Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-06-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending -. -.

For the Week Ending 49, IS.
Burglars took 81, 500 from Che Farm
ers' bank at Wilder, MINI.
The business portion Of Mays Lick,
KY, has been destroyed by fire.
The Bank of Commerce at Bessemer,
Ala, closed its doors with liabilities
of $40, 0OO
AT the commencement exercises Of
the military academy at West Point
there were "a graduates.
]. P. Rumble, Of Milwaukee, has
been elected department commander
If the G. A. R. Of Wisconsin.
The New York supreme court made .
decision In will contest case that love
at the age of 80 is not insanity.
Fire destroyed Presbyterian
church and row OF houses in Roches-
ter, N. Y, the loss being $780, 1000.
Lady Henry Somerset has been re-
elected president of the Worlds Wo-
mans Christian Temperance union.
Miss Clara Nichols, society editor Of
the Chicago Tribune, was killed in an
elevator accident at the Tribune build
ing.
Capt. Richmond p. Hobson has de-
clared himself candidate for congress
from Alabama on greater navy plat
form.
An insane man threatened Emperor
Francis Joseph In the streets of Vi
emma, but was promptly seized by the
police.
Two masked men held up a stage
travelling between Weaveryille and
Redding, CAL, and robbed the passen-
gers of $4,000.
Conrad Kahler, an old-time press
man, who invented the NEWSPAPERS
folding machines, died in Chicago.
aged IS years.
The president has signed proclama-
tions creating two forest reservations
in Utah to be known as the Logan and
Mani reserves.
Fire destroyed the Breakers, one Of
the finest hotels at West Palm Beach.
Fla, and adjacent property, entailing
loss of $75O,O0O.
Near Forest, Miss, four negro
men and one negro woman wera
killed by mob for the shooting from
ambush of Mr.. Craft.
Arthur Flanagan, negro. was nut
to death In the electric chair in SING
Sing prison for killing Keeper Hugh
McGovern in the prison.
The oleomargarine output for ten
months decreased 34,s51,62 pound,
because of the tax and requirement
that packages be marked.
AT Indianapolis James Dumas. nro.
prletor OF transfer company, killed
Sarah F. King, wife of Wesley r. King.
and then took his OWE life.
Mayor Hays, OF Pttsburg, Pa. ha,
been indicted charged with q mis-.
demeanor in discharging an old soldier
from the employ of the city.
Arthur Lyons, murderer of his step
mother, committed suicide near Shoals.
lnd., after 800 farmers surrounded him
and his ammunition gave out.
LockJaw resulting from the use g.
toy pistols caused the death of two
Plttsburg boys, making the total dead
from that cause since May 80 ten.
James M. Watson, Jr., clerk in the
auditors Office Of the District Of CO.
lumbla, was arrested on a charge of
embezzling government funds to tho
extent Of $4,000.
valuable express packages were
thrown from AN Erie railroad train he.
tween Crown Point and Huntington.
Ind. Marion Jones, of Marion, O., and
9. T. Gillen, of Piqua, O.. were found
in car and arrested.
A mob broke into the Jail at
Greenville, Ill, for the purpose OF
lynch1ng negro accused of assault.
ing a white woman, and found the
prisoner had been removed to a place
OF safety by the authorities.
Ernest Naoroji, cashier for Edward
Rueb & Co., 100 West Randolph
street, Chicago, committed suicide in
the Prairie State bank by shooting,
Gambling losses had led him to EN-.
bezzle $4,000 from his employers.
The National Bank of Commerce Of
New York, is to increase its capital
from SIC, o0O, 900 to $25 900, 900, and con.
solidate with the Western National
Bank Of the United States. It will have
100000 more deposits than the Ma
tional City.