Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-11-06

IOl LdUly
Albert Rollins, % years old, of
Charleston, W. Va, committed suicide
after disagreement with his sweet
heart.
A blasted rock was blown clear
across Niagara river and fatally wound
ed two laborers working on Goat
Island.
Patrick Gardner, aged 81, was run
down by Big Four train at Brazil,
Ind, and ground to pieces under the
wheels.
The Actors Church alliance elected
Bishop Henry G. Potter as president
and Joseph Jefferson as first vice
president.
State Henry, colored, was hanged in
the West Virginia penitentiary for
the murder of John Richardson,
colored. /,
Andrew Murray, of Brooklyn, per-
formed an operation on his own tongue
for the removal of a cancer. The
wound is healing.
Mrs. Caroline Frost, aged 81, fell
downstairs in the dark at Columbus,
Wis, and broke her neck and arm.
She was picked up dead.
H. c. Christensen, president Of the
Sharpsburg Ga) bank, is accused of
a $4,000 embezZlement and was ar
! rested at Maryville, Mo.
A twostory brick store building col
lapsed at King City, Mo-, killing boy
, named Showalter and seriously injur-
! ing Dr. and Mrs. James Ewing.
| The Westchester county, N. Y,
grand jury was asked to indict Mrs.
Eddy as morally responsible for the
death of little Esther Quimby.
Snigle-handed, a robber held up a
Northern Pacific train near Drum
mond, Mont, killing the engineer and
rifing the express and mail cars.
S. G. Peden. the st. Clair county,
Kansas, judge who has been in jail
for contempt of court since May, 1901,
has resigned his Office and been re-
! leased.
w P. Jones, blind pig" keeper of
Goodrich, N. D., was so badly beaten
by two men that death resulted. His
place was wrecked and his money
stolen.
The Stewart mill and seven shafts
in the Eleventh Hour tract at Pros
perity, Mo-, caved in to a depth of
100 feet. The miners escaped IN
injured
The plant of the Forst hardwood
manufacturing company in Little
Rock, Ark, was partly destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss of 100000.
coverd by insurance.
The proposed $11OOOO,OOO soft coa1
merger will probably not be accom-
plished before spring as Wall street is
not in a position to finance the under
taking now
Emma Miller, a Newark clerk,
testified in New York that Roland B.
Molineux was not the man to whom
she sold the silver bottle holder in
which poison was sent.
At independence, Mo-, G. w. Hooper
whose wife had just received a
divorce and an order for their four
children, shot and killed her and then
ended his own life.
At Wynne, Ark, David Cross, an
aged negro, confessed the killing of
Marie, Sophie and May Gibson, aged
II, II and years, respectively, after
assaulting one of them.
Thomas Flynn, Jr., of Morris, Ill.
II years of age was killed by the acct
dental discharge of a shotgun in the
hands Of Frank Cooper as they were
returning from a hunting trip.
The white house improvements
will be finished by Dec. 1. The upper
floor is already finished and President
Roosevelt and family probably will
take possession this week.
Richard Mansfield threatened suit
against Rev. w. F. Hall of Chicago
unless the latter retracts the alleged
statement that he swore because thea
tiers are used for church services.
Josiah FintOn, retired farmer, and
his 6-year-old grandson, Ford Finton
We're struck and killed by a Detroit
| Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor and Jackson
electric suburban car near Ypsilanti.
The dismissal of the Roland B.
Molineux murder case was moved by
his counsel at New York The motion
was denied and the Judge announced
that he would hear all the evidence.
At Kansas City F. J. Livers was
killed, a carpenter and negro badly
injured by brick cornice falling
from the seventh floor Of the Rock
Island Implement company's building.
Millard F. Lester, the Plainville
| (lll) man accused of killing Frederick
NJ. Larimore, was released on a S1O,-
600 bond, furnished by his daughter.
Mrs. McKee,
After brooding for fifteen years
over the accidental shooting of
friend, Henry Sweet, a farmer living
in Bloom township, near East Glen
wood, ILL.,, has killed himself.
Miss Marie Bentz, a New York
governess, is suing for $4,000 dam
ages for injuries alleged to have been
inflicted by the nine-year-old son of
Broker James NJ. Hartshorne.
Mrs. Florence Eva Rogers, daughter
of Mrs. Adams, who died by poison
said to have been sent by Molineux,
successfully withstood a severe cross
examination as to her friendship with
Cornish.
Old Tatby, chief of the Unitah
Utes for as far back as the memory of
the oldest inhabitant runs, is dead
near White Rock agency, aged 1O4
years. He was in the early days
special friend Of Brigham Young
Baroness Schaezler, formerly of
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