Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-31
LATEST NEWS,

LATEST NEWS,
Unit ed States Treasurer Wyman has is
sued circular informing bankers that here
after they viii be required to pay express
I charges upon currency sent for REDEMPTION
This is made necessary by the fact that the
last Congress declined TO make appropria-
ton for this purpose
-Ex-Chief Justice George Sharswood, of
! Pennsylvania, died at Philadelphia, aged 10
| benjamin Bunker, grandson Of the own
! e. OF Bunker Hill, where the famous battle
was fought, died at Norwich, n y. aged So
years.
The Pine Lake Iron CoInpany's furnace
| at Mancelonia, Mich. as totally destroyed
by fire, entailing loss O. $4,000.
AT Schuylerville, n l., Nicholas Varden-
| burgh, who went to the aid of a laborer
suffocated by gas in a well, persisted, and
! his wife, who tried to help both men, also
died
"A pugilist who was recently prevented
By the authorities of Philadelphia from Civ
| ing a sparring exhibition in that city has
begun an action against the Mayor and a
Lieutenant Of Police to recover S. coo dam
ages.
The Marquis of Lorne will vacate the
Office OF Governor General of Canada in
| October, returning to Great Britain to be
made q peer Of the realm. Princess Louise
viii take her departure in July, proceeding
to a German mineral spring for the benefit
of her health
Bismarck contemplares remodeling the
constitution of the German empire, and
thinks the Federal Government has the
power to abolish the Reichstag.
Harvest prospects have improved In En-
gland
Prof Valentin, the noted German physi-
oIogist, died at Berne
Michael Pagan, for completely in the
Phoenix Park murders, was hanged at Dub
lin He protested his innocence to the last
Statues of the Won Humboldt brothers
were unveiled at Berlin. They are erected
opposite the University.
A tavern affray i'll a Vienna suburb, be-
tween soldiers and civilians, results I'd In the
serious wounding of forty persons
-Alphonse Dau5et, the novelist and Del
pit. writer, fought duel in Partisan
--Abd-el-Kader, who died III Algiers few
days ago, was at one time one Of the fore
most men Of the earth. He gathered about
him the warning tribes OF AIgiers and, con-
shutting himself their leader, maintained
O. struggle of seventeen years duration
against the best army the Government of
France could enlist Although he was IN
skilled in the modern art of battle, he
successfully engaged and held az bay I00,-
coo admirably drilled French zouaves and
compelled the Partisan authorities TO ex-
pend over s .00, 00Q, 800 to compass his defeat.
Even at the last his surrender was only Sc
cured by treachery. Marshal MacMahon,
who won his spurs in the African wars, once
said that Abd-eI-Kader possessed more of
the traits of a great General than any SOL
der he had ever fought
Washington telegram: Senator Conger
visited the Internal Revenue Bureau, and
was much relieved 10 learn that the pro
posed consoida ion did not affect Michigan.
There is strong pressure from politicians to
postpone the consolidation until after the
fall elections The move may succeed
The tifty-ninth annual meeting of the
Baptist Publication Society was held at
Saratoga, n. Y, Receipts OF $531, SIS during
the year were reported-an excess of ST.
SOP over the amount ever received in any
one year. J. Il. Deane, of New York,
was elected President for the following
year
The American Peace Society held its SEES
sion at Boston and elected Premier Glad
stone and Gen Grant honorary members
because Of their connection with the treaty
of Washington.
A free fight between whites and blacks
at Archer, Alachua county, Ala, resulted in
the killing of one on each SIDE.