Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-12-10
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

be on the warpatn.
FRED b. WHITNEY, the well known
young railroad man, died at Omaha.
STATE SENATOR KELLER, of Sank
Center, Mimi, has invented costrlvarce
for blowing by electricity.
ALL those injured by the explosion of
a bomb in the Office of Russell Sage, Fri.
day are doing well.
JOSIAH CARPENTER, who has just died
at Grafton. wv. Va, claimed to be one hun
bred and ffty-nine years old.
UNITED STATES TREASURER NEBECK-
Err has submitted his annual report to the
secretary of the treasury.
NAVAL APPOINTMENTS: w. h. Jones,
medical inspector; Frank Anderson, sur
geon; 7. W. Ryan, lieutenant.
The death is announced at Philadelphia
Allison Car Manufacturing company.
Ex-LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR James n.
johnson died near Columbus, Ohio. He
was lieutenant governor of Georgia during
the reconstruction period
GOVERNOR ELECT FLOWER has decided
to re-appoint General Porter adjutant gen
eral of New York.
JUDGE JAMES M. CoFFINBURY, one OF
the oldest members of the Cleveland bar,
died Sunday, aged y years,
The board of st. Joseph, Mo-, has con
lie schools OF that city.
CHARLES 7. Mccoy, of South Dakota,
will probably be made governor of Okla,
bona.
The Canadian Pacific will build a
double track from Winnipeg to Lake Su
perior.
The swine plague is carrying off hogs
in great number in Scott and adjoining
counties of Iowa. One farmer at Walnut
Grove lost fifty.
Gov. CAMPBELL returned to Columbus,
Ohio, from Chicago Wednesday with a
very sore throat and high fever, and i'm
mediately took to his bed.
THE budget committee of the German
reichstag has voted 100000 marks to be
devoted to providing proper German ex-
hibit at the Chicago Columbian exhibition
In 1893
THE following Wisconsin postmasters
have been appointed W. J. Brown, Alto,
Fond du Lac county; J. Bartlett, Attica,
Green county; M. Zimmerman, Peck, Bay
field county.
EDWARD M. FIELD, senior partner of
the failed firm of Field, Lindley, Welchers
& Co., at New York, has been sent to
Bloomingdale Insane Asylum.
GEORGE WHEATON ALLEN, better
known as Land Bill Allen" the author
of the Homestead Act, died at Columbus,
Ohio, Sunday night.
The daily arrivals of congressman at
Washington keep up the interest in the
speakership fight.
THE commission of Don Emile Puyo,
CHILEAN consul general at San Francisco,
has been Cancelled by the Gillian govern
ment.
SECRETARY NOBLE Saturday decieed
the long contested case of the Las Vegas
grant in New Mexico, which will, it is
thought, open to settlement 100000
acres.
SECRETARY Proctor attended the meet
ing of the cabinet Friday for the last time
and took official leave of his associates. He
severed his connection with the war de-
partment Saturday afternoon.
AN lOI ClO,COO LIDS Ueou rs
sued against the property Of the Colonial
and United States Mortgage company of
Great Britain, in favor of Bird S. Color,
of New York, on an assigned claim.
The new cruiser New York was sue
cessfuily launched at Cramps shipyard in
Philadelphia Wednesday, in the presence
of Secretary Tracy and other distinguished
persons, together with crowd of over
$1,000 people.
The New York weekly bank statement
shows a reserve decrease eff 81, 018, 725;
loans increase, S5,464 300, and specie
increase of 81, 23S, 600 The banks hold
$l2 1863, 625 in excess of the requirements
of the Is per cent rule.
SECRETARY JOHN L. DICKINSON, of the
national worlds fair commission, says
that the report that he had resigned that
position to accept the general managership
of railroad in Texas and Arkansas is
wholly without foundation in fact.