Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-10-14

ed the exclusive yelled prophets ball
in ST. Louis Miss Whitney was at
tired in a simple but appropriate gown
OF white brocade silk, en- suite, with
shoes and gloves to match.
The professors of the Smithsonian
| institute have spent four months in
southwestern Arizona among the In
| dian tribes of that region collecting
relics and getting data. DR.. Fewkes
said they had been able to get over a
| thousand specimens. They visited the
sacred sacrifcial cave in the Graham
mountains and secured a large num-
Ter of specimens left by Indians years
/ ago. The cave is situated in the
rocks 200 feet under ground They
saw the snake dance Of the Mokis.
At Jacksonville, III. the coroner's
| july, who disinterred the body Of Nora
! Harris, who died Sept. II (as was re-
/ ported as the result of a buggy acct
dent) decided the girl was murdered
Dr.. Fritz Skinner is charged with
causing the death and Adam Large,
! her lover, are declared in the verdict
rendered today to have been accessor-
les. Warrants are out for the three
men, but they have disappeared.
Forty-siX new cases of yellow fever
and five deaths are reported in New
| Orleans.
James E. Smith, a Victoria (B. c.
capitalist, has been in Seattle three
days planning for the transportation
of 500 head Of beef cattle to the Klon-
dixie country. Mr.. Smith may wait
until spring. He is confident he can
deliver 800 or 400 head of cattle at
Dawson City between now and Dec
1, and then there would be no occa-
sion for fear Of famine for some time
to come Mr.. Smiths plan contem-
plates the transportation of about 400
head OF cattle and 100 head of horses,
each horse to pack as much in the way
of general food supplies as possible.
Norman Hunt and Ella Campbell
who eloped from Victoria, Iowa, are
spending what was to have been their
honeymoon in police station cells at
u,
drove sixteen miles to Marengo, took
train for Chicago on the way to
Milwaukee and Hunsberger. They
were arrested as they stepped off the
II ain. Hunt is nineteen years old;
the girl seventeen. They declare they
will marry in spite of parents, police,
injunction writs, or any other old
tonight and the young folks will be
taken home.
In Madison, Ind, farmes of Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio, banded together in
he organization known as the Ma
tional Horse-Thief Detective associ-
alton, are holding their annual con-
vention. Six thousand farmers, or
gained into 200 companies for the de-
lection of crime in rural communities,
now constitute the organization. The
recent lynching in Ripley county
growing out of the lax enforcement of
the law for many years-is thought
to have demonstrated the worth of
such an organization as this. James
A. Mount, governor of Indiana, who
has been president of the association
for many years, addressed the dele
gates.
AS the result of the explosion of
gasoline stove in a Chicago home,
two women were fatally injured and
third was burned in a serious man
ner. 1t was in the home of a poor
family The blazing fluid was scat
tered about the room over both Mrs.
Lennie and her daughter Clara. Mrs.
Lennie had a lage part of the blazing
fluid thrown over her and her cloth
ing was mass of flame when her
daughter endeavored to beat out the
flames with her hands and received
painful injuris, but finding her sin
gle efforts unavailable, she pro-
cured a blanket and wrapped it around
, her mother, putting out the burning
gasoline, but too late. In the alb
sence of her daughter for the blanket
Mrs. Lennie, in spite of her clothing
still on fire, picked up the burning
stove and hurled it through the win
dow. That action proved fatal to Mrs.
Kurth, who was hanging up some
clothes in the yard below. The stove
and a flood of burning gasoline fell
upon her, igniting her clothes, and
in a moment she was a mass of flame.