Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-10-01
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

NATURAL gas is found at New Ulm,
MINI.
SAMUEL S. STEVENS, a prominent citi-
zen of Bloomington, ILL.,, is dead.
TACOMA, Wash, and Columbia, S. c.,
were shaken by earthquakes Monday.
AN invention to stop runaway horses by
electricity has been successfully tried in
Chicago.
The seventy-second concIave of the Odd
Fellows of America began in st. Louis,
Monday.
GOLD continues to come to this country
from Europe. The Rothschilds shipped
$500, 900 Wednesday.
AT Headsburh, Cal, very severe and
long continued shock of earthquake was
felt at 80 p. M Wednesday,
THE British and German ENJOYS to the
worlds fair arrived in Chicago on Friday
and are inspecting the Jackson Park
site.
Mr.. BLAINE expects to secure st.
Nicholas Mole, Hayti as a naval station
within year.
ELEVEN Cinnamon are captured at
Detroit while sneaking into the United
States from Canada.
MINNEAPOLIS outdoes herself in a tri-
butte to the bountiful crops, the parade
being from ten to twelve miles in length
The acting secretary of war has ordered
the Canal street bridge, Chicago, to be
taken down.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued full
pardon for Robert Sigel, son Of Gen.
Sigel, convicted of forgery.
POLICE Officer John King. of Chicago,
who was bitten by negro four years ago,
has just died of blood poisoning.
MoNGoLIANs who are Struggled into the
states from the dominion will he returned
to Canada direct.
THE Iowa agricultural authorities re-
port that this has proved the best allround
crop year in the history of the state.
The governor of Pennsylvania calls a
special session Of the senate to investigate
the charges against the auditor general
apd state treasurer, both of whom may he
removed.
The treasury department has compro.
missed the hat trimmings cases and will
refund to importers s8,r00,000 overpaid
for duties.
CAPT. SCHLEY, commanding the Balti-
more IN the Chilian waters, cabIed the navy
department from Valparaiso Tuesday that
everythingis quiet since Balmaceda COM
mitted suicide, Sept. 10.
ATTORNEY GENERAL JONES, of Wash
ington, has rendered an opinion that the
state constitution forbids the reading of
the Bible in the public schools.
EXPERIMENTS at Boston have demon
strated the feasibility of telephoning
across the Atlantic, and a plan is being
considered for laying a cable for that pur-
pose.
Col. H. S. OLcoTT, president and
founder of the theosophical society, arrived
in New York Wednesday. He is on his
way to Japan to found branch of the So
ciety there.
AN American company has received per-
mission from the Mexican government to
use the harbor of the island of Cayos
Arneus or Alacran III the fishing of red
snapper on a certain condition.
In the Canadian house of commons
Wednesday motion was made to impeach
Postmaster General Hag CART in connection
with acts In the constructions of the Can
adidn Pacific railway.
JAMES CRUM, the well-known stock
breeder of Morgan County Illinois, cele-
brated his eighty-ifth birthday Tuesday
Descendants to the fourth generation were
present
: OBITUARY: At Columbus, Ten, ex-
Congressman w. G.. Whitthorne, aged
sixty-six. At haywood Kan, William
Terrell, the noted meteorological, aged
seventy eight.
THE navy department has made very
satisfactory trial of smokeless powder for
small arms of American manufacture. The
trial showed a speed of $3.50 feet per Sec
ond with pressure of 1l.8 tons in the
chamber.
The failure of S. V. White & Co., one
of the most widely-known of Wall street
firms, was announced in New York this
morning. No statement of assets and
liabilities has yet been made. The
private fortune of S. V. White, the senior
member of the firm, is estimated at 3d.
100000.
The collector of customs at New York
has been authorized by the treasury de-
paItmert to admit to free entry six cases
of marble statuary and marble bas reliefs
intended for the museum of the Leland
Stanford Jr., university at Palo Alto,
Cal, if upon examination, the ar
tices In question are found to be works of
art.