Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-29

Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador,
visited the white house by appoint
ment for the purpose Of presenting to
the president, by direction of the king
of Italy, a testimonial of esteem in the
shape of a set of volumes of the great
est historical value, touching the
early history of America.
Five outlaws appeared at the ranch
of R. T. Brooke, an Englishman, whose
place is near Tonkawa, Okla. They
called Brooke to the door and COM
manded him to hold up his hands.
Brooke shot two of the visitors dead
and wounded the third The two I'M
injured outlaws scurried away.
Judge Henry E. Taintor, receiver
for the banking firm Of George F. Bis
sell & Co., has filed partial inventory
which shows 800 depositors with total
deposits of S29O0OO All assets that
could be found made a total OF S307,-
1858, but the receiver is unable to
give even an approximate statement of
the liabilities.
J. Edward Addicks has brought suit
in New York against William Buchan-
an, ex-senator Anthony Higgins Of
Delaware and Dwight Braman for
damages, alleging that they formed a
! combination for illegal purposes which
resulted in depreciating Mr.. Addicks'
/ gas property to the extent Of S1,000,-
! 900.
The river and harbor bill contained
a provision that the deep water harbor
! in the state Of California should be de-
! termined by a commission This board
has been organized as follows: Rear
I Admiral John G. Walker, Assistant
Superintendent of the Coast and Goe-
detic Survey, Augustus F. Rogers,
William H. Burr of New York, George
S. Morrison of New York, Richard P.
Morgan of Illinois.
The Grand Lodge of knights of
| Pythias Of Illinois has elected these
officers: Grand chancellor, John D.
! Benedict, Danville; grand vice chan
/ cellor, "A. G. Servoss, Havana; grand
master-at-arms, E. J. McElvain, Muir
! physboro; grand prelate, A. J. Com
ing, Rockford; grand inner guard,
James E. levitt, Shelbyvflle: grand
outer guard, C. H. Cushing, Chicago;
grand master of eXchequer, Charles
Merriam, Freeport; grand keeper Of re-
cords and seal, H. P. Caldwell, Chi
cago
Albert Newson is an Englishman
with a most pronounced tendency to
enter the uncertain state of matri-
mony. Four times he has ventured in
the role of a husband and court records
show no divorce proceedings against
him. All four of his wives are said
to be alive. One of them, who claims
to be Mrs. Newson the third, applied
for a warrant against Newson charg-
ing him with bigamy. He was ar
rested in St. Louis and does not deny
that he is much married He says that
his various wives told him that they
would not agitate the matter Of his
many marriages.
McNeely; at Mclean, ILL.,, Harve Albee,
70; at Indianapolis, Benjamin F. Fos-
ter; grand secretary of Indiana |. o. O.
F. ; at GAINESVILLE, Wis, eX-Judge Moses
S. Prichard, "A; at Farmer City, Ill.
William Johnson, 40; at Lisle H.
Daniel Mertz; at Louisville, ILL.,.
George B. McCullom; at Freeport, Ill.
Charles Seifert; at Blackjack, Ill,
George Hit, Sc; at Brooklyn, N Y.
Joseph Wechsler, SO; at Paris, France
Mrs. Julian F. Meuditt, daughter OF
Kate Clax1on; at Portland, Oregon,
Dr.. Horatio R. Holmes; at Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, William P. Scott; at Ash
KUN, ILL.,, Mrs. Maria Payson, IS.
DR.. William Campbell, president of
Queens College, Cambridge, is dead, as
are also DR.. John Dancer, aged 70, a
prominent citizen of Lagrange, Ind,
Darius Stafford, a resident of Rockford
ILL.,, for forty-one years, aged 50; Dan
iel Hartnett, ex-state canal commits
sioner, at his home in Napoleon, Ohio;
Charles Richardson, prominent mer-
chant of Louisville, ILL.,, and we'll
known throughout southern Illinois;
Captain William Kline, an old Lake
Superior pioneer, at Lake Linden from
injuries received by being thrown out
of his buggy; J. H. Wigger, one of the
oldest and wealthiest residents of Mar
ion, Ind, of malarial fever and worry
occasioned by the recent death of his
at LAGRANGE, Ind, uahdoe, tit alor.,,
Madji Rahsian, a Christian Turk
arrived in New York on a business trip
says he was in Constantinople during
a three days massacre in August last.
During these three days 10000 Armen-
ians, he said, were slaughtered through
the empire. Wagons filled with bodies
were constantly passing through the
streets in Constantinople. Carload
after CARLOAD Of these bodies were
dumped into the sea. The sight was a
sickenfng one and what added to its
horror was the fact that in these wag-
Ons were piled the dead and dying and
the feeble cries of the wounded for re-
lease could be heard coming from the
carts, but the appeals were utterly
unheeded. Whether killed or wound
/ ed, all were thrown into the sea.
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