Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-14

helm der Crosse, which reached New
York was played for big pots. Some
s11 900 was on the table when a
charge of cheating stopped the sport.
John w. Gates has secured an in
terest in the Weaver Coal company,
which expects to furnish 1000 tons Of
bituminous coal daily to the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway COM
pany.
Pickets of the eighth Pennsylvania
regiment were stoned from ambush
at Shenandoah, and General Goblin has
| issued ball cartridges, with orders to
'shoot to kill and Investigate after
| ward"
Miss Johnny Smith, of Paducah
and Lucy Stevenson, of Hickory Grove
were caught on a railroad trestle at
| Dawson Springs, KY, and killed.
Three others were fatally hurt by
| jumping.
| Archbishop Ireland, in his sermon
in the ST. Paul cathedral, told his
hearers that the pope is better quail
| fed than any other Catholic to settle
the friar problem, and advised that
| clamoring cease.
William Thompson of Villas, Colo,
on his deathbed confessed the murder
of his son, Benjamin, and petition
for the pardon of Zeb Nicholson, who
was serving term in the penitentiary
| for the crime, has been filed.
A feud between the Gates and Ben
nett families in Pearl River county,
Mississippi, led to a fight in which
Homer Bennett lost his life and his
father-in-law, Jonas Crawley, was SER
iously wounded by Cullen Gates.
Attic Allison, a white farmer of
Tallahatchie county, Miss, was shot
and killed by John Little, neighbor-
ing farmer Allison had testified be-
fore the grand jury that Little had
been selling whisky without license.
Ed Rudy, colored, was shot and kill
ed by John O'Brien, farmer of Hen
derson, KY, who found him stealing
apples. AS soon as he was dis
covered Rudy attacked O'Brien with a
club and the latter fired, killing the
negro instantly.
At Chicago William Holabird, Jr.,
the golf player, is critically i'll with
typhoid fever at his home in Evanston,
and his recovery is doubtful. Hola-
bird was taken sick on the first day
of the Glenview golf tourney and was
not able to take part in it.
The grand jury at Washington in
dicted Harry A. Barrows, formerly
disbursing clerk of the United States
census bureau, on three charges. The
first charge alleges embezzlement and
the larceny Of $500. Barrows has
I confessed to the discrepancy.
Mrs. Mary Karow, aged 20 years, of
Milwaukee, a young widow and the
mother of two small children, com
mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid
Mrs. KarOw's husband died three
months ago and dependency is as
cribed as the cause for the suicide
Ell Torrance, commander-in-chief of
the Grand Army, has appointed com
mittee to organize and press to a
speedy completion the work of erect
ing in Washington a statue of Gen .
B. F. Stevenson, the founder and first
provisional commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army.
Fire Marshal Cape of the Racine
fire department had a narrow escape
from death while mixing a run to a
fire. While crossing the tracks of the
Northwestern railway the gates
dropped and struck Marshal Cape on
the head, knocking him to the bottom
Of the buggy.
R. B.. son of Chairman Van Horne,
of the Canadian Pacific, was quaran-
tined on his return from Cuba, where
he has been representing his father
in railroad building. He is suffering
not only from fever, but believes he
was poisoned by Cuban cook he
! once discharged.
/ Official information from Rome in
dicates that Mgr. Quidi will soon be
appointed apostolic delegate of the
Roman Catholic church to the Philip
pine islands. 1t had previously been
reported that Bishop T. J. Conaty,
| rector of the Catholic university at
/ washington, would be appointed.
Fifteen inmates of the Tennessee
penitentiary, led by Gus Wyatt, train
robber, armed with dynamite blew
a hole in the structure and escaped
| Colonel Lamb, commander of the
confederates, and Major Plummer, who
/ led the federal forces at Fort Fisher.
| S. c., have arranged for a friendly
! meeting.
| Commissioner of Pensions Ware
says that legislation enacted by the
last session of congress will result in
at least 10000 new pensioners. The
number of pensioners on July 1 of this
year was 999,446. This shows a steady
! growth of the roll for number of
years. Commissioner Ware said that
this growth was accounted for by the
| constant new pension legislation by
! congress.
Edward J. Blume, a prominent resi-
dent of Luton, Iowa, with his wife,