Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-02
THE SOCIALIST BILL.
NEWS BRIEFS.

Inc pope received 0UO American pill
grims yesterday.
Perfumers now utilize the scent of the
cucumber.
Prince William celebrated his twenty
ninth birthday Friday.
Frank Stockton's story, ''The Lady or
the Tiger" has been selected as the plot
of an operetta.
Attachments to the amount of $4,000
were levied on the property of James W.
Vial & Co., of Milwaukee.
Business failures the past week in the
United States and Canada numbered 81,
against 314 the previous week.
defalcation of more than million
dollars is figured up against the late Nor
quay government of Manitoba.
David Whitmore, che last surviving
witness sto the authenticity of the Book
of Mormon died Wednesday night at
Richmond, Mo.
Mrs. Don M. Dickinson is said to be
a decided acquisition to the cabinet social
circle.
Archibald Forbes is not regaining his
health in Washington as rapidly as could
be desired.
Secretary Bayard left Washington
Thursday night to attend the funeral of
his niece, Miss Kane, of Philadelphia.
The president Friday approved the
postal convention recently concluded be-
tween the United States and Cadada.
It is estimated in Philadelphia that the
effect of the high license law, fixing the
fee of $500, will be to reduce the number
q -
The first ten miles of the Panama canal
on the Atlantic end is declared open for
navigation.
The Knights of Labor are beginning to
boycott CIark's thread because of the
strike at Newark.
The Post-W orthington contested cleo
ton case is under consideration by the
house committee.
The new officials of Manitoba have dis
covered a deficit of $350,00O in tbs &C
counts OF the province.
Ottawa promises the provinces that
the Canadian Pacific railway monopoly
will be abolished in 1891.
Mrs. Rawson, wife of the murdered Chi
cage banker, was indicted for completely
Thursday and arrested Friday.
cable car in st. Paul got away from
the grip man, ran off the track and was
dashed to pieces. Three persons ware
fatally injured and fourtsen badly hurt.
Foreign railway news shows that The
Engiishman takes 10 railway trips a year,
the Belgian II, the Frenchman and Ger
man 5, and the italian 1.
During December past 1921 immi-
grants arrived in this country, against
2l,178 in December 1886. During the
year 1887 immigration to this country
amounted to sos, 281, against 3S6,631 in
1855.
A water heater in E. p. Allis &c Co.'s
works, Milwaukee, fell yesterday, killing
James Dryer and fatally injuring Thos.
Hiskock.
Dennis Clifford and wife, an old couple
living 81 miles from Tawas City, Mich,
were burned so death in their dwelling
Friday night.
Fire yesterday morning destroyed the
printing house of FL. W. Baker,at Spring
field, I'll. The estimated loss is $4,000;
insurance $4,000.
II. j. Furber, Jr., young man not yet
twenty years of age, is preparing to
found university at Chicago, and will
devote 100000 to the enterprise.
The consul-general OF Spain at New
York officially and emphatically denies
the truth of the rumors in regard to the
unsatisfactory condition in Cuba, and de-
clares that these rumors are entirely IN
founded.
The three Mapula train robbers, now in
aoJI ~ l,5h - h.
death penalty for their crime. They are
all Americans, with whom the Mexican
authorities do not wish to be too severe.
The coroner's jury returned verdict
in the case of the death of Hitchcock and
his wife, at Santa Anna, California, say
ing they met their death at the hands OF
persons unknown, but believes Auschlag
to be one of those persons.