Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-16


councilman, is reported to be anxious
to return and his case has been con-
tinued.
A crowd assaulted the Jail at Lincoln
ton, N. c., in an attempt to lynch
Caleb Elliott, colored, but were re-
pulsed.
A mysterious patient who died Ill
Bellevue hospital, New York, wrote
that he was the son-in-law of a
Spanish duke.
The Indiana medical practice act of
1901, prohibiting magnetic healing,
was held constitutional by the state
supreme court.
Alonza Garrett of West Virginia.
consul at New Laredo, Mexico, is
missing since going Cd a hunting ex-
petition Sept. 8.
The annual report of the paymaster-
general of the army shows his total
expenditures during the last fiscal
year to have been $50, 1923, 479.
Emma Thomas, alias Cassidy. was
bound over at Washburn, Wis,
charged with the murder of Michael
Miller at Nash, Wis, on Sept. 81.
William Casper and John Rump of
Chicago were fatally injured at ST.
Joseph, Mo-, by the collapse on the
top floor of new bank building.
A negro, Thornton Cooper, who
killed Harry Warner, colored, at a
picnic in Prince Georges county, Nd,
was captured in Morristown, N. J.
The D.. Louis grand jury COM
pleted its work by returning indict-
ments for bribery against 16 former
members of the municipal assembly.
Frank Higgins, a boy, convicted of
the murder of Willie Doherty near
lockwood Park, n. B., was sentenced
to be hanged Dec. IS in ST. Johns,
N. B.
At Chicago Nicholas Eich is &C
cused by Nicholas Giasener of offering
the latter house and lot if he would
take Mrs. Eich out in the lake and
lose her.
The Pentecost band has prepared
plans for a national orphans IN
dustrial school that will accommodate
So children to be located near Indi-
annapolis, Ind.
Joseph Crack shot mad killed Eli
Searezeck at Ely, MINI. Both were
enamored of the same young woman
and met inopportunely at the gate OF
| her home
Miss Rodella Balm, Bridgeport. O..
confessed to the murder Of Miss Gay
Smith by pushing her from a boat
into the Ohio river during quarrel
| over a lover.
Chief Of Police Waite of Min
neapolis has issued a warning to the
public, saying that the force IS
VIGOROUSLY Inadequate to prevent the
many robberies.
Augustus H. Fem, of New York.
who is suing his wife, pretty Cuban,
for divorce, says she is the coolest
proposition that exists in the form of
! a human being
lncendiary fire destroyed the Cath
Ollie church at Chaska, Mimi, but re-
Gently completed, and the residence
OF Mr.. Dutoit, a banker. The loss
will be $4,000
The Baltimore and Ohio railroads
$42,500000 stock issue will purchase
the Reading railroad and place it
under Pennsylvania control, according
to an eastern rumor.
julius Eckhart, civil war veteran
hanged himself at Milwaukee. He
was a widower, So years DID, and his
vile died year ago, having cut her
wrists with suicidal intent.
Five persons, including one life
saver, were drowned at Kincardine.
Ont, by the wrecking of the schooner
Ann Maria. The life boat was capsized
by wave in view of crowds.
Secretary Shaw, in an address at
New York said the population of the
United States has increased two and
a half times since 1860 and foreign
commerce three and one-third
At Denver two masked robbers held
! up and robbed four saloons in as
many different sections of the city,
and at the last place shot and in
stantly killed Charles Boylzin. who
started to run.
An automobile containing Harry
Tod, Harold Stitt and Frank G. Silver
OF Youngstown, O., collided with an
Erie railroad train at a CROSSING
screened by trees. Tod was killed
and the others hurt
A Pennsylvania railroad express.
1 eastbound, collided with a passenger
train on curve near Menlo Park. n
j. One man was killed and twelve
hurt. One was killed in a Peoria and
st. Louis wreck.
Alfred Buffe, at Mexico, Mo. was
found guilty and given two years in
the penltentiary for the murder of his
wife, Sophia Buffe. His daughter.
Mrs Salina Belk of Troy, ILL.,, testified
against her father,
The insane man who killed a st.
Paul road fireman on fast-moving
train and has terrorized trainmen in
northern Wisconsin was shot and
killed by a lumber camp cook near
Wausaukee, Wis.
Football scores: Yale 80. WESLEYAN
0; Champaign "a, Haskell Indians 1;
Waukegan 5, Lake Forest high school
0; Cornell SO, Hobart 0; Harvard 6.
Amherst O.; Michigan 119; State
Agricultural college O.
DR.. F. G. Suitor of the Wisconsin
state board of health has discovered
twenty cases of smallpox on st.
Joseph ridge. a community a few
miles from La Crosse strict
quarantine has been established.
William H. Wright, treasurer of the
territory of Hawaii, is alleged to be
an ahScOndar and dofou1+or 70 Al