Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-30
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

George J. FTitch, one Of the leading
business men of st. Louis, committed
suicide.
Burts Scrafford and Charlie Clifford
were killed by an explosion Of dyna-
mite at Clearwater, n. Y.
The death rate among cattle during
the recent storm in Texas was fully 80
per cent. in some localities.
George Gould denies that S. H. H.
Clark is to succeed his as president of
the Missouri Pacific railroad.
Mechanical Rubber Manufacturers
association has decided to advance the
price of rubber cotton hose 10 per
cent.
A man registering as Edward Irv-
ing, but who was supposed to be Ed
ward J. Epstein, committed suicide
in New York.
Ross w. Latsaw has been indicted
at Kansas City for an alleged attempt
to bribe a venireman in the Goddard
murder trial.
At Danville, H., the Golden Rule
department store owned by Schmitt &
Heinly, was burned. Loss $4,000.
Near Lima, O., jeremiah Stoffer was
assaulted and robbed of nearly $4,000
on the highway and left in dying
condition
The boiler Of Fischer's saw mill,
located near Penwater, Mich, explod-
ed, fatally scalding Engineer Bert
Reese of Shelby.
The First National bank Of Pembi-
pa, N. D., has failed. The bank had
a capital of $4,000 and deposits ag-
gregating $4,000.
Mrs. Freda Sclintz of New York
was burned to death in a fire, al
though her two daughters made brave
efforts to save her.
Henry Greuber has been sentenced
from Racine to Waupun for six-year
term for stealing S55 from George
Schnedivin at Rochester.
William Pool, sentenced to the Ar
kansas penitentiary for twenty-one
years in 1892 for the murder of John
Evans, has been pardoned.
Charles E. Stubs of Denver has
started for Denver as a special envoy
of this government to encourage the
use of the American horse in the
cavalries of Europe.
Albert Warner, the chief conspira-
tor in the plot that resulted in the
kidnapping of little Johnny Conway,
IS now in jail awaiting trial at Al
bany, N. Y.
The pubic administrator at Lima,
Ohio, found $4,000 hidden in the
house occupied by the late Mrs. Ben
jamin Picker, who was supposed to
have been very poor.
Chief Officer Hooper, Second Mate
Bentley and three of thecrew Of the
Bentley and three of the crew Of the
at New York on the steamer Heveli-
us fom Pernambuco.
Mayor-Elect Van Wyck of New
York has appointed Alfred III.
Downes, newspaper man, to be his
private secretary at salary of S. 900
year.
The four trades of window glass
workers are again arranging to ANAL
gamate under a new national associ-
alton, but no attempt will be made to
disturb the present wage scale.
DR.. Noah Fields Drake, graduate
student in geology of Stanford uni
Vers1ty, has accepted a position in the
Tien Tsin university, China, and he
VII leave for the orient on Feb. l.
hYIr
Canaan, Conn, and four were CAP
tured by Martin Rood, the night
Waterman after he had wounded two
of them
The Nebraska supreme court has
taken under consideration the appeal
OF ex-State Treasurer BARLEY, SEN
fenced to twenty years Imprisonment
for embezzlement.
Two little children CT a farmer liy-
Ing near Tlfforty Mo-, climbed into a
pig sty to catch onto one Of the pigs.
They were set upon by the hogs, torn
in pieces and devoured
The Gordon mine, in the Virtue dis
trlct near Pendleton, Or, has been sold
to Minneapolis parties for $4,000, and
the Tom Paine mine aud surrounding
claims to New York parties for SIG 600.
The murderers of the Patterson
family on Culpepper mountain in
Arkansas have been arrested. The men
charged with the crime are Lee Mills
and William Hardin, two young white
r'~a
Fire burned the three-story brick
warehouse OF the A H. Andrews
Furniture company in Chicago. The
warehouse was filled with finished
goods. Loss about 100000, fully
covered by insurance.
William Sauer, son of w. G.. Sauer.
Detroit publisher, is under arrest
in Kansas City charged with compile
ity in bank robbery at Vermilion.
kas. Sauer says he is a graduate of
Trinity college in Michigan.
Private Charles Wadden, who next
to Hammond gave the most damaging
testimony against the defendant in
the Lowering courtmartial, has asked
for and been granted a discharge by
Secretary Alger.
AT Wichita, KAN, Judge Dale, in a
sion against the Santa Fe for re-
using to return pass to l. P. Camp
ell, who shipped cattle, gave the
plaintiff judgment for fare, costs and
attorney fees.
stephen Shellen, who killed Michael
ROher at Du Rois Do woo shot 5oo5