Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-31
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
Domestic.

Alexander Bright was killed by his
son in a quarrel near Ianthe, Mo.
Three sons of a farmer near Spring
Valley H., were asphyXiated in well.
John and George Johnson, brothers,
were killed by the cars near Brazil,
Ind
A boy of 10 was given a life sen
tence to the Michigan city penitentiary
for murder.
A band of thieves plundered num-
Der Of places in the vicinity Of Ian
caster, Ohio.
Superintendent of West Point re-
ported that hazing has ceased at the
military school.
Czolgosz is to be executed Oct. 29 at
a. m. Twenty-six invitations to the
affair were issued
Sir Thomas Upton is negotiating
with a sDip-builder at Fife for new
America cup racer.
The body of Cushman K. Davis was
taken from ST. Paul for interment in
Arlington cemetery.
An aged groom and bride at Mari
shotgun and revolver.
Eva M. Pitts, sister-in-laW of the
late Fred Douglass, died at her former
home in Washington.
The contractor on the new govern
ment printing office, was fined $17,T3
for delay in the work.
A universal museum to cost $40
O00,0 is an interesting project
launched in New York.
The Virginia constitutional cOnven-
ton, by vote of Sc to II, inserted the
freedom of-speech clause in the bill
of rights.
Reports before the Universalist gen
eral convention at Buffalo indicate a
steady growth of that church in the
south.
The walls of an elevator gave way
at Manitowoc, and 10000 bushels OF
corn went into the river.
AS indicated from registration and
comparison, the total vote of greater
New York will be 1850.
Three hundred sophomores and
freshmen at Armour Institute fought
all day over class pennants.
General Hills daughter was a prom
inent figure in confederate veterans
convention at Petersburg, Va.
Loyal Legion in convention at Phila
delphia elected General John M
Schofield commander-in-chief.
Sir Thomas j. Upton will sci
Shamrock II, if he can find a purchase
willing to give the price asked.
The Monon road is believed to have
secured controlling interest in The
Evansville and Terre Haute line.
Henry Wiseman, a prisoner at Jack
son. Mich, confessed to the murde
of Mrs. Huss, near Royal Oak, Mich.
James d. Wood, who drew thu
capital prize in the Lawton (Okla.
land lottery, is dead of typhoid fever
Rev. D. N. Frantz and wife of Fair
view Kas., were killed near Dakota
H., by a tree falling on their carriage
George burden, who was convicted
of murder in Pulaski county, ILL.,, wa
granted new trial by the the supreme
court.
Eugene Thiebaut, formerly frs
eecretary of the French embassy, wa
united in marriage to Nine. Regin;
Rengifo
The Pennsylvania supreme court de
clared invalid the ripper bill' relatin:
to the board of revision of taxes o
Philadelphia.
In Chicago David Bernstein, II year!
old, stabbed Harry Himmelforb, 4;
cripple, through the heart with wire
and killed him.
The Borden mills at Fall River ad
vanced wages 5 per cent. Other own
ers refused to follow suit and strike
may be declared.
Henry Wiseman, a convict at Jack
son. Mich, declared that William
Hale, a mulatto, killed Mrs. Huss q
Royal Oak. Mich.
Victor O'Brien post graduate stu
dent of Chicago University, made in
sane by too much study and disap
pointment in love.
a negro was burned at the stake a
Balltown, La, for attacking a woman
after robbing her husbands store. He
confessed his guilt.
President Roosevelt returned tC
Washington accompanied by lis
daughter Alice and his brother-in-law
Commander Cowles.
Bertha Ludeman, years old, was
burned to death at Appleton aftel
rescuing two other children from &
burning stubble-field.
President Roosevelt while driving
near Pennington, Conn, jumped a
fence and helped a farmer round III
some refractory cattle.
Cory Willard, the son of a Milwau
kee clergyman, was convicted of crime
in Chicago for the tenth time, the
charge being burglary.
In a battle at Waco, Texas, ex-
Sheriff w T. Harris and his son were
killed by DR.. ]. G. Lovelace and his
stepson, z. t. Reynolds.
Twenty persons were injured in a
wreck on the Burlington road at Elk
line, Ia. Two passenger cars and an
express car were derailed.
A false alarm G fire in a theater at
louisville, KY, caused a panic in
which 20 persons were seriously in
iured one of whom may die.
Securities and moneys stolen from
the Merchants National bank at
Lowell, Mass, were mysteriously re-
turned during Sunday night.
The American Missionary associa-
ton in annual convention approved Of
President Roosevelt's action in enter