Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-28
TIE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

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| Buckner, Ark.
Col. GEORGE GRAY, the New York law
yer, Is dead OF paresis.
JOHANN MOST has resumed his anarch-
| istic harangues in New York.
VICTORIA Wo0DHULL has announced
! herself as candidate for president of the
United States.
FARM property along the Little Blue
| river, n Indiana, has suffered severely
from the recent floods.
OUR recent blizzard is now raging in
England, and is continuing its course
northeast toward The Baltic sea.
THE Georgia supreme court has affirmed
the conslitdtionality of the law making
railroads amenable TO county taxation.
On Wednesday night, General A. G.
Edwards, fer many years United States
sub-treasur r at st. Louis, died, aged So
The cIearings Saturday in Chicago were
$l3 700, 625; for the week, $50 6l0,625, as
against s84 96l $50 for the cores ponding
week of 1891
AT New York. Miss Georgine Wolters
has been awarded $4,000 in breach of
promise suit against Schulz, the wealthy
inventor.
FIVE hundred and forty chinamen-the
largest invoice ever received from the
Flowerg kingdom-have reached British
Columbia, aud will try to get into the
United States.
CHIEF ENGINEER n. B. CLARK, of
Washington, inventor Of the defective
armor now used on the warships of all
nations, died Monday morning.
TRUMAN A. MERRIAM, who was a
member of the forty eighth congress. and
Tor many years a reporter on the staff of
the New York Sun, died Saturday.
BARON FAvA has received orders to re-
turn to his post at the Italian legation in
Washington,
The president has nominated John R.
Tanner, of Illinois, to be assistant treas
urer of Chicago.
JOHAN MOST, the New York anarchist,
was released from prison Tuesday, having
served ten months for an address melting
a liot in November, 1887.
M. J. TIERNEY, a Louisville freight
conductor, who was injured by the exp.o-
sion of barrel of naphtha, has secured
verdict of $4,000 against the Standard
Oil com pany.
ANTI-LICENsE carried at froquois, Ills,
by majority Of one; part of the license
ticket was elected, however.
ROSWELL SMITH, president of The
Century Magazine company, died Tues
day morning of Bright's disease. He has
been unconscious month.
AN embarrassing discovery is made in
North Dakota. 1t is that the legislature
Jn e. IL.
presidential electors, and the defect can
not be remedied in time unless a special
session of the Legislature is held.
AT the bicy clist meeting at Brighton
Tuesday, Fowler, an English rider, in a
half scratch race beat Arthur A. Tim
norman of the New York Athletic club,
nine yards.
The steamship Conemaugh with the
280,OC0 pounds of -four for the famine
stricken people of Russia. sailed from
New York Monday for Philadelphia to
complete her cargo end will then sail for
Riga.
The people of six counties in Texas are
starving because of three years cf poor
crops. An appeal has been published ask
ing for contributions of corn and other
supplies to be addressed to the central
committee, care B. Il. Monroe, San An
tonic, county Judge.
SAMUEL F. HERsEY, who was suspended
on the Ssh inst from practice before the
pension office, pending the investigation
OF that office on account of misuse Of con,
gressional call slips, has been disbarred
entirely from practice before the interior
department and all of its bureaus
IL is reported that Col. Frank Wheaton,
of the Second United States infantry,
stationed at Omaha, will be appointed to
the vacant brigadier generaIship, and that
when confirmed he will he assigned TO
Vancouver barracks, the headquarters of
the Columbia.