Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
AT HOME.


Congressman fayoring changes in
the civil service will hold a conference.
The senate committee on rules at
Washington has instructed the ser
1t is probable that the widow Of
George NJ. Pullman will contest his
will
Herman Paul Schultz was hanged at
Milford. Pa, for having murdered his
wife
The public schools of Oakland, H.,
may be closed on account Of diph-
iberia
Mabel c. Worth, 16 years Of age,
has disappeared from her home in
Aurora, III.
Charles DenneIler, a gardener Of
Kansas City, Mo, shot his wife and
then himself
Newton Brewer of Niles, Mich, was
accidentally shot and killed by Claude
King while out hunting.
According to Excise Commissioner
Lyman, New York City has saloons to
each 1000 of population.
California's supreme court dispelled
the last hope of murderer Durrant who
will soon be hung.
J. A. Davenport, travelling man,
had one of his legs cut off by the cars
at Louisville, III.
Joseph Holebeck, farmer near
Humboldt, Neb., quarreled with his
wife and killed her
A state bar association has been
formed at Sioux Falls, S. D., with
Bartlett Trip as president.
Richard Ateinecke has been placed
on trial at Davenport, Iowa, for at
tempting to kill his father.
c. B. Collins, former state treasurer
Of Florida, who is accused of embezzl-
ing over $4,000, was arrested.
The little town of Stewartville,
Mimi, was almost totally destroyed
by fire, causing loss of 100000
The steamship ST. Paul, sailing for
Europe took out 100000 ounces of sill
yer and 10000 Mexican dollars.
New York Central experts testified
that the disaster at Garrisons was
probably caused by train-wreckers.
Adolph l.. Luetgert has issued an
appeal to the public for funds with
which to defray the cost of his trial
Jimmy Barry of Chic" 30 whipped
Walter Croot of England and became
the worlds champion bantam weight
Secretary Long has addressed a let
ter to Miss Christine Bradley asking
her to christen the battleship Kentuc-
ky
Mrs. Nancy Allison Mckinley, moth
er of the president, who was stricken
with paralysis Dec 2, has continued
to sink. Il
Three persons were killed and ten
injured in a collision ON the Detroit
and Oakland Electric railroad near
Detroit
A thousand reindeer are to be i'm
ported from Europe to establish a sup
ply train in Alaska to relieve Yukon
miners.
The Mankato, Mimi, knitting mills
owned by ]. & G. K, Willard, have
$S5 600
DR.. John r. Hatch was held for the
grand jury on a charge of numbering
his wife, by poisoning, at CenTeyille
N. H., Sept. II.
Governor Atkinson of Georgia has
decided to veto the anti-football bill
that was passed by the legislature OF
thas state
Charles Burgess was eIectrocuted at
Auburn. n. Y, for the murder of
Henry V. Whitlock at Sterling, n. Y,
in August, 1895.
Adolph L. Luetgert, whose second
trial on charge of wife murder is be-
ginning at Chicago, will testify in his
own defence.
At Greensboro, N. O., Sonly Ryan
the wife murderer, was tried, convict
ed and sentenced to death, all in fif-
teen minutes.
The American Torpedo company S
nitroglycerine magazine at Bowling
Green, O., exploded, and Dan Lean was
blown to atoms.
Charles Bordelois, a Cuban officer
who was wounded in the fighting in
Cuba and taken to New York for medi-
cal treatment, is dead
Albert Giles living near Little Rock.
Ark, was murdered by unknown men,
supposed to be moonshiners he had be-
trayed
geant at arms Of the senate to enforce
the rules of the senate prohibiting the
sale of liquor in the senate wing of the
capitol.
Mrs. Annie Fitzsimmons, Edwin w.
Quinby and his wife were fatally pois-
oned by drinking wood alcohol at
Exeter, n. Y.
The democratic majority in the Chi
oago city council passed a resolution
providing for the redistricting of the
city wards of Chicago.
Dr. Griggsby of Greenville, O., shot
and killed his tenant, Henry StrawIev,
in Sullivan county, Indiana, after a
quarrel over stock
Charleston Is. c. police arrested
Flossie Kerr, a mulatto, for conspiring
to palm off a child upon a New Yorker
known as Mr.. Durham.
DR.. Charles Harvey Quinlan, one of
the founders of Lake Forest university
and a pioneer of Chicago and it's sub
urbS, died in Evanston.
Secretary Alger administered a Sc
we're reprimand to Captain Lowering,