Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-09-21


widow and each of his six children ST.
Charitable institutions get $4,000.
"Anse'' Hatfield, '~-S~- of the fac
ton which has been warning with the
McCoys in Kentucky, has been ar
rested.
Nellie Howard of Binghamton, New
York, trusted to the Scriptural injunc-
ton to anoint and died of a lung dis
case.
Michael Duffy, who was one of the
New York aldermen Of 1894, has filed
a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities,
1903, $40
Twelve members of the mob who
whipped Postmaster Crum at Peck,
Fla, have been held to the federal
court for trial.
The funeral of J. B. Eustis was at the
late residence in Newport.
The remains were inferred in Louis
vile, Ky.
Mrs. Paul Gilmore, wife Of the actor,
died suddenly at Dubuque Of heart fail
ure. She is survived by two babies
2 days old.
Harper Bros. announce that the
price of Harpers Magazine will here
after be % cents, instead of So cents,
as heretofore.
Young Critic, the once famous Aus
tralian pugilist, is dying in an insane
asylum where he was sent a few
months ago.
Officials of the government fear a
combination of Central and South
American countries against the
United States.
Mrs. Deborah A. Briggs, whose hus-
band was a partner of Edgar Allan Poe
in the publishing business, died at the
age of "a in New York.
A. Hamilton, Ohio, firm has shipped
to Yokohama for the Japanese govern
ment equipment for one Of the fines
paper mills in the world.
John Mccarthy of Brooklyn says
that there was no basis for the report
that he had purchased the famous rae,
ing stallion, Joe Patchen.
w. J. Calhoun confirms the report
of his purpose to resign from the inter
state commerce commission and enter
upon the practice Of law in Chicago.
A $4,000 mausoleum has been erected
over the grave Of Thomas O'Donnell il
Railway, n. j., by an unknown woman
whose life he saved eleven years ago.
Charles Bauman Of Chicago, who
formerly conducted a mercantile bust
ness in Dallas, Tex, filed a petition il
bankruptcy. Liabilities $4,000, NJ
assets.
The executive committee of thu
Western Union Telegraph Compan!
have recommended the declaration o
the regular quarterly dividend of \
per cent.
The national encampment Sons o
Veterans has elected Asa W. Jones o
Youngstown commander in chief an(
A. L. Softer Of Des Moines, senior vice
commander.
A coal train on the Delaware, Lacka
wanna & Western dashed into the rea
end of a freight train at Nayaug, Pa.
killing Joseph Parry and Patrick Null
len, brakemen.
Chief Justice Charles B. Roberts il
dead at Westminster, Md, aged 5
years. He was a democratic membe
of the forty-fourth and forty-fiftl
congresses.
DR.. Nehmia Nickerson of Meriden
Conn, says that in his practice he ad
ministers chloroform to end the suf
fering of patients who are i'll beyonC
! the hope of recovery.
Former Gov VIM. J. Stone, of Mis-
souri,, acting chairman of the nationa
democratic committee, will make fiv,
speeches in kentucky for the regular
democratic ticket.
In Chicago Martin J. Wiley, an en-
gineer, was shot by his wife. He dieC
shortly afterward. The woman's lift
had been made miserable by the il
treatment of her husband.
Henry Vickers, a well-to-dO mer
chant and farmer doing business in thu
country five miles from Valdosta, Ga.
was assasinated for his money. Three
negroes have been arrested.
Mayor Jones of Toledo, now an in
dependent candidate for governor O
Ohio, has issued an address in which
he scores both political parties, saying
that they cannot live without bosses.
Warren L. Aborn, we'll known il
racing circles, and at one time owner
of fast string of horses, was suffo
Gated in a Chicago fire that destroyed
a livery stable over which he lived.
George NJ. Valentine, the defaulting
bank cashier of Perth Amboy. sueG
Edward Marks, said to be a partner O.
Phil DAILY at Long Branch, for $4,000
alleged to have been lost at roulette.
II is said that another effort will BIZ
made to bring the national organiza
ton Of the brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers into the ranks of the
international order of railway men.
DR. Richard H. Cunningham, of Col
umbia university, asserts that he car
bring the dead to life when death has
method is the injection of serum into
the veins. He claims that the heart
does not altogether cease to beat, 6
fibrillar motion continuing for some
time after the ordinary beat ceases.
Chicago union fathers were locked
out by the bosses. AS result, the
work on many buildings is at stand
still, and before the warfare is over
other building trades may be involved
The armor for the battleship Wis
consin, in course of construction al
the Union Iron Works, IS now arriv-
ing, but the vessel will not be turned
over to the government until next
spring.