Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

KANSAS CRY, Mo.-The taking of the
census was practically finished yesterday.
The count shows the city to have popu
lation of 135, 900, an increase of 100 per
cent. over 1880.
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL is close
reader of American newspapers and
American literature generally. Balfour,
| Chief Secretary for Ireland, is also an ON
nivorous reader of American newspapers,
and recently said Il like the snap of the
American writer's.
New YORK. Frank Wertland, wife
and child, committed suicide In Hoboken
| by drowning, because wertland was unable
| to pay mortgage of $25 on his household
furniture.
DESPITE his wealth, ex-Premier Glad
stone, wears clothes until they are thread
bare, shiny and shabby. He explains to
his friends that he does it for comfort.
BARON LEIBIG, the German chemist,
says that as much -four as will lie on the
point of a table knife contains as much
nutritiye constituents as eight pints of the
best beer made.
ONE of the curiosities found by the
census enumerators In Madison county,
Ga, is d boy years old who had never
been given a name by his parents.
| BANGOR. Me-The clothing store of
Frank D, Pullen g. Co. was invaded by a
cloud of bees which cleared the store OF
the proprietor and clerks and occupied it to
the exclusion of all others until night,
when they we're finally driven out
CINCINNATI.-The freight handlers on
all roads here except the Louisville &
aCIr 1o,y c+D,
their demand for an increase of wages was
not Immediately granted. About 500 men
are involved
BATON ROGUE. LATHE lottery bill as
amended by the committee, increasing the
amount to be paid for lottery privileges
$3.50, 1000 per annum, making an annual
payment of 81 100000, passed the senate
Tuesday afternoon, by "a to IL, and re-
turned to the house for concurrence.
THE party of rescuers at Dunbar, Pa,
penetrated the Hill Farm mine Tuesday
morning, where the bodies of thirty-seven
miners are supposed to be lying They
were driven back temporarily by fire damp,
but will search for the victims as soon as
possible.
The Photographic Society of Geneva
has been testing the theory that the long
companionship of man and wife tends to
make them look more and more like each
other. Photographs of seventy eight old
couples, and of an equal number of adult
brothers and sisters, showed that the mar
ried couples were more like each other
| than the brothers and sisters of the same
blood.
ROCKVILLE, Indiana - A letter re-
ptIV of \ c
of the murder of Mrs. John
M. Wright the American Presby-
terrain missionary, at Salinas, western
Persia, in April. A native school teacher
killed her with dagger in revenge for the
discharge from her employment. Mrs.
Wright was a beautiful and highly ac-
complished woman and had been married
| about four years
WEST SUPERIOR George S. Boudinot,
| secret service agent from Washington, ar
rived at Duluth Tuesday evening and NJ
0. Hall and Frank Burke, Jr., are under ar
rest charged with having made spurious
census returns. Boudinot found that
twenty -one enumerators have been guilty
of making forged lists. He reports it the
worst case brought to the attention of the
census bureau. A large number of arrests
will probably follow.
New ORLEANS, LATHE Picayune s
Groverton (Tox-) special says: Great ex-
element was caused here Tuesday night by
the suicide of beautiful young lady, Miss
Annie Turner, daughter Of Judge B. Tur-
ner, and the excitement was intensified
when the father took the pistol from the
hands of his dying daughter and killed
Professor Davis. Nothing is known as to
the cause of the tragedy. Professor Davis
came here last March from Lake Forrest
College, N. c., and took charge of the
academy at this place. He was good
looking young man.