Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-01-14
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

The Ontario legislature has been con-
voked for Feb. IL.
A RECIPROCITY treaty with Salvador is
promulgated by President Harrison.
Col. G. T. GILMEk, recently appointed
governor Of Ontario, died Sunday.
THREE THOUSAND operatives in the
Elgln watch factory threaten to strike.
MARTIAL law is likely to be proclaimed
In Kansas On account of the county seat
war.
THE trials of the Miantonomah's big
guns, fired with full powder charges, prov
ed satisfactory.
PLANS for the main Carnegie Library
building at Pittsburg, Pa, were
adopted Friday. The building is to cost
100000.
ADJUTANT GENERAL REECE Wednes-
day commissioned Henry Barrett Cham
berlin first lieutenant of Company NJ, First
Infantry, |. N. G..
A BILL declaring the lottery business
felony has been introduced in the Ken
lucky senate.
EVANGELIST EAKINs," former green
back orator, has been declared insane at
Detroit.
Two hundred miners at Cable, ILL.,, have
struck for a restoration of the former rate
of wages.
The value of grain exported from San
Francisco last year was $50 205, 000against
S22, 900 the preceding year.
The Rye Flour Millers' association, of
New York, has fixed the price of rye -four
at from rs to IS 35 per barrel.
Gov. CAMPBELL, of Ohio, is president
| Of he.Ohio Mining company, incorporated
IN Duluth, Mimi. Monday with a capital
stock of 81 ,00c, 600.
In his annual message to the council,
Mayor Grant of New York strongly urges
the citizens to inaugurate movement for
representation at the worlds fair.
The navy department reiterates its de-
malls of war preparations, but the secre-
tary conferred with many heads of de-
partments Monday.
The president is preparing a proclama-
ton of retaliation against the countries
which have refused to enter INTO reclpro-
| cal trade relations with this country.
CAPT. GABR1ELsoN, commanding the
revenue steamer Galla5ine, made report
to the treasury department, confirming the
press dispatches in regard to the loss of
that steamer, and the death Of Jacobson,
the carpenter.
THERE is a story current in bridgeport,
Conn.,, that to prevent the work Of ghouls,
dummy was substituted for the real body
at the funeral of P. T. Barnum and that
the remains were hidden away until all
danger of grave-robbery was past.
CHARLES GARDNER, Yale professor of
Latin, and J. Lawrence Laughlin, profess
sor of political economy in Cornell Uni
versity, have accepted offers of chairs in
Chicago university at $1,000 each.
OBITUARY: At Cincinnati, Surgeon W.
H. Long, United States army, aged forty
two.-At Monmouth, ILL.,, Cbauncey Hard
Joseph W, Clark, aged eighty one.wAt
Grand Rapids, Mich, Jacob Barth, acc
6fty.-At Palestine, Texas, Carter Har-
rison, nephew Of the president.
! OBITUARY: At Brussels, Emil Louis
Victor Laveleye, TIE Belgian political
York, Banker Louis I'll. Meyer, aged
seventy-six AT New Orleans, Michael J.
| Sheehan.-At Salem, Mass, Colonel
George Peabody, aged sixty-eight. AT
| Grand Rapids, Mich, General Ehenezer,
Sprsgue.
! OBITUARY: At Galena, Ill Frederick
Stahl, aged eighty-three. At Harbor
Springs, Mich, Margaret Boyd. queen of
the Ottawa Indians; Sophie Graverout.
! aged one hundred and two At Moline,
H., S. w. Wheelock, aged seventy-fve.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Or. Howard McCuI-
| Tough. At Bloomington, ILL.,, Samuel Ian
der, aged ninety. four. At Washington,
Rear Admiral C. R. ?. Rodgers.