Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-08-08


ten-gallon key containing six or seven
inches Of water and when found life
was extinct
Twenty of the twenty-six judges in
Cook county, H., are taking vacations,
while 125 prisoners swelter in Jail
awaiting trial and $4,000 civil suits
are unheard.
A naval attache at London sent a
report Of firing tests made by the
British which the experts figure out
would have disabled a battleship with
double turrets.
The traffic departments of the
Union and Southern Pacific roads are
practically consolidated. Joint agen-
cies are to be established in the
principal cities.
Despite the objection Of his chill
dren, both Of whom are older than his
bride, wealthy Andrew Namely OF
Brooklyn, married Miss Jennie Hicks
35 years his junior.
J. H. Dow, a wealthy man, for
thirty years one Of the leading mer-
chants of eastern Kansas, drowned
himself in the Memphis railroad lake,
near Olathe, Kas.
Mrs. J. E. Maple, a Denver woman
who was arrested on complaint Of c.
L. Hatchway of Wallace, Idaho, and
who attempted to commit suicide
was adiudged insane.
J. Pierpont Morgan rejected the
counter proposals Of the steel work
ers and notified them that the offer
made last Saturday is final so far as
the steel trust is concerned.
The state department at Washing
ton has received message from
Consul General Stowe at Cape Town
stating that he would leave there fol
the United States August 7.
The Civil-Service Reform League
issued report asserting that govern
ment officials were seeking to over
throw the merit system, particularly
! in the postofice department.
A person supposed to be Pierre
Lorillard, Jr., resistered his fathers
racing colors with the New York
Jockey club to prevent Mrs" Alter
L
Leslie Collins, of Shelbyville, H., a
private in the 9Th infantry, may be
punished for sending home a false ac
count Of the drowning of twelve sol
diers because of government neglect
Secretary Wilson Of the agriculture
department has started for the west
to make a personal investigation OF
| the regions lately visited by droutE
and to estimate the extent Of damage
The assets of the Joliet 0ll.) Lime
! stone company were sold at receivers
| sale. Joseph Stephens, Joliet, repre-
senting several large stockholders
secured the property on a bid of SIS,
| GOO.
Lightning struck the barn of Ed
| Hoist, a farmer near Sullivan, Ind.
and five men were knocked senseless
One recovered just in time to rescue
the other four men from the burning
building.
Lulu Prince Kennedy, under sen
tence of ten years for killing her
husband, Philip H. Kennedy at Kan
$4,000, pending an appeal Of her case
to the supreme court.
While playing on a farm wagon in
the yard of Emery Bayl on the Cheat
river near Morgantown, W. Va, Lloyd
and Marie Shoemaker, aged 5 and s
years, were fatally hurt by rolling
over a precipice 200 yards high.
Lightning fired the barn of Willis
Aiken, near Ellettsville, Ind, and de-
stroyed it with contents Human
bones found in the debris led to the
belief that two persons had sought
shelter in the barn and persisted
Martin Fry was hanged at Carlisle
Pa, for the murder of James Edward
! Collins, his brother-in-law, of whom
he had been jealous. His neck was
broken by the fall of the drop and
death was almost instantaneous.
During a sham battle by the Colo
RADIO national guard at Denver
Private Wright received the wad from
a blank cartridge in his right fore
arm and probably will lose his life.
Lieutenant Rice Means was burned in
the face.
Walter Sheppard was shot and in
stantly killed by Henry Vittatoe near
Pleasure Ridge, below Louisville. KY
Both were young men, and the killing
| took place after they had quarreled
quarrel.
R. L. Fosburgh, the father of May
Fosburgh, who was shot and killed
Aug. 20, 1900, at Pittsfeld, Mass, has
withdrawn all rewards previously
offered and substituted one Of 81, 500
for the arrest and conviction of the
guilty persons.
A large portion of the natural
tunnel in Scott county, Tenn, near
Bristol, through which passes the
Virginia and Southwestern road, fell
in. A big stone, $50 feet in length,
20 feet in width, and feet through,
fell en- the track.
In fight with boot-leggers at
Wathena, Kan, Constable A. M.
Livermore shot and instantly killed
Lou Henderson, one of the boot
leggers who had been arrested, and
captured John Williams. an accom-
plice Of the dead man.
R. T. Taliafero and wife, Carroll
county, Miss, near Jackson, were
found dead in bed with their heads
split open. 1t is thought the murder
was committed out Of revenge for
the killing of a negro who attempted
to poison the family.
George T. Lawton, astronomer of
the United States naval observatory,