Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-08-29

is one of the healthiest cities in the
country.
Mrs. Marguerite Penbruin WIS
killed by lightning while hanging
clothes in the attic of her house,
Chicago.
The civil service commission the |
past year examined 46,763 persons, of
whom 35,025 passed and 1889 secured
positions.
At Whitesboro, Tex. ALI Wilder
(colored) was burned at the stake for
the murder of Mrs. Caldwell, far
mer's wife.
Rev. R. F. Beadles, pastor Of the
Central Methodist Episcopal Church
south. Portsmouth, Va. died Of ty-
phoid fever.
Colonel L. Petit, the well-kncw1
horseman, was severely hurt at Bar
ron, Wis. trying to head off rul
away team.
Pennsylvania republicans in state
convention nominated a state ticket,
indorsed Quay, and denounced yellow
journalism.
C. H. Faulkener. ex-collector of
taxes at New Britain. was arrested,
charged with embezzling S16,500 of
city money.
Lightning struck hospital at Elgin
and shocked five doctors and nurse
engaged in performing an operation
on a patient.
Albert Frank. head of the advertis-
| ing firm of Albert Frank & Co.. Of
| New York, died Of apoplexy. He was
| 67 years old.
Sixteen persons are reported to
have been drowned by the capsizing
of the steamer City Of Golconda. near
| Paducah, Ky.
Miss Hilda Hoyne, daughter of
| Bishop Hoyne of Eau Claire, and Rev.
Christian Thompson of Cresco, Ia,
were married.
Captain w. S. Gogan, a well known
South Dakota politician and one of
the founders of the populist party in
| that state. is dead.
A sensation was sprung in the pure
food case at Toledo, Ohio, by the
judge making a charge of bribery
against the Arbuckles.
Robert Lebaudy, son of French
sugar magnate, gave $4,000 to the
building fund of the new French
hospital in New York.
Strong naval forces will be sent tc
the Isthmus of Panama notwithstand
the Colombian authorities claim that
traffic is unobstructed.
l Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones gave
a ball at Newport which is said tt
have eclipsed all former entertain
ments of the kind there.
The :. Wright plant of the Con
tinental Tobacco company, in Rich
mond, was destroyed by fire. Loss
100000, partially insured.
Lieut.-Com. R. Burton Rodney
United States navy (retired), has
filed an answer to the petition fol
divorce by Margaret Rodney.
A total of s554,229 has been re
ceived by the government through the
sale OF lots in county seats in the
newly opened Oklahoma lands.
A sixteen-year-old messenger boy
Of Benjamin Allen & Co.. Chicago
embezzled $1,000 of the firms money
and lost it betting on the races.
John Sch8m committed suicide il
the morgue of the Presbyterian hospi
tai, New York, where he had gone to
view the remains of his fancee.
Annoyed by Cold Spring Harbor's
summer visitors, Walter Jennings, 6
Standard Oil magnate, has bought the
two big hotels there and closed them
DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews declared
it as justifiable to preach creed you
don't approve of as to support q
pose.
The 17-months-old daughter OF
| David Roose of Elkhart. Ind, died in
a fit of coughing from effects Of 4
peanut shell which had lodged in hel
throat,
A deal is reported under way &c
divide the Wabash road, part of the
line being added to the Pennsylvani3
system and the rest 10 the Missouri
Pacific.
BY the explosion Of Finch shei
at target practice at Fort Riley, Kan.
one soldier was killed, three were
fatally wounded and a number severe
ly hurt.
! DR.. John NJ. Dodson and other pro
fessors of Rush Medical college are
to make test of the effect Of various
foods on the mental development oil
children.
Receiver Raynor has sued Guy c.
Major, the largest stakeholder Of the
Seventh National bank, New York, tt
recover a $4,000 assessment levied on
T., his shares.
Captain W. J. Walter Of the editorial
staff Of the Dallas Morning News died
of heart disease at Dallas, Tex. He
served under Stonewall Jackson il
the confederate army.
Rev. NJ. D. Lilly, for more than
thirty years father superior of the
Church Of st. Vincent Ferrer. is dead
at his home in New York. He had
been blind for four years.
A mob at Ashville, Ala, attempted
to lynch a negro just sentenced to
hang. The sheriff's posse resisted
and held the courthouse in a battle
in which three were wounded.
/ Mrs Georgia A. Hewitt, New York
state lecturer and organizer of the
Womans Christian temperance union
and also former grand superintendent
! Of Juvenile templars, is dead
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