Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-21
TIE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

THE national mining congress met at
Helena, Mont.
EUROPEAN ironworkers are on their way
to Homestead, Pa.
The president has signed the con-
sular and diplomatic appropriation bill.
GENERAL CARL1N has arrested enc hun
dred Of the strikers in the Occur d'Alene
mines.
The national mining congress at Helena
adjoUrns after pronouucing in favor of ii
metalism.
The Jewish rabbis of the country, in
conference in New York, unanimously
decided In favor of cremation.
FIVE car manufacturing companies eff
fected a consolidation at New York with a
capital Of S8,000,000.
FRANCIS P. LOOMS, lieutenant COVER
nor OF Connecticut in 1883, died at
Hartford Wednesday.
THERE was total of 191 deaths in
New York, Wednesday, and twenty three
cases of prostration by heat were report
3D.
ONSunday, Kate CastIeton, the 8oubrette,
died at Providence, R. l., Sunday. from
peritonitis. She was about So years of
age.
A STATE convention to consider the sub.
JeCt OF highway improvement in Iowa has
been called, to meet in Des Moines, Aug
Is.
The national association of retail fur
niture dealnrs of America met at Grand
Rapids, Mich. j. Chauvin, Of Butte,
Mont, was elected president.
THOMAS II. CARTER, of Montana, is
elected chairman of the republican nation
al committee and will resign as general
land commissioner.
CANADIAN manufacturers are said to be
holding aloof from the Chicago fair be-
cause of what they choose to construe aa
a hostile attitude thought to have
been recently assumed by President Har.
rison.
IN conse quence of the recent proclama,
ment has adjusted 8 nal tolls so that there
is no discrimination in favor of Canadian
as against American vessels.
A straight-out democratic convention
has Deen called in Kansas, by those who
holted from the convention last week that
fused with the peoples party.
MARTIN HEBRON, aged 8, Hub Mobiles,
aged 8, and Willie Sheet, aged about IL,
are all missing from home at Saginaw
Mich, and have been gone several days
1t is feared that the boys have been
| drowned.
THE June telegraph bill of the state Of
o,ol 10
Union company refuses to handle any more
| kilograms for the state unless accompanied
| by cash.
THE elections Monday in Mexico were
| perfectly quiet throughout the country
| The magistrates Of the supreme court,
senators and congressman elected are I'm
animou8l y in favor of the reelection OIL
! President Daz.
BISHOP HENNEssEY, of Dubuque, Iowa
| for himself and priests, has declined an
invitation to join the local ministers in q
society for theological and philosophical
| discussion, moral reform and humane
| work.
The South Dakota worlds fair com
! mission has adopted plans for building
on the fair grounds. The building viii
| be 6OXl0O feet, two stol les high, and con-
structed of material from South Dakota
ana Minnesota.
RAMSAY county's register of deeds re
fuses to receive deed unGer which heirs
of JonaI han Carver, who died In London
over "a hundred years ago, claim Is 00C
acres of land extending along Luke Pipin
and taking in the site of St. Paul.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a
proclamation commanding the riotous
miners in Idaho to dispense. All the
strikers-rearly thousand-will be ar
rested, leo already being In custody; aud
the distu, Dances are practic1ily over.
CHAIRMAN OATES, Of the special house
| committee to investigate the HOMESTEAD
| trouble, has returned. He expresses the
opinion that Goth parties are at fault and
not willing to make proper confessions
He thinks, however, that the matter is
not within governmental jurisdiction.
FROM the records of the postofice de-
partment ii appears that there were 81, 105
| postofices in the United States on June
| 3d. which is an increase O. 2 TIC over the
| fiscal year ending June 80, 1891. During
the past year 1,128 postoffices were discon-
tinued for various causes. There were
223 resign ations from the service and 81
removals.