Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-14
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.


OHIO and Iowa have elected democratic
governors.
AIITTLE weakened Scotchman, of Aus
tralia. named Mclean, has probably the
largest 13- year-old boy In the world. He
is 6 feet inches In height, and weighs
about $50 pounds.
The strike of the moulders at Brooks
Locomotive Works at Dunkirk, n Y,
which lasted two weeks has ended and the
men have returned to work on the con-
dition that the union is not to interfere
with managers employing such men as
they choose.
BOsTON.- Returns have been received
from every town in the state except Cos
mold, which has about 20 voters. They
give Bracket (rep) 126, Russell
idem.) 120,813; Blackner (pro.) 1854;
Brackets plurality, 5,979. In 1887 Ames
rep had 10000; Lowering dem 49,
1884, Earl pro 10,945.
EXPERIMENTS are now being made In
Italy upon this years vintage in the elect
rifeati0n of wine Fifty different kinds
of wine have already been experimental
upon, and the results have been very salts
factory. The wine is clarified, acquires a
''boquet, and is said to stand equally
well transported by land or long journeys
by sea.
PAUL DU CHAILLU, the writer and trav-
eller, is 50 years of age. He is under the
average height, round-shouldered, and not
at all handsome. His face is strong and
his forehead commanding. He has French
blood In his veins, which is shown by his
vivacity of manner. He has an inexhaust-
ible fund of anecdotes, and his CONVEX
sational powers are great. He has done a
vast amount of work, but is In fine health.
His long journeys in African jungles do
not seem to have injured his constitution
at all.
PITTsBURG, Pa.-The committee, con-
sisting of w. P. Rend of Chicago, John K.
Boles of Michigan, and Gen. Axine of
Ohio. appointed to audit the accounts of
the Pittsburg relief committee for the suf-
ferers Of the JohnstOwn flood has just
completed its work The reports showed
that the contributions from the various
cities and countries received by the COM
mittees aggregated 1921, 292.62, of which
S560,000 was transferred to the state food
relief committee A cash balance is still
on hand of S44, 1861 The committee
complimented Treasurer w. P Thompson
on the accuracy of his accounts.
AN exchange says, "Sam Patch was the
first man to leap Niagara Falls" That is
mistake. In July, 1881, young gen
tleman registered at the Prospect Point
Hotel as William Claridge. A few days
later young woman of extreme beauty
joined him. In his room, after a very ex-
| citing half-honr, during which they con-
versed and yelled and shouted in
Spanish, collision of some sort occurred,
followed by dead silence. Shortly after
that, arm in arm, they strolled from the
hotel, walked directly to the brink of the
falls at Prospect Point and together
jumped over
TRINIDAD, Col.-The bodies of John
Martin and Henry Miller, the cowboys
who froze to death near Sierra Grande in
last weeks terrible blizzard, have been
| brought to Folsom for burial. Their two
companions, Charlie Wise and Henry
| Jolly, were taken to Platon for medical
treatment. Jolly will lose all his fingers
but otherwise he has not suffered greatly
Wise will lose all his fingers and one foot,
while both ears and the other foot are ter
ribly frozen Four other men belonging
to the same party are missing, and it is
feared they are dead. They are Charlie
Rand, man named jaeger, Mexican Joe,
and Mexican whose name is unknown.
| At least twenty men are missing from this
range ard it is feared that many of them
have died,