Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-19
NEWS IN GENERAL.

NOTED to the rank of admiral.
DR.. Lyman Abbott receives 800 week
for preaching in Plymouth church.
The Duke of Newcastle is a passenger
in the Celtic bound for New York.
Frank Knox, of Lima, o., attempted to
light the fire with coal oil. Dead.
Two stock trains arrived at St. Joseph,
Mo-, with every animal frozen to death.
The coffee crop at Antigua will be small
this year and will not, it is calculated, ex-
coed 100000 pounds.
Luna and Wales, two of the Mexican
revolutionary chiefs, have been put to
death.
Mrs. Henry Clews, of New York, is the
only lady in America who owns char
lot.
Henry Irving's profits from his pres
ent tour in this country will reach $780,
900.
The king of Portugal has had an at
tack of pleurisy, which has become
acute.
Mrs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton is speed
ing the winter with daughter in Eu-
rope.
C. Il. F. Smith, of the firm of G. II. F.
Smith d Co., of Minneapolis, is in Wash
ington.
Mr.. Thomas Sexton, M. p, is said to
have passed the crisis in his disease and
to be getting stronger.
Sunday was the coolest day Muscatine,
Iowa, has experienced in fifty years. The
mean temperature was q below.
Three men were killed in railway col
Iision Sunday mig hit near Ottomwa, Iowa.
The train dispatcher is to blame.
The Missouri Pacific roundhouse at
Fort Worth, Tex, burned Saturday. Loss
100000, partially insured.
The paper mill at Manchester, Conn,
owned by Lowe Brothers was burned
Sunday night. Loss, $4,000.
The Omaha Furniture company's fac
tory and the Omaha Brass Works were
burned Sunday. Loss $4,000.
The Chicago papers are making war
upon the plumbers. They claim that
ninety eight per cent of the plumbing in
the city is defective.
Mr.. Gladstone, through the newspa-
pers, again returns thanks for the large
number of birthday congratulations
which he received.
The bill relative to permissible marks
on mail matter which passed the house
has been favorably reported TO the SEN
ate.
Fire destroyed the Henry Wardin
boiler and conduit works at Philadelphia
Monday morning causing a loss of about
100000.
second Caucasian army corps has
been ordered to the Austro-Roumania
frontier, There will be general move
ment of troops at an early date.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland, it is
said, have consented to visit the Florida
sub-tropical exposition, the 22nd of Fub
ruary.
The president has sent letter to the
gset that he will he unable to attend the
reception to-day.
George Walker, late coEsul general of
the United States at Paris, died of pneu-
monia at his residence in Washington,
Sunday, in the Gath year of his age.
Leading Knights talk of bringing suit
against the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad and Coal company tc compel it
to fulfill its charter obligations.
Louisa Evans, 6 years old, was tried in
Kentucky court on charge of lunacy
and sent to an asylum. The case is said
to be without parallel. She is very vi
client.
Archbishop Ryan has handed to the
rector of til g American Seminary, Presi-
dent Cleveland's letter with the volume
of the American constitution dedicated
to the pope.
A revised list of the blizzard fatalities
show 81 deaths in Dakota, Is in Mime
sofa, 6 in Iowa, IL IN Nebraska and two
in Montan. Total, 135. Fifty-fve per-
sons are still missing.
Grave dissens ions exist among the
members of the English cabinet and
government crisis may occur at any time
next season. The liberal ministers are
certain to separate.
A coasting party OF ten young people
on a pair hobs collided with a heavy
load of lumber Sunday evening at Os-
wego, n. Y. All were rendered insensible
and one young man has died.
Fire in Ebiing's brewery, Harlem, Sun
day, caused damage to the extent of
S33, 900, which is covered by insurance.
| The fire is attributed to spontaneous
combustion.
fire at Ssdalia, Mo-. Sunday, totally
destroyed Smiths hall and consumed the
| boot and shoe store of W. s. Mackey,
valued at $4,000. Loss on building,
$4,000.