Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-14
Domestic.

Stephen Bailey st. Clair county
pioneer, died at Lebanon. H.. aged 50
years.
William Thomas, q blacksmith of
Smithville, Mo, was found frozen TO
death.
Andrew Carnegie denied that he
was offered a baronetcy by King Ed
ward.
A mob raided a saloon near Somcr-
set, KY. and killed the proprietor's
child.
Chicago labor interests have formed
an anti-injunction league to fight court
rulings.
Rich strikes of gold are reported
along Conglomerate creek, in the
Klondike.
Thieves took $4,000 worth of dia-
mOnds from Cincinnati jeweler' S
show window.
Thirty buildings were destroyed by
fire in the new oil settlement of Jen-
nings, La.
The widow of A. Oakley Hall, former
mayor of New York, has adopted a
stage career.
A negro was burned at the stake
near Moxie, Miss, for assaulting a
VIII tie woman.
William Shreve, well known farm
err dropped dead at Boone Grove, Ind,
aged 40 years.
Grover Cleveland made the principal
address at founders day exercises Of
Carnegie institute.
The Methodist bishops decided that
deaconesses may both teach and do
evapgelistic work.
A man and woman arrested in St.
Louis had $500 of money stolen in a
Montana train robbery.
Nine persons were burned to death
at Hurley, Wis, in the fire which de,
strOyed the KlOndike theater.
Roy Knee of Rock Falls, ILL.,, re-
turned after tramping for five years.
His parents thought he was dead.
A suicide at COvington, KY, is prob
ably Henry c. Hastings of Chicago,
who shot and killed Lawyer Hillard.
George c. Mosier. aged 50 years:
died suddenly at Hebron, Ind. He
was justice of the peace for 80 years
The Spanish steamer Montserrat
stopped at New York on her way to
Spain with the body OF Admiral Vii
lamil.
An automobile driven by e. Ritten-
'house Miller. of Philadelphia, fatally
injured John ODonnell near Devon
| Pa.
Mrs. Margaret Kirkpatrick, noted
| rattlesnake killer, died at Wheeling
w. Va, in her one hundred and fourth
| year.
| The nine persons who were carried
away from San Francisco in an es,
capped captive balloon returned to that
city in safety
! Charles Dunn of Walen, Ind. was
convicted and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for The murder of 1O-year,
| old Alice COthrell.
Adjutant General Corbin and Miss
Edyth Patten were married by Cardi.
nal Gibbons in the presence of 600
guests at Washington.
Ex-United States Senators Petit.
grew and Butler are interested in the
Consolidated Liquid Air company, in
cOrpOrated at Albany.
1t is said Irish nationalist in New
York denounced John E. Redmond for
his alleged inclination toward the
British government.
James Middleton, fireman Of Phil
adelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
freight train, was killed in a collision
at Claymont, Delaware.
c. B. Thompson of Port Huron,
Mich, supreme finance keeper of the
Knights of Maccabees, confessed to a
shortage in his accounts.
A rigid inquiry is being made into
the death of i children in ST. Louis,
alleged to have been due to lockjaw
from diphtheria antitoxin.
Chicago corporations are preparing
to make q strong fight against the as.
sessment of their property as directed
in The recent tax decision.
Policeman Edward Koeller and his
brother William are charged by the
coroner's jury in Chicago with the
murder of the, formers wife.
John A. Chanler was declared sane
by the county court at Charlottesville,
Va, which refused to appoint conf
mittee to manage his property.
DR. c. n. Spalter of Chicago was
killed by the accidental discharge of
a gun while hunting ducks in a naph-
tina launch with a doctor friend.
Peg Leg Williams, manager of the
first negro exodus from North Caro-
lima, who in 1889 narrowly escaped
iynching, has returned to the state.
The commissioner OF pensions has
made his annual report. A big per-
centage of the soldiers IN the Spanish
American war are shown to have ap-
piled for pensions.
The Winscott mine, five miles from
Helena, has been purchased by Jack
Rowald and leased to an eastern syn
dictate. A 100-stamp mill viii be
erected at once.
Archibald Savage, secretary of the
Hannah & Hogg company, Chicago, is
declared to be short $4,000 TO $40, 900
in his accounts. extending over pc
Rod of several years.
President Roosevelt informed Sena-
tor t. c. Plat that if Appraiser Wake
man is removed as appraiser at New
York, Collector Bidwell, the senator's
protege. must also go.
Antonio Natoh, an Italian. was muir
dered by unknown assassins in Chica-
go, his body put in barrel, and taken
to the prairies near West Chicago and