Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-09-09

was struck by a passenger train near
Wilton, Wis, and Mrs. Cusick of Chi
cago and Daniel O'Rourke of Wilton
were killed. At Reedsburg a similar
accident occurred in which William J.
Bennett was instantly killed and Bryan
Want fatally injured.
Arthur G. Burley, the oldest business
man in Chicago, died at MS home III
Chicago of old age. Mr.. Burnley mad
beer a resident of Chicago for over 90
years. and was the founder and head
Of the crockery hrms of Burley & Co.
and Burley & Tirell. He was born in
Exeter, n. H, in 1872.
President Jordan of Stanford uniVer-
sity, California, denies the published
report that Prof. Ross has been dis
missed from his chair on account of
his public advocacy of free silver dur
ing the presidential campaign. He
has Simply been transferred to the de-
partment of social science.
Herbert Phinney, 80, was arrested
in Boston, charged with having caused
the death of Mrs. Mary Horrigen last
July, by pushing her over during
drunken carOusal. Mrs. Horrigen,
who was Is years old, was injured in
ternally She died Friday night, hay
ing been i'll since the affair occurred.
Edward G. Atcheson, president of
the Carbondum company of Niagara
Falls, was held UP by three highway
robbers on Pennsylvania avenue, Buff
falo, n. Y, knocked senseless and
robbed Of his gold watch, valued at
$3.50. The robbery took place within
hailing distance of the Niagara-street
police station.
Twenty-four men, charged with
white-capping Mormons in Fairfield
county, South Carolina, were given a
preliminary hearing at Ridgeway and
bound over for trial in $500 each. 1t
developed at the hearing that two
women with guns stood off a mob of
100 armed men who were s9al ching for
MOrmOns.
Miss Marie Henrotin of Chicago
ended her life in a convent She died
after three days of terrible agony at
Montreal. Her brother, DR.. Fernand
HenrOtin, started for the medical con-
gress, intending to bring her home
with him. Arriving at Montreal, he
was shocked to find her dead. She
was Al years old.
The Delta Tau Delta convention
closed it's sessions at Chicago with
the election of the following officers:
President K. G. Babcock of the univer-
sity of California;; vice president, F.
G. Hodgedon of Maryland; treasurer,
Alvin f. Duerr of Philadelphia The
next convention will be ueld i'll Aug
ust, 1899, in Chicago.
William A. Murray, his wife and
daughter Ella of Petersburg, Va, came
to New York for the purpose of identi-
! flying the fragments of the headless
body found in June and supposed to be
the remains of William Gulensuppe, as
those of Williams S. Edwards, a pho
tographer. Murray was unable to
make a positive Identification.
The first case IN Iowa county,
Wisconsin, under the new dairy
and food act WAS victory
for the defendant The complaint
was made by w. w. Chadwick, assist
ant dairy and food commissioner
against Williams Tomkins for selling
milk to the Linden cheese factory
which State Chemist Mitchell testified
contained but $40 per cent. butter
fat.
Peter Crosier, the secretary and
i treasurer of the Mercer and Mechanics
building and loan association at Tren-
ton N. j., who is alleged to be an en-
bezzler to the amount of $1,000, has
not been located either at Trenton or
at his summer residence at Belmar by
| the constable who had q warrant for
his arrest on the specific complaint of
embezzling $1,000 belonging to Miss
Ehret.
Pension Commissioner Evans does
not believe in the indiscriminate pen
SIGNING of widows of veterans, a policy
which he thinks causes many young
girls to marry aged men for whom they
care nothing except to have q pension
for the balance of their lives. He
thinks that a hundred years from now
there may be quite a respectable num-
Der of women drawing pensions on
this account.
Because he said that Major Buck
ner, commander of the ninth battalion
(colored), Illinois national guard, was
being prosecuted and not disciplined
for various alleged attractions of the
military code,' Correspondent Roman,
OF the Military Gazette, has been or
dered to leave Camp Lincoln, as
newspaper man, ana to remove his
supplies ct cetera from the tent occu-
pied by the Gazette staff.
Mrs. Thomas G. Hall. wife of the
Rev. DR.. Hall, pastor of the Fourth
Presbyterian church, is in Chicago to
convey 10 the many friends and ad-
mirers of the latter a final message
fl ON her husband, VINO is at present
detained in Germany, that he will not
return to Chicago. He is suffering
from nervous exhaustion. He is a SOIL
of Rev. DR.. John Hail. of New York.
The wife is a German lady Of Coffin
gen.
Corporal Henry Geyer of Co. B. Sth
infantry, Ohio national guard, which
is in camp at Steubenville, O., while
defending himself in a saloon brawl
shot John Ovington and Orville Ely,
residents Of that city. Ovington is
fatally wounded. Ely was wounded