Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-05-01

! Wanoque. n. j., who died from poison
ing, admits he was bicycling with her
the night she became i'll.
President Jacob Gould SchurmaT
returned to, ithaca from Edinburgh,
where he received the honorary degree
| of doctor of laws from the university
Of Edinburgh on the 18th
Chicago underwriters advanced in
surance rates on mercantile buildings
| 10 per cent, and on their contents %
| per cent. Apartment-house rates were
! not changed, but probably will be.
! The jury at Lake Charles, La, in
! the case of Edward Batson. charged
with the murder Of the Earl family,
returned verdict Of murder in the
| first degree. The penalty is death.
! A telegram received at Racine from
| Detroit, announces the death of Rev.
James Conover at that place. The
| decendent was formerly pastor of the
! st. Luke's Episcopal church of Racine.
A steel mill. to cost 100000 and
employ 1000 men, will be built by the
| South Chicago Furnace company on
! Calumet river Mesaba range mine
will furnish ore. 1t will combat the
trust.
! A warrant has been issued for he
arrest of Nicholas P. Theis, a prom
inent farmer, living near Cold Spring
Mimi, on a charge Of assault anu
threatening to kill his brother. Chris
! Theis.
TIE jury in the case against viii
ian Strother, the negro charged with
the murder OF A. Deane Cooper, the
millionaire, who was killed in a st.
Louis bathhouse several months ago,
disagreed.
The funeral Of NJ. B. Peacock, a
well-known grain dealer of Beaver
Dam, took place Wednesday, Mr..
PeacocL died, aged so years. He was
prominent figure at the Milwaukee
/ board of trade.
The Indiana republican state con
vention began with a love feast at
Indianapolis. Senator Beveridge ana
Fairbanks in speeches predicted re-
publican successes and party suprem-
acy hereafter.
| Relatives Of persons lost in the
steamer City of Pittsburg disaster
near Cairo. formed an association,
and will hire experts to drage the
river. Four bodies were found out or
the seventy lost.
Edward L. Stone, Judge Of the pro-
bate court of Baraga county, Michi-
gan, died at Baraga. He was a for
meT member of the legislature from
| Saginaw, where ten years ago he vas
admitted to the bar.
At Louisville, KY, Miss Catherine
Maud Rice, pretty girl laughed her
seld to death. She was visiting
friends, when one OF them told a funny
story, Lesion of the brain was pro
duced by her laughter.
The Pennsylvania, New York &
Long Island Railway company has
been Incorporated with a capital OF
$20,000,000 to construct and operate an
underground railway in New York
+. and Queens counties.
The Wisconsin supreme court
handed down a decision in a case from
Kenosha that franchises for street
railways and other such privileges
cannot be granted to individuals, but
to corporations only
Miss May Gillon, daughter of Mrs.
L. c. King of Kenosha. died from
appendicitis. She was grand
daughter of ex-Mayor Frank C. Culley
and her picture is the frontpiece OF
Mr. CuIley's novel. Barbara.
X :
the tombstone from his second wife's
grave and had it inscribed to his first
wife. The second wife's children
claimed the stone was bought with
her money and sued to replevin.
Joseph Uncleback, As. a retired silk
importer, was asphyxiatcd by gas N
! his living apartments in New York.
Six weeks ago Uncleacl's wife was
committed to an insane asylum. The
police think death was accidental.
Intelligence has been received of The
death by drowning in Manila BAY.
!! March 2, of Private William ]. Gala
han. troop d. United States cavalry.
| who is a son of John Callahan OF
Erin, Wis. The boy left home a year
ago.
Policeman John p. Nolan Of CHICAGO
! tried to arrest Michael Devaney. 301e
! Kelley avenue, for wife-beating, and
was shot. He then led the police in
an assault on the house, and was again
shot. Devaney was caught and beaten
into submission.
| As a sequel TO the burning of the
iplant Of the Winona Wood Rim com
pany last summer, petitions in ban]s-
! ruptcy involving large sums. have
/, been filed. The co-partnershiD iab;l-
! tiles are placed at $48,S01.64 and as
Isets ct $1,989.33.
Information has reached the Perm
Wan legation in Washington that 2
general exposition Of the methods. an
paratus and machinery for the aD-
InJcation Of alcohol to the production
/ o. motive power, heat and light. win
&c held at Lima during September.
'ho liberal democratic party. with
| eadQuarters in New York, was in
/ oorporated with the secretary of state
at Albany. Its certificate saws it is
1 organized 10 establish a political party
to teach, promulgate and carry ont
+. the principles Of democracy ard Of
/ democratic government.
4 Joseph Holden Sutton. Princeton
/ graduate, q lawyer and MANAGING
/ clerk for the law firm of Hollis.
i Wagner & Burghardt. New York. kill
cd himself of+a7, vr-ri+4rc 7o+4o-,- !