Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-19
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD has been
reelected president IF the Worlds W. c.
T. Z.
CoMANCHE, the horse that survived the
Custer massacre, died of old age at Fort
Riley.
A HAMPTON CORNERS On. " man
loaned $4,000 on an alleged $4,000 gold
brick, worth about 81.
9. B. PAUL, wholesale lumber dealer of
Louisville. Ky. assigned Tuesday, with
liabilities 5200,000
The United States is the first nation in
the history of the world to have three
cities of over one million inhabitants each
A PROMINENT citizen of Deadwood, S.
D., Is In prison in Germany, charged with
having deserted from the kaiser's army.
TIE Mexican government will be asked
TO drive out the Guatemalan revolutionists
who are making their headquarters in its
territory.
SATURDAYS New YORK bank statement
shows an increase in reserves of 81, LAST. :
900.
TESTS by the navy department prove
that the armor plates made in this coun
try are the best in the world.
THE premier of Quebec is charged by a
Montreal paper with receiving SIZE, 900
from the contractor who built the Quebec
court house.
TRUNKS found on the sooner Marc Vic
toria, wrecked in 1864, are proved TO be
the property of Booth, the assassin of
President Lincoln.
MARIE A. STRELINGER, the wife of M
b. Curtis, the actor, has sold the Peralta
hotel property at North Berkeley, Cal.
for 1926, 900, and will devote the proceeds
in an endeavor to save her husband from
the gallows.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER
will ask congress to appropriate some
thing for experimenting with the ppeu-
matte tubes for mail service in the large
cities.
The chief of the bureau of statistics re
ports that the total value of the exports Of
domestic mineral oils from the United
States during the month of October 1881,
was S.. $40, 101.
In an old safe formerly belonging to the
late E. J. White, of st. Louis, second
hand dealer Wednesday discovered roll
of bills amounting to $1,000.
OBITUARY: At Newark, Mo-, ax-Con-
gresham John M Glover, aged u; at
Dubuque, Iowa, John Moore; at Fairbury,
ILL.,, Mrs jeremiah Mckee, aged 68.
The commission On the Minnesota CAPT
tol met in St. Paul and decided that the
state should have a new capitol of granite
upon the site of the present building,
The firm of Cooper Hewitt & Co., have
l..
Jersey to an English syndicate for S.,
100000
The annual report of the secretary of
agriculture is out. He states that the
value of farm products.are $500, 900, 900
greater this year than last.
IT is announced that if Minnesota does
not raise some of its worlds fair fund by
the first of next year it will have to give
up its building site in Chicago.
The engineers and fremen on the st.
Louis Belt Line are out on a strike. The
trouble will probably extend to other
roads.
OEFIcERs of the Irish National League
of America issue an address advising
lrishmen to stop fighting and do a little
work for the cause.
THE credentials of Senior Montt, the
CHILEAN minister, have arrived. 1t is not
known at the state department when
the minister will De presented to the presi-
dent.
The du les heretofore performed by the
United States steamer Dispatch as dis
patch vessel will hereafter be allotted to
the United States steamer Dolphin, lately
returned from the China station and now
being repaired at the Norfolk navy yard.
Mr.. LACEY, comptroller of the currency,
returned to Washington Tuesday from
Boston and says The Corey National
bank of Corey, Pa, is in bad condition
and receiver will be appointed in a few
days to wind up its affairs
BISHOP MERRILL, of the Methodist
church, is seriously i'll in Chicago. An
abscess has formed in tie abdominal region
anda difficult surgical operation will be
necessary to save his life.
The Rankin Catholic Manufacturing
company, of Nashville, Tenn, made an
assignment Tuesday for the benefit of its
creditors. Liabilities, S133 993; assets,
, 1913, 585. The principal creditors are in
New York.
IT is declared at the department of state
| that there had been no correspondence be-
tween this government and that of Italy
in regard to New Orleans lynching affair
since last spring and consequently the
dis patch from Rome stating that this
government had acknowledged liability for
the affair and would pay indemnity, is in
| correct.