Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-02

ID. rockefeller has just built for Vas
sar college, at cost of 100000, was
dedicated.
The announcement is made that
Horace l.. Chapman, the recently de-
teated democrat candidate for COVER
nor of Ohio, will be candidate for
the senate to succeed Hanna.
The New York court Of appeals set
aside the verdict of guilty, with a
penalty Of electrocution, in the case of
William ]. Koerner, who killed Rose
Redgate, and granted new trial.
Ebert M. Rucker, Jr, of South
Carolina, an assistant attorney in the
interior department at Washington.
D. c., has resigned to practice law.
The trial Of Drs. Sheldon and Vaughn
Ashton OF Dixon, H., indicted for con-
spring to obtain money under false
pretenses, is in progress at Galena.
The Georgia legislature, which is
low in session, will act on the convict
lease system, school book uniformity
and other questions of general inter
est
Postmaster General Gary is receiv-
ing many letters indicating a rather
general commentator of his PROPOSE
ton for the establishment of postal
savings banks.
Judge Adams in the United States
district court at st. Louis has sent
eEced Lawrence J. O'Neil, a letter
carrier, to three years in the peniten-
tisry for the theft of letters.
The court of appeals has affirmed
the judgment of conviction and death
il the case of Hadley A. Sutherland, a
negro, who killed Sarah Wrenn in
Brooklyn March %, 1897.
George J. Appold, aged II years,
president of the Merchants and Miners
Transportation company and the Ho-
ward Oak Leather company, died OF
heart disease at Baltimore.
Edward Buechner of Topeka, Kan,
was found dead at his meat shop,
drowned in barrel used to catch drip
water from the refrigerator, death
being caused by heart failure.
Mrs. Alice Ray, wife of an Indiana
farmer, has disappeared, accompanied
by her sister, Miss Mary Kester, TAX
ing nearly $500 in cash and all the
valuable silverware.
DR.. o. E. Miller, awaiting trial for
defrauding a bank, has organized a
mission called the Cooperative Bible
Union at Denver and is conducting
daily religious services.
Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard, whose
first trial for the murder of Frederick
J. Jackson ended Oct 81 in a hung
venue by a Kansas City judge.
Lieut.. Michael J. O'Brien of the
fifth infantry, who was the prosecutor
in the O'Brien-Romeyn court-martial
at Fort Mcpherson, near Atlanta, has
resigned from the army
The report that the Arbuckles and
the Havemeyers had come to an
agreement regarding the price of
sugar and coffee was denied at the
office of both the companies concerned.
The schedule of liabilities of John
A. Willard, who assigned at Mankato,
Mimi, has been filed. The grand total
is $1,1471, 300. The direct liabilities
are $522,723. The assets are $849,OOO.
At a special election in the sixth
congressional district of Illinois Henry
S. Boutell, republican, was chosen to
succeed the late Congressman E. D.
Cooke, who belonged to the same
party.
Carl H. Johnson, superintendent OF
the noted Geyser Mining company of
Roston, which has expended 100000
il developing a property at Silver
Cliff, Cot, is dead at Denver, aged 60
years.
Charles Serswell, the telegraph
operator who on June Is last shot two
soldiers from Fort D. A. Russell, kill
ing one and seriously wounding the
other, has been acquitted of murder
at Cheyenne, Wyo.
Two sleeping cars on the rear OF a
West Shore train jumped the tracks
in the New York Central yard at Buff
falo, one of them topping over on its
side Theresa A. McCarty of Detroit
as severely injured.
Ex-Governor Crittenden of Missouri,
who was consul general to Mexico,
will, with William J. Bryan and Mrs.
Bryan, make a four weeks tour of
Mexico.
New patent rules provide that no in
veLtion submitted is patentable ii it
has been described in printing pub
LEGATIONS two or more years before its
filing.
The theosophists of San Francisco,
who believe that capital punishment
is wrong, are getting up a petition
praying Governor Budd to stay the ex
ecution of Durrant and to commute his
sentence to life Imprisonment.
George A. Taylor, cashier Of the de-
funCt Argentine Bank, was sentenced
to four years in the Kansas peniten-
tiary for receiving deposits when he
knew that the bank was in an insolv-
ent condition.