Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-07-10

hidden ten years ago by Mrs. Elmstedr
from his other heirs, who sought for
it.
An autopsy on the body of Sarah
Kutz, who died in the insane pavilion
at Blackwell's island, New YORK,
showed that five ribs were broken
and that she was otherwise hurt. A
fall is said to have caused the in
juries.
Professor Ashley H. Thorndyke
has resigned the chair OF English
literature in the college for women OF
the Western Reserve university to
accept the professorship of English at
the Northwestern university, evans
ton, Ill.
Alexander A. Robertson, member OF
the Salt Lake city council and paying
teller of the Wells-Fargo bank, who
disappeared and whose accounts at
the bank showed a shortage of be
tween $4,000 an 100000, has given
himself up.
Frank P. Sargent left Peoria for
Washington to assume his duties as
! commissioner of immigration. He
will be succeeded as grand master OF
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men by John Hannahan, present first
vice-grand master.
John M. Burke, an aged retired
merchant has set aside 100000 TO
establish a home in New York city
for conyalescentS. Deeds have been
cCnvalescents. Deeds have been
signed and prominent men will have
charge of the fund.
Alvin E. Croker, who is being sued
in New York for $4,000 for brea ch
o. promise by Miss Evelyn Stedeker,
admitted that when he wrote of
vipers, crows, assassins, thieves and
gamblers he referred to Miss
Stedeker's relatives.
At Grand Rapid, Mich, in ne
superior court Judge NEWMAN granted
the motion for a change of venue il
the case of State Senator George e.
Nichols of Ionia, charged with offer
ing a bribe to one of the people $
witnesses in the Salisbury water
bribery case.
At Burlington, Kan, Mrs. Edward
Edwards has been arrested charged
| with the murder of Viola Gladys Ed
wards, her 4-year-old stepdaughter
| The coroners jury found that the
child came to it's death by being
| stamped and trampled on by Mrs
Ed~1ards.
In a counterfeiters' den at West
| Van Buren, and Halsted street, Chi
cago, $4,000 III bogus coin and ;ur-
rency and a complete counterfeiters
outfit, including plates for making
$1,000 bills, were found in secret
vault by workmen who were tearing
out the interior of building.
| Johnson Boyd was killed and his
wife wounded in a dispute over the
use of water from a we'll at Manrovia
Ala. Robert Johnson and Fred
Stephens came to Huntsville and sur.
rendered. Stephens says he kille1
Boyd with a gun and Mrs. Boyd re
| ceived a pistol shot in the arm at the
hands of Johnson.
The steamer Centennial reached
port from Cape Nome bringing news
of the safety of the steamers Jeanic
and Portland and the United States
Revenue cutter Thetis. The whaler
Belvidere, which arrived at Cape
Nome June 20, sighted the jeanne and
Portland in the ice pack uninjured SO
miles north of Cape Prince of Wales.
Francis M. English, killed in the
Colorado Midland wreck at Cascade
was private secretary to Queen
Liliuokalani of Hawaii, and was the
author of the famous proclamation to
the American people issued just before
she was dethroned. Mr. English was
| a graduate of Oxford and had
parcticed law both in England and IL
Colorado.
| Ernest M Gray, son of DR.. George
w. Gray, a well-known physician and
surgeon of Washington, D. c., has
committed suicide by shooting. Gray
was about IS years old. He had been
a resident of Colorado for a number
of years, and was engaged in mining
! at Cripple Creek. The suicide is al
! tributed to dependency over financial
affairs.