Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-08-18

! one Of Cass c-unty's most prominent
citizens, is dead. He was born at
Altenburg, Germany. in 1880.
The will Of Ephraim Sells. circus
man, filed in the probate court at
| Columbus, Ohio, shows that he left
property worth half mill on dol
! lars TO his widow, Hester Sells.
George B. Richmond, a dentist. who
died al Lansing Mich, aged 40 years,
was the original inventor Of the
electric telephone which was N use
| before the Bell patent was fled.
Commissioner Peck, of Chicago.
| head OF the America branch of the
Paris Exposition, dismissed the en-
| ployees in the New York offices and
moved the headquarters II Chicago.
George P. Gore & Co., who longer
! than l----y years have conducted an
aucticn-hcuse in Chicago have made
an ass gnment. Assets are said to
| he $125,000, with lab lities at 1925, 900.
| Creek and Cherokee Indians are
/ making threats Of causing trouble be-
cause Of the efforts of the g2vern-
ment to force them to divide their
reservations ana own them in sever
atty.
= Because he commented on the ap-
! pearance of a bicyclist, George Bor-
ghers, a 5-year-old boy Of Maynard.
Iowa, was shot by the man and can
not survive the wound. The wheel
man was a stranger and made his
escape.
Reports are current III Los Angeles
that Mrs. JOHN Bladb. ~, the once
beautiful and wealthy leader Of
southern California society. has be-
come insane breeding over her elope-
ment with H. Russell Ward about
two years ago.
Henry R. Curtis and Edwin A.
Curtis, surviving partners of the firm
CT Edwin c. Burt G Co., New York,
dealers in shoes, assigned in Rock
land county, n. Y. The liabilities are
set down at 100000.
Albert M. Todd Of Kalamazoo, Mich.
who was elected to congress in the
third district by the silver fusionists
in 1896 by plurality Of 426, was re-
nominated by the democrats and pop
| ulists in joint convention.
Five persons, all negroes, three of
whom were women, were lynched at
| Clarendon, Ark, for the murder of
J. 7. Orr, which happened the night
Of July 30. Then Orr's wife suicided.
She was a Mansion girl.
| P. n. Wyckoff general freight agent
Of the Central railroad of New Jer-
J sey, died at his home in Elizabeth.
| For the last thirty years he had been
connected with the Ia lroad. He was
about SO years Of age.
Rev. Charles H. Re:chert probably
the oldest German preacher IN Ohio.
died at Columbus Of apoplexy. He
was born in Thuri2gia, Germany in
1907 and would have been 81 years of
| age had ne lived to Nov. II.
Colonel James o. b oadhead, min
lister to Switzerland under Cleve-
land, is dead in St. Louis. He leaves
a widow and three children, Mrs. W.
NJ. Horton, Miss Mary B. Broadhead
and Charles S. Broadhead
Many destitute argonauts camped
| along the beach in the neighborhood
of st. Michaels and Fort Getthere are
reported starving. They rely solely
upon the charity of the ratiyes fer
food enough to keep alive.
B DIS were opened for $12,6SS, 992 of
the new IL per cent. municipal
gold bonds of New York city. The
prices CHere4 ranged from par up to
| 109.851. 1t is possible the entire issue
will be sold for more than los.
The United States Spirits association
was permanently organized at Cincin-
natl. W. N. Hobart Of that city was
/ elected chairman of the executive
committee. P. J. Hennessy of Chi
cago is one of the seven members.
The large p an CT the Robinson
Basket company at Painsville, Ohio,
the largest grape basket factory in
! the United States. was entirely de-
| stroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000, Insurance, S55, 900.
| Mrs. Margaret Failon who died at
! the age Of III years was buried at
Kings Ferry, Cayuga, n. Y. She is
survived by nine children, eighteen
/ grandchildren and a large number CT
| great-graudchildre Her oldest
daughter is 50 and her oldest son
75 years of age.
! President James Eggleston of the
Manhattan Delivery company Of New
York, who for many years was identi-
| fed with the American Express COM
pany at Boston, has accepted the
presidency Of the Pacific Express com
pany, with headquarters in Omaha.
This company operates on the Gould
railway system.