Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-26
NEWS IN GENERAL.

1s9oelia VIII soon be exIled from Spain.
The Grand Duke Alexis has been pro-
NOTED TO the rank of admiral.
Dr.. Lyman Abbott receives 800 a week
for preaching in Plymouth church.
The Duke of Newcastle is a passenger
in the Celtic bound fer New York.
Frank Ellison of Indiana, U. S. consul
a St. Helena, mas resigned.
Flank Knox. of Lima, o., attempted to
light the IRE with coal oil. Dead.
Two stock trains arrived at ST. Joseph,
NO. 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 &c
death.
Mrs. Henry Clews, of New York. is the
only lady in America who owns a char
lot.
Henry Irving's profits from his pres
ent tour in this country viii reach $780,
600.
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. H. T. Smith, of the firm of C. H.F.
Smith d Co., of Minneapolis, is in Wash
ington.
The Russian government has renewed
the anti-German measures in the Baltic
provinces.
Mr.. Thomas Sexton, Nj. 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 81 below.
Three men were killed in railway col
lision Sunday mig hit near Ottomwa, Iowa.
The train dispatcher is to blame.
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.
A Dublin crowd hooted and insulted
Chief Secretary Balfour upon his appear
ance in the streets of the Irish capital.
The sultan of Turkey has asked w. K.
Vanderbilt to build a system of Asiatic
railways. Mr.. Vanderbilt has the pro-
posal under consideration.
EI.So. TU:Il;a--
been confined in prison since Oct 31st,
was released from Tullamore Jail Fri
day.
James E. Nowlin, who murdered his
milkman, In a most horrible
manner near Boston about year ago,
was hanged at that place yesterday.
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 teen 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.
Fourteen Cinnamon were drowned
Wednesday near Victoria by the capsizing
of small boat. They han started to
smuggle themselves into Washington
Territory.
Mike Kelly's share of the gate money
for the time he was in Frisco was $500.
He received $500 before he started from
Boston.
O'Connell, of the Oshkosh club, who
will be with Omaha the coming season,
has for four seasons been with winning
clubs: BiddefOrd, Lawrence, Portland and
Oshkosh.
The senate committee on postoffices
and post roads will meet next Friday TO
hear arguments from DIR. Norvin Green
aud Mr.. Gardner q. Hubbard upon the
government telegraph bills.
a sec5hd Caucasian army corps has
been ordered to the Austro- Roumania
frontier, There will be a general move
ment of troops at an early date.
The president has sent letter TO the
Old Guards, of New York, expressing re-
greet that he will he unable to attend the
to day.
George Walker, late consul general of
the United States at Paris, died of pneu-
moRia 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, years old, was tried in
a Kentucky court on charge of lunacy
and sent to an asylum. The case is said
TO be without a parallel. She is very vi
Olent.
Maj. William Drummond, formerly
of the general land Office
and a representative in congress, from
Iowa, died of consum ption at San Diago,
California Thursday. He went TO that
place few weeks ago for his health.
Fears are entertained that the steamer
overdue from Naples With $50
on board, has been sunk or
disabled through collision with some Of
he logs released through the breaking
up of the great Leary raft.
The secretary Of the treasury has des-
gnated ths National Branch bank, of
Madison, Ind, to be q depository of
public moneys.
The senate committee on mines and
mining has perfected an amendment to
he alien land law exempting mining
property from It's operation-that is, al
owing foreigners to purchase and own
mines in this country.
The match previously announced be-
ween Ike Weir, "The Belfast Spider
nd Tommy Miller, the latter of Omaha,
yeb., which was to have been decided at
hat place on Jan. II, has been postponed
i'll the go INST, and the location changed
o Minneapolis, Mimi, the alteration hav-
ng been made mainly in order to allow