Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-12
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

EIGHTY THOUSAND Americans have sail
ed from New York this season.
IT was 1888 years ago last Monday that
Cicero delivered the first of his great
Philippics.
| Two HEBREWS own the site OF ancient
Babylon, where their ancestors were cap
tives and slaves.
R. H. SToDDARD says: Books are not
necessarily literature. The majority OF
books. indeed, are not literature at all
NEARLY l, 900 of the Streator, H., min
| ers signed the contract of the coal compan-
les, agreeing to work until May next at
the Y IL cent rate.
A BIG industrial boom was begun
Monday in the Schuylkill Waller, Pen,
rolling mills, with advanced wages for the
employees.
GENERAL LEGITIME, ex-President of
| Hayti, accompanied by his wife and chill
dren and several officers of his army,
reached New York on the Ward Line
steamer Manhattan.
PRICE, Dem. defeated Minor, Rep. in
election in the Third Congressional Dis
I trict of Louisiana, by about Z, 900 plurality
At Franklin, St. Mary's Parish, a Re
publican deputy sheriff was shot at the
polls.
DULUTH, Minn.-The city contractors
have voluntarily advanced the wages of
their workmen to 5175 a day. This is
the amount demanded by the men at the
time of the recent strike in which blood
was shed.
MmwAUKEE.-The northwestern confer
ence of the African Methodist church
adopted a report advising a general exodus
of the negro from the south to the north
west. Murder and Acknowledgement are
charged to be the rule in the SOUTH and
the exodus is recommended as a remedy
SAN FRANCIsco.-A dispatch from Vic
toria, B. c., announces the arrival there of
the sealers Vivi, Penelope and Adela from
Behring's sea. They had altogether over
$500 seal skins aboard, and report that
saw nothing of the U. S. revenue they
cutter, Rush.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass-The strike at
the shoe-shops has now affected all en-
ployes, and the doors of all the shops in
town, except H. 7. Cadys, are closed. Fiji
teen hundred employees are out of employ
ment, whose combined wages amount to
S25, 900 a week
FORTY carloads of sealskins, the years
catch of the Alaska Fur company, passed
through Cheyenne, Wy. T., Wednesday,
bound for England They are to be deliv-
cred at their destination in eighteen days,
from San Francisco.
PROF. HUXLEY contributes thought
for September. Il suppose" he says, in
speaking of the oyster, that when this
slippery morsel glides along the palate few
people imagine that they are swallowing
piece of Machinery far more complicated
than a watch.
DULUTH, Minn.-The Canadian Pacific
has let contract to build seven hundred
miles of new road next year, to head off
the Northern Pacific movement in Montana
and the Northwest Territory. The new
line is to be extended through Yellow Head
pass of the Rocky Mountains and to the
coast.
THE loss by the forest fires now raging
in Montana and Washington will amount
to several millions. For while last week
$4,000 of fine trees or cordwood and saw
mills went up in smoke every day. The
fires are more destructive than they have
been for several years though they usually
destroy In the Montana region several
hundred thousand dollars worth of proper
ty annually.
LEO XIII. is a very small old man, so
low of stature that man of ordinary
height kneeIing at his feet is aware of the
pontiff's bent head not very far above his
own Meanwhile the fatherly hands, so
slender that the rings which many mon
archs sent him for the jubilee will not
hold on his fingers except over mittens,
are resting on the strangers head or pat
ting his cheek with an impulsive affection
ateness,
Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE lives a
peculiar existence at present. She eats
very little, combining her diet almost to-
gether to bread and butter and fruit. She
sleeps well in the day time, but is apt to
be wakefuI at night. At times she seems
to have a momentary return of her old
brilliancy, but as a general thing is natur-
ally apathetic. She is fond of being in
the open air. and can walk about a little
with a cane. Her tenure of life is consid-
cred remarkable by her physicians, who
said she has the strongest vitality of any
woman they have ever known,