Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-10-22
NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES

IL spite of the fact that Miss Lillian
Russells father is lying dead she ap-
peared in her usual role in the comic
opera An American Beauty at theater
in St. Louis. She was not notified OF
her fathers death until few hours
before. Her reasons for playing, as
given, are that she did not desire to
deprive the sixty chorus girls of a
nights wages. She said they could i'll
afford it and she was willing to make
the sacrifice in their behalf.
Rev. DR.. J. R. Creighton, the noted
Wisconsin Methodist minister, is suf-
! fering peculiar embarrassment from
the severe discipline of his church. He
was recently assigned to Trinity
church, Milwaukee, by Bishop Walden.
Rev. DR.. Millar, who had occupied the
Trinity pulpit, was assigned the
church at Stevens Point. The latter
congregation was fairly well satisfied
as it was not unanimous in desiring
the recall of it's old pastor, Rev. Mr..
Re Qua. Meanwhile the Trinity con-
Sregation was tuning and frettlng
about the appointment of DR.. Creigh-
ton. Indeed, so hostile was the feel
ing against the new pastor that Mrs.
Creighton united with her husband in
petition the bishop to change the
assignment. The bishop, seeing a
threatened boycott in store for DR..
Creighton, sent Mr.. Creighton to
Stevens Point ard Mr.. Millar to Trim
ity. The Milwaukee church was emf
nently satisfied with the restoration of
it's pastor and the unrest was trans
ferred with DR.. Creighton to his new
post of duty. 1t is said that the peo-
pie of the Stevens Point church are
fixed in their determip alton not to bow
to the plans of the bishop, and the pas
tor has a most undesirable promise
before him. On Sunday Mr.. Creighton
was met by the president of the board
of trustees, who explained the situa-
ton to him. Of course, no attempt
was made to hold services, and Mr..
Creighton, learning the opposition of
the congregation to the bishops plans,
decided he would make no attempt to
carry them out. What will be done in
Walter Michael Castle the San Fran
cisco merchant who, with his wife, has
just been released on bail from Hollo-
way jail, London, on charge of shop
lifting, is one of the leading business
men on the Pacific coast. He is a
member of the firm Of Castle Brothers,
IF no
tial houses in San Francisco. Mr..
Castle is a native of that city, was ed
ucated in the public schools there and
finished his studies in the college of
Bruises and the University Of London.
Mrs. Castle is a very beautiful woman
and has been conspicuous in a local
way. The charge of shoplifting pre-
ferred by the London detectives against
both man and wife has caused the ut
most establishment among the friends
of the Castles at their home. The pO-
lice say they can prove that goods val
ued at $500 have been stolen and re-
fuse to believe that Mrs. Castle, if a
kleptomaniac, could have taken such
vast quantity without her husbands
knowledge. Not a wCTd has been said
in San Francisco AS to Mrs. Castle
having been a kleptGmaniac, and the
Scotland Yard police contend that if
this claim as to the lady's malady be
true it is the most remarkable case of
acute kleptomania they have ever seen.
The English laws are very severe in
cases Of this kind, larceny being a fell
Onv Lord ROthSchiI1 has interested
himself in the matter, and the United
States embassy in London is doing all
it can to assist the Castles.