Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-12-08

went TO the room where his wife's
remains had been laid out and shot
himself Death was instantaneous.
Granter was % years of age and had
been married year.
The jury in the Alton school case
has returned verdict for the de-
PENDANT, holding that the negro school;
children of Alton were not discrim-
mated against nor kept out of the
public schools on accounts of their
color.
A. Montgomery Ward of Chicago
will present each Of $50 married men
in the store of Montgomery Ward & Co.
with $1,000 life Insurance policy
as a Christmas present this year: Mr..
Ward will pay the premium for the
first year.
Mrs Emma D. Penepacker was
granted divorce in Chicago from At
torney Samuel S. Penepacker and was
also exonerated from the charges OF
infdelity, cruelty and excessive use of
morphine contained in the cross bill
filed by the husband.
Three masked robbers held up a
Missouri Pacific train near Sedalia.
The company had been warned and
had a guard on the train. One Of the
robbers, an engineer in the company 5
employ, was captured, and it is be-
lieyed another was wounded
One hundred and twenty-nine lives
were lost by the wrecking of the
steamer Portland in the storm. On the
persons persisted in the storm. The
storm caused more than a hundred
wrecks on the New England coast.
In the United States supreme court,
Judge Shiras delivered an opinion in
the case of the Green Bay & Missis-
sippi Canal company VS.. the Patten
Paper company, concerning the use of
the surplus waters Of the Fox river in
Wisconsin. The decision was favor
able to the canal company.
At st. Louis, a meeting last night
of the general committee, Is appointed
recently to take preliminary steps
looking to the proper celebration in
1903 of the Tooth adversary Of the
purchase of Louisiana from France,
the committee on design made its re-
port favoring an exposition.
John Philip Sousa has been or
dered by New York court to pay
amounts estimated at 100000 to the
widow of David Blakely, former mana
ger of Sousa's band. Under the de-
cision Sousa must pay half the profits
for the tour of the band ending in
1897 and half the proceeds of music
composed prior to Blakely's death.
As the result of a family feud,
Charles Schleichs of Marinette at
tempted to murder his brother, James,
with a revolver. The latter only re-
ceived flesh wound in the neck. The
brothers were partners in a cigar
store.
Inmates of the Soldiers and Sailors
Home at Erie, Pa, have petitioned
that steps be taken to recover pension
money alleged to have been taken
from them illegally by the trustees of
the institution. They have been COM
PEELED to turn over all pension money
in excess of 81 per month, and 100000
has been turned over since the home
was organized. The petition has been
laid before the governor.
At Lexington, KY, it developed that
w. ]. Alexander of Chicago, to whom
the great imp. Top Gallant was
knocked down for $4,000, is none other
han w. I. Alexander, we'll known
citizen of Chattanooga, and that he
bid the horse in for Maj. J. B. Owing,
Nashville, Ienn., former owner. Kin
sea Stone, Georgetown, KY, was bid
ding on the horse for a syndicate will
ing to pay $4,000.
John Hancock, who has just been
taken to prison in California to serve
a three years sentence for burglary
has confessed that he and Winifred
Myer murdered DR.. Engelke and Pete
Edmisto on the desert in southern
Nevada over year ago. The crime
was planned by the woman with the
object Of securing the horses attached
to the wagons belonging to their
victims in order that they might con-
tinue their journey to Salt Lake, lneir
own horses being tagged out. Miss
Myer, now Mrs. Gross, recently made
statement accusing Hancock of 18th
murders.
The annual report of First Assist
ant Postmaster General Perry L.
Heath, portion of which was pub
lished a few days ago, was made pub
lie in full last night The total appro-
priations for the first year are $751;
OPS, 0G0, which includes $17,000.000 for
salaries Of all ostmasters and SILL
100000 for clerk hire. The report
recommends strict enforcement of the
regulation forbidding postmasters to
enlarge their salaries and allowances
at public expense. The aggregate
number of domestic and international
money orders issued during the. year
was 2S,253.120 amounting to 1904, $685.
S91, an increase of 2,640,l72 in num-
Der and of s16,522,S35 in amount.
FOREIGN.