Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-05-30

prominent Catholics in Kansas and for
twenty years priest of the church in
Salina, died CT heart disease at Will
son, Kan, while waiting for train.
Rev. Frederick W. Taylor OF Spring
field was elected coadjutor to Bishop
Burgess of the Quincy diocese at the
annual Episcopalian diocesan conven
ton. Bishop Burgess is fatally i'll.
The monthly statement of the coIlec-
ton of internal revenue shows the
total receipts for April, 1901, to have
been S26,941, 579, in increase as COM
pared with April, 1900, Of $3.6S9 ,926.
At Jacksonville, H., William Webb |
Ferguson, a negro, has confessed that
love for Mrs Mamie Barnes impelled
him to administer strychnine to her
insane husband, DR.. Joseph L. Barnes.
DR.. Thomas F. Rumbold, known in
America and Europe for his contribu-
lions to medical literature and re-
! searches in nasal surgery died at his
home in ST. Louis. He was II years
old.
| At Kokomo, Ind, steel and wire
/ company was organized not con-
trolled by the steel trust. 1t has a
capital Of $1,5O0,000 and will con-
struct plant to employ $4,000 opera
tives
Ex-Congressman Ham" Lewis of
New York has picked D. B. Hill and
Tom Johnson as democratic candidates
g 1-ioo in
1904 He says Bryan is out Of it and
that Hanna would be hard man to
beat.
General Brooke has ordered COM
mandants Of posts in the department
of the east to send to him on Sept. /
a complete report of the results which
ensued upon the abolition Of the army
canteen.
Several Kiowa Indians, Leon Wolf,
: White Buffalo and Ko-Koy-TandIe.
called on Acting Secretary of the
Interior Ryan and protested against
the opening OF Kiowan lands to settle
ment.
William Park was shot and killed at
Central, n. Mex, in the Office of
the justice Of the peace Joseph
Crowley, during the preliminary ex-
animation of May Esmond, charged
with serious crime
Mrs. Elizabeth Fitzgerald, alias
Mildred Preston, alias Nine. zingara
l alleged clalrvoyant, has been sentenc-
ed at Grand Rapids to the Detroit
house of correction for five years fer
/ Nv "a
: $500.
\ At Bridgeport, Conn, Percy l..
Johnson an attorney, pleaded guilty to
, embezzlement of $4,000 from three
2 trust funds and was sentenced to six
d years imprisonment He recently
returned from Mexico and gave him
: self up.
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania has
> received a warrant for $102, 313. OF
from the United States government as
y part payment Of the war settlement
i account. This account covers mone>
> expended by the state during the
civil and Spanish-American wars.
j The Kansas supreme court re
: versed the decision of the district
: court in the Topeka mayorality con
test and installed J. w. F. Hughes
/ the republican and law enforcement
!. candidate, in the mayors chair. To
- peka is now entirely under the contro
of the dry" element
: At Cincinnati, Jones Lonsway,
y teamster, shot and killed Frank Riley
-e shipping clerk at the Russell, Morgan
& Co.'S printing works. Lonsway al
tempted to escape, but was caught b,
T. an officer. He was discharged by thu
c firm two weeks ago and blamed RE
for having been the cause OF it.
IS In the suit of Rudyard Kiplin,
a against George Putnam's Sons for in
o fringement of a copyright on the Out
ward Bound edition of Kipling'
d works, Judge Lacombe, in the Unite'
at States circuit court, took the cas-
+ from the jury directing a non-suit
This decides the suit in favor of tn
Putnams.
I'd At Hamilton, Ohio, Coroner Sharke
Oh returned a verdict finding tina
Frederick Mcclure, a child was a
ST lowed to die without medical attend
l., ance by Mrs. Arab Muhleman
ID disciple of so-called mesmeri
school of healing. The coroner recon
al mends that criminal prosecution be in
y stiuted against the woman.
y An clipping couple, whose combine
ages foot up to 141 years, passe
u through Greenup, KY, en- route t
. some Ohio oown to be married. Inc
u are William Henderson, aged 81. {
Lawrence county, Kansas, and Mr.
I'll Martha Jaynes, widow, aged 81
IS The old people fell in love, but thei
al children objected to their marriage
James P. Kellogg and Myron L
'e Bernard convicted in New York o
u having used the mails for fraudulen
n purposes in connection with the opel
ations of the E. S. Dean company
al were sentenced in the United State
Id circuit court. Kellogg to eighteen
n months in prison and a fine of $500
and Bernard to eighteen months an,
IN a fine of 81.
80 AT Chicago the coroner caused tn
- body Of Mrs. Judd, Dowie victim, t.
= be eXhumed, and an autopsy by DR.
=, Ludwig Hektoen disclosed that her lif
- could have been saved by proper medi
~ cal attention. The jury held that he
= death was due to the criminal negli
o gence of the Dowieites. Warrant
9, were issued for Dr. Dowie and thre,
. others, one Of whom was arrested
Colonel Olcott, leader of the theoso
!, phists, who is in Chicago to attend tn,
animal mPetinor of American cactio,