Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-04-07
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

NAPA, Cal. was shaken by an earth.
quake Sunday.
JUDGE Peter Wood Grain, Maryland's
| oldest judge, is dead.
The chamber CT commerce favors a
canal to connect the great lakes with St..
Paul
CHEvALIER DOMINGO ToGETTI, an
Italian artist, died at San Francisco Mon
day.
DIR. SIDNEY SHERWOOD has been called
to the chair of political economy of Johns
Hopkins university.
HE journey man printers home at
Colorado Springs, Col, will be dedicated
May IL.
THE president has nominated Frank l..
Coombs, of California, to be minister to
| Japan.
EDMUND TURNER, colored, died near
the village of Tennessee Colony, Tex.
Sunday at the age of 104
PERU will send to the worlds fair rep
resentatives Of all the principal In
dian tribes found in the Peruvian for
ests.
IT is proposed TO start a political party
whose principal creed is the pensioning of
ex-slaves and whose presidential candidate
will be Fred Douglass
| GENERAL DANIEL DUSTIN, assistant
| United States Treasurer, died at Carthage,
Mo-, at noon Wednesday.
THE Rhode Island senate has passed
the bill providing that state officers shall
be elected biennially instead Of annually,
as at present.
The remains Of Walt Whitman were
inferred at Camden Wednesday afternoon
the services were concluded by an address
from Robert 6. Ingersoll.
WILLIAM DBNAMoRE, of East Liver
pool, Ohio, died Friday, aged 1903; he
served in the war of 1912 and in the Mex.
lean war.
THE storming and capture of Puebia
under General Djaz was celebrated in the
city of Mexico Saturday, with great
demonstrations in favor of his re- election
as president.
The first consignment from Minneapolis
consisting Of fourteen cars for the cargo OF
the Conemaugh, to be sent to Russia fo1
the relief of the famine stricken peasants
has arrived in Philadelphia.
TESTS of smokeless powder at the naval
ordnance proving grounds, near Washing
ton, have established the superiority OF
that explosive over ordinary gunpowder
for naval purposes.
A COMPANY has been formed to raise the
hulk of the British ship Hussar, which
sunk near He'll Gate, N. Y, Nov. 25
1880, with 100000 in gold in hel
treasure box.
The experiment of sending a life line
across an expanse of water by means of d
kite was successfully conducted recently b,
Prof. J. Woodbridge Davis on SoutE
Brothers island in Long Island sound.
CHINESE evade our restriction laws by
being naturalized in Canada and ther
coming to the United States. This coun.
try has no power to exclude British sub
jects.
A WOMAN in Paterson, N. j., is trying
to get divorce from her second husband,
who is dead. Her object is to get Il pen
sion as widow of her first husband, who
was killed in the war.
JUDGE PRATT, of the supreme court
Of New York, has decided that South
Dakota divorces are not valid in New
York.
The Mississippi Legislature adopted a
joint resolution endorsing the election OF
United States senators by direct vote OF
the people.
HE commandant at Fort Yates has
been wired to have two companies of cav
airy In readiness to march at moment s
notice to keep squatters off the Sisseton
reservation until the date of opening,
April Is.
JUSTICE BREWER, of the supreme court
sitting as judge of the United States court
for the district embracing Nebraska, has
rendered decision declaring illegal the
contract under which the tele graph lines
of the Union Pacific railroad are oper.
ated by the Western Union, and di
reefs the road hereafter to operate its OWL
lines.