Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-10-03

Pa, committed suicide
at Winona.
Daniel A. Ray Of Oak Park, H.,
United States marshal for Hawaii, died
at Honolulu
The insane asylum at Norfolk, Neb.,
was burned and three patients prob
ably persisted.
The French Benevolent society will !,
erect and equip 100000 hospital in ]
New York city.
Mrs Mary Hagood, wife of farmer
near Higginsville, Mo-, was mysteri-
ously murdered.
Troops have been asked for to sup
press the riotous striking miners near
jacksonville, KY.
Miss Sarah Williams, aged 80, of
Muncie gave her fiance $1,000, and he
never came back.
F., Improvements costing between ST.
100000 and 100000 are planned by
the Wisconsin Central
George Shibylenski, nile blowing
in field near Laporte, Ind, was
gored to death by bull.
The foundation was laid for mOnu-
ment to Washingtons soldiers who
persisted at Valley Forge.
General Corbn and Miss Edith Pat
ten are 20 marry Nov. 6, the date Sc
lectcd by President Mckinley.
Frederick Fraley of Philadelphia
president of the national board Of
trade is dead. aged 81 years.
w. H. Sedden of Marshall, Mimi,
died there. He was the owner Of the
Youmans ,240-acre wheat farm.
DR.. Wilfred G. Fralick announces
that tests of his fluid infusion prove
conclusively that it can cure consump-
ton.
The Commercial Pacific Cable com
pany has been chartered to lay cable
from California to the Philippine isl
ands.
The American board of missions will
pay the ransom demanded by Bulgar,
. ian bandits for the release of Miss
Stone.
J. Pierpont Morgan is making plans
to take 100 Episcopal ministers to the
San Francisco convention in a special
train.
Galesburg capitalists will bore fol-
oil in Fulton county, H., where options
: on 500 acres of land have been Sc
cured.
Simon Sterne. the wellknown law
yer and writer on economic topics, dice
in New York from stroke of apo
: plexy.
President Shaffer accepted the chal
:, ilenge of Gompers and Mitchell to show
, the blame on their part in the stee
, strike.
. w. L. Taylor, attorney general Of
Indiana, was nearly kidnapped at Evans
! vile, Ind, by mistake for Ex-Governor
+ Taylor.
> Edward Kenyon, aged II, was sen
! fenced to life Imprisonment at Free
! port, for a crime to which he con
O fessed.
y One fireman was killed and others
severely hurt at the burning Of the
: Freund factory in South Canal street
J. Chicago.
Y A fire in Dreiske's coalyards, a
/ Mendell street and Armitage avenue
0 Chicago, destroyed property valued a
: $250,OO0
e Two former shareholders in a Ulal
/ mine where 200 persons were killed b!
0 an explosion have given $4,000 to aiC
S survivors.
S Miss B. Agnes Lane refused to ac
y in the Don Caesar de Bazan compan!
in New York because she had to be
spanked on the stage.
George w Bowman, a wealthy Chi
, cago mine owner, has agreed to give
! the Peoples church of America $1,000,
: 600 to further its work.
The American Patriotic Educationa
! League has been organized in Milwau
. kee for the purpose of cleaning the
country of anarchists.
John G. Nicolay, private secretar!
to President Lincoln, died at the home
of his daughter in Washington aftel
an Illness of several years.
4 Robert Johnson, one of six negroe!
e who tried to hold up a Baltimore an(
Chic freight train near Connellsv;lle
d Pa, was MORALLY wounded.
General Jose Cheves of Abiquiql
celebrated his Tooth birthday a
Santa Fe. He served under the kins
of Spain, republic of Mexico and the
United States.
Rev. DR.. George T. Purves, D. D.
LII. D., pastor of the Fitch Avenue
8 Presbyterian church and moderator O
the presbytery of New York, died O
heart failure.
q Lincoln's body was placed in it's fina
= tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Spring
field, Ill The remains were positive
2 ly identified before putting the caske
I in its cement grave.
4 At Rolla, Mo-, brought to bay in 6
barn by the pursuing posse, ]. S. Cros
: we'll, instructor in the state school Of
: mines, who murdered Miss Powell
: shot himself, dying instantly.
The citizens union held a conven
g ton in New York and nominated the
/ anti-Tammany ticket agreed upon by
4 the organizations opposed to Croker's
rule. Seth Low was named for mayor
1 Patrolman Edward O'Neill, who made
, public the system by which New York
: policemen are compelled to pay bride
to avoid undesirable beats, was dis
l missed from the force by Commits
sioner Murphy.
The first race between Columbia
L and Shamr0pl< IT was foiI,ra I>o