Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-08-13
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

a CITY railway inspector herolcally
saves mans life in st. Paul.
SEPT. 2 is the date fixed for the'marriage
of Minister Lincoln's daughter.
TWIN CITY Scandinavians hold tenn
perance mass meeting In the interest of
law and order.
SAMUEL HANo, real estate operator at
Allston, Mass, has failed for 100000
J. B. MAYEs has been elected chief of
Inc Cherokees.
FORTY thousand veterans paraded at the
National @. A. r. encampment IN Detroit.
CALIFORNIA wheat crop this year will
reach 10000, 900 centals.
A BITTER fight has been begun between
the sugar trust and Claus Spreckles.
THE receipts of live cattle at New York
have beer steadily increasing lately and
now average Is, 900 head a week.
CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIvI has given
an audience to the Worlds fair commits
sioners.
DIR. WORCESTER has formally accepted
the vacant chair of DR.. Briggs at the Union
seminary.
JESUIT priests have obtained 100 feet of
pose to erect church to cost $500
hailstorm.
Miss LAURA NEwLAND, of Blooming
dale, Ind, won the Demorest medal for
oratory at Salem, Ind.
The next annual encampment of the
Grand Army OF the Republic will be held
at Washington.
The Cincinnati Ice Machine company
has failed; liabilities $4,000. assets,
$600,0
The National Forge and Iron company
Of Chicago, with liabilities of $3.50, 900, has
made an assignment.
IT is rumored that the pope is uneasy
concerning his health and that every pre-
caution has been taken in case of an emer-
gency-
NJ EIFFEL, the architect of the great
| tower at the French exposition, has tele
graphed to the board of managers of che
Columbian exposition for permission to
| erect tower on the fair grounds.
WATKGN JAMES, of Homestead, Pa,
clairs to be Explorer Stanley's stepfather
The latter's right name is said to be Henry
ROwlands, and he is declared to have been
born in Wales.
| HE royal trust company, with capital
| stock of 100000, has been authorized to
a banking business in Chicago. Albert
L. Doe is the President of the new in
stitution.
The New York banks now hold ST.
420, 800 in excess of Is per cent. of
their liabilities, although they have lost
81 ,065,500 in reserves during the past
year.
PRESIDENT BALMACEDA, of Chill, tried
TO buy the cruiser Baltimore, of this Gov
eminent. offering S4,000,000 for it. The
proposition was not considered.
OBITUARY: At GreenvilIe, Ill.,. ex-
Mayor N. B. Harris.-At Burlin gton,
Iowa, Charles Winyer, aged forty s1x.-At
Westchester. ", Isaac VanWert grand
son of one of the captors of Maj Andre,
aged seventy-one.
The White Star line steamer Majestic
reached New York Wednesday, making
the trip across the Atlantic in FIVE days,
eighteen hours and eight minutes. This
time lowers the record ffty-seven minutes.
ADMIRAL MCCAIN, of the United States
navy, who has just returned from Chill,
says the intensity of feeling between the
two factions in that country exceeds any
thing he ever imagined. He thinks the
Balmaceda party will put down the insur
gents if Trey can procure warships.
OBITUARY: At Clinton, Iowa, Captain
William Fosbure, aged IS. At Austin,
ll.-Charles Davis, aged rs. At Trinidad,
Colo.- George K. Anderson, register of the
United States land office at folsom. At
Dalton, Mass.-James Brewer Crane, the
paper maker, aged 70. At Oshkosh, Wis,
William Aensen, aged go.
- THE United States commissioner of pen
sions says that the delay in acting on
claims for pensions is unavoidable, owing
to the great number on file, He issued
156, 482 original certificates last year,
which is more than twice as many as were
ever issued in one year before, but as
there are still 929. 1856 claims on file, it
will take long time to dispose of them
all.