Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-04-05
NUGGETS OF NEWS.
Racine has q "a crosse club.

| Racine has Ia crosse club.
Mrs. Cleveland weighs 40 pounds.
King Humbert, of Italy, drinks nothing
but water at state dianers.
| Sheriff Matson has withdrawn his offer
of 50, 500 for McGarigle's arrest.
bicycle club will be organized at
| Waukesha.
! Nine persons were drowned by the cap
sizing Of a boat at Baitzenburg, Ger
many.
The republican state convention Of
Pennsylvania will be held at Pittsburg
May 18th.
Quirk, the st. Paul switchman who was
arrested in Chicago during the riot Thurs
day, was fined S. and cost.
The steamer Canonburg has been
wrecked at Nantucket and is a total loss.
She was valued at S156,OOO.
Thirty-eighs houses burned at Pesth
during a fercs gale recently and 1900
people were driven out into the snow.
A dozen packers and naiIers in Free
mans Touring mill, at La Crosse, strik
for more pay or shorter hours.
At Sank Center, Mimi, Wednesday,
Rogan's Academy was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000: insurance, $4,000.
my kingdom for load of dry wood"
is the despairing cry of manp a house
holder in Eau Claire.
Ex-Gov. James L. Lewis has recovered
from the stroke of paralysis which af-
fected him year ago.
The wife of Secretary Whitney has
af
broideries.
Business failures for the week in the
United States and Canada number 221,
against 243 last week.
They are making "good stout racing
bicycles over in England which weigh
only eleven pounds.
Chicago is to snffer an infiction of the
six-days as-you-Please pestilence. It
will develop "bimeby."
Teemer, Mckay and Hamm will row a
three-mile straightaway race in front of
Jacksonville, Fla, within two weeks.
Fires at Csaba and Kilkinda, Hungary,
nave destroyed nineteen houses in the
frontier city and 200 In the latter.
The new empress of Germany has an
Independent personal income of $4,000
a year.
A bill has been introduced in the Cana
dian house Of commons to ratify the fish
cries treaty.
Mr.. Gladstone will personally open the
"Gladstone Library" at the National
Liberal club, London, May 2.
The schooner st. Peter was loaded at
Toledo Monday with wheat for Cleve-
OF ha
that port this season.
DR.. Rush, of Chicago, is looking after
legislation in regard to distilIers. Ran
dalFs scheme is opposed.
1t is said that Congressman Scott, of
Pennsylvania, will succeed w. II. Barnum
on the democratic national committee.
At the centennial at Marietta, Ohio, on
April 7th, the principal address will be de-
lvered by Senator HOar, of Massachu-
sets.
Laathem & Smith, of Sturgeon Bay,
will move their saw mill at Red River,
Kewaunee county, to Louisiana, the COM
ing season.
Hon. Horace A. Taylor and family re-
turned from their winter soiourn in Cali
fornia Wednesday afternoon. Mr..
Taylor is in excellent health and spirits.
Wrestler Tom Corners will stay in Eng
land this summer. That match with
Evan Lewis is the longest in decision on
record.
A newspaper base ball league has been
formed in Boston. The Herald, Globe,
Traveller, Journal, Transcript, Post and
Advertiser-Record are represented and
will have teams. B. L. BeaI, of the Jour
nal. is nrRSI6aDt and
The New Orleans team defeated the
Chicago ball players Friday, 4 to 2, not
withstanding that Krock, the Chicago
pitcher struck out twenty-one men.
Eleven innings were played.
It is stated that in thirty counties in
Illinois the winter wheat crop will fall
off about thirty per cent; and that in
eighteen counties in Missouri the re-
duction will be 20 per cent.
Florida tourists returning North are
talking of orange parties. They bring
the fruit with them, pile it up in pyra-
mids for the company to admire, and
then eli "fall to and eat"
At Battle Greek, Mich, young man
named Stevens has been inocuIated with
CHAMBERS by striking horse in the mouth
with the back of his hand, an abrasion
being made by the blow.
Last Friday Phil Daily laid one of the
largest bets in his Long Branch book
that has yet been recorded in this coun-
try. It was $4,000 to 5000 against Con-
nemara for the suburban.
At Williamsburg, Wednesday night
Carkeek, the wrestler, secured SIC OF
"Parson" Davies money, Muldoon being
unable to throw the CoTnishman until
the expiration Of thirteen minutes.
M. Jean Pascal, yell known Paris
journalist, committed suicide. He was
the unoer-secretary of state in President
Theirs administration.
The French government will prosecute
the Lanterne newspaper for accusing
President Carnot of negotiating with
Belgium for the return to France of the
Orleanist princes.
The Russian minister of finance has
again presented bill permitting the use
of metal currency in business dealings
throughout the empire. He insists on its
acceptance.
According to Memphis paper SsSena
tor George of Mississippi remarked when
reelection that he would never wear a
dress suit or ride in carriage, and he
has kept his word"
The state central committee of the pro-
hibition party of Connecticut has voted
to call a convention to nominate a state
ticket on or about the 1st of August at
Hartford.
DR.. Paul earns, editor of Open Court,
Chicago, and Miss Mary Hegeler, daugh-
ter of E. G. Hegeler, the LaSelle zinc
manufacturer, were married at LaSalle,
ILL.,, Thursday evening.