Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-11-24
CONDENSED NEWS.


The New Orleans strike ends The
question OF wages will be arbirated.
Chill prepares TO defend herself III "a
war with Peru and Argentine kepub-
lie
a crowd of contract iaborers from
Belgium is detected on vessel at
New York
Ground is broken at Atlanta, Ind,
for tie largest tin factory in the United
States.
Kit Carson, son of tn famous scout,
kills his mother-in-law and wounds his
faJhel-in-laW.
Isaac Louk, while out hunting near
AdamsvilIe Ind. was accidently shot
dead by u companion.
1t is announced in Paris that treaty
of alliance b tween France and Russia
has been signed.
General managers OF western roads
met in Chicago for the purpose of form
ing a new agreement.
BY decision OF the general land
Office thirty-1iye settlers on the Mile
Lacs lands lose their claims.
Fire destroyed the almhouse at Sugar
Greek, Pa. The rescue of 100 inmates
was accomplished with much difficulty.
Daniel Ulum of Urbana, ILL.,, confes-
SEES to the murder of Samuel Wilson ut
Champaign, on Tuesday last.
i,n,,I,I
Schurman as president OF Cornell uni
versity occurred Friday at Ithaca, n. \.
The worlds fair directors, at meet
ing in Chicago, decided III favor OF
Sunday opening, providing the machin-
cry be not run.
The French in Dahomey seized IL
British ship laden with arms and am
munition for the DahOmeyans, and con-
fscate the cargo.
The Chicago bank clearings were
SIS, $50, 256; for the week, S1O1 1885,
467, against $1O1, 420,43O for the cor
responding week of 1891.
Frank Ward, 20 years old, was
caught in a revolving shaft at the Red
Jacket mine in Houghton, Mich, and
killed.
Captain DenSmOre, for twenty years
chief usher of the White House, is ~
ing at the point of death at his home
i'll Washington.
Ex-surveyors of public lands in Cali
fornia are to be prosecuted by the gov
ernment they being charged with
fraudulent practices.
Emperor William, in gratitude to
Providence for vouchsafng him a
daughter, has pardoned a number of
women who were in Jail for various
crimes.
The car of Russia is the largest in
dividual land owner in the world. The
area of his possessions is far greater
than that of the entire republic of
France.
Burglars robbed the safe of d. War
ner & Sons implement warehouse at
South Bend. Ind, of notes for $1,000
made payable to the Milwaukee Har-
veSter company.
President Harrison will place more
government departments under the civil
service rules, just as Mr.. Cleveland did
in the last days Of his term.
Robert B. Peoples, a wealthy resident
of Chattanooga, Tenn, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the head |
is supposed to have been
the cause.
At Berlin the police authorities seiz-
ed the Arbeiter Zeitung, a new anar-
chist paper The plates and 1000 COP
les of the paper were destroyed.
William Bant, young Englishman
who has swindled hundreds of people
from San Francisco to New York, is
under arrest in the latter city.
1t has been decided that Canada
shall be represented at the monetary
conference at Brussels. One delegate
will be appointed Immediately.
Three men held up a train at Adairs-
vile, Ga, but were successfully re-
pulsed. One of the robbers was shot. |
They are being pursued by a posse of
townspeople.
Emperor Francis Joseph has entrust-
ed the formation of a new Hungarian
cabinet to DR.. Alexander Werkele, min
lister of finance in Count Szparays mir
istry. /
Hubert A. Newton, professor of
at Yale, has been elected
to the Royal Philosophical society of
London. Not over a dozen Americans
have been similarly complimented.
A terrific explosion of dynamite oc-
.ured at the Cataract Construction
<mpany's tunnel at Niagara Falls Sat |
nday morning, demolishing buildings
and killing and severely injuring work !
men.
A dispatch from St. Johns, \. f., !
states that as a result of the gale of
October 10 ten vessels were lost or are !
missing and twenty-five lives are lost. |
In a dispute over a bill Robert Har- |
vey, a notorious gambler, shot and kill !
ed Robert Lyle, proprietor of the lead
ing restaurant at st. Joseph, No, Fri
day evening.
The closing Of the American tin plate
factory in Elwood, Ind. on Wednesday
proved not to be permanent, as at first
supposed and as a result Of the cleo
ton, but only a closing for repairs.
Uncle Sam has trouble with Vene
zuela resulting from the refusal of the
commander of the United States war
ship Pennsylvania to surrender a pas