Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-06-05

Rock Island read was wrecked at
Avoca Ia, while going eighty miles
an hour. No one was hurt.
Governor Davis of Arkansas has
been expelled by the Second Baptist
church of Little Rock on charges CT
gambling and drunkenness.
Frank Robinson, aged 20, of Kansas
City, killed his sweetheart, aged 10;
shot his rival, who was Is years old,
and fatally wounded himself.
G. F. Brochat. a Baltimore er;cure,
invited friends to dinner on 17-year-
locusts and honey. Other residents
have found them palatable food.
While being pursued by sophie
mores Nelson P. Bond, a freshman in
the University of Vermont, was
drowned at Plattsburgh, New York.
Felix Ziem's painting, Bridge on
Canal at Venice, was stolen from the
frame en- route from Paris to New
York. It's value is given at $4,000 to
$4,000
Oliver Lamar, recently convicted
of murder and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment, was released from jail at
Menden hall, Miss, by mob of his
friends
Walter Bolger, the 1S-year-old son
of Paul S. Bolger of New York, who
had been missing since Nov. Is, aas
been found on the naval training ship
Franklin.
meat famine, due to the stock
yards teamsters' strike, begun in the
Chicago suburbs. Two hundred butch
ers in the southwest of the city closed
their shops.
At Hamilton, Ohio, ex-Cangressman
H. L. Morey was fired on from an
ambush, and his brother-in-law, A. L.
with the deed.
Santos-Dumont, who intends to
give exhibitions at the Crystal palace,
London, arrived from Paris and found
that his balloon had been cut to pieces
with knives.
statement that w. J. Bryan is not and
will not be a candidate for president,
but will see to it that no gold demo
crat gets the nomination.
The removal of the body of
suicide from the potter's field to COLI
secrated ground in Catholic GENE
terry at Ansonia, Ct, has been stopped
by a court injunction.
An official reception at the city hall,
a review of the National Guard and
dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria were
given in honor of Count de Rocham-
beau and his party.
Senator Hanna and Ex-Governor
Bushnell Of Ohio, made up at state re-
publican convention after four years
strife. The former had little opposi-
ton in the nominations
Joseph Bossell, well-known bust
ness man of Fort Wayne, is in a
critical condition as the result of
being struck on the head by golf
ball driven by his daughter.
r. A. Gamble, wealthy resident of
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was found dead
in his bed at the Brevoort house, Chi
cago, and it is thought that his death
was due to heart disease.
Miss Margaret Floy Washburn has
accepted a professorship in philoso-
ply at the University of Cincinnati,
being the first woman to attain the
honor at that institution. 80
Balzacs works are held immoral
by Chicago jury, and Mrs. Mary A.
Jerome, lakewood boulevard, who
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not liable for her subscription.
At Kansas City, Mo, Carey Snyder,
son of r. NJ. Snyder, former presi-
dent of the City National bank, and
whose arrest as a footpad was re-
ported Saturday. has disappeared.
The presidency of Graceland col
lege, Iowa, has been rendered to Fred
S. Holsteen of Burlington, a graduate
of the Iowa state university. Hol-
steen is a senior at Yale law school. )
Having robbed more than 200 Chi
cago homes while tossing as an
assessor" Fred L. Bowker, former
evangelist and said to be an ex-con-
Wet, was arrested in south Chicago.
]. F. Blount, a circus roustabout
was killed by an elephant in New
York after he had leased and held a
lighted cigar against her trunk. The
animal first tried to push him away.
Bishop R. S. Deener of the
Methodist Episcopal church south is
in Jail at Batesville, Ark, charged
with forgery He is alleged to have
forged securities amounting to SIS 5000.
Henry w. Cobb, 90 years old, son
of Warren w. Cobb of Jamaica Plain,
was drowned at Dedham, Mass. He
was canoeing with young woman
on the Charles river The girl waded
ashore.
In an encounter with Chicago
hold-up man, Christian Erickson, 106
Sedkwick street, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded The thief,
who was knocked own by Erickson,
was captured.
E. J. Blake, consulting engineer
of the Burlington railroad, was killed
in a collision at La Crosse and J. D.
Bessler, w. T. Breckenridge, D. c..
Cunningham, and w. B. Purdy were
badly injured.
At Springfield ILL.,, Rev. John Pc
Ieet, the itinerant Baptist minister
who recently murdered and robbed his
travelling companion, Charles Isaak-
son, pleaded guilty and was given a
life sentence.
careful canvass in the house has
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