Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-09-18
I'ELEGRAp PHO.
GENERAL NOTES.

ilOuoiy oPlCOViuS lnC COtVon Clop.
BURGER, HURLBUT & LIVINGSTON,
an extensive sugar-reining firm Of New
York City, have failed.
MABLE. the 15-year-old daughter of
John X. Griffith, q prominent stockings,
shot and killed herself at her home in
Shenandoah, Iowa, Sunday during fit
of temporary insanity.
THE value of the imported foreign
goods landed at New York since January
l, to date is 1905 391 534, being SIS. 381, =
461 less thant for the corresponding period
last year.
A PHILADELPHIA judge ruled Thursday
that the occupant Of house may cut
telegraph or telephone wires if stretched
over his roof without his permission.
S. D. SLoNER and Mrs. w. J. Scott
were married Wednesday night at Burn
side, Ill and after the wedding dinner
seventeen of the guests were taken
seriously i'll, three of whom are not yet
out of danger. What causef the pois
onipg can not be determined.
A HEAVY thunderstorm did damage
Thurod.y afternoon in Massachusetts
owns, par icularly at Madden, where a
number of trees were Frustrated and
windows blown in. Lightnip struck
in many places, damaging houses and
shocking the Inmates
THE democrats of the Third Pennsyl-
vsDia District have nominated Samuel
j. Randall for reelection to congress,
and the republicans of the Fifth New
Jersey District have likewise renomina-
ted William Walter Phelps.
THE Baltimore association OF s'OId
Defenders" who took part Ia the battle
of North Point in 1912, has disbanded,
as the constitutional requirement that it
be continued as long as five members
are left to carry on the organization can
not be fulfilled because of the death of
the veterans.
The Monarch Line Company, running
steamships between New York and Liv-
erpOol, is declared to be insolvent, and
that q petition has been presented at
LONDON to wind up the affairs Of the
concern. The company protests against
the latter action, maintaining that it has
large surplus.
THE verbal leaves of absence of Ser
geants Brainard and Long and Private
Cornell, of the Greedy expedition, have
been recalled, and the men have been
ordered at once to Portsn4 outh, n. III. :,
because they exhibited themselves in a
dime museum at Cleveland, Ohio.
Is THE Edgar Thompson Steel Company
ct Plttsburg Thursday notified the en-
ployes that unless they accepted a re-
ductiOn in wages the mills would be
closed. There is great distress in Pitts
burg because of the number of factories
and mills now idle, and the appropria-
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hauS,ed, with six months yet to run.
The proposition of the Chicago Live
Stock Exchange to practically demon
strate whether Lleuro- pneumonia is con-
tagiOus or not, by suppl ying ten head
of healthy cattle and guaranteeing the
expense of exposing them to the con-
tagIOn said to exist among certain
Illinois herds, was heartily endorst d,
Wednesday, by the Omaho Live Stock
Exchange.
SOME excitement was created among
the scien fists in session at PhIIadel-
phia Wednesday by Ne. whjtehouse, of
New York, desiring TO deliver lecture.
on the Egg ptian Pyramids under the
auspices of the association. White
house created disturbance by speaking
against the wishes of the gathering, and
motion which he made was promptly
negatived.
A RUN on the First National bank of
New Brunswick, n. j., Saturday, COM
PEELED it to suspend payments. The de-
falcation of the cashier, Hill, who com
mitted suicide, is said to be II b ut $780,
600 From New York 100000 WAS
brought in the afternoon 10 meet the
demands which will be made Monday.
The president is confident Of being able
70 ply all d-positors.
Hon. HENRY B. ANTHONY, the veteran
United States Senator of Rhode Island
ana editor of the Providence Daily
Journal, died at his home in ProvI-
state, and was in the 10Th year of his
age. He WIS Governor of that state in
1849 and 1850 and was elected United
> ateS Senator III 1859, and
was four times reelected.
He was the senior member of the Sen
ate, and was three times chosen as its
President pro tenn, HIS present term
would ha re expired in 1889.
THE Western Uniom Telegraph Cora
pany'S quarterly statement shows net
rerenueS for the quarter ending June
80 of 81 Col 379 Amount of last div
idend paid. 81. 800 800; surplus July 1,
after paying current debts and interest
81 157, 46S The usual dividend of Il
per cent. was declal ed payable on the
10th Of October next. The books will
close Sept. 20 and reopen Oct. 8.
George L Goulsi was elected Vice Presi-
dent of the company, in place of Au-
gustus Schell, deceased. Sam Sloan
was elected member Of the Executive
Committee, in place of Mr.. Scheu.