Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-21


and then shot himself at Parkersburg,
w. Va, is dying.
Mrs. Mary Pott, 63 years old, died
at ST Mary's church in New Albany,
Ind, while attending the burial sery-
ices of her husband.
A bank Waterman at Minister, O.,
held a gang of robbers at bay until cit
liens came to his assistance and drove
them away after a fight.
Newell c. Rathbun admitted to the
Louisville police that his wife at Lit
tie Rock knew of his plan to defraud
the insurance companies.
Oats on the Chicago board of trade
reached the high mark for seven years,
the May option selling at Al 3-8 cents
and cash oats for Al cents.
Major Hugh r. Belknap, paymaster
in the army and former representative
in congress from the third Chicago dis
trict, died at Calamba. Luzon.
The Bethlehem Steel company's
claim of 100000 for two 12-inch guns
has been decided adversely by the
comptroller of the treasury.
Minnie Madden Fiske in an address
before the Nineteenth Century club
scored the theatrical trust. She de-
clared it is killing stage art.
The society of the Army of the Ten,
uessee refused to authorize an inquiry
into the conduct of Gen. Wallace at
Shiloh, as requested by him.
In a second will of Edward S. Stokes
Just filed, he left his estate to his
mother, now deceased. 1t was said
that third will is to be filed.
Newell G.. Rathbun is under arrest
N Louisville, charged with attempting
to defraud an insurance company with
q corpse which contained poison.
Senator Cullom will be chairman OF
senate foreign relations committee and
Senator Mason will head the postoffice
committee of the next congress.
J. Frankel Sons of New York bought
the Hope diamond of Lord Francis
Hope, which, according to cable ad
vices, cost the purchasers s250,00O.
Mrs. Grace Smell Coffin of Chicago
has been for the third time divorced
from Frank Nixon Coffin, having again
married him only few weeks ago.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Mar
shall Oil company at Marshalltown
Iowa, and also 5000 barrels of oil. The
loss is 100000, the insurance $4,000.
An American schooner was seized
by a Portuguese gunboat at Fayal or
charge of smuggling out of the Azores
men trying to escape military service
Charles V. Herdliska of the District
of Columbia was yesterday appointed
consul at Kingston, Jamaica. He was
formerly secretary of legation at vi
emma
James Nevins was sentenced at Kan
kakee, H.. to twenty-five years in the
penitentiary for the murder of Dennis
F. Reardon in a Kankakee saloon Nov
4, 1896.
congressman Hepburn and Sherman
| conferred with the president on Mica
ragua canal matters. Hepburn will
again introduce his canal bill in The
house.
The entire plant of the Aurora Min
ing company was swallowed up by {
cave-in of It's mines at Ororogo. neal
Joplin, Mo. The miners has a narrow
escape.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Taylor decided that 100 Cinnamon de
tanned at San Francisco on what /:
known as til" transit cases should BIZ
deported.
Augusta K. Williams, the Brooklyn
schoolgirl who disappeared, has beer
found at Great Darlington. Mass.
where she had gone to the home of {
girl friend
Senator Sp0UneT after a conference
and luncheon with the president at the
white house declared the next coz
gress is certain to provide for tht
| Nicaragua canal.
South Dakota IS suing North Caro-
| lima in the United States supreme
court on bonds of the Western Norti
Carolina railroad guaranteed by the
| last-named state.
President Roosevelt, delayed half al
hour by tardy coachman, declined x
wait longer for him, and used a GOV
eminent carriage. He takes Ions
crOss-country walks.
While working in a mill yard at New
Boston. H., Bert Blair was struck b.
q flying piece Of timber, knocked int
| the Mississippi river and killed, Blail
was recently married.
A fatal freight wreck occurred or
the .suthern Minnesota division of The
Milwaukee road at Prairie Junction
Mimi. Brakeman John Richard o.
Madison, S. D., was killed.
The real purpose OF the republican
leaders in congress opposed to tarif
reduction at this time appears to be tc
obtain the appointment of tariff com
mission in order to gain time.
Oysranda, Mont, small town neal
Helena. is endangered by a swamp fire
which has been burning for a week
II he wind turns and blows the fire
toward the town it is doomed.
Six thousand paper mill employees in
Fox river valley in Wisconsin demand
shorter hours. They have given the
employers until Dec. to grant the de
mand or strike will be ordered.
AS bureau chief, Rear-Admira
Crowninshield has selected the mag
nificent new battleship Illinois for his
flagship when he shall become com
mander of the European squadron.
James Goings was found dead in his
| buGgy q few miles south Of Ca,-o