
value, has been postponed until No
Vembe %.
The village of Sayonia, twelve miles
west of Corning, N. Y, lost nearly
all it's business portion by fire. The
loss is about $4,000.
The board of directors of the North
ern Pacific elected officers, e. w. Win
ter being chosen president and e. d.
Adams chairman.
Charles James fatally shot Jacob
Garrison at Richmond, KY, because
he objected to Garrison's attention to
his daughter.
A bold attempt at safe-breaking was
made some time early in the Regal
shoe store, New York. The robbers
secured but little booty.
Robbers terrorized the people living
at the Sac and Fox Agency, Oklahoma
Territory, and secured several thou
sand dollars worth Of booty.
james Wheatland Smith and Mrs.
Julia Borland Higginson who startled
Boston society by clipping last NoVem-
Der, have been married in Paris.
The supreme court of Ohio granted
Romulus Coteil, the murderer OF the
Stone family, indefinite poStpOnement
of exc Ition, pending a new trial:
The charges against ex-State Senator
Whiteman OF Minnesota, now in the
California penitentiary for forgery,
will probably be dismissed and White
man given his liberty.
BY the breaking of ali axle coal
tram was derailed on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad ut Ivor on Sunday
night Ellis Wilson, colored brake
man, was killed.
The Boston Rubbe" Shoe company's
factory, at Maiden Mass, which had
been operated on short time all sum-
mer has been started on full time.
About 5000 persons are employed.
Pablo, a Ute indian, under sentence
TO be hanged for the murder of a
squaw of his tribe and her lover and
brother, died in the Colorado peni-
tentiary of consumption.
Alexander and Edward Day, broth
ers, living near Cassyille, Wis, quar-
relied over triN 4al matter and edward
shot Alexander dead. The murderer
was arrested.
Lawyer Charles F. Mussey, of Kan
sas City, Mo-, has sworn out war
rant for the arrest of Alice Platt his
former servant, on the charge of muir
dering his wifes mother and two chill
dren.
Edward Hughson, convicted of muir
uSl III UlIS III 81 uS$oIcS, lUI hllllllS Ills
wife, was sentenced il Albany, New
York to be electrocuted during the
week commencing December IA.
The Ohio supreme court refused to
allow William F. Burr, the only popu-
listic presidential elector on the state
ticket to withdraw on the ground that
his application was made too late.
The New Work 1OlI1,f IF lie !,
declared the Albany police bill uncon-
stiultional. This bill took from the
mayor of Albany the power to appoint
a police board for that city.
The University of California is to be
made richer by $40OO,00O by donations
from various persons, chief among
whom is Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, widow
of the millionaire senator from Cali
fornia
In New York Miss Mathilda Nelson
has begun suit for recovery of $50, 600
from the estate of the late Austin Cor
bin. While not explaining what her
relations with the millionaire were
Miss Nelson, who is handsome
Swede of about 80 years, alleges that
Corbin was a frequent visitor at her
apartments.
James Garvey, aged 56 years, travel
ing passenger and ticket agent from
the Wabash railway and one of the
most widely known railroad men in