Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-20
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

JAY GOULD says he has secured control
of the Union Pacific railway.
The city council of Brazil md, depos-
ed Mayor jacob Herr for drunkenness.
D. S. APPLETON, the publisher, died
Friday at New York of apoplexy.
THE Indian outbreak at Carlin, New,
is becoming serious and trouble is ex-
pected.
PARLIAMENT Friday by an unanimous
vote approved the regency of queen En-
ma.
The Missouri court of appeals has just
confirmed decision of lower court CIV
ing Judgment for 5000 due for a slave
girl sold before.
EASTERN parties, acting TO a Denve7
syndicate, are said to have illegally enterr
ed $4,000 acres Of desert land near Idaho
Falls, IdAho.
The Dillon and o Brien meeting at
New York netted S37 900 IN aid of the
! Irish parliamentary fund.
JOHN A. MCFARLAND, Boone (Iowa)
| banker, has failed Liabilities, SO, 900;
assets $4,000.
The depression in London and New
York stock markets this week amounted
almost to panic.
JOHN T. WALKER, Son & Co., of New
! York, silk importers, made an assignment.
They a,e rated by a commercial agency
at 100000.
GENERAL HENRY W. SLocUM, Henry
0. sHavermeyer and S. V. White have been
appointed receivers of the sugar trust.
The Milwaukee & St. Paul company
has begin running its own sleepers, hay
ing terminated its contract with the Pull
man company.
! PRELIMINARY steps have been taken by
| Dutch residents toward erecting in one of
| the parks a statue to William the Silent,
prime of Orange.
OFFICIAL returns show the election of
the republican state ticket in Iowa by
majorities ranging from 366 to $500.
The contest over the wiIl'of the late Col.
A. NJ Saxton of st. Joseph, Mo-, has been
compromised, his step-children receiving
100000
KANSAS farmers cultivated 2,144, 065
acres of winter wheat In 1880, from which
| 2,794, 04i bushels were harvested.
AN eastern syndicate is negotiating
for Garden City, l.. l., with view to max
! ing it manufacturing center and running
in on the same plan DIS Pullman, Ill.
A DECISION settling the question of the
validity of railroads tickets bought from
''scalpers" was decided affirmative Tues
day by the supreme court of Minnesota.
DANIEL S. APPLETON, head of the pub,
fishing firm of D. Appleton & Co., died at
his home in New York Thursday morning
DIR. FRAZER G. FULLER, a wealthy New
York physician, has sued his wife for di
vorce and names ex-Judge Leicester
Holmes as correspondent.
GEN. JOHN c. STARKwEATHER. former,
! ly of Wisconsin, and prominent division
commander In the late war, died at Wash.
ington Saturday.
THE Kansas City Packing and Refriger-
ator company of Boston has assigned to
Geo. E. Parker. The liabilities are SEIZED
uled at 81 100000.
THE great paper chase of the Long
Island Cross Country association will
| be held on Thanksgiving day at 10 a
m. Nearly three hundred athletes viii
! start.
HENRY WILLARD and a syndicate of
! New York and Russian capitalists, it is
said, have formed a company with $780,
600, 900 capital to connect Puget sound
with Russia by a railroad and ferry across
| Behring sea.
OB1TUARY.-AtM Missouri Valley Iowa,
Captain G. W. Fenton, formerly of the
United States navy; at Rockford, ILL.,,
Clare Woolsey, aged eighty-seven; at Vim
cennes, Ind, Richard J. Mckinney, ex-
mayor and banker.
OBITUARY: At Fort Smith, Ark, Judge
Monteith Scandel, associate justice Of the
state supreme court.-At Kankakee, ILL.,,
t. G. McCuileh, proprietor of the Kanka-
kee wooden mills.-At Paris, France, Will
son McCandies, president of the Allegheny
City pa National Bank.
OBITUARY: At San Francisco-Isaac
Blusome, who became we'll known as the
secretary of the vigilantes in 1855. At
Kalamazoo, Mich.-John Summer, father
of ex-congressman Summer, of Waukesha,
Wis, aged eighty. At Grand Rapids,
Mich, Captain Stephen H. Ballard, from
the result of hardships suffered in rebel
prisons during the war. At Wetmore
Kan.-S E. Shoemaker, the blind editor
of the Nehema County SpectatOr