Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-28
southern Georgia killed one man,
wrecked several buildings and

Chicago was sold for 80 cents and IS
box of cigars given as bonus.
Richard Wagner Is years old, OF Rib
Lake. Wis, accidentally shot himself
while out hunting. He was alone
when the accident occurred.
w. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., at one time
most enthusiastic automobilist, has
given up the sport, and New York and
Newport leaders followed suit.
Frederick Embrey, an aged citizen
Of Fauquier county, Va, met his death
by falling from wire fence, his feet
catching in the top of the wire.
Oscar L. Goldthwaite, an aged street
sprinkler of Rockford, ILL.,, was trampl-
ed under the feet of his horses and
received injuries from which he died.
Ex-Councilman William Fl. Garrett
of Philadelphia, who was knocked
from a trolley car at Atlantic City by
al iron pipe projecting from a wagon.
died.
Edy LOOMS, aged IA, of Fifield, Wis,
while hunting was shot through the
head and instantly killed by Frank
Morrison, who mistook his brown hat
for game.
At Detroit Frank G. Andrews, late
vice-president of the wrecked City
Savings Bank, was found guilty OF
misappropriating the funds of that
institution.
1t is said that by effecting s120,
100000 combine the harvester manu-
e., ~, hn fnrnn of
ployes of the component companies
three-fourths.
1t is understood Representative
Theodore E. Burton of Cleveland will
be a candidate for the seat now oc
cupied by M. A. Hanna in the United
States senate.
immigration commissioners were in
structed not to subject titled foreign
ers of known standing to the custom
airy questions required by the immigra
ton laws.
Cornelius H. Shaver, president o.
the Railroad News company, Chicago
sued for 100000 damages for breach
of promise by Miss M. E. Coffin O.
Nantucket, Mass.
The eighth annual session Of the Ma
tional Bible Conference opened a
| Winona, Ind, Rev. J. Wilbur Chap
man telling the ministers they are no
| preaching Christ.
| Congress, at it's recent session, ap
propriated 81, O63,335, 961.55, and it il
estimated an apparent deficit of $423
815,331 will be found at the end of tn,
present fiscal year.
| Three murderers and a negro con
Wet in the Frankfort (Ky) peniten
tiary held the prison guards at bay TO
four hours. One convict was kille,
ard two wounded.
! Frank Wright, aged A years, of Bed
| ford, Ind, through brooding over tn
mistake of paying too much for farm
committed suicide by shooting. H
| leaves a widow and family.
/ Charles Dawson, a Chicago expert a
pointing bricks, at work on the ney
city hall at GAINESVILLE, fell from
scaffolding fifty feet from the groun
and was fatally injured.
Harvey S. Rogers, a mail clerk il
the Minneapolis postofice, is said t
have intercepted 10000 letters contain
ing money in the last three years. H
| formerly resided at Necedah, Wis.
James ]. Hill of the Great Norther,
railway said the money it is intende
to use on the isthmian canal will b
wasted and could be more usefu1Iy az
! Piled in improving the Mississippi
! river.
David T. Gillmor, tJ, former mayo
Of Paterson, N. J., killed himself b,
shooting. He had been desponden
| for some time over ill-health, which h
! believed would eventually drive hin
| insane.
In a row on Seaboard Air Lin
passenger train, between Weldon AM
| Henderson, N. c., Division Roadmaste
Stever was killed and colored porte
dangerously wounded by a party O
| negroes.
Maj. George A. Armes, retired, O.
Washington, was shot by, ]. R. johnson
| one of his tenants, who declared i
was his intention to kill the major
The wounded man has figured in many
army sensations.
At Anderson, Ind, delegates to the
Indiana Baptist association, colored
which held its annual meeting, are
greatly incensed at the hotel and
restaurant keepers for closing their
doors against them.
The retreat of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians from General Custer
and his troops was re-enacted by 400
members of those tribes on their coun-
Gil grounds in Western Oklahoma. The
occasion was their annual feast.
The state department has issued a
warrant for the surrender to the Prus-
sian authorities of Arnold Kroeger, a
former postoffice employee of Essen,
charged with embezzling $500 and
now under arrest at San Francisco
John Henry, a wealthy iron manu-
facturer of Carnegie, Pa, was fatally
crushed between train and fence
AT the fourth avenue station. While
awaiting the arrival of an ambulance
he offered 100000 to anyone who
would save his life.
sam j. ROBERTS, formerly citizen
If Canton, o., but now editor of a Lex
lrgton, KY, paper. sent a check for
1857 to the Mckinley memorial fund
lie was disappointed at the showing
kentucky was making, and raised the
amount among his friends.
The body of woman richly clothed
nd with many diamonds on her fingers
as found in sluiceway near the
sIrie canal at Rnch ester and has hean