Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-11-11

killed his wife and daughter and then
shot himself.
A mixed passenger and freight train
rolled down a forty-foot embankment
on the Sedalia, Warsaw & Southwest
ern road, three times north Of War
saw. Mo. Engineer John Mennier
was killed.
Private E. G. Haynes, I. S. A, was
found guilty Of murder in the second
degree of one of the two women mys-
teriously slain at the time Haynes
himself was wounded near Plattsburg,
n. J., last spring.
Ex-Judge Walling, a prominent dem
ocrat of Monmouth county, n. J., voted
ct Keyport, in that county, and soon
afterward shot himself dead, as the re-
suit, it is believed, of intense anxiety
over the election.
Miles NJ Dawson reiterated his
statement that Cashier Banta, Of the
New York Life Insurance company,
lad told him Thomas c. Platt demand
ed and received $4,000 as campaign
contribution" from that company.
Senorita Cossio Cisneros, the Cuban.
refugee, was given a public reception
at the Auditorium in Chicago. United
States Senator VIM. E. Mason spoke
on Cuba. The attendance was not
large. A rich widow wants to adopt
Cossio.
1t is believed that the Georgia legis-
lature will pass a law making the
playing of football ir that state mis-
demeanor in view of the fact injury
of r. V. Cannon, a University of
Georgia player, while taking part in
game.
Chief Mays of the Cherokees has ex-
pressed his opinion that the allotmens
of lands will not be fought by the
Indians if the scheme is projected in,
the right way. The chief favors the
formation of one state by the five
tribes of Indians.
H. K Glidden, manager of the
Moosehead ranch, Uintah county,
Wyoming, has Just shipped east a
carload with thirty-four yearling elks.
The animals are consigned to eX-State
Senator Litchfield of New York and
are to be placed on his lands in the
AdirOndaCks.
The navy department, in reply to a
telegram from Governor Pingree of
Michigan, has refused to make any re-
pairs to the Yantic or to guarantee the
state of Michigan protection in case of
libel proceedings are instituted by the
owners of the Canadian steamer with
which the Yantic was in collision.
The work of organizing the national
fair for commercial travellers, to be
held February % to March at Madi-
son Square garden, New York, has be-
gun. The aim of the fair is to increase
to the greatest possible extent the
building fund which is to complete the
American home for aged or disabled
commercial travellers, their dependent
families or wives and orphans. The
home is already partly built, on the
South mountain, just outside the city
CT BinghamtOn.
News was received at Wareham of
the arrest at Onset Bay, Mass, OF
Henry B. FOulke, one of the leaders of
Barr to reOrganize theosophy and
spiritualism. Mr.. FouIke is charged
with committing an unnatural act.
| The arrest was made by Offers B. I.
LOrng and E. K. Smith of the Mass
| 4chusetts society for the prevention of
| cruelty to children. The prisoner was
! given hearing. He pleaded not
nifty and at the request of the gov
eminent the case was continued, bail
being fixed at $4,000
An English syndicate has bought
Frank Phiscator's gold mines in
Alaska, paying $1,OO0,OO0 for three
claims. No. q on Bear Creek, and two
rich claims on Eldorado. The syndi-
cate pays $4,000 down and the bal
ance ct the end of ore year Phisca-
tor went to Alaska from Benton Har-
Dor, Mich., in February, 1896 and
leaned up $4,000 in seventy days from
claim No. on Eldoradc creek Since
his return to his home he has pur-
] chased homes for many of his rela-
tives ard paid off mortgages for
others, spending about 5000