Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

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covered at Newton, Conn.
MELBoURNE's rain producing expert
ments IN Wyoming are declared success.
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 irrigation congress convened in
Salt Lake City Tuesday, $50 delegates be-
ing present.
THE steamer st. Aspath, from Iloile
with cargo of sugar, is ashore near Var
ennes, Que.
The United States and Great Britain
have dip lomatic controversy over the
Chinese exclusion law.
COWBOYS are determined that negroes
shall not settle on the lands recently open
ed by the government and race war may
result.
THE British and German ENJOYS to the
worlds fair arrived in Chicago on Friday
and are inspecting the Jackson Park
site.
GERMAN merchants in the City Of Mexi-
co are strongly opposed to reciprocity be-
tween Mexico and the United States.
JUSTICE LYON Saturday morning fned
seven physicians for neglecting to report
contagious diseases to the city board of
health Of Chicago.
MRS JEFF. DAVIS has sued The Beltord
publishing company for royalty on the
Memoirs Of Jefferson Davis.
Hon. GEO B. LoRING, ex-miniater to
Portugal and commissioner of agricul
tuTe, died in Salem, Mass.
CIVIL Service commissioner Lyman is
to resign, it is said, to be succeeded by ex-
Congressman McComas of Maryland
Ex-C0NGREssMAN Morrow, of Cali
forrIa, has been appointed United Sta es
district Judge to succeed Judge Hoffman,
who recently died
SENATOR DIXON, of Rhode Island, will
occupy Senator Edmunds' old seat in the
senate, having made the first application
for it.
SECRETARY TRACY Saturday awarded
the contract for building torpedo boat No.
to the Iowa iron works of Dubuqo, la.,
the lowest bidder, at Sill 500.
THE site of the old first regiment
armOry, In Chicago has been leased for
ninety-nine years. The purchasers will
erect theatre to cost 100000
The pilot boat Washington, the last of
the pilot feet that it Was feared Was lost
in the recent cyclone, arrived at New York
Monday in tow, after terrible experience
during the storm.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed
Senator Francis Hendrick Collector of the
port of New York, to succeed ]. Sloat
Fasset, resigned.
THE Commercial National Bank of
Sioux City, Iowa, has been authorised by
the controller of the currency to begin
business with a capital of $4,000.
AT the Farmers Alliance Headquarters
at Washington it is claimed that fifty-fve
mem bers of the lower house Of the next
| congress will vote for all the measures of
the Alliance, and al least four in the
senate.
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 a pressure of lis tons in the
chamber.
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earthquake shock was distinctly felt.
Brick buildings were shaken, but no dam
age was done.
GAIA, the Mexican renegade, with 400
men, has crossed the Rio Grande from
Texas, with the avowed purpose OF start
ing a revolution in Mexico.
A SYNDICATE has been formed in Ham
burg, Germany, to construct abattoirs in
Chicago, in order that Germans may con-
troll the imports of American pork into
Germany.
Obituary: At Dallas, Texas, T. J..
Freeman, dean of the law faculty of the
university of Tennes pc, aged sixty three
At Kingston, Ont, Rev. Canon White
At Dixon, H., James N. Holly, aged
eighty-five.
WILLIAM WETzEL was arrested
Wednesday at st. LOUIS. and held for ex-
animation as to his mental condition He
Is hopeless imbecile from excessive
cigarette smoking. HIS trouble began with
paralysis of the salivary glands, which ex-
tended to the tongue and vocal cords