Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-17
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

SENATOR HAWLEY OF Connecticut Is Of
feredthe war portfolio.
The bank clearings of Chicago for the
past week were $88, 95S, III.
By vote Of Sc to So, the board of lady
managers of the worlds fair pronounce
ia faver of closing the show on Sundays
The Baltimore peach market is glutted
and hundreds of boxes of fruit have been
thrown overheard because there was no
sale for them.
Col. T. B. HUNT, .. S. A., retired died
at Fort Monroe, Va, suddenly, Monday
morning
LIEUT.. KENNY is of the opinion that
rescuing party will have to start In search
Of Lieut.. Peary.
The National worlds fair commission
adjourned Tuesday. They will not meet
again until April next.
| The bronze equestrian statue of General
Grant, on the lake front in Lincoln park,
will be unveiled on October 7.
Mr.. THOMAS, the United States minis
ter to Sweden, has written book treating
on that country and Norway.
JUSTICE LYON Saturday morning fined
seven physicians for neglecting to report
contagious diseases to the city board Of
health of Chicago.
GRINDBERG & MORRIS, of Roanoke, Va,
proprietors Of the New York wholesale
clothing and notion house and Boston boot
and shoe house, have assigned. Liabilit-
les, $40 900; assets not known.
| PROFESSOR CHARLES DEGARMO, of
| Champaign, ILL.,, has accepted the presi-
dency of Swathmore (Pa.) college.
A STOCK company is to be organized at
Galesburg, Ill, with a capital of $500, 900
to manufacture beet sugar.
DONALD MURRAY MURPHY, a six-year-
old New Brunswick inventor, has just Sc
cured a patent on a new toy.
MAJ. J. M. BUNDY, the New York
editor who was stricken with apoplexy at
Paris, died Tuesday night.
The Itata j. to be returned to the Chilli
ans upon the payment of the expenses of
this government in her pursuit and cap
ture.
ga TEST of the new high explosive called
terrorite was made at Fort Hamilton, New
York harbor, Tuesday. It was found to
have four times the force of dynamite, and
is smOkeless.
WILLIAM F. POWELL, of Camden, n.
J., has been offered the San Domingo con-
sulship made vacant by the appointment!
of John S. Durham to the Haytian post.
PROF. MINDELEFF, Of San Francisco,
has, it is claimed, discovered new explo.
sive that is more powerful than dynamite
and safer than gunpowder to handle. He
calls it terrorite.
MISS VERA AVA, an English woman
doing missionary work among the poor
people of Chicago, has mysteriously disap.
peared ard her friends are greatly
alarmed.
OBITUARY: At JerseyyiIle, ILL.,, D. P
Pritchett.-At Decatur, H., Reuben A
louisville, Ind, Isaac Allen, aged fifty,
two; Meredith Rountree, aged seventy.
seven,
OBITUARY: At Auburn, n. Y, Benjamin
Hall, ex-chief justice of Colorado, aged
seyenty-seven. At New York, Mrs. Eliza
Simonton, mother of the lateJ. W Simon
ton, aged ninety. At Tuscola, H., VIM
Watson, aged eighty.
JUDGE COOLEY, chairman of the Inter.
State Commerce commission, has rendered
his resignation. Judge Cooley was the
first man appointed on this commission,
and has been chairman of the board ever
since its organization. Nearly one yeal
ago it was announced that he had made ur
his mind to resign,
The conzuls general of the South Ameri
can republics in London have inaugurated
a movement for the establishment in that
city of a large bureau of information con,
corning South American affairs, similar tc
the bureau Of the American republics
which was established in Washington on
the recommendation of the international
American conference, and similar bureau
which has recently been organized il
| Paris.