Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-07-23

Rev. G. E. Scott, of Waterloo, Ia,
preacher, whose sensational ''bloomer"
sermon won him notoriety, has con-
tinue his sensation by clipping with a
young girl. He has been 20 years in
the pulpit.
An engine plunged through the draw
bridge at Oshkosh, Wis, and lies sub
merged in thirty feet of water. The
engineer was badly injured, but may
recover. Traffic was suspended by the
accident
Christine Almond, young French
woman, gov erne5s in President Cleve-
lands family four years ago, and who
occupied a similar position in Secretary
Lamont's family, died in New York
hospital of gastritis.
A large and controlling interest IN
the Detroit railway, the system operat-
ing under the Scent ordinances, mas
been sold by Henry a. Everett, general
manager and promoter of the railway
system, to R. T. Wilson Of New York.
Two hundred prisoners in the ONO
penitentiary who are Indefinitely held
under the habitual criminal act, have
been granted the privilege Of holding
a convention for the purpose OF con-
sultation They want to test the act.
At the Grape Greek mines, south OF
Danville. Ill. Andrew Kane shot and
/ killed John Burton. Burton was try
ing to pursuade two white men not to
gamble with Kane, which very much
enraged the latter. Kane has evaded
arrest.
The Citizens League, recently organ
lied at Sioux City, Iowa, to purify local
morals, hopes to become a statewide
institution. Negotiations have been
opened with outlying towns toward
organizing branches. An endeavor
will be made to cover the entire state
The Columbus, Ohio, common coun-
Gil has passed a curfew ordinance. II
provides that children under Is years
of age who are found on the streets
unaccompanied by parents or guard
ians after o'clock at night shall be
arrested and fined not more that S.
The executive committee of the .golt
standard democrats of Illinois have
issued an address to the democracy O.
the other states in the union. 1t i;
the unanimous opinion of the com
, mittee that a second democratic ma
tiOnal convention should be called tt
nominate candidates for president anC
vice president.
The failure of the New York Smelt
ing and Refining company last June
was caused by dishonest employees, whC
> stole $4,000 of the company's funds.
J. H. Freeman, superintendent of tn
East Aurora, ILL.,, public schools, ha
resigned his position to accept the of
flee of the assistant superintendent o
state public instruction.
Two girls met horrible death b!
. being choked to death with rope nea
Marshall, MINI. A young man nance
[ Beltzart was herding cattle. He tie'
them up with rope as joke, one ent
of which was fastened to the saddle o
[ a pony. The girls frightened the pom,
and it ran with them half a mile
General Juan DTummond, who wa
) recently in Cincinnati, ostensibly buy
: 1uS uldCuIuGTy LOT uIu6S III C0nCrd
America, bought $4,000 rounds O
cartridges and $4,000 worth of powde
= from Kings mills. He had previousl,
bought 100000 rounds of cartridges
from the Winchester company a
Bridgeport, Conn. 1t is for Cuba
: Obituary: In Parke County, Indiana
Mrs. Mary Harlan, 100, mother of ex
Senator Harlan.-At New York, Waite
o. Lewis, the pioneer ocean news
, gatherer John Cameron Simonds, for
, merly of Chicago, 48.-At MackinaC
Island, James F. Cable, 77.--At Law
renee, Kan, Mrs. L. A. B. Steele-At
: Usage, Iowa, General A. X Eaton, 4S.
A realistic observance of the feas
of the passover was held at a coloret
camp meeting in Pennsylvania. Per
= sons present represented Moses anC
J Aaron. A lamb, which had been tiet
: to tree, was led to the altar and slai1
by Rev. Mr.. Brown. A white pigeon
was dipped in the lambs blood anC
then set free. The lamb was roasted
= and the eating of the passover occur
red
; Lii Hung Chang is in Paris.
: Costa RIGA has adopted the golC
basis for it's currency