Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-19
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

SIR JAMES MILLER, owner of Sainfoin,
the winner of the Derby, is but 26 years
of age. He paid $500, guineas for his
feet footed horse.
THERE are about thousand elk killed
in Oregon and Washington every year,
the antlers from most of which are sent to
England for ornaments.
AFTER his lecturing tour in the United
States, Explorer Stanley will return to
Africa as governor-general of the Congo
Free State. King Leopold, of Belgium,
has offered him that position and he has
accepted it.
New YORK. : The visible supply of
grain Saturday, June IA, as compiled by
the New York Produce exchange was as
follows: Wheat 21,578, 141 bushels, de-
crease 212,996; corn 16, 2O4, 224, increase
l, 990,215; oats 5,396,164 decrease Ill.,
528, 273, decrease SO, 538.
CINCINNATI, O.-Harry White,
a telegraph operator, was bitten in
April by a dog, and began to read
books on hydrophobia. Early Friday morn
ing he told the family they had better
strap him in bed. Half an hour later be
went into commissions and died. The
doctors say death was caused by mania on
the subject, as there were no indications
of rabies.
SONORA, Mexico.-The proposed tax
of $40 per head on Mexican cat
tie, is leading to serious complications.
The Mexican authorities refuse to allow
American stockmen to return cattle which
stray into Mexico, and have ordered all
American cattle hereafter found across
the line to be taken up and sold. The
American cattlemen are much alarmed.
Tucson, A. T.-Advices to the Star
from Mexico, six American pros
pectors ran into a band of eighteen
Apaches in the western slope of the Sierra
Madres and had a running fight for fifteen
miles. They escaped only on account of
the feetness of their horses.
BALTIMORE, Nd - The Baltimore
& Ohio railroad company has sent to
each employe circular note stating that
the company will not under any circum-
stances, employ men who are in the habit
of being intoxicated. All employees known
to frequent drinking places are warned to
discontinue drinking or quit the company S
service.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia.-Advices from
points covering the territory flooded
by the tremendous rains Of last
week indicate the damage to growing
crops greatly overestimated. 1nnumer-
able insects were destroyed, and it is fair
to presume that the beneficial effects of the
rain will offset the damage done.
SAN Francisco, Cal-The Chronicle
special froh Enseneca, Lower Cali
fornia, gives an interview with M.
Torres, governor of the peninsula. He
says that the Mexican government has de-
cided to demand that the United States
punish those concerned in the conspiracy
to capture Lower California. M. Torres
will soon end his government proofs that
the English corporation are undoubtedly
guilty of completely.
THE latest reports from Montana re-
garding the threatened Indian outbreak
are to the effect that the Northern Chey,
ennes are gathering at many points and
are making small raids Governor Toole
has issued 1 ZOO rifles and 10000 rounds
of ammunition to settlers, and United
States troops have been ordered to the
scene of difficulty.
New YoRK.-At noon Saturday
about 5000 cutters, cloak and suit
makers were locked out by the
different cloak and suit firms through
out the city. The trouble arose ovel
the refusal Of the union cutters tx
turn their work over to non-union men
The employers. to avoid greater trouble
decided to lock out every man until the
matter is settled.
DENVER. = Twelve hundred carpen-
tiers have: quit work. and all build
ing operations for a time will be
paralyzed. Four weeks ago 600 machine
wood workers and bench mill men de
manded nine hours with ten hours pay
Arbitration being refused by the mill own
ers the matter was taken up today by the
carpenters union with the above result
The probabilities are that the hod car
riers and timers will join the strikers I'M
less the trouble is speedily settled.
LoNDoN.-The accident to the City
of Rome, although attended by Nc
injury or loss of life to passengers or crew
ELECTS general condemnation of the prac-
tice of racing which has become the rule
rather than the exception with trans
Atlantic vessels. 1t is true that the pas
sengers themselves united in praise OF
the captain and his officers, but that Is
an act so universally INDUCED in by the
patrons of ocean-liners, that it has long
since become insignificant and in most
cases perfunctory. Despite the com
plimentary resolutions it is beyond ques
! ton that the vessel had an extremely mar
row escape from going to the bottom, anC
it is also plain that the passengers were
thoroughly frightened and adequately es.
timated their danger. The extent of the
damage to the ship is believed to be
greater than was admitted at Queenstown
1t is stated this morning that the board OF
trade will take immediate and effective
action to repress ocean-racing by the i'm
position of such penalty for future infrac-
ton of their prohibitive measures as viii
deter any steamship-owner or officer from
indulgence In the practice.