Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-09-05

Dury, Ct., was burned u the SlOuilu
The 100 guests escaped but many of
their effects were lost. The loss is
$4,000
Professor F. V. Hubbard, superin-
tendent of schools at Red Wing,
Mimi, was killed while watching a
road scraper, by a lever on the
machine striking him and breaking
his neck
Coroner Simon, in a verdict on the
disaster at waterworks Crib No. 2,
where a dozen lives were lost 10 days
ago, finds the city of Cleveland, the
subcontractors and the crib engineer
jointly responsible.
Miss Susie Myrtle Hanson of Med
ford, Just back from a year of study
in Germany, and eager to begin ner
junior year in Tufts college, was
drowned in the Saco river at Frye
burg, Me. while bathing.
At Atlantic City, Quartermaster
| Joseph Matthews of the cruiser New
ark, who had just been married to
shortly before undergoing an opera
ton for an injured spine. died.
A corners jury at Cripple Greek,
Col, in the case of the killing of
Sam" Strong, the millionaire mine
owner, by Grant Crumley, has rem
| dered a verdict to the effect that the
killing was without generalization
| Ira Godfrey, a farmer aged so
years, died at Bussey. Iowa, from the
| effect of carbolic acid poisoning.
| While under the influence of liquor
the bottle of acid broke in his pocket
and the liquid became mixed with the
| liquor.
The list of dead and missing in the
| explosion of the steamer on the Della
ware river is growing larger. Nine
are known to be dead and twenty
are missing. 1t is charged the boat
was racing when the explosion &c
Cured.
Trustees of Gale college, a Presby-
terrain institution at Galesburg, Wis,
| to the Norwegian Lutheran synod in
western Wisconsin. The Lutherans
will remodel the buildings and open it
this fall.
1t is reported that Dan COughlin
acquitted of the murder Of DR.. Cronin
in Chicago, is dead in south America
The engagement of Miss Abbie Al
drich, daughter Of Senator and Mrs.
Nelson w. Aldrich, to John D. Rock :
Teller, Jr.. is announced.
The bids for supplying postaLcards
to the government for the next four
years were opened at Washington
| There were seven bids, the lowest
being that Of the present contractor
Albert Daggett, whose works are To-
Gated at Piedmont, W. Va.
A man registered as F. B. Sheldon
Of Boston committed suicide by shoot
ing himself at hotel in Philadelphia
He left 2 note forbidding his friends
if he had any, to recognize his re-
mains He left an envelope contain
ing 50 addressed to Mrs. Archibald
Nesbitt
The National Association of Mexi-
can War Veterans will be held at
| Cleveland Sept. II, 13, and IA. This
is expected to be one of the greatest
meetings in the associations history
and perhaps the last one, for the Old
heroes Of ffty-fve years ago. The
railroad fare is one cent a mile
The steamer ST. Paul has arrived at
San Francisco from Nome via ST
Michael's with $1,5OO,O0O in gold dust.
It brings information that Judge
Wickersham will not hold court at
| Nome during the temporary absence
Of Judge Arthur H. Noyes and that
cases now pending are to be tried at
Unalaska.
William McLeroy, 40, a former
school commissioner, while riding a
bicycle at Rochester, N. Y, was run
into by a carriage driven by two
women, who turned the corner on the
wrong side of the street. He was
thrown violently to the pavement,
suffering a depressed fracture of the
skull. He will probably die.
A dispatch received at the general
land Office in Washington reports that
the total receipts from the sale Of
lots in the new towns in Oklahoma to
and includine the oath, aggregated
S659,427 The sales were distributed
as follows: Lawton, 1868 lots for
1851, 805; Anadarko, 1913 lots for
SITS, 245; Hobart, 1923 lots for $l2S.-
377. Assistant Commissioner Rich
ards, who has had general charge of
the sales, estimates that the DISPOSE
ton of the remaining lots will hrin o
the grand total up to 100000.
Sir Frederick Robinson, baronet
clerk of the surrogate court, Osgood
Hall, and son Of the late Sir Lucern
Robinson, was drowned in Fairy lake,
near Huntsville, Ont, where he was
summering. The body was found in
three inches of water. The deceased
was subject to fits and it is supposed
he fell into the water from a boat
house
James Sweat, a special deputy
sheriff, was shot from ambush and
killed near Muscogee. Fla. Deputy
Sheriffs Vaughan and Holston and
Sweat arrested three men and three
women at a negro dance for fighting
and started on a special train for
Pensacola. Men secreted in the
woods fired into the train. killing
| Sweat
The turnpike raiders have broken
loose in the vicinity Of Goodletsville
Tenn, and attempts were made to
wreck two bridges On the Dickerson
pike. Dynamite was used and the