Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-12-26
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Senator Sewell of New Jersey is in
is likely to cause his death.
John Fox, jr., son of the president of
the New York democratic club, was
disinherited in his mothers will
DR.. R. S. Huidekoper, chief sur
geon at Camp Thomas during the
recent war, died at Philadelphia.
Thomas A Edison is in a bad
physical condition, due mostly to the
fact that he does not eat enough.
Joseph Wadsworth Higkle was
sentenced at Peoria TO be hanged
Feb. ii for the murder of his wife.
Miss Hazel Singer of Chicago mar
ried Prince Ghika of Roumania in Paris.
The bride was decorated by the sui
tan
William Maupin is on trial charged
with the attempted murder of Post
master C. E. Johnson of Marquisville,
Iowa.
Alexander Kirk, delirious from
smallpox, escaped into the woods at
Amherst, Wis, and was frozen to
death.
One hundred and forty-eight bust
ness men of Omaha were indicted
for maintaining gambling slot ma
chimes
Mrs. Arthur A. Kimball, formerly
Miss Anna Moran and for many years
resident of Langdon, Mimi, died in
| Chicago.
At a consistory in Rome the pope
made an imprisoned address, de-
nouncing the suggested divorce laws
! for Italy.
At st. Cloud, Mimi, Bernard
Brady, aged Is years, who came to
| Stearns county from Germany In
1865 died.
Miss Harriet Murphy, prominent
| in society and church work at Pitts
burg, KY, was killed in a battle with
a burglar.
Captain Voss arrived at Sydney,
| New South Wales, in the 40-foot
canoe in which he is sailing around
the world
Disastrous floods in Pennsylvania
caused the loss of several lives and
damage of more than 100000 to
property.
The report of State Superintendent
BayIiss shows nearly 100000 pupils
in the Illinois public schools during
the last year.
1t is expected that, owing to the
agitation in Mayo and Roscommon,
Ireland, the crimes act will be pro-
/ claimed there
! Cyrus H. Sensiba, a prominent mill
owner at Atkinson, Mich, fell across
revolving circular saw His body
was almost cut in two.
Max O'ReH Announces that he will be
operated upon for appendicitis. and
that if he survives he will leave
America, never to return.
Duluth loggers report that the
! swamps are frozen solidly and good
roads may be maintained The late
cold snap put them in shape
Charles Rooney, brakeman on the
ging road, in Wisconsin, was killed
while setting brakes on a train.
Rev DR.. L. G. Broughton, the
Atlanta minister who has been
called to fremont Temple was i'll
iured by a street car in Boston
Bishop Linehan, who died at Mar
shalltown, was reared in Dubuque and
served as an altar boy in the Cathe-
dral under Archbishop Hennessey.
At Wells, Mimi, a wealthy farmer
named Schumacher committed sui
eide. He feared he was going to lose
his money at the hands of relatives.
Mrs. Myrtle Phinney, a South Da-
kOta mail driver. who has a route
north of Miller, was seriously burned.
| While she was alone and ten miles
Every one of the 10000 employ, s
of the American Express company N
the United States will receive from
the company a Christmas present of
$40.
It is said that the discontinuance of
micrOscOpical meat inspections in the
United States means that Germany's
imports of American pork will cease
Jan. >
The storm in Maine caused dam
age estimated at $2,OO0,OO0 Bridges.
houses and millions of feet of logs
were carried away by the swollen
rivers
DR.. Matthew d. Main, in a public
statement. said he and his colleagues
look to congress to pay the
physicians who attended President
! Mckinley.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has had
plans prepared for a S250,0OO adj
dition to the Newport hospital, which
| she will erect as a memorial to her
! husband
Secretary Gage according to a
well known financier, will retire from
the presidents cabinet within a
month and return to the banking
business.
At Ottumwa George D. Dubose. I'M
til recently confidential bookkeeper of
the Iowa and Illinois Coal company.
| is accused of embezzling s1.7OO from
the company
DR.. John Duncan Quackenbos pro-
fessor of psychology at Columbia col
lege, hypnotized an actress who
suffered from stage fright and en-
abIed her to make a successful first
appearance.
The American tobacco trust has in
vaded Germany. 1t has bought the
Jasmatzi cigarette factory at Dresden
and Kyriazia Egyptian cigarette con-