Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-05


Fayetteville On. " National bank,
convicted Of making false reports to
the comptroller of the currency, was
released from prison on a special COM
mutation granted by President McKin-
ley.
Rev. c. S. Dudley, for five years
pastor of centenary NJ. E. church at
Beatrice, Neb., was transferred by
Bishop Warren to be pastor Of the
Oakland NJ. E. church, Chicago. DR..
Dudley expects to-~Teach Chicago about
Oct. 10.
At Chattanooga, Judge Estill con-
vened a special term of the grand jury
for the purpose of indicting Julia Nor
rison, who killed Actor Frank Leiden.
Miss Morrison, it is expected, will be
tried at the present session Of the
criminal court.
The Prison congress elected S. W.
McClaughey Of Illinois, Rev. DR.. Hen
derson of Chicago, Rev. J. Milligan,
Pennsylvania; Gen. R. Brinkerhoff,
Ohio, and the president, Edward S.
Wright, delegates to the international
congress in Brussels.
At Hastings, Neb., Miss Viola Hor-
locker, charged with attempting to
murder Mrs. C. F. Morey Mayall by
sending her poisoned candy, was ar
raigned in court and her case continued
until the December term. Her bond
for $4,000 was renewed.
Al Charleston, H., John Lawyer,
Jr.. and Ed. Jones, farmers, quarreled
and Jones was slashed in the neck
with a pocket knife dying in less than
five minutes. The Lawyers are we'll
known people. Jones was a farm
hand Lawyer was arrested.
Colored men in Chicago tried to
lynch James Washington, a detective,
because he ran down and surrendered
to the Tennessee officials Edward Cur
tbs, an escaped convict. The police
rescued Washington from the lynchers
after using their clubs freely
DR.. Herman Wadsworth Hayely, 35
years old, inspector of Latin in Wes-
leyan university and member Of the
| faculty, committed suicide at Boston.
He was one of the finest classical
scholars in the country. Lately he had
been haunted by a fear of losing his
mind.
| Nine persons we're badly burned, one
probably fatally, in a lodging house
in the South End, Boston. The fol-
lowing are at the city hospital: Mrs.
Rena Butler, who is on the danger list;
Miss Sarah B. Lovelace, Miss Lillian
Tyresell, Hewitt Lovelace, Waverly
Greene, Chesterfield Stewart.
At Toledo, it is said Mayor Jones
will file with the secretary Of state his
Ipetition as a non-partisan candidate
for governor of Ohio. There will be
| $4,000 names on the list, and this
number, it is claimed at the Jones
headquarters, will be increased to 100,-
| 900 by the middle of October.
The Rodgers ranch, in Beaver
county, Okla, and the Childress cattle
ranch, in the panhandle Of Texas, cor
| tanning 100000 acres and upon which
| 100000 cattle are now grazing, have
been purchased by r. L. Hillison OF
Fort Worth, Texas, for the Swift Pack
ing house interests in Chicago.
Rev. John NJ Life, chaplain Of the
seventh Ohio volunteers, was found
guilty by the Ohio Methodist confer
ence of conduct unbecoming a minister
of the gospel, in using disrespectful
| language to Rose Lee Burch, daughter
of the lieutenant colonel of the regi-
ment, and was expelled from the min
istry.
At Kansas City, fourteen principal
merchants have been notified to appear
in court charged with violation of the
law for the regulation Of depar tment
stores, in that they refused to furnish
statements showing the lines of goods
sold and the volume of business trans
acted The constitutionality of the
law will be tested.
Captain Francis S. Haggerty, U. S.
| ~, retired, died in New York, aged
80 years. His first service was on the
schooner Experiment at Charleston,
S. c., during the notification excite
ment of 1888 AS a lieutenant he went
with Commodore Perry on the Japan
| expedition Of 1925, and he served
| through the civil war.
An Omaha-St Louis train load of
eXcurSionists returning from the
exposition was wrecked on a bridge
over the Platte river and miraculously
| escaped injury. The track spread just
before the train passed from the
bridge and the rails were torn up. The
bridge partially gave way and the en-
CINE and two coaches toppled over and
fell short distance, landing on some
Of the under timbers.