Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-12-25
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

PITTsBURG nail manufacturers advise
the closing OF all the mills until trade
improves.
Fl. K. MCCOY, United States Judge
for the Northern district of Georgia.
is said to be becoming mentally I'm
sound, on account of trouble with a SON
in-law.
BECAUSE of the statute that stock
shall not be kept On cars longer than
tw MY four hours without being I'M
loaded, the Lake Shore Road is endeay-
oring to estabiish fast stick train be-
tween Chicago and Baltimore. to make
the trip within the specified time.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in the
Kingdom Of Corea, in Southwestern
Asia. Two United States war vessels
have been dispatched thither to protect
American IL terests.
AT Omaha Monday, Hawley & Lang
worthy, wholesale grocers, executed a
chattel mortgage on their property.
They say they have assets of $40, 600,
with about $4,000 liabilities.
A TERRIFIC snow storm-the worst
known in thirty yea1s-is raging in the
Willamette valley, in Oregon. Railroad
ness generally is suspended.
AT a convention Thursday at Des
MONIES, Iowa, of representative temper
ance people, iG was decided to call a
state convention for Jan. 81 to consider
the outlook for the prokibitory law.
AT meeting of exhibitors in the
exposition building at New Orleans,
Thursday, it was unanimously resolved
to demand the removal of Samuel Mu.-
len, Chief of Installation, for certain
unbusiness like acts.
The people of Nevada rejected at the
late election proposition to hold con-
vention to revise the constitution Of
their state, the vote being 3,571 against
it and 2,810 in it's favor, total vote of
3, 1891, against 10 1877, cast at the same
time for presidential electors.
GENERAL SHERMAN states that Sena-
tor Vance is in no way connected with
the Jeff Davis matter; that Vance has
managed the affair, and that he (Sher
MANI, when he gets ready, and newspa-
per agitation quiets down, will make a
statement through the War Depa1t t.
ment.
THERE is soon to be erected monu-
ment over the grave, il Clarendon, VT.
of Theophilus Harrington, who was
from 1903 to 1918 Supreme Court Jus,
tice in that State, and died in the office.
It was he who first officially refused tO
return fugitive slaves TO their masters,
replying to a slave, huAter who asked
him what proof Of ownership he would
require, 81 want bill of sale from God
Almighty"
The majorities for the four amend
ments to the Iowa Constitution, voted
for at the November election, ranged as
follows: First, charging day of election
from October to November, "a ,402; Sec
ond, in relation to the number OF Dis
trict Judges, 80, 1912: third, reducing the
numb Of Grand Jurors, 40, 247; fourth,
providing for County instead of a
District Attorney, "a, 729.
AT the inquest Saturday at White
water, Wis, touching the mysterious
death of Anna Koran, testimony was
given by Prof. Bode, OF Milwaukee, that
he found strychnia in the stomach of
the deceased, and another witness swore
that few hours before Annals death
she partook of a powder procured by
her sister Nellie, against whom there are
grave suspicious. The jury recommend
ed the ARE st and examination of the
latter for administering the poison.