Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-01-24

with a complete outfit for manufac-
turing it. |
Scott Wike, who served in the lower I
house of congress two terms, begin |
ming 1886 and who was assistant |
comptroller o. the currency during |
President Cleveland's last term, is at |
the point of death at his home near
Barry, III.
A. B. Sheldon. bookkeeper for |
Indian agent at Grey Horse, Okla |
homa, died He had been in the |
Indian service twenty-six years. The |
body was sent to Sheddens former
home at Brooklyn, N. Y.
At Albany, N. Y, Louis Currier,
aged 40 years, cut his wife's throat,
broke his son Arches head with a
baseball bat, took a dose of paris
green and then cut his own throat, dy-
ing soon afterward. He is said to
have been insane from drink.
The report of the appraiser appoint
ed by the New York surrogate to es-
tablish the valuation Of Ogden Goe-
let's personal property shows that it
was worth nearly 100000 instead of
being a trife over 100000, the esti
mate furnished by the family.
1t is reported that Mayor Van Wyck
will remove Police Commissioner York
and then join with other members of
the police board in retiring Chief
Devery with pension, Similar ac-
ton was taken when Former Chief of
Police McCullagh was retired.
James r. Chapman, electrical engi-
neer for the Union Traction company
Of Chicago, has been employed by
! Charles T. Yerkes, the street railway
magnate, to superintend the con-
! structiOn and equipment of his under
ground railway system in London.
Baroness Won Ketteler of Detroit,
formerly Miss Ledyard, widow of the
late general minister to China, will
sail for Germany the latter part of this
month. Her health is now completely
restored and she desires to visit her
late husbands mother, who is 80
years old.
On the steamer Tunisian, which az
|
were 33 lace-makers, bound for Zion
City, Wis. Acting upon advices from
the immigration bureau, the party
was not allowed to land until the case
was laid before the authorities at
Washington.
VIM. a. Eddy, the well-known
kite flyer, of Bayonne, N. j., says that
| CT he
wire hundreds of electric signals.
which may have come from some
other planet. The signals have been
usually in groups of three, regularly
timed like a Morse sounder.
A runaway engine in the Rock ISL
and railroad yards at Council Bluffs.
Iowa, crashed into and overturned
coach on the Wabash train, killing
Jesse Bell, porter, and injuring a wo-
man passenger and two children and
then collided with and disabled an
engine on Rock Island train.
Alaskan advices state that the Sitka
Indians, including the Eagle, Crow and
Frog clans, who have been quarreling
over the use of certain totems and
other emblems of their respective
clans, have decided to put aside their
differences and hereafter live the
lives of law-abiding American citizens
At West Point under the semi-annual
examination, just finished, twenty
cadets go back into private life.
Among them were: Third-class, Amos
M. Cook of Colorado; fourth-class, Ed
ward Z. Finn of Minnesota, Fred r.
Garages of Nevada, Albert T. Lyman
of South Dakota and James A. Etorrer
! of Idaho.
The state pardon board denied
the application for a pardon for James
H. Southall, who is serving a term in
the Minnesota penitentiary for the
famous government time check swim
die, the aggregate of which was esti-
mated at $450,000 His wife's poor
health was the reason given for ask
ing pardon.
Miles G. Owen of New York, repre-
sentative of Attorney Potter who is
looking after the $5,G0O,0OO estate of
William M. Rice, who died in New
York, Sept. %, under suspicious cir
cumstances, has found. in Stone
| county, Mo, three heirs of the million
aire, B. F. Rice, Bird Rice and Mrs.
Matte Clark.
| FRANK u. thompson, son of w. G.
thompson, wealthy farmer residing
in Alta township, Lee county. H.. has
been missing since last Thursday. His
family believe he has been KIDNAPPED
and is being held for ransom, and has
offered a reward of $500 for informa-
ton as to his whereabouts and the
capture of mis- abductors.
| Lewis Nowlin, a pioneer resident Of
Chicago, died at the home of his
granddaughter, Mrs. Goreton Valen-
tine, in Genesee, Wis He had
reached his ninety-third year. Mr..
Nowlin was born in Illinois eleven
years before it became a state. He
came to Chicago in 1915, opening
Jewelry store on Clark street.
Governor Mount pardoned William
! w. Kennedy, who was sentenced to
! life imprisonment in 1885 for the muir.
der of David Baker, at Greensburg,
Ind. Kate Kennedy, the prisoners
sister, secured his pardon. For sew
eral years, concealing her identity in
mems garb, she has travelled over the
| country trying to find the real MUIR
| derer.
At st. Louis the final report of the
grand jury, composed of prominent
| business men, who have been inyesti