Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-01

HanisOn's retaliatory proclamation, and
suggest reprisals.
Scales of butter on the Elgin board of
trade Monday were 1860 pounds al
% cents a pound.
James E. Pennington will sail in his
airship from Chicago for New York
within three weeks.
Mrs. Rose Quinn, Of Philadelphia,
took oXalic acid in mistake for roch-
ellie salts with fatal results.
Venganse Sasso, the Italian who shot
and killed Luigi BARR on Sunday, was
arrested Monday by the police.
The British steamer Rome was wreck
ed near Algoa Bay and all on board
are thought to have been drowned.
Edward X Bermaduez, late chief JUS
tice of the LouiSina supreme court, died
at New Orleans on Monday, aged 60.
The Wagner block, on the East
Seventh street in st. Paul, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss of about
100000.
Peter Nachtshehn, Of st. Paul, who
was lost in Chicago in May, 1891, was
found in the Cook county insane asylum
Monday.
Thomas and Edward Norman, of Nor
gantoWn, and NIattOma Beaver, Of Mar
tinyille, Ind, were arrested by United
States detectives on a charge Of coun-
teresting.
The Inman steamer City of New York
has crossed to Queenstown liz 5 days
and 20 hours, the fastest eastern trip
on record.
Ernest Vanatta, the 14-year-old son
of George w. Vanatta, Of Lima, Ohio,
was drowned Sunday afternoon While
swimming
The late Snowman Barnums Car
diff giant, which was buried many
years ago ut Independence, Iowa, has
been eXhumed.
Captain Hiram WILDER, the first mar
shall of Portland, Oregon, died at his
home in Momence, H., Monday, at the
age of IS years.
Sam Moy says the Cinnamon in Chi
cago will not take out certificates of
residence until the law requiring them
to do so is tested.
The visible supply of wheat in the
United States and Canada increased s.
775,000 bushels, against 17,S590O0
bushels last year.
European countries are suffering from
a torrid wave, and the emperor of ANS
tria has cOuntermanded the order for
military maneuvGrs.
The ameer OF Afghansitan has hVOll-
ed the aid of the government of India
to prevent the Russians from occupying
the Pamir country.
A pension OF f2,OOO yearly has been
conferred on Lord George Hamilton,
who was first lord of admiralty in Lord
Salisbuy's cabinet.
Owing to threats of strike the mas
ter tailors of England have ordered a
lockout of iOulneymen. Tie number Of
men affected is $1,000.
Thomas Brennan, of Twenty-eighth
place, Chicago drank carbolic acid. mis-
taking it for whiskey, and died before Il
doctor could reach him.
The Argentine Republic, Uruguay,
Paraguay and the United States of Col
unlbia have conceded to France the
most favored nation treatment.
William A. Guthrie, the peoples par
ty nominee for associate justice, in
North Carolina, has declined to make
the race, alleging personal reasons.
A meeting of newspaper mon was
held Sunday at Madrid to arrange for Il
grand reception of foreign press repre-
sentatives attending the Columbus fetes.
At Berne, Switzerland, Monday, the
international peace congress opened.
with over 800 delegates present, includ-
ing Belva Lockwood, of the United
States.
Judge A p Mccormick, the United
States circuit judge ut Dallas, Texas, on
Monday decided the Texas railroad
commission cases adversely to the COM
mission.
A most disastrous fire has swept
through the town of Sonotra, a short
distance from Cassel, Germany. One
hundred and forty buildings We're de
Stroyed.
Laboucheres radical followers have
decided to make formal protest
against his exclusion from the British
cabinet on account Of the queens anti
pathy to him.
A Pittsburg paper prints an anony-
nous communication which charges
that the Borden murders were commit
ted by tramps. The police are looking
for the writer.
The French wheat crop is estimated
at 102 900 900 hectoliters, and the high
weight, eighty kilOs per hectOliter, will
bring the production nearly up to the
decennial average.
The river coal operators at Il meet
ing held IL Pittsburg Monday, decided
to reduce the wages Of their miners ID
cents per bushel. 1t is expected the
miners, who number LOCO, will strike.
A Pennsylvania express ran into four
heavy timbers that had been placed
across the track by unknown persons
two miles below Reading. The locomo-
tive jumped the rails but no serious
damage was done.
Farmers report that cattle III the
northeastern mart of Montgomery conn