Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-04-25
total number of typhoid cases in III,

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Hausberg, WestphaI:a. Germany, one
Of the pioneer .c-i refiners OF western
Pennsylvania and for 81 years presi-
dent Of the Reineke-Wilson company,
brass foun5ers, died at Pittsburg, aged
81 years.
Chicago packing interests may in
wade the far northwest. Representa-
ttves of the Cudahy Packing company
are negotiating for territorial con-
cessicns in return for the establish
ment OF q modern packing plant at
Calgary.
A party Of four people, W lille cross
ing the tracks Of the Lehigh Valley
railroad at South Wilkesbarre, were
fun down by the Buffalo express, going
north. Morris O'Conneu and Mrs.
Frank Cranmer were killed and
Frank Cranmer was injured.
At Wilmington, Del, during the
violent rainstorm, nine prisoners es
capped from Sussex county jail, at
Georgetown. They left note saying
that they were tired of waiting for 5ho
court to meet, as the health officials
forbid a meeting on account of small
poX.
The death, in Phoenix, Ariz., Of Mrs.
and unguarded in her house, was
great wealth in jewels and precious
stones. The husband of the woman
is in Jail awaiting trial for insanity,
and the sheriff has taken charge of
the jewels.
At Omaha, Col John Roy Musick
died Of heart failure Injuries re-
ceived while Iescuing the injtred after
a cyclone at KirksviIe, Mo-, were
causes which led to his death. Colonel
Musick devoted a greater part of his
life to writing historical stories for
young people.
The Kentucky Distilleries and Ware
house company-the Bourbon whisky
combine-has decided to enter the
grain business and is looking for a
suitable site near Louisville, Ky, on
which to erect a 100000 busheI eleya-
tor. The company will not only handle
all it's own grain, but will transact a
general business.
Phineas Merrick Blodgett is dead at
the residence Of his daughter, Mrs. J.
P. Hart, 145 Ashland boulevard, Chi
cago aged 81 years. He was a son
of Admatha Blodgett, a soldier who
served in the revolutionary war and
crossed the Delaware with Washing
ton. Interment will be in Groton, n Y,
! beside the body Of the soldier.
Sue Sing, a Chinaman, 40 years old
pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree before Justice Fursman
in the criminal term of the supreme
court of New York, and was sentenced
to life Imprisonment. Sing was
charged with the killing Of All Fee
another Chinaman, of Newark, N. j..
in Pell street, New York, September
21.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed at New York against
tho Deer Park Brewing company, of
Port jervis, New York, the petition
alleging claims aggregating $52,403
The petitioning creditors are George
F. OFT, Philadelphia, $24,32S; Philip
Haibach, Philadelphia, S1S,91S, and
William M. Schwonker, New York
SAIL.
Archibald st. Clair Gordon, who
claimed to be of noble English birth
recently won the affections of Agnes
Lillian Smith, a member of The
younger society set of Tacoma. The
wedding was set for July. Investiga
ton Of Gordon's claims followed, and
he was found to be farm hand. He
was arrested for issuing bogus
| checks. The wedding is off,
Major Joseph Smith Brice, the old
est graduate of West Point, died in
Chicago at the age of SO. He was born
| at Georgetown, d. c., on Sept. q, 1908
and was graduated at West Point with
distinction in 1929, one of his class
mates being General Robert E. Lee
He served throughout the civil war on
the staffs of Generals Wadsworth and
Barnard. He retired from the army
/ and practiced law He was the father
| Of General Lloyd S. Brice, formerly
paymaster general of New York state
and later editor of the North Ameri-
can Review.
The Rev. Justin D. Fulton, D. D., of
Somerville, Mass, died Of paralysis,
aged 70. He was Baptist clergy
man, and in 1878 was selected as pas
tor Of fremont Temple During recent
years he gained notoriety by his cru
SADIE against the Roman Catholic
church. His book, Why Priests
Should Wed, was interdicted by An
thony Comstock, and several passages
| were eliminated before it was allowed
| to go On sale. In 1879 he was sus-
pended by the New York Baptist Pas
tors association, but later was rein
stated. While preaching in Cape
Breton against the Catholic church he
was stoned and for while chained to
a lamp post
Professor Henry r. Rowland of the
Johns Hopkins university died sud-
denly at his home in Baltimore. He
was born in Honesdale, Pa, Nov. 81,
1913, and was graduated from Rens-
selaer Polytechnic institute in 1870 as
civil engineer. In 1876 he accepted
the chair Of physics with charge of
the laboratory at the Johns Hopkins
university, which he held until his
death About fifteen years ago he
gained worldwide reputation by his
large diffraction gratings, which are
ruled by a method of his own, directly
on concave mirrors The photographs
Of the solar spectrum that he succeed
ed in making with these gratings sur
pass anything else Of the kind that