Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-21
1'ELEGRAPHIC.
tSatdE RAl- NOTES.

vention Tuesday nominated for govern
or on the first ballot General John S..
Marmaduke.
THERE are eight ases of smallpox at
/ st. George, near Kankakee, Ill.,, the
disease having been brought from Chi
cago by child who died July 81.
THE liabilities of Edmund Yard & Co.
the New York importers, amounts to
| 81 O69 135, and the actual assest are but
1862, 372.
ANOTHER shock of earthquake was
felt in the villages along the south side
Of Long Island Monday afternoon. 1t
was not as heavy as Sunday. but suffi-
Gent to cause excitement.
THE British ship Deerfield, from Hav-
ana. with yellow fever aboard, is at the
mouth of the Mississippi, and has been
warned by the New Orleans authorities
that if she proceeds up the river she
will be quarantined for forty days.
| Two heavy business failures are re-
ported from Pennsylvania-the Kimble
Coal and Iron Company at Riddlesburg,
with $500, 900 liabilities, and the live
stock firm Of Holmes, Lofferty & Co.,
Pittsburgh, with 100000.
ABOUT 100000 more bushels of grain
arrived in Montreal through the canals
since the 9th of June than during the
corresponding period last year. This
result is attributed to reduction of
tolls and harbor duties by the govern
ment.
THE schedules of Goodman & Rosen-
| berger, manufacturing jewelers. of New
York, show liabilities, S100,2 nOmi-
nal assets, $67,751; actual assets, $46,-
1924.
LYMAN j. GAGE, Of tho First National
Bank of Chicago, was Thursday re-
elected President of the American
Bankers Association, in session at Sara
toga.
THE jury in the case of Mrs. Fannie
| Parmarton, who:e father endeavored to
have her pronounced insane, returned
verdict Thursday of mot insane"
THE Society of the Army Ct the Ten
nessee reelected it's old officers Thurs
day, and decided to meet in Chicago
next year on the second Wednesday in
| September.
INDIAN AGENT ALLEN, of the MontaNa
| Commissioner Price denying the truth
of the report that the Piegan Indians are
starving. He says he has sufficient sup
| plies for present needs.
THE Agricultural Department at
| Washington announces an improvement
in the cor dition of cotton since last re-
port, and that the corn average is high
er than in any August since 1880. Oats
have fallen off fraction, while barley
and buckwheat are up to the average.
The prospects for large crops Of tobacco
are favorable.
THOMAS NORRIS & Son, agricultural
implements, at Baltimore, assigned
Monday. A petition for receive. for
the Anglesea r ilroad Company was
made at Trenton, N. j. An assignment
was made by the Fort Recovery Ohio
mauufa tua'ng company, with habili-
ties of $15, 600, and assets equal if not
greater than this amount.
HE appearance or Texas fever among
cattle in Dewitt county, Ill, has caused
considerable alarm among farmers. but
reports as to its true condition he's been
! much exaggerated. There have been
some few deaths, but the lumber is
small It's progress has been checked,
and il is very probable that it will soon
| totally disappear.
IOUhIh IOW6 ul6UIICU Republicans
Wednesday nominated W. E. Fuller for
congress. The eighth Illinois district
republicans nominated Col. Plumb, of
Las lie. In the seventh Iowa district
State Treasurer Conger was nominated
| for the long term, and Hiram Y. Smith
to fill the vacancy caused by the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Kass@n as minister to
Germany. Congressman Holmes was
renominated by the republicans Of the
tenth Iowa district. The republicans of
the fourth West Virginia district NOM
mated the Hon. A. r. Barbee green
back candidate).
AT the meeting Of the Irish National
League Thursday, at Boston, the treas
urer reported receipts of $40 500, of
which $29,762 had been RENTED to Ire
lanI, leaving a balance of $12767. The
reso utions indorse Parnell; protes t
against England's usurpation of power.
and deeply regret the death of Wendell
Phillips. Redmond, Senator Jones, of
Florida, and Mr.. Sexton made speeches,
the latter Swelling upon the necessity of
financ al aid in the pending general
election in Great Britain. Mr.. Alex
ander Sullivan was elected president,
but declined, when Patrick Egan was
chosen. Father OR lilly was re> lected
treasurer, aud Father Roger Walsh sec
rotary. The convention then adjourn
ed, the audience singing God Save Ire
land"